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Author
Publisher
Hazelden Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Love First provides clear steps for families, friends, and professionals to create a loving and effective intervention plan for helping those who have an addiction. This revised and expanded twentieth-anniversary edition adds new intervention techniques for alcohol and other drug addictions, plus contemporary insights from the authors' decades of front-line work with those who are addicted and their families. Also new are tools to help families undertake...
3) How to find a four-leaf clover: what Autism can teach us about difference, connection, and belonging
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A special-education teacher with thirty years of experience working with autistic people gives readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community and looks at ways we can develop more meaningful connections with others.
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Though she is ambivalent toward academia and harbors ideas about writing a post-colonial novel, if only she could work out just what that means, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectations and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family....
6) Solitaire
Author
Series
Solitaire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tori Spring isn't sure how to be happy again. Then she meets Michael Holden, and they try to unmask the mysterious Solitaire (and survive high school) in Alice Oseman's stunning, unflinchinghonest debut novel, which first introduced her fan-favorite Heartstopper characters Nick and Charlie. --Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An encouraging and inspiring true story. An amazing account of redemption. A source of hope and strength for anyone who has ever struggled with depression, anxiety, alcoholism, death of a parent or child, anger, addiction, death, PTSD, infidelity, or self-worth. This book is a suicide prevention resource for police, fire, and military, or anyone else struggling with suicidal thoughts. Jonathan Hickory is a veteran police officer, a men's leader in...
10) Wildflower Falls
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When her mother's death leaves Charlotte Simpson bereft, she hopes the Robinson clan will accept her as one of their own and help fill the void. But a startling discovery dashes her hopes and leaves her wondering if she will ever know the father she's always longed for. Horse trainer Gunner Dawson has experienced profound loss and intends to avoid it. So he lives on the move without forming close bonds or putting down roots. When Charlotte hires him...
11) Mother, nature: A 5,000-mile Journey to Discover If a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this poignant memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self, a forty-year-old gay man and his eccentric conservative mother travel the country together and find surprising answers to our generational and cultural rifts. When his mother, Barbara, turned seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins was reminded of a palpable, sobering truth: Our parents won't live forever. For years, he and Barbara had talked about taking a trip together,...
12) Erasure: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thelonius Monk Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called ghetto prose that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ashley Blaker has six children, three of whom have an SEN diagnosis. Between the children there is autism, Down syndrome, ADHD, speech and language disorders, heart defects, hearing loss, mobility issues, sensory needs and gastroenterological problems. As Ashley says, 'You know you've got a lot going on when Great Ormond Street Hospital give you your own parking space.' Normal Schmormal is part-memoir, part how-to guide, highlighting the many challenges,...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
15) The fifth child
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.
Author
Pub. Date
ea
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of bonded siblings communicating through pop culture, Josh and Zach's story offers a new perspective on how fictional tales about powerful heroes transcended the page and screen to teach two young men incredible lessons about love, family, and brotherhood -- back cover
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Is It Dyslexia? will provide educators and parents with an expert and accessible method for screening a child for dyslexia in the classroom and at home. This book will include a comprehensive, clear, step-by-step process which will give parents and educators the confidence and ability to screen for dyslexia. The author will share what professional screeners know, so educators and parents can implement and screen for dyslexia on their own. The book...
Author
Publisher
Marta Molnar
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintings. They were all she had, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28 year old widow with a baby in the 1800s, without any means...
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