family relationships

Jack and Lilly follow Maddy's captor to a strange floating crossroads where they encounter rats, brutal giants, and a fearsome Goblin King.

In this modern retelling of "Jack and the Beanstalk," young Jack's boring summer of babysitting becomes exciting after his normally mute autistic kid sister, Maddy, advises him to trade his mother's car for a box of mysterious seeds.

"When a fragile young woman refuses to leave New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, her parents are forced to go without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and their daughter catatonic, the victim or perpetrator of some unknown violent act"--Provided by publisher.

Provides guidance for family and friends of individuals who took their own lives, discussing the stages and varied forms of psychological bargaining that survivors experience, and includes the personal stories of several survivors, including parents, children, siblings, and significant others.

Life as a minister's daughter has its good and bad points, especially during the Depression, but eleven-year-old Dorcas experiences the highlight of her year when she prays for a miracle to happen for her friend.

The young author describes his childhood and youth with his flamboyant mother in East Texas, his father's departure when he was sixteen, his realization that he was gay--which came as a surprise to only him--and his relationship with his beloved, choreographer Michael Leleux.

"A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife Annie summons their daughter Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fianc?? and still broken up about it, feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, and arrives home to find her parents' situation worse than she'd realized"--.

"Mental or physical challenges don't just affect the people who have them, they can impact entire families, too. This book looks at the many different types of challenges that exist and discusses how these situations can be a challenge for families but also a source of great strength"--Amazon.com.

Discusses how drug adiction affects the entire family.