A doctor delivers his own twins, and upon seeing that the daughter has Down's syndrome, tells his nurse to take the baby to an institution and never reveal the secret. The nurse disappears into another city to raise the child herself in this tale of redemptive love and long-buried secrets that unfolds over a quarter of a century.
One of the most directly helpful books on the subject of loss ever written, the first edition of this comforting and inspiring book, published in 1976, sold nearly two million copies. This completely revised and expanded edition encompasses not only the medical and psychological advances in the treatment of loss, but also the authors' own ...
Now available in trade paperback, this classic is a compassionate, insightful, step-by-step guide, providing women and men with the courage, support, and specific tactics they need to set themselves free.
"The Journey From Abandonment to Healing" is designed to help victims of emotional breakups, whether suffering from a recent loss or a lingering wound from the past. From the first stunning blow to starting over, it provides a complete program for abandonment recovery.
A handsome ex-football player with a trail of broken hearts behind him meets a femme fatale who's a rising Broadway star. They fall in love, plan marriage, and find themselves facing more than they bargained for, including some unsavory reminders of their pasts. E. Lynn Harris's sixth novel combines his usual mix of easygoing entertainment with ...
Debbie Ford, a Workshop Facilitator at the Chopra Center for Well Being, lends a refreshing and helpful perspective to those going through divorce. Her guidebook offers exercises, meditations, and Seven Spiritual Laws to help readers get through this dark and difficult period of life.
When Robert is paid off from his job, he takes the opportunity to do what he's always longed to: write a novel. Unexpectedly, the book takes off, but the success he finds as a writer comes between him and his family, and he and his wife decide on divorce. Then, when he discovers that he may have only a few months to live, Robert finds that what he ...
Meg Fratano has skated through life on the tail end of others' dreams. But when she finds her husband in bed with another woman, Meg can no longer reconcile the needs of her family with her own yearnings and desires. As she struggles with the decision to leave her children, Meg must reach back and touch the woman she once was, a woman that she ...
When a relationship ends, you ask; Why did this happen? When will this pain end? Why do I pick the lovers I do? Will I ever love again? Why is it so difficult to keep one love for a lifetime? Daphne Rose Kingma's book shares a new view of why we fall in and out of love, and why this painful process is not only natural, but essential if we are to ...
This uplifting and encouraging guide to letting go and moving on uses practical techniques to guide readers through a difficult and heart-wrenching process.
This title shows how best to help your child through your divorce. "Making Divorce Easier on Your Child" is filled with practical, sensitive, and highly effective ways to help children cope and adjust both during and after this major change in their lives. Most important, this information will enable you, as a parent, to minimize the negative ...
Relationships end and even the most callow among us take something away. That's what this book is about - whether it be major life lessons, like 'If you lie, you will get caught', simple truths like, 'Flowers work', or something wholly unique like, 'Watch out for the high strung brother in the military'. This anthology is comprised of pieces drawn ...
In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco. Their home, with a pious mother who sings hymns all day and a silent father, is as cold as their ...
Those who have never experienced an abusive or violent relationship often believe that upon finding a way out, victims' difficulties are solved: their life is good, they are safe, and recovery will be swift. However, survivors know that leaving is not the end of the nightmare - it is the beginning of an often difficult and challenging journey ...
After her brother TJ joins the army and is sent to Vietnam, 12-year-old Jamie Dexter is proud that TJ is following in their father's footsteps. Instead of letters, TJ sends Jamie undeveloped rolls of film, and what she sees when she develops them reveals a whole new side of the war.
Debunking the accepted view of the devastating psychological and social effects of divorce, this text presents a nuanced picture. This study gathers nearly three decades of research involving 1,400 families and explores divorce as a process. The text identifies the kinds of marriages, or "pathways", that predispose a couple to divorce or not, and ...
The "Essence" bestselling author of "Dating Games" and "The Harris Family" delivers a provocative new novel about the lowdown schemes and broken dreams that follow a fractured marriage.
This acclaimed, directly helpful and inspirational work on the subject of loss--either by death or divorce--offers hope and help to those facing emotional recovery. Recommended by The American Psychological Association.
The story of a family of dinosaurs in which the parent's divorce is used to explain the concept of divorce to children. Color illustrations accompany the text.
Based on ten years' research, this is the only book of its type on the market today. It explains in lucid and engaging detail the turning points in intimate relationships showing that there are basic similar patterns. Vaughan's extensive use of interviews of both straight and gay couples, married and live-ins, makes her book lively and interesting.
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