All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes chaotic. At school, she was bullied mercilessly,...
Family relationships
- Auteur:Jetté Knox, AmandaSommaire:
- Auteur:King, DerrickSommaire:
Love for a Deaf Rebel introduces readers to a vivacious Canadian woman who was born into a silent world and with the foundation for schizophrenia. With pathos and nostalgia, the author recounts his roller-coaster ride with Pearl, a...
- Auteur:IBSEN, HenrikSommaire:
Henrik Ibsen's 1894 play Little Eyolf tells the story of the Allmers family: the father, Alfred, his wife Rita, their crippled nine-year-old son Eyolf, and Alfred's sister Asta. As the play begins, Alfred has just gotten back...
- Auteur:Kindred, DaveSommaire:
Jared Kindred left his home and family at eighteen, choosing to wander America on freight trains and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, he never found a way to survive. Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred...
- Auteur:Chartier, Marie-ChristineSommaire:
Jake a 21 ans, mais il a parfois l'impression d'en avoir cent. C'est ce qui arrive quand on grandit trop vite, sous le feu des projecteurs. Jeune acteur prodige, son succès est cependant de l'histoire ancienne, et...
- Auteur:Marie GingrasSommaire:
Paulette n'est pas «la poulette grise qui a pondu dans l'église», cette comptine que son père lui chantait pour la taquiner. Paulette n'aime pas la taquinerie et ne comprend ni l'humour ni le mensonge. Dans ce...
- Auteur:Fine, Paul R., Baker, Amy J. L.Sommaire:
Après un divorce ou une séparation difficile, il arrive que la relation parents-enfants devienne tendue, à plus forte raison si votre ex est toxique. Si votre ex vous dénigre en leur présence, vous accuse d'être un mauvais parent...
- Auteur:Benham French, KelleySommaire:
When Juniper French was born four months early, at twenty-three weeks gestation, Kelley and Thomas French chose to fight for Juniper's life. In one exquisite memoir, they trace the journey of their family from its fragile beginning to...
- Auteur:Gaskin, Ina MaySommaire:
Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding and gives you invaluable practical advice that will help you nurse...
- Auteur:Bloom, AmySommaire:
Amy and Brian's world was changed forever with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Forced to confront the daily frustrations and realities of the disease and its impact on their lives and marriage, Brian resolved not to...
- Auteur:Moorer, AllisonSommaire:
When Grammy-nominated musician Allison Moorer's son, John Henry, developed nonverbal autism, she was devastated. Allison shares their story.
- Auteur:Weiner, JonathanSommaire:
Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable....
- Auteur:Kolker, RobertSommaire:
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living...
- Auteur:Crewe, LesleySommaire:
From best-selling author Lesley Crewe comes a poignant and moving novel. Sisters Bay and Tansy are complete opposites. Widowed mother Bay has never lived anywhere but Louisbourg; restless Tansy left the town as a teenager and stayed...
- Auteur:Wolf, Anthony E.Sommaire:
This is the book that made Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D. a best-selling author. Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall' focuses on the legendary task all parents must face: raising teenagers. In this insightful...
- Auteur:Shapiro, Linda ApplemanSommaire:
Psychotherapist Linda Appleman Shapiro tells her story as an immigrant daughter who grew up on the top floor of a small home in 1940s Brooklyn and struggled to understand her mentally ill mother.
- Auteur:Swenson, KateSommaire:
With her popular blog, Finding Cooper's Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in this powerful memoir about motherhood...
- Auteur:Arden, JannSommaire:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, inspirational and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned...
- Auteur:Longaker, ChristineSommaire:
Christine Longaker's experience with death and care of the dying began in 1976 when her husband was diagnosed with acute leukemia at the age of twenty-four. Since his death, she has devoted her life to ease the suffering of those facing...
- Auteur:Lawler, KaraSommaire:
Popular writer and blogger Kara Lawler shows women how to embrace the sacred in the everyday so that they can see the holy and the beautiful-and in the process, discover themselves. Life doesn't have to be lived on grand...