Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1977, Jeanne's German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he's gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But, Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he declares that he has fled to Germany and she will never see him, or her children, again.
The next four months are, filled with agony, despair,...
Author
Language
English
Description
After both her parents die, Linda Murphy Marshall, a multi-linguist and professional translator, returns to her midwestern childhood home, Ivy Lodge, to sort through a lifetime of belongings with her siblings. Room by room, she sifts through the objects in her parents' house and uses her skills and perspective as a longtime professional translator to make sense of the events of her past, to "translate" her memories and her life. In the process, she...
Author
Language
English
Description
A New York Times—bestselling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pat Conroy is one of America's most beloved storytellers and a writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as pluff mud or the Palmetto tree. As Conroy's writings have been rooted in autobiography more often than not, his readers have come to know and appreciate much about the once-secret dark familial history that has shaped Conroy's life and work.
Conversations with...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Rebecca Stirling's childhood: a young girl raised by the sea, by men, and by literature. Circumnavigating the world on a thirty-foot sailboat, the Stirlings spend weeks at a time on the open ocean, surviving storms and visiting uncharted islands and villages. Ushered through her young life by a father who loves adventure, women, and extremes, Rebecca befriends "working girls" in the ports they visit (as they are often the only...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Have you ever felt the weight of a parent's emotional baggage shaping your life? "How to Deal With Emotionally Immature Parents" is a transformative exploration into the world of emotionally immature parents and the profound impact they have on family dynamics. This book is an essential read for anyone who has struggled with the confusing legacy of a parent's emotional limitations. Designed for adult children of emotionally immature parents, mental...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again...
Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. Despite growing up in a poverty-stricken family, during the Depression and having to fight his way to middle-class status as an adult, he tended to look on the bright side. But, after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute every day, his daughter Jen noticed...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home. Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year's Day and instantly recognizes Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'. Social workers...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dad, you will never meet your grandson."
These are the words that opened David Koll's soul to a world of anguish. Denial provided a soothing escape for a time, but eventually reality set in: His estranged relationship with his daughter was indeed going to keep him from meeting his cherished first grandson. David begins to write letters to the grandson he'll never meet in the hopes of one day establishing some sort of connection.
In this book you...
Author
Language
English
Description
There is one proven method for happier kids, more involved dads, and less stressed-out moms after divorce-50/50 custody
It's hard for everyone when parents split up-but the end of living together doesn't need to mean the end of a functional family. Part of the reason divorces are so traumatic for the kids involved is because of our child custody system, which truly sets everyone up for failure. Throughout the country, the default arrangement is...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.
Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year's Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'.
Social workers...
Author
Language
English
Description
A riveting, provocative, and ultimately hopeful exploration of mother-daughter estrangement, woven with research and anecdotes, from an award-winning journalist.
The day of her mother's funeral, Harriet Brown was five thousand miles away. For years they'd gone through cycles of estrangement and connection, drastic blow-ups and equally dramatic reconciliations. By the time her mother died at seventy-six, they hadn't spoken at all in several years....
Author
Language
English
Description
In “Running Away from Home”, Tracy Burger explores her lifelong dispassionate relationship with her mother; why she couldn't connect with her mom during the last five years of her life and her desperate need to please her.
Many of us who grew up in the seventies saw the perfect home exemplified on afternoon TV reruns. Supportive mothers rendered a stable presence, empathizing with their children while providing the required safety net for their...
Author
Language
English
Description
On a bus trip to a Catskill Mountain ashram, Rifka Kreiter recollects her past as she travels to meet Swamiji, another new guru on the scene in the bustling spiritual marketplace of 1976. Memories abound of an eventful childhood with an unstable mother on New York's Upper West Side and in LA, of dancing the Twist at Manhattan's Peppermint Lounge, and of sitting in against the war-as well as getting tear-gassed in Mississippi, surviving broken love...
Author
Series
Language
Français
Description
Un témoignage bouleversant sur les horreurs de l'inceste et de la pédophilie
Ce livre autobiographique relate la jeunesse d'une enfant que le hasard de la naissance a menée au bout de l'horreur mais que la soif de vivre a tirée du néant. Ce témoignage bouleversant illustre la capacité de résilience d'une petite fille maltraitée par ses parents, placée dans un orphelinat et qui connaîtra l'horreur de l'inceste et de la pédophilie. Le réseau...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.
Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year's Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'.
Social workers...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dancing into the Light is a heartwarming memoir that captures one woman's transformative journey of self-discovery by making peace with a family at once extremely dysfunctional, yet oddly endearing. As a child, her troubling interaction with her depressed mother coexisted with the affection she held for her happy-go-lucky father. With little guidance from either parent, Arlyn was left to fend for herself.
A series of fateful events, from taking off...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this revised and updated edition of Repeat After Me, Dr. Claudia Black's revolutionary self-help workbook, readers are provided with a step-by-step framework and a guide that takes them through a process to recognize how present challenges are influenced by growing up in a troubled family system, release the parts of the past they wish to leave behind, and take greater responsibility for how they live today.
Author
Language
Español
Description
Este libro ayuda a los niños que experimentan un trauma crónico, complejo y generacional a normalizar y validar sus sentimientos. Proporciona una herramienta terapéutica para que los médicos se relacionen con el niño mientras realizan el trabajo de trauma en la sala de terapia.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jackie, born of medical missionaries in China during World War II,
rejected her connection to her birth country growing up because it made
her different.
A return to China with her parents in 1980,
however, is life-changing. After always having known her mother as
distant and emotionally abusive, she is stunned to see a loving side to
her for the first time-and pleasantly surprised by the affinity she
feels for her birth country.
These revelations...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents comes the guided journal, with self-reflective writing practices to help you heal from the past, set intentions for healthier relationships, and reconnect with your true self.
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met or dismissed-and you may have lingering feelings of...
In Find More Illinois
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Helen Plum Library can be requested from other Find More Illinois libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
We are constantly adding to our collection! Make a request and we'll consider the submission along with the needs of the community. Submit Request