family relationships

"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.

"Twenty writers share stories of migration, family, and what it means to exist between languages and cultures"--Back cover.

"This thoughtful book explores families with members who have special needs or challenges. It will encourage young readers to consider both similarities and differences, as well as how they can help or support friends whose families might have their own unique differences"--Provided by publisher.

"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after the other, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institutes of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother, to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amidst profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love and hope"--Provided by publisher.