family relationships

Youth climate activist Dara McAnulty writes about the changing of the seasons in Northern Ireland, and captures his connection to the wildlife and the way he sees nature. He also includes writings on his life as teenager and activist, moving and changing schools, and the uniqueness of living with autism.

"Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is a relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent narrative of living with binge-eating disorder. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt, hostile divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But she hadn't escaped unscathed, and in the fallout from her parents' breakup--including her mother's intensifying alcoholism--an inherited fixation on thinness went from 'peculiarity to pathology.' She entered into a painful cycle of anorexia, or 'iron purity' and feral binge eating that formed the subterranean layer of her sunny life. This is the story not only of loosening the grip of her compulsion but of moving past her shame and learning to tell her secret"--Provided by publisher.

A guide to helping transgender children and youth with mental health, family relations, and other issues they may face.

"This extraordinary investigation of the death of the author's grandson yields a powerful memoir of addiction, grief, and the stories we choose to tell our families and ourselves"--Amazon.

Contains English translations of four novels by Jewish novelist Ir?ne N?mirovsky, including "David Golder" in which a greedy businessman reevaluates his life after having a heart attack.

Joseph Earl Thomas writes a coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.

Kristina Wandzilak describes her years of addiction to alcohol and drugs, her terrible experiences on the streets, and her process of recovery, while her mother, Constance Curry, chronicles the family's struggles and her own recovery from codependency.

"Audrey is over romance. Since her parents' relationship imploded her mother's been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as they do. But that doesn't mean things are easy. Because real love isn't like the movies"--OCLC.

Offers parents practical advice to help them communicate with their teenager, exploring a teen's emotional needs and including tips for expressing love to them by identifying their love language.

"An illustrated memoir of a twelve-year-old boy's experience growing up transgender and how his family supports him"--.