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David Sedaris returns with his first collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky...

Tell a New Story offers an easy-to-follow, five-step approach using the STORY acronym to help uncover your patterns and transform the way you think and talk about yourself. Rowan weaves a tapestry of powerful emotions through personal storytelling. She expounds on struggles that teach lessons on how to dissolve the habits that hold you back from living your dream life. Rowan will help you recognize the patterns that are keeping you stuck in the same old story, and instead, guide you to rewrite a new and empowering version of yourself that you love.

A late bloomer’s coming-of-age memoir asks how does one accept and free themselves from visible and invisible disabilities and still retain their sense of connection and humor? Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert, while the author, her younger, typically developing sister, shoulders the burdens and grief of her parents.

The Familia Grande is a tender, groundbreaking and lacerating memoir written by a sister who could no longer remain silent. Set in amongst the French intellectual elite in Paris and their lavender-scented estates in Provence, it tells a story of a corrosive secret that sits in a family for decades and ultimately razes it and the political, literary elite that enabled its silence, to the ground.

This program is read by the author. A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, Joe Biden’s younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager. Valerie, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, writes of the role of family, faith, and fate in shaping her life...

Rose, orpheline de père et mère, est pâle et chétive. Quel dommage qu'une si affectueuse petite fille soit condamnée à vivre de potions et de pilules, à se morfondre seule, vêtue de noir, dans une grande maison triste. Condamnée ? L'oncle Alec voit la situation d'un autre oeil.

Dans ce deuxième livre, Tara cède la parole aux enfants. C’est à leur tour de raconter, en mots et en dessins, leur quotidien au sein de cette famille pour le moins atypique. Le livre est enrichi de multiples photos tirées des tournages de la cinquième saison de la téléréalité.

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world. As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to...

Find time for yourself without the guilt! Do you desperately need a break but struggle with guilt for taking time for yourself? As a mom, there's an endless list of things you need to do. Taking time for yourself may feel unimportant or even selfish. But you're tired of living in survival mode and desperately need a break. As a life coach for moms and yoga and meditation teacher, I would be honored to help you finally get out of survival mode so you can be the mom you’ve always dreamed of being!

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Can death bring something good to my life?' A few weeks before Christmas, Clover's sister died of breast cancer, aged forty-six. Just days before, she had been given years to live. Her sudden death split Clover's life apart. The Red of My Blood charts Clover's...

From a Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist, an invaluable guide that gives readers evidence-based tools and techniques to communicate more effectively with children in ways that let them foster relationships with less conflict and more joy and kindness. Science has shown that the...

Three generations of women. Three generations worth of secrets. Will a cache of letters from beyond the grave hold the key to unravelling them all? The answer to that question lies at the heart of this addictive and atmospheric novel from the author of The House of Brides. Growing up, the...

OUTSIDE, THE SKY IS BLUE is a beautifully drawn, heartbreaking yet also joyful memoir of growing up, of happiness and love, of living with physical and mental ill health, and of being the only one left of a family that had once had so much colour and life. When Christina Patterson's brother Tom...

Gemeinsam erleben Bettina und ihre Schwester die Höhen und Tiefen des Aufwachsens in den 70er-Jahren: Sie machen erste Liebeserfahrungen und lernen mit den unerfüllbaren Erwartungen ihrer Eltern umzugehen. Zusammen verbringen sie glückliche Stunden mit ihren Großeltern, um den Depressionen der Mutter zu entkommen. Doch das Duo zerbricht, als Bettinas Schwester sich das Leben nimmt. Für Bettina beginnt eine Zeit der Lähmung und Verzweiflung. Dann findet sie Trost im Schreiben und wagt den mutigen Schritt, sich den Gespenstern der Vergangenheit zu stellen und von diesen zu befreien.

From the acclaimed author of Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold—with stunningly different results At the age of...

In the early 1960s, the head of a prominent New York City Child Development Center and a psychiatrist from Columbia University launched a study designed to track the development of twins and triplets given up for adoption and raised by different families. The controversial and disturbing catch? None of the adoptive parents had been told that they were raising a twin - the study's investigators insisted that the separation be kept secret. 

Do you want to improve your relationships with children, siblings, parents, family, friends, and acquaintances? Do you struggle with anger, depression, or fear? How do childhood memories affect your adult life? How does birth order influence your actions and reactions? Clifford E. Isaacson is the author of multiple books on counseling and birth order. His research and the findings shared in this book are based on more than 30,000 counseling sessions that he conducted over his lengthy career.

When they were young, Susan and Edna, children of Holocaust refugee parents, were inseparable; Edna was Susan’s first love and constant companion. But as they grew up and Edna’s physical and mental challenges altered the ways she could develop, a gulf formed between them. Susan’s life became even more complicated when, just short of her 16th birthday, she learned that she’d been born without a uterus and would never menstruate or give birth to children. As she coped with this trauma, Edna continued loving her unconditionally, as she always had.

In relation to leaving or reducing contact with your family we are all individuals the same answer doesn't fit for all. One of the hardest truths for me to embrace in my love of writing God picked out for me is I have a right to write about my life. I have a right to have feelings about what happened to me. I am an individual and the oldest, and not an extension of my family. I was a victim of child molestation abuse and deserve to live an abuse free life.

The Willows have been through a lot. Louise has devoted her life to caring for her disabled youngest daughter. Pete works abroad, almost never seeing his loved ones. Their eldest, Eliza, is burdened by all the secrets she's trying to keep from her overloaded family. Meanwhile, Patience observes the world while trapped in her own body. When the Willows are offered the opportunity for Patience to take part in a new gene therapy trial to cure her Rett syndrome, they face an impossible dilemma.