Parent Adult Child category: 653 books
How to Survive Your In-Laws
Advice from Hundreds of Married Couples Who Did
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
As every couple discovers when they get married, you don't just acquire a spouse when you wed - you get the whole family! Whether it’s navigating a culture clash, kibitzing in marital squabbles, spoiling the grandkids, or ducking out on the holidays, this book can help. Those who’ve lived to tell...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dads & Daughters
Stories about the Special Relationship between Fathers and Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dads & Daughters celebrates the special bond between fathers and daughters. Daughters and wives will find this book a wonderful way to express their appreciation to their fathers and husbands.
The day a girl is born, she starts a special relationship with her father....
She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Gayle Batt is the kind of lady who throws elegant cocktail parties while wearing layers of silk chiffon, dripping pearls, and eight months’ pregnant. She is the kind of woman who says “anyhoo” and calls everyone “Dahlin’” or a special pet name. With hair, makeup, and nails always done...
The Wounded Morning
Poetry and Flash
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This collection of flash and poetry explores the secret interior worlds of characters dealing with intense emotional landscapes. Some of the pieces flash back in time to reveal the underpinnings of feelings of inadequacy, such as the narrator in "Butterfly Season," who recalls a lost love...
The Joey Song
A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Writing is compelling, vital, emotional; engages the reader.
Author is telegenic and promotable.
Approximately 22 million adults are classified with dependence or abuse according to US government data; only a small portion are in treatment. Market is huge as addiction is a family disease...
Walking in Their Shoes
Communicating with Loved Ones Who Have Alzheimer's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
"Walking In Their Shoes," is a sociological perspective on communicating with people diagnosed with moderate-severe Alzheimer's disease and where/how negative behaviors originate. This book includes true stories and illustrates how to successfully understand behaviors, resolve conflict,...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Stories about the Special Bond between Mothers and Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This new collection holds the best 101 stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul's library on the special bond between mothers and daughters, and the magical, mysterious similarities between them.
How often have you seen a teenage girl pretend to be perturbed, but secretly smile, when she is told...
Some Day You'll Thank Me for This
The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a "Perfect" Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A hilarious guide to that incomparable creature--the Southern mother.
Southern society is arranged along matriarchal lines, since the Southern matriarch is a far more formidable being than the much nicer Southern male. She has to be this way; she was put on earth with a sacred mission: to drum...
by Ray Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
There are many books written for women about the pregnancy and childbirth phenomenon. There doesn't seem to be much in this plethora of literature for men. It's about time there was.
Thinking Man's Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth & Fatherhood provides a male's tongue-in-cheek perspective...
Out of Zion
A Soldier's Dreams, Demons and Destination
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
George Henry Newton had a dream. His dream was to get out of Zion, Nevis. The village was poverty stricken. He ventured abroad and entered the United States. He became a soldier and fought in W.W.II. Fortunately, he escaped the ravages of the battle field. During the post war years, he acquired a...
Ruptures into Silence
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
A moving story of personal rebellion and the reconciling forces of human existence, Ruptures into Silence reveals the turbulent tale of Margaret Vivian, an intelligent, precocious woman who lived life to its fullest.
Through the voice of her niece, Olivia, Margaret Vivians extraordinary personality...
by Terri Apter
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
An essential work for readers seeking compassionate, wise guidance about the powerful relationship between mothers and their sons and daughters.
Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children the relationship is a painful struggle. Using the newest research on human attachment and...
by John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
"The Silver spoon" is a literary work that is part of the second trilogy of the Forsyte saga by John Galsworthy between 1906 and 1921. Fleur and Michael Mont show features of high society in their new and elegant House. As always, the father of Fleur, Soames Forsyte, is constantly at his...
The Suicide Index
Putting My Father's Death in Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
National Book Award Finalist: “Wickersham has journeyed into the dark underworld inside her father and herself and emerged with a powerful, gripping story.” —The Boston Globe
One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never...