• The Dutch House: A Novel


    • ASIN: 0062963678
    • ASIN: 0062963678
    • ISBN: 0062963678
    • Manufacturer: Harper

  • Educated: A Memoir

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES BOOK PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

    - A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she f... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250153964
    • ASIN: 1250153964
    • ISBN: 9781250153968
    • Brand: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
    • Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

  • The Glass Castle: A Memoir


    • ASIN: 074324754X
    • ASIN: 074324754X
    • ISBN: 9780743247542
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Silent Sister: A Novel

    "Chamberlain's powerful story is a page-turner to the very end." -Library JournalRiley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. It was a belief that helped shape her own childhood and that of her brother. It shaped her view of her family and their dynamics. It influenced her entire life. Now, more than twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina, cleaning out his house when she finds evidence that what she has always believed is not the truth. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new i... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250074355
    • UPC: 642688056179
    • ASIN: 1250074355
    • ISBN: 1250074355
    • Brand: Griffin
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • The Life We Bury

    A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
    • ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
    • Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

  • Shiner: A Novel

    On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive.An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community, over Wre... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0525533648
    • ASIN: 0525533648
    • ISBN: 0525533648
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

  • The Seed Collectors: A Novel

    Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't stop drinking. And Charlie struggles to make sense of his life after losing the one woman he could truly love.A complex and fiercely contemporary ta... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1593766467
    • ASIN: 1593766467
    • ISBN: 1593766467
    • Brand: Soft Skull Press
    • Manufacturer: Soft Skull Press

  • Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

    Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons. A true-life rags-to-riches story, Etched in Sand chronicles Regina’s rising above her past, while fighting to keep her ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B009NG18Z8
    • ASIN: B009NG18Z8
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

  • The Dog Who Saved Me: A Novel

    Cooper Harrison, a member of the Boston K-9 unit, never thought he would ever go back to his hometown, Harmony Farms. But when his faithful canine partner, Argos, is killed in the line of duty, Cooper finds himself mired in grief. Jobless, on the verge of divorce, and in a self-destructive rut, Cooper has little choice but to accept an offer for the position of animal control officer in Harmony Farms. And so he finds himself back where he started. Where his father, Bull, was once known as the town drunk. Where his brother, Jimmy, was a delinquent and a bully. Where he grew up as "one of those"... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250080444
    • ASIN: 1250080444
    • ISBN: 1250080444
    • Brand: GRIFFIN
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)


    • ASIN: B000FC1MCS
    • ASIN: B000FC1MCS
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

    Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call to social services about the escalating brutality in her home.When they jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home, and she risks losing the support of family, coming to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved.Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, trium... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ISBN: 0615835600
    • Manufacturer: K.L Randis

  • Damage Control: A Dirty Money Novel

    Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Damage Control, the smoldering, scorching next novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.The only thing more dangerous than a dark secret is a damaged heart… Shane Brandon has been pushed to the brink, torn between his corrupt family and his explosive, all-consuming desire for Emily Stevens, who he now knows is not who, and what, she seems. Has he trusted the wrong person? Will she, not his brother Derek, be the ultimate destruction of his family Empire.Emily tries to run from Shane, but h... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250083834
    • ASIN: 1250083834
    • ISBN: 1250083834
    • Brand: St Martin s Griffin
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • Grace Is Gone: A Novel

    From the bestselling author of If You Knew Her comes this harrowing tale of suspense—a story ripped from today’s headlines—of a tight-knit English community, who’s rocked by the murder of a mother and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the secrets that lie concealed beneath a carefully constructed facade.A small town’s beloved family.A shocking, senseless crime—and the dark secret at the heart of it all.Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace—smiling and optimistic in sp... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062945637
    • ASIN: 0062945637
    • ISBN: 0062945637
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

  • Through the Fire: Based on a True Story About a Young Girl That Was Maliciously Burned in a House Fire

    A childhood tragedy cost her more than she could've imagined, but it also gave a gift far worth more than she could've hoped for... Theresa holds nothing back as she retraces her traumatic childhood in the countryside of North Carolina in one of the most inspirational books you’ve read yet. Between unstable, alcoholic parents and the ever-present threat of emotional and physical neglect, Theresa never had the childhood every adult wished they could recall. After a horrible fire incident which left her unrecognizably scarred for life at age four, Theresa was left to deal with pain, despair an... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 152078080X
    • ASIN: 152078080X
    • ISBN: 152078080X
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

  • Best Family Ever

    "When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never

    • UPC: 152187007
    • Rating: 3.0

  • Healing the Child Within : Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)

    The "Child Within" refers to that part of each of us which is ultimately alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled; it is our real self--who we truly are. The author describes the journey of discovery and

    • UPC: 209642
    • Rating: 3.0

  • Mending Broken Branches : When God Reclaims Your Dysfunctional Family Tree

    How to invite God to step in and break the cycle of dysfunction Elizabeth Oates is no stranger to a dysfunctional family. She may look like the quintessential soccer mom now, but her childhood was

    • UPC: 55862368
    • Rating: 4.0

  • I'm So Happy for You : A novel about best friends

    Wendy's best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. But when Daphne suddenly starts to surpass her in every way, Wendy is not so happy

    • UPC: 10762203
    • Rating: 3.857

  • Surviving the Toxic Family : Taking Yourself Out of the Equation and Taking Your Life Back from Your Dysfunctional Family

    "Surviving the Toxic Family" is a valuable book for anyone trying to recover from the devastating effects of growing up in a toxic or dysfunctional family. Drawing on engaging case studies, this book shows you

    • UPC: 53350409

  • Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family : Avoiding the 6 Dysfunctional Parenting Styles

    Feeling stuck as a Christian parent? Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family helps you get out of the common pitfalls of Christian parenting and gives you practical ideas for creating spiritual health in your home while

    • UPC: 40569695
    • Color: Black
    • Rating: 5.0

  • We Belong Together : A Book About Adoption and Families

    In a kid-friendly, accessible way, bestselling author/illustrator Todd Parr explores the ways that people can choose to come together to make a family, and approaches this challenging subject with humor and sensitivity through his bold

    • UPC: 5796062
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Mothering From Scratch : Finding the Best Parenting Style for You and Your Family

    "For those who are tired of cookie-cutter parenting approaches, two Christian moms encourage readers to develop flexible, personal mothering styles that work best for their own

    • UPC: 39967692
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family : 101 Incredible Stories about Our Funny, Quirky, Lovable & "Dysfunctional" Families

    With stories about wacky-yet-lovable relatives, holiday meltdowns, and funny foibles, along with more serious stories about abuse, controlling family members, and flare-ups, "Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family" shows readers that they

    • UPC: 10969450

  • Repeat After Me : A Workbook for Adult Children Overcoming Dysfunctional Family Systems

    A new and revised edition of Dr. Claudia Black's groundbreaking workbook for adult children from dysfunctional families characterized by abuse, addiction, other compulsive behaviors, or mental

    • UPC: 579254009

  • 3 Good Books with Dysfunctional Families

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