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Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology, is at the top of her game. Her kids are grown, her marriage secure, her career on fire, when after mere months of forgetfulness she finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of early onset Alzheimer's disease. With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self slips away. Without memory or hope, she is forced...

"A woman raised by her older sister adopts a child to start a family of her own, but her joy is short-lived when her sister is diagnosed with life-threatening cancer"-- After her mother died and her father walked out, Helen was raised by her older sister Claire. Helen has always believed that her own baby would fill her sense of loss, but after four years of trying to become pregnant is resigned to the fact that she will never be able to bear children....

The Relational Book for Parenting uses comics, fables, articles, and games to help families' grow their relational intelligence in the daily back and forth of parenting. It's a joyful, accessible, parent-friendly cure for what ails our isolating culture, helping us to raise a generation of young people better able to connect, collaborate and innovate across differences. . Couple and family therapist Saliha Bava, PhD, and Emmy winning animator and...

In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.

The parents of a child born without hearing describe their efforts to reach across the barrier of silence to teach their daughter to speak and enjoy a normal life.

A self-centered college student has one thing on his mind--get home for Christmas. Just days before his deadline he wakes up in the California desert--stranded and penniless, wearing a Santa suit and a white beard glued to his face! The closer Jake gets to home, the closer he gets to the true meaning of Christmas and Family in this nonstop comedy of errors.

"After her marriage ends, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning but is the past truly behind her? It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their father's behavior--and they've had a tough time getting along...

Katharine Hilbery, the beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet, must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and disturbing affinity.

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains—but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...

Baby's first Christmas: When two lawyers' siblings fall in love, it binds the two together by default. When Jenna's sister goes into labor on Christmas Eve, romantic sparks fly and they need a Christmas miracle to help their families to a new start. A bride for Christmas: After Jessie Patterson calls off her third engagement she swears off serious relationships until she finds the one. That is, until charming but chronically single Aiden comes along....