families

A reprint of the 1948 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.

Presents a practical guide for dealing with the everyday problems families encounter and discusses the issues connected with divorce when children must go back and forth between two families.

Contains a children's study of home life in Ancient Rome and includes information on the Roman family, marriage, and the role of women, slaves, types of food and clothing, and entertainment.

The final novel in the "Awakening Land" trilogy, in which Sayward Wheeler completes her mission, living to a ripe, old age, and seeing her family and friends make the transition from the ways of the wilderness to the ways of civilization.

Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky knows she has not been accepted by everyone in the Ziplinsky family, but her dedication to the family's candy factory helps her overlook the family's shortcomings, and as she traces the history of the factory, she finds greater respect for her in-laws.

Craig and Manda struggle to strengthen their friendship amidst the turmoil that surrounds their individual families.

An account of the author's childhood in a Texas oil town and of her family's struggles with cancer, madness, and alcoholism.

Irene America, having discovered that her artist husband Gil is reading her diary, begins making things up for him to find, placing their marriage on even shakier ground, and while she drinks and works on her doctoral thesis about a painter of Native American subjects, Gil begins the defining work of his career, and their three children suffer the consequences of their parents' failed relationship.

Jes has tolerated her mother's marriage and being ousted from her room by her beautiful stepsister, but the news that her mom is pregnant, and the distancing of her two best friends, has Jes feeling very left out.

A Mexican-American high school senior deals with the separation and divorce of her parents and their effects on her relationship with them and with God.