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Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal
by Nancy MairsIn a series of personal essays, Nancy Mairs writes about her lifelong relationship with spirituality and organized religion. Raised a Congregationalist in New England, she converts to Catholicism as an adult. The essays deal frontally with issues in the author's marriage, including a series of infidelities; forgiveness is a major theme.
Bringing Up Boys
by James DobsonChristian psychologist, author, and radio host Dr. James Dobson looks at why we are often failing to develop character in our sons. Here is a practical guide for parents, grandparents, and anyone involved with bringing up boys.
Shepherding a Child's Heart
by Tedd TrippUsing Scripture, the author offers ideas on child-rearing. He points out the importance of having children realize their sinful nature and offers advice to parents on how to shepherd their children's heart and disciple them.
The Holy Warrior (House of Winslow, #6)
by Gilbert MorrisChristmas and Knox, race west-Knox hoping to be among the first to set up trading posts in Missouri, and Christmas seeking to escape a future he regarded with contempt. Christmas will journey toward wha some considered to be the ultimate test, but in so doing he will leave an indelible mark on the family tree.
The Last Confederate (House of Winslow, #8)
by Gilbert MorrisAt the conclusion of The Reluctant Bridegroom, the marriage of Sky and Rebekah Winslow prefaces a new chapter for another generation. What had seemed an impossibility is now coming to pass: God's transformation of the Winslows into a warm and loving family. Making their way back from Oregon City, they now settle and prosper on a plantation in Virginia. Several years after their return from the West, a young Northerner named Thad Novak makes his way to the Winslow plantation and is taken on as a hired hand. What caused him to specifically seek out the Winslows? Should this Northerner be trusted? And with young ladies in the home, what are his motives? While the nation totters on the brink of war, both Thad Novak and the Winslows face conscription into 'fighting for a cause they do not support, and directly against Winslow relatives from the North!
Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good
by Beverly DonofrioWritten with irreverent humor, this memoir recounts the author's experiences growing up in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut and becoming a teenage mother. Bright and endlessly rebellious, she marries her baby's father, struggles to help him kick heroin addiction, and eventually winds up as a single mother on welfare. Through sheer determination and the help of good friends and social programs, she finally fulfills her dream of attending an elite college and becoming a writer. Donofrio writes honestly about her relationship with her son Jason, and shows that each helped the other grow up.
Keep It Simple, Stupid: You're Smarter Than You Look
by Judy SheindlinJudge Judy uses courtroom cases to illustrate commonsense advice on personal relationships.
Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice
by Robert TaibbiApplying family-therapy theory in clinical settings, for new therapists and therapists in training.
It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us
by Hillary Rodham ClintonImproving how our nation raises its children
Many Waters (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet #4)
by Madeleine L'Engle4th book in L'Engles time quartet series. Twins Sandy and Dennys Murry are accidentally transported to the biblical time of Noah and the flood, caught in struggles of good and evil and human nature.
Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up With Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray
by Williamson MurrayJanet, My Mother, and Me is a charming, captivating memoir about a boy growing up in a household of two extraordinary women. William Murray was devoted to his mother, Natalia Danesi Murray, and to his mother's longtime lover, writer Janet Flanner. Even as a teenager, he accepted their unconventional relationship. His portrait of the two most important people in his life is unforgettable. Janet Flanner was already celebrated as the author of a new style of personal journalism for her "Letter from Paris" in The New Yorker when she met the Italian-born Natalia Murray on Fire Island, New York, in 1940. Their encounter, writes William Murray, was a "coup de foudre, a thunderbolt that instantly sent them rushing into each other's arms and forever altered their lives, as well as mine." Murray was already growing up in two cultures on different continents, in New York and Rome, when his mother's life changed so dramatically. He quickly accepted Flanner and the unusual household in which he found himself. (Natalia's mother, Mammina Ester, also lived with them in New York.) His memories of the women and of his own boyhood and adolescence are touching and often hilarious. Janet, My Mother, and Me offers a look at the world in which gay professional women moved in the decades before such relationships became more open and accepted. Murray's mother was a publishing executive and a broadcaster, and Murray, who originally hoped to become an opera singer and trained for that profession, eventually moved into the professions of both his mother and Flanner, becoming a novelist and then for many years an editor and writer at The New Yorker. This is an exuberant, warm, and often poignant memoir with a memorable cast of characters. Beguiling and unusual, it will remain vivid in readers' minds for years to come.
Right-Brained Child in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child
by Jeffrey Freed Laurie ParsonsJeffrey Freed draws upon years of tutoring children diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder (ADD) and concludes that most of these children are "right-brain dominant." These right-brained children are visual learners who perceive in mental pictures, and have great difficulty with the "linear thinking" widespread in today's schools. After examining the controversies surrounding the ADD diagnosis, the authors outline a program that can help the ADD child realize his full potential. They contend that our quick-fix, high-tech society actually encourages children to become visual learners, though the schools have not changed their teaching techniques to adapt today's students.
Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption.
by Randall KennedyAnalyzing the tremendous changes in the history of America's racial dynamics, Kennedy takes us from the injustices of the slave era up to present-day battles over race matching adoption policies, which seek to pair children with adults of the same race. He tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics, the historic role of legal institutions in policing racial boundaries, and the real and imagined pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy. A bracing, much-needed look at the way we have lived in the past, Interracial Intimacies is also a hopeful book, offering a potent vision of our future as a multiracial democracy.
Magic and Loss: In Letters to His Young Daughter, a Father, Suddenly Facing Death, Rediscovers Life
by Greg Raver LampmanAt age 37, journalist Lampman discovered that he was dying from a brain tumor and began writing these letters to his three-year-old adopted daughter, Emmy. Along with stories of good family times are the details of convulsions, MRIs, surgery, and radiation therapy--"The tumor has been removed, but the doctors fear it will grow back, only time will tell." His references to his wife as "mommy" are natural, considering the letters are addressed to his young daughter, but cloying nonetheless. Perhaps he makes the most definitive statement of his feelings when he writes, "I remember I used to hear a siren, or see an ambulance, and wonder whether there was some story I should chase. Now, I hear a siren and feel a pang of empathy." When his editors encouraged him to publish some of the letters, he was inundated with responses and so this book evolved and has been selected by Reader's Digest for its Christmas-issue condensed book section.
Miffy
by Dick Bruna"Mr. and Mrs. Bunny lived in a farmhouse all alone. The house had two nice shutters and a garden of its own." Just right for a baby bunny, don't you think? Include picture descriptions. "Miffy Goes to the Hospital" is also available from Bookshare. This file should make an excellent embossed braille copy.
Child of the Owl
by Laurence YepA young girl is sent to live with her grandmother in Chinatown and finds her Chinese heritage for the first time.
I Have A Sister -- My Sister Is Deaf
by Jeanne Whitehouse PetersonA young deaf child who loves to run and jump and play is affectionately described by her older sister.
The Hundred Penny Box
by Sharon Bell MathisMichael loves his great-great-aunt Dew, even if she can't always remember his name. He especially loves to spend time with her and her beloved hundred penny box, listening to stories about each of the hundred years of her life. Michael's mother wants to throw out the battered old box that holds the pennies, but Michael understands that the box itself is as important to Aunt Dew as the memories it contains. <P><P> Newbery Medal Honor book
Blindsided: a Reluctant Memoir
by Richard M. CohenBook Description: Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. A young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, his foreboding that his health was not quite right turned into the harsh reality that something was very wrong when diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. For thirty years Cohen has done battle with MS only to be ambushed by two bouts of colon cancer at the end of the millennium. And yet, he has written a hopeful book about celebrating life and coping with chronic illness.
Life at Close Quarters: Thoughts on New and Growing Relationships
by Arthur Fay SueltzDiscusses factors influencing the success of intimate relationships.
The Little House
by Philippa GregoryIt was easy for Elizabeth: she married the man she loved. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth's son and could never quite measure up. This refreshingly honest emotional and psychological thriller examines what women fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity.
The Secret Life of the Unborn Child: How You Can Prepare Your Baby for a Happy, Healthy Life
by Thomas Verny John KellyUsing studies and personal experience, Verny discusses prenatal emotional development, awareness of sound, and evidence of cognitive ability.
Psychoeducational Assessment of Students Who Are Visually Impaired or Blind: Infancy Through High School
by Sharon Bradley-JohnsonDiscusses administering psychological tests to students who are blind.
Meet Samantha: An American Girl (American Girls #1)
by Susan S. Adler Jeanne ThiemeSamantha Parkington is an orphan who lives with her rich grandmother in 1904. There are many servants in Grandmary's house, but no one for Samantha to play with. <P><P>That's why she's so excited when Nellie moves in next door. Nellie has come to work so that she can send money back to her family in the city. Even though their lives are different, the two girls become friends. <P><P>One day Samantha discovers that Jessie, the seamstress, is leaving. No one will tell her why. So she and Nellie plan a secret midnight adventure to find out!