| Is It Just Me? or Is Everyone a Little Nuts!
| "Is It Just Me? or Is Everyone a Little Nuts!" offers a laugh out loud look at parenting, marriage, aging and small town living from an suburban point of view. Written in short chapters, Coltman retells everyday life events, conversations and stories infused with her skewed sense of humor. These small snippets of life are moments in which anyone can identify and laugh at themselves as well. Middle age can be boring, but Coltman allows the naughty into her life from time to time, like her adult S...More
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| A Perfect Wedding
| Does familial love bind us or set us free? Or both? A trio of short stories explores these questions. In A Perfect Wedding, a mother longs to pass on the traditions that have made her happy to a daughter who is determined to forge her own tradition. In Generation Unto Generation, a young woman comes to terms with the loss of a beloved family member. In Next Time - The First Time, a free spirit finds himself in a trap from which there is no escape.
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| THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED (non illustrated)
| One of Fitzgerald's best-known works, this glittering novel is set against an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a scathing, ironic tale of a couple that parallels the real-life relationship of Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, from its romantic beginning to its tragic end. This edition features a lively Introduction with biographical and historical background, and critical essays. (July)First published in 1922, "The Beautiful and the Damned" fo...More
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| The Glass Castle: A Memoir
| Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the respon...More
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| Go the F**k to Sleep
| Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar — and unspoken — tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the F**k to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not play this fo...More
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| Today is Tuesday
| Everyone can use someone to talk to, no matter how old you are or what's going on in your life. But children often haven't yet learned the value of voicing their fears, talking out anxieties, or sharing their thoughts with people outside of their family. It can also be hard to open up to someone, especially a professional, when you're filled with fears about what people might think and you don't understand the process.Today is Tuesday presents the warm and comforting tale of a young boy named To...More
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| The Job
| The Job is a story of self-discovery, set in the context of the relationship between Eric and his grandfather, and the changes that followed when death affected that relationship.This story will move you.It is the kind of book you will read again and share with others to help them in times of loss and grieving.
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| Help, Mom's Stuck on Spin Cycle: 31 Days to Laugh Your Way through Motherhood
| At last a book that answers the proverbial question, “Where is my other sock?” Cheryl Moeller, emerges from her laundry room at last to tell her story – such as the time Metamucil tablets left in a pants pocket became the size of basketballs after 30 minutes in the washing machine. Her over-the-laundry pile humor will help you laugh your way through motherhood -- 31 days in a row. She’ll also give you Ten Ways to know it’s going to be a Long Labor and Delivery, Ten Things you Can Learn...More
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| The Swiss Family Robinson, Or, Adventures on a Desert Island
| General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Rand McNally Subjects: Shipwrecks Castaways Tree houses Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc Transportation / Ships
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| Things Mother Used to Make
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Cookery, American; Cooking / General; Cooking / Regional
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| Infinitely More
| Abandoned by his mother in a St. Petersburg dumpster when he was only three days old, Alex Krutov should not have survived. But God had something else in mind. Raised in the harsh Russian orphanage system, Alex's life was one of hopelessness and despair until the arrival of Christian missionaries from the West when the Soviet Union collapsed. Infinitely More is the inspiring true story of a young man who would not give up, and the God who relentlessly pursued him. Jesus said, "I will not l...More
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| A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
| This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." Dave's bed was an old army co...More
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| Punished
| Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she discovered a secret that ultimately saved her life. From the age of 3, Vanessa lived in daily terror of her mother's unpredictable rage. If she was "naughty," her mother would lash out at her—with beatings, torture, starvation, and making Vanessa sleep in their garden's pigsty, tied up like an animal. Her mother said her punishments were God's revenge on her for being the devil's child. Her father lived in denial of her suffering. When she was 6 years old...More
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| A New Pet in the Family
| Between the arrival ("A New Pet in the Family") and the passing away ("We have such a great time together") of a pet, Bookata's compilation cover the whole cycle of family-child-pet dynamic by introducing elements from the child environment into the story, creating a unique, personalized book. Aimed for readers age five to ten, Bookata’s books allow the users (parents and children alike) to change in a few minutes the whole content, from illustrations to text.
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| Why Me?
| In the blink of an eye, Mom ran up behind me and pushed me into the fence. Instinctively, I reached out my arms to stop my fall and ended up grabbing the live fence. My hands clamped around the thin wires, and my body collapsed to the ground as the electricity coursed through it. I opened my eyes and saw my mother standing over me with the strangest smile on her face. “Oh, my God, I’m going to die!” I thought in panic. Imagine never being able to close your eyes and remember the feel of yo...More
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| The American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy (Cooking in America)
| Includes interesting recipes, remedies, advice on parenting, and tips for housekeepers. From 1832-1845, this popular book went through thirty-two editions.
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| Potty Training Made Easy: A Parent's Guide
| "This sensitive subject is handled with sound practical advice and good humor for parents... A must-read." -- Brooklyn Family magazineDr. Baruch Kushnir is one of the world’s foremost experts on bed wetting, bladder control, and child development. With an M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology, a Ph. D. in Medical Psychology, and 17 clinics in his name, Dr. Kushnir has synthesized more than 25 years of experience into this comprehensive step-by step manual. The Magic Bowl: Potty Training Made Easy focus...More
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| The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
| In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries --an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying.No wonder pediatricians across the country are praising him and thousands of Los Angeles parents, from working moms to superstars like Madonna and Pierce Brosnan, have turned to him to learn the secrets for making babies happy.Never again will parents have to stand by helpless and frazzled while the...More
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| Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge: a Little Girl in the 1950s South
| Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge is the coming-of-age story in an era of bobby socks, poodle skirts and the freckled-faced girl that wore them. It's also about the Deep South and sweetly flawed women who taught her what she was meant to be and what she was not meant to be. Their corner of the world was filled with folklore, superstition, and mystical ideas. Her grandmother believed and practiced most of these, passing them onto the next generation. The little girl's life was populated with strange rel...More
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| Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
| Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to someone else's, you may be codependent--and you may find yourself in this book. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-te...More
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