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“Relative Distance” is a powerful memoir of resilience and faith. While it's an unflinching look at brothers being raised by a violent, abusive father and a detached, mentally ill mother, it's also an inspiring account of two distinctive life journeys and an examination of the role played by family and society in individual homelessness.
After surviving his tumultuous upbringing, David Pruitt rises to become a CEO in Corporate America, while...
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Why do so many of us commit to the wrong person? Most believe that attraction and compatibility are the keys to relationship success when, in reality, these are red flags in 15-20% of the population. Attorney, mediator, and social worker Bill Eddy and relationship expert Megan Hunter use their expertise in high-conflict personalities, divorce, and neuroscience to equip readers to see through the blinding spark of new love and spot potential toxic...
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Carol Weis bares herself (sometimes, literally) in her debut memoir, where she unveils her two lives, before and after, in a collection of alternating chapters that divulge her change. In those chapters, you'll meet a desperate young woman riddled with anger and fear from childhood trauma and an equally desperate sober, single mom struggling to push those feelings aside to care for her young daughter.
Like many who abuse alcohol, the author grew up...
404) Daddy
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When Dr. Tim Lewis was twenty-eight years old, his father shot his mother while she was sleeping in his childhood bedroom, and then he turned the gun on himself. As he sat in the hospital waiting room while his mother clung to her life, his friends and family seemed to have only one question for him: "Why?" This book is his attempt at an answer.
While Daddy is the story of Dr. Lewis's trauma, substance abuse, and his lifelong dedication to PTSD research...
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It's late on Friday night when Casey's mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn't Riley. It's a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike's latest fostering challenge - a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who's run away from her long-term foster home 25 miles away.
The Jonathan Ross Show has just started when Casey gets the call. She thinks it will be Riley - telling her that her favourite...
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After both her parents die, Linda Murphy Marshall, a multi-linguist and professional translator, returns to her midwestern childhood home, Ivy Lodge, to sort through a lifetime of belongings with her siblings. Room by room, she sifts through the objects in her parents' house and uses her skills and perspective as a longtime professional translator to make sense of the events of her past, to "translate" her memories and her life. In the process, she...
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A BOY WITHOUT HOPE is the heart-breaking story of a boy who didn't know the meaning of love. A history of abuse and neglect has left Miller destined for life's scrap heap. But in this turbulent story of conflict and struggle, Casey Watson is determined to help Miller overcome his demons, show him love and give him hope. Casey Watson is back, doing the job she does best – rolling up her sleeves and fostering the children who, on first meeting, seem...
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent's behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life. In this...
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Have you ever felt the weight of a parent's emotional baggage shaping your life? "How to Deal With Emotionally Immature Parents" is a transformative exploration into the world of emotionally immature parents and the profound impact they have on family dynamics. This book is an essential read for anyone who has struggled with the confusing legacy of a parent's emotional limitations. Designed for adult children of emotionally immature parents, mental...
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This is the story of Rebecca Stirling's childhood: a young girl raised by the sea, by men, and by literature. Circumnavigating the world on a thirty-foot sailboat, the Stirlings spend weeks at a time on the open ocean, surviving storms and visiting uncharted islands and villages. Ushered through her young life by a father who loves adventure, women, and extremes, Rebecca befriends "working girls" in the ports they visit (as they are often the only...
411) What we buried
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Told in separate voices, Jory, whose face is partly paralyzed, and his sister Liv, a former reality television performer and child beauty pageant contestant, join forces to search for their missing parents.
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Harlequin
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[2017]
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English
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Book 2 in Katie McGarry's award-winning, powerful and romantic Pushing the Limits series, perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout, Stephanie Perkins and Simone Elkeles! Everything -- setting, characters, romance -- about this novel works and works well." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Well-paced, satisfying romance." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "I dare you ... " If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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She wanted an adventure. What she found was so much more…
Adira Summers has spontaneously quit her high-flying career as a barrister in London. She needs to escape from the rat race and, encouraged by her bohemian gran, has bought a campervan to do so.
Taking off for a tour around Britain, disaster strikes early on when her van breaks down outside the quaint village of Lilacwell. But things look up after she meets handsome Jasper, who is visiting...
414) Kick
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For the very first time in his decades-long career writing for teens, acclaimed and beloved author Walter Dean Myers writes with a teen, Ross Workman.
Kevin Johnson is thirteen years old. And heading for juvie. He's a good kid, a great friend, and a star striker for his Highland, New Jersey, soccer team. His team is competing for the State Cup, and he wants to prove he has more than just star-player potential. Kevin's never been in any serious
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After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again...
Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. Despite growing up in a poverty-stricken family, during the Depression and having to fight his way to middle-class status as an adult, he tended to look on the bright side. But, after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute every day, his daughter Jen noticed...
416) Paper Chains
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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From the author of critically acclaimed Like Magic comes another sweet middle grade story about friendship, family, and discovering where you fit in the world. Katie and Ana are the kind of friends who share everything with each other. But there are some things you can't even share with your best friend. Katie has always known she was adopted, but recently she's been wondering about her birth parents and her birthplace. She worries that saying this...
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Jackie, born of medical missionaries in China during World War II,
rejected her connection to her birth country growing up because it made
her different.
A return to China with her parents in 1980,
however, is life-changing. After always having known her mother as
distant and emotionally abusive, she is stunned to see a loving side to
her for the first time-and pleasantly surprised by the affinity she
feels for her birth country.
These revelations...
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On a bus trip to a Catskill Mountain ashram, Rifka Kreiter recollects her past as she travels to meet Swamiji, another new guru on the scene in the bustling spiritual marketplace of 1976. Memories abound of an eventful childhood with an unstable mother on New York's Upper West Side and in LA, of dancing the Twist at Manhattan's Peppermint Lounge, and of sitting in against the war-as well as getting tear-gassed in Mississippi, surviving broken love...
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A riveting, provocative, and ultimately hopeful exploration of mother-daughter estrangement, woven with research and anecdotes, from an award-winning journalist.
The day of her mother's funeral, Harriet Brown was five thousand miles away. For years they'd gone through cycles of estrangement and connection, drastic blow-ups and equally dramatic reconciliations. By the time her mother died at seventy-six, they hadn't spoken at all in several years....
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Un témoignage bouleversant sur les horreurs de l'inceste et de la pédophilie
Ce livre autobiographique relate la jeunesse d'une enfant que le hasard de la naissance a menée au bout de l'horreur mais que la soif de vivre a tirée du néant. Ce témoignage bouleversant illustre la capacité de résilience d'une petite fille maltraitée par ses parents, placée dans un orphelinat et qui connaîtra l'horreur de l'inceste et de la pédophilie. Le réseau...
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