Siblings category: 210 books
by Karen E. Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
"Osborne explores questions of race, privilege, and family loyalties without offering any false, easy answers for her two protagonists."
--Booklist
"Looking for an edge-of-your-seat suspense yarn? You won't find a more absorbing story than Getting It Right...In it we get to know...
Raising Mediators
How Smart Parents Use Mediation to Transform Sibling Conflict and Empower Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Despite many differences in family make-ups, nearly 80 percent of children in Western society grow up with a sibling. While the sibling relationship may be one of the longest lasting family relationships in a person’s life, sibling conflict is frequent, often intense, and rarely resolved effectively...
Surviving the Death of a Sibling
Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
When T.J. Wray lost her 43-year-old brother, her grief was deep and enduring and, she soon discovered, not fully acknowledged. Despite the longevity of adult sibling relationships, surviving siblings are often made to feel as if their grief is somehow unwarranted. After all, when an adult sibling...
Girl Unbroken
A Sister's Harrowing Story of Survival from The Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie’s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival.
They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic...
"Mom, Jason's Breathing on Me!"
The Solution to Sibling Bickering
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
AT LAST—SOUND, PRACTICAL RELIEF
FOR PARENTS WITH BATTLING KIDS!
Imagine. You might never again have to hear the words: “Mommy, Ann drooled on me on purpose.” You could have the answer for every “It’s not fair!” your kids have ever whined at you. Constant sibling squabbling—and...
How to Be a Sister
A Love Story with a Twist of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Eileen Garvin's older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside Margaret wasn't easy: Eileen often found herself in situations that were simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking. For example, losing a blue plastic hairbrush could leave Margaret...
Loving Each One Best
A Caring and Practical Approach to Raising Siblings
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
All those baby boomers who have embarked on the journey of raising their second and third children have found themselves left in the lurch by existing child care literature. Now child care expert Nancy Samalin, who has earned a reputation for her forgiving and empowering approach to parenting, brings...
by Dr. Ronald W. Richardson & Lois A. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Between each birth, the family undergoes a reshaping. The experiences of a first child or an only child are very different from those of a youngest child with three siblings. This book explains how birth order affects the type of person you are, the type of spouse you choose, and the type of employer or employee you make.
Sisterly Shove
A Fight to the Death Against Pancreatic Cancer and Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
A story of love outlasting memory.
When Mama is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and Papa has dementia, a humor writer and her serious-as-a-heart-attack physician sister engage in hand-to-heart combat in a 13-year battle to do what’s best for the parents who were always there for them.
Growing...
by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Have you ever wondered what a writer’s early years were like and how it affected their future writing and the stories they would tell later in their lives? Have you ever wondered what their childhood Christmases, their early holidays, were like? Well, wonder no longer. This story is about one of...
Brothers and Sisters
Developmental, Dynamic, and Technical Aspects of the Sibling Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Sibling relationships and rivalry are as old as recorded history. This analysis explores that ambivalence between siblings casts its shadow throughout people's lifetimes and affects their choices of mates, relationships with their own children, and aversions to others.
Sisters and Brothers for Life
Making Sense of Sibling Relationships in Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Sibling relationships are special in many ways, not least because often siblings are the family members who go through their whole lives together But those relationships can be fraught with strife or tension, bouts of happiness or strain and stress. They can predict and affect other relationships...
How Families Matter
Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The family remains the most contested institution in American society. How Families Matter:
Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates generated by politicians and social scientists. Given...
Accidental Brothers
The Story of Twins Exchanged at Birth and the Power of Nature and Nurture
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
"A unique window into human behavior and development." —Steven Pinker
The riveting story of two sets of identical twins separated at birth and improbably reunited as adults, a dream case for exploring nature and nurture.
Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets...