family

When Julian's mother decides to marry a French Canadian man, Julian learns that it is not always blood that determines true family.

Shows how six people's lives intersect in Southern California--a streaker running through traffic, a young man recently released from juvie, a married lawyer, a drifter searching for a murderer, a young tennis player trying to escape a mistake, and a young man running away from his father's commune. Jumps back and forth through decades to explore the rootless meaning of SoCal lives and examine how past events affect the future.

High-class Manhattan husband and wife Mark and Karen Breakstone arrange their lives around their beautiful, compassionate, and entrancing daughter, Heather, and the world seems to follow her, too--and all its dark interests begin to gravitate towards her as well.

A collection of interrelated stories charting the disintegration of a peaceful farming community in a lush California valley.

Explores the experience of miracles in everyday life through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old girl, the granddaughter of a fundamentalist minister.

"A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays..."--Provided by publisher.

"Sometimes things happen to parents that make it impossible for them to care for their kids. It could be illness, incarceration, job loss, or other reasons. Fortunately, there are loving parents who are willing to take in, or foster, kids who need someone to look after them. This book looks at how foster families are made and how they might thrive"--Amazon.com.

"Mental or physical challenges don't just affect the people who have them, they can impact entire families, too. This book looks at the many different types of challenges that exist and discusses how these situations can be a challenge for families but also a source of great strength"--Amazon.com.

Explores the impact of incarceration on families, and offers encouragement and advice for children eagerly awaiting their parents' release.

Text and photographs explore different kinds of families.