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641) Breathless
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"With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claude's mom are splitting up. Claude's mom whisks them both away to a remote, mosquito-infested island off the coast of Georgia, where the two of them can start the painful process of mending their broken hearts. It's the last place Claude...
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The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal and weighing a future where their cultural and political...
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"Forgiveness clears the path to freedom."
Everyone goes through some form of trauma or negative experience in their lives. The key to happiness lies in not letting those bad experiences define you or control your journey. In her first book, Alchemy of the Phoenix: From the Ashes of Trauma to the Light of Love, Kelly Bramblett shows that it is possible to heal the hurts of the past and return to a more natural state of love and hope.
By sharing her...
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Many of the difficult people you encounter in daily life can be avoided, but what if they're family members? What if the difficult person is a parent, a sibling, one of your children, or your mate? In Overcoming Your Difficult Family, life coach and retired family therapist Eric Maisel offers useful strategies for dealing with the people you're connected to for life, even when they are not cooperative. Dr. Maisel tackles the problematic aspects of...
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Addiction passes through families from one generation to the next. Family Strategies provides a wealth of information and guidance proven to be effective with families challenged by addiction, whether to alcohol or other drugs, gambling, food, sex, etc. Through authoritative direction and reproducible handouts, professionals are given the structure and resources to help families they work with successfully transition to recovery-for the entire family....
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Quick Reads-Lifelong Results. If you or someone you love has experienced a traumatic event, this book can help.
You and your family are strong enough to heal from trauma and PTSD, but no one can do it alone. Don't let post-traumatic stress destroy the ones you love!
Use this guide to locate the people, programs, and resources you need to rebuild your life. Start healing today!
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In this wry memoir, a Harvard-educated CPA with debilitating chemical intolerance digs deep in her family history to uncover the childhood trigger for her illness. Tackling themes of truth, loss, acceptance, and empowerment, Pookie Sekmet interweaves her personal story with timely guidance on the importance of avoiding toxic chemicals in cars, consumer products, and indoor environments; overcomes family trauma and mysterious chronic health struggles...
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Ruth Klein's story is about merchants and landowners-aristocratic Polish Jews. It's about their lives in refugee and concentration camps. About parents who survived the Holocaust but could not overcome the tragedy they had experienced, and about their children, who became indirect victims of the atrocities endured by Holocaust victims.
After their liberation, Ruth's parents were brought to the Displaced Person Camps in Germany, where they awaited...
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Mississippi, 1967. It's the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers' maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.
In “You'll Forget This Ever Happened”, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep South during the turbulent 1960s to explore the oppression of young women who have committed the socially unacceptable crime of becoming pregnant without a ring on their finger. After being forced...
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Emily Gregg's debut novel and heartfelt memoir delves deep into what it means to be human-and illustrates that no matter how far away redemption feels, you can always get back up and meet life head on.
From exotic dancer to choosing adoption for her unplanned teen pregnancy, Emily's life has been a self-described series of stumbles and triumphant victories of rising again.
Readers of Emily's memoir will enjoy a well-written, close-to-the-heart novel...
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The Box of Daughter is the compelling true story of the author's struggle to recover from emotional abuse and family bullying, and her quest to raise her self-esteem and create a more authentic life.
This captivating memoir offers many insights on the process of healing from Complex PTSD, describing the author's journey of recovery after growing up in a deeply dysfunctional family, and illustrating how a person with Complex PTSD can make the leap...
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Parent Teenagers in Loving and Thoughtful Ways
"A source of lovingly gentle perspective with powerful relationship saving tools that every parent of teenagers should have to refer back to"-Becca Anderson, Bestselling Author of Badass AffirmationsEven when your relationship appears hopelessly beyond repair, you can reach past the bad days and reconnect. In this funny parenting book, find guidance on how to parent teenagers and rebuild a loving bond.
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Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the life-and the love-you deserve.
Few things in the world have a more profound effect on your life than the parents who raised you. When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress...
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A revised edition of the best-selling solution-oriented guide to identifying and healing over-involvement or "entanglement" in relationships with other. Anyone who has struggled with balancing his or her own needs and desires with those of the "other" person will benefit from Nancy Johnston's sensible, easy-to-follow method for changing the course of one's relationships. Disentangle combines psychoeducation, personal anecdotes, clinical case vignettes,...
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Tabou volume 58
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Ma mère est malade. À cause de sa dépression, elle dort sans arrêt. Ce n'est pas sa faute.
À part ma meilleure amie, personne ne le sait. Si mon école ou celle de mon petit frère et ma petite sœur s'en rendait compte, on pourrait être envoyés en famille d'accueil. Alors, je m'occupe d'eux le mieux possible.
Bien sûr, mon père est au courant. Mais il travaille sur la route et ne rentre que la fin de semaine. Ces jours-là, elle sort du...
658) Lobster Boy
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Fred Rosen researches the shocking true story behind the murder of Lobster Boy - and finds his own life at risk. In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the legendary carnival "freak" Lobster Boy, author Fred Rosen explains how Stiles's death was engineered by his wife, Mary Teresa, the carny known as the Electrified Girl. Rosen describes how Mary Teresa arranged for her husband's murder after years of...
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In this important sequel to Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers powerful tools to help you step back and protect yourself at the first sign of an emotional takeover, make sure your emotions and needs are respected, and break free from the coercive control of emotionally immature parents. Growing up with emotionally immature parents (EIPs) can leave you feeling lonely and neglected. You may have trouble setting...
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Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.
Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster care on New Year's Day and instantly recognizes Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'.
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