family relationships

"When a new baby comes home to a family, it means huge changes in everyone's life. A new baby brother or sister will need lots of attention from Mom and Dad. That's where a you come in, discover some of the things you can do to help out and learn more about what will happen at home"--.

The author describes how his autistic son, Owen, learned to cope with his handicap from a young age by memorizing the dialogue of Disney movies and having his family play the roles of the animated characters.

The story of two friends from different backgrounds that begins during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s followed by World War II, the Korean War, and up through the era of cell phones and wet suits for women divers. When Mi-ja and Young-sook are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger.

"This book explores the . . . possibilities for LGBTQ relationships that include friendships between people of all kinds, dating for sex, seeking a romantic relationship, falling in love, getting married, and having kids. It includes practical tips for LGBTQ teens to help them navigate the world of potential relationships, how to build up self-esteem, and how to deal with dysfunctional relationships that are toxic. [Includes] real-life examples of happy singles, LGBTQ couples, and LGBTQ families with children [that] were formed by fostering children, adoption, and surrogacy. One thing that binds them together, like all close families,is the love that the family members have for each other"--Back cover.

A memoir in which the author, a writer of crime fiction, tells of his experiences after teaming up with a homicide detective in 1994 to finally unravel the mystery of his mother's murder in a Los Angeles suburb thirty-six years earlier.

Six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital. The problem is, no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. With her imaginary friend and her neighbor's detecting skills, Aoife sets out to uncover the truth about her family.

A family memoir in which author Mary Lee Settle reflects upon the life of her grandmother Addie, and discusses how the choices and circumstances of her ancestors affected her own life.

"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.

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. She's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her family's mansion. She's ready to enjoy a drunken night out, ride a motorcycle, and other adventures. But it's not easy being bad, and Chloe knows just the man to help her complete her list. Redford 'Red' Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and sex appeal, who paints at night but hides his work. When she enlists Red to help her rebel, she discovers what really lies beneath his rough exterior.

"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.