Family & relationships

How to Win a Family Fight

von Will Cunningham

It’s Time to Fight Right

If you’re involved with one or more people in a continuing relationship, you can bank on one thing for sure: there will be conflict. Are you married? You will disagree. Are you single...

You've Got to Be Kidding!: Real-life parenting advise from a mom and dad of nineteen

von Pat Williams & Ruth Williams

Kid-Tested (and Tested, and Tested…) Guidance for Parents in the Trenches.

The Inside Track to Raising Kids.

Most of us find raising one, two…or maybe three or four children to be challenging enough. The...

The Guardianship Book for California

von David Brown & Emily Doskow

Become a legal guardian and make the biggest difference in a child's life!

Thousands of children in California need legal guardians because their parents have died, abandoned them, or are otherwise unable...

The Legal Answer Book for Families

von Emily Doskow & Marcia Stewart

Marriage, divorce, child custody, child support, adoptions, elder care, inheritance rules, and children's problems with school, bullies, or the law are a few of the many legal topics that affect family life....

Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings

von Colleen Curran

Original essays by Top Women Writers

Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _ Elizabeth Crane 

Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ Jennifer Armstrong _ Elise Mac Adam...

The Moms' Guide to Meal Makeovers: Improving the Way Your Family Eats, One Meal at a Time!

von Liz Weiss & Janice Bissex

For the legions of harried moms who have tossed in the dishtowel on cooking healthy meals (or any meals!), the easiest-ever guide for bringing super nutrition back to the kitchen.

Getting dinner on the table...

The Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step by Step Guide to Finding Your Child

von Dawn Davenport

The go-to guide for everything you want to know about international adoption

From the initial decision—Is adoption right for you?—through returning home with your child—How can you ease the transition?—...

Aunties: Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother

von Ingrid Sturgis

An aunt is not just another mother—and aunts defy any sort of archetypal image. Like humanity, they span the spectrum, from down-home Auntie Em to the uninhibited Auntie Mame. Some aunts are smart, others...

The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood

von Ellen Handler Spitz

In this remarkable book, Ellen Handler Spitz shows how to promote children’s creative and emotional growth by making the most of the unlimited possibilities of everyday experiences.Through delightful anecdotes...

Shadowed Destiny

von Rita Gallagher

Fleeing the squalor of the New York docks and the brutalities of her cruel stepfather, Amy Fitzgerald is adopted by a wealthy Maine shipowner and grows to womanhood haunted by the bitter past that threatens...

Parenting a Struggling Reader

von Susan Hall & Louisa Moats

The first completely comprehensive, practical guide for recognizing, diagnosing, and overcoming any childhood reading difficulty.

According to the National Institute of Health, ten million of our nation’s children...

Children First: What Society Must Do--and is Not Doing--for Children Today

von Penelope Leach

Children First is the most important and urgent book on childcare we have yet had from the internationally admired author of the classic Your Baby & Child.

In it Penelope Leach calls on us as individuals and...

Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother

von Lois Wyse

Smart, warm, telling, and funny, Funny, Your Don't Look Like a Grandmother is the perfect bouquet for today's grandmother, that active and interesting woman who is old enough to be somebody's grandmother and...

Your Struggling Child: A Guide to Diagnosing, Understanding, and Advocating for Your Child with Learning, Behavior, or Emotional Problems

von Robert F. Newby & Lynn Sonberg

Here is a practical, compassionate book parents can turn to when they first recognize that their child has a "problem" –– but aren't sure what it is or where to seek help.

At this very moment, millions of...

Coping with Your Difficult Older Parent: A Guide For Stressed Out Children

von Grace Lebow, Barbara Kane & Irwin Lebow

Do You Have

An Aging Parent Who --

• Blames you for everything that goes wrong?
• Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time?
• Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined?
• Make unreasonable and/or irrational...

"Mom, Jason's Breathing on Me!": The Solution to Sibling Bickering

von Anthony Wolf

AT LAST—SOUND, PRACTICAL RELIEF

FOR PARENTS WITH BATTLING KIDS!

Imagine. You might never again have to hear the words: “Mommy, Ann drooled on me on purpose.” You could have the answer for every “It’s...

The Step by Step Guide to Planning Your Wedding

von Lynda Wright

Your dream wedding starts with this first simple step. Your wedding day marks the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in your life, so you'll want to make sure it's as wonderful as you always dreamed it...

How to Manage Difficult People

von Alan Fairweather

Dealing with difficult customers, colleagues, uncooperative staff, a manipulative boss - or an irritating neighbour – is a challenge many people face daily. People in business are now under extreme pressure...

Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships

von Laura Stafford

This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the...

Rebuilding Broken Bridges For Couples: Giving Hope for Relationships in Crisis

von John Wagner

Rebuilding Broken Bridges examines what causes the wounds of a relationship in crisis, how to rebuild trust, and how to replace the fizzle with sizzle for couples struggling to find the relationship of their...