families

"A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening guide for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults. Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe's disclosure--delivered in a tirade about homophobic attitudes--was greeted with unease and confusion by his fellow students. Hours later, he took an overdose of pills. In the aftermath, John and his wife, Jeanne, determined to help Joe feel more comfortable in his own skin, launched a search for services and groups that could help Joe understand that he wasn't alone. This book is Schwartz's very personal attempt to address his family's struggles within a culture that is changing fast, but not fast enough to help gay kids like Joe" --.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan knows what it's like to be haunted by the past. But now, she can't shake the feeling that there is someone close to her who needs her more than ever. When her mother, Sandra, asks for help in finding a missing woman named Beth Avery, Eve senses there is more to Sandra's story than she's saying. Beth has disappeared from a mental hospital where she has been incarcerated for years. But why is Sandra so concerned about this missing woman?.

"The original story that inspired the Christmas classic It's a wonderful life"--Dust jacket.

Presents an A to Z volume that provides information on the different kinds of families, and addresses issues important to teens on topics such as adoption, divorce, coping with stepparents, teen pregnancy, violence in the family, and more.

Fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun, the daughter of a drug addict who has agreed to go with her aunt Mindy after another one of her mom's disappearances, is confident her mom will return, and wonders if she cares about her friend Alan, school, or anything else that has to do with the life of a normal teenager.

Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.

Having lost her stepfather, grandmother, and mother in the span of a year, seventeen-year-old Lainey unexpectedly reconnects with long-lost relatives, copes with her five-year-old brother's behavioral problems, and endangers her long-term romance when drawn to a young man with an unexpected connection to her mother.

After the death of her father and her mother's emotional breakdown, graphic design student Hallie Palmer decides to leave college and take care of her eight younger siblings.

Thirty-six-year-old Kate Cavanaugh, a mother of two and recently widowed, works as a guidance counselor for the at-risk students at Alan B. Shepard High School, but amidst the troubles that haunt Kate at home, tragedy strikes at school and forces her to reach her breaking point.

Maeve Leahy is forced to revisit the tragic night that separated her from her twin sister nearly ten years earlier when she travels to Rome to learn about the legendary properties of a Javanese dagger she won at an auction.