the ultimate guide to understanding your siblings and yourself
Winchester, Elizabeth
2008
Discusses sibling relationships, examines the challenges and rewards of having brothers and sisters, and looks at why siblings fight and the realities of the bond between them.
what we can do for America's beleaguered moms and dads
Hewlett, Sylvia Ann
1998
Examines how big business, government, and the wider culture has developed an anti-family culture, and calls for a Parents' Bill of Rights that would give new value and dignity to the parental role and restore America's commitment to the well-being of children.
When Jeremy Bishop's estranged father dies, Jeremy travels back to his boyhood home to bury him, but while he is there he begins to uncover hidden secrets that reveal his true identity and help him make peace with his past.
Flora begins life as a sharecropper in Tennessee at the beginning of the twentieth century. After her husband is murdered, she takes her family north, where they struggle through the Great Depression, both World Wars, and the Civil Rights movement.
Explores the lives of two sisters, Bessie and Sadie Delany, who lived to be over 100. Recounts their experiences with racism and sexism throughout the twentieth century. (94 min.).
An intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy. The family's apparently ordinary existence has been shattered by the death of the oldest son in a boating accident. The younger son struggles against suicide and guilt left behind by the drowning, with a lifeline to survival provided by an empathetic psychiatrist.