family relationships

A memoir in which the author draws from a diary he kept as a young boy to tell the story of his life with his family in Ireland.

A novelist writes of her experiences during a 12 month period through pregnancy, new motherhood, and return to writing.

June Jordan chronicles the first twelve years of her life and discusses how her experiences during those years influenced her writing.

The First Lady discusses her mission to learn how people can work together to provide a nurturing society in which children can grow into capable, caring adults.

Provides cases studies of AIDS patients from across the country and the dedicated people who help care for them.

A novel based upon the murder of Fulbright scholar Amy Elizabeth Biehl in which the fictitious mother of the killer examines the life and world of her son in the black township of Guguletu, South Africa.

Amy Wilensky discusses the close relationship she shared with her younger sister Alison until they reached their teens and Alison became obese, and she meditates upon how her feelings about her sister have both changed and stayed the same since Alison underwent gastric bypass surgery and lost nearly two hundred pounds.