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Carleigh is a 14-year-old girl trying to carve her own place in this world. Her younger brother's mental illness is slowly invading every aspect of her life. Her family is troubled. Friendships are unbearable. And just when calm begins to seem possible, one night will change Carleigh, and her family, forever.
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In this segment of my journey, I address mothers of broken daughters and hope that you might understand the thoughts, the pain, the guilt, the shame and the regrets I went through, even though it was lost then, and will always be lost to my own mother.
Being here means that you are nothing like my mother was. For that, I salute you. Perhaps, a little insight into what I desperately needed from my own mother might be the guide you need, in an Afterwards...
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I am a person with Dystonia a rare muscle disorder that knocked me down a lot but never knocked me out. I am a storyteller, but when stories are told as truth it is a lie. This book is my redemption, also an apology to thousands of people I hope will find it in their heart to forgive me. I wrote this as an autobiography that will continue Lord willing for the next hundred years of my life.
204) Family Scars
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Ellis Hickman, a respected businessman, and Deacon of his church had to make the hardest decision in his life to give the green light to unplug his wife of forty years from life support. Trying to cope with the pain of losing the love of his life, Ellis finds himself trying to re-establish a relationship with his children, confront his past, and question God why his wife died before him.
Ellis deals with the pain that he could never imagine and doesn't...
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"Seed And Harvest Time," is a powerful book that shows the type of harvest produced is, based on the kinds of seeds that are planted. Leslie Harvey uniquely shows this correlation by taking us on a journey of her life and family background. During her youth, she was broken, confused, angry, and bitter while living with her parents, who were married but living separate lives. She suffered verbal abuse, torment, and rejection. Leslie was, scorned with...
206) Guía S.O.S para Lidiar con Padres Tóxicos o Inmaduros: Cómo Tratar con Padres Tóxicos, Narcisistas o
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¿A tu corta edad te has convertido en la persona más madura de tu hogar? ¿A menudo buscas en otro lado apoyo emocional porque no puedes recurrir a tus padres? ¿Tu casa ya no se siente como un lugar seguro y feliz? Entonces sigue leyendo… "La infancia es la época en la que cada ser humano debería tener el derecho a ser completamente feliz". - Anónimo Ser madre o padre definitivamente no es una tarea fácil. A pesar de ello, las madres y los...
207) Born at midnight
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Shadow Falls novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother's death and her parents' separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls Camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other "freaky freaks," of which she may be one.
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Susan Forward, Ph. D., author of Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters--and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy. In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked with large numbers of women struggling to escape the emotional damage inflicted by the women who raised them. Subjected to years of criticism, competition, role-reversal, smothering...
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"Far from growing up in the wealthy, fox-hunting circles she had always suggested, her mother had in fact been raised in a foundling hospital for the children of unwed women."-Editor's Choice, The New York Times Book Review
"Extraordinary … fascinating, moving."-The Telegraph
"This emotional and transatlantic journey is a page-turner." - Editor's Pick, Amazon Book Review
"Book groups will find as much to discuss here as they have with The Glass...
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Advice for parents on how to break the cycle of neglect, abuse, or absentee parenting. Parenting is hard enough when you had good role models in your own parents. But what if your parents were absent, neglectful, or abusive? Are you doomed to repeat their mistakes with your own children? As a parenting expert and someone who experienced negative parenting, Rick Johnson answers that question with an emphatic "No!"Anyone can be a good parent, even if...
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Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lizzie Richfield is at a crossroads when she lands a job as house manager for the exclusive Ashford Estate in the Virginia countryside. While preparing the place for sale, Lizzie plans one final Christmas Eve gala for the Marley family, though they seem to be a family in name only. Can she navigate her suddenly complicated love life while helping mend family feuds and maybe teaching all the true spirit of Christmas?
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"On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person--but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased...where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"When five high school students are brought together under mysterious circumstances, they begin to piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all"--
When a building collapses around five teenagers, they just barely escape. They don't have much in common, except that they're all students at a private high school. After a second freak accident occurs, the group pieces together a theory: their parents are working together...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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349 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery--home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling...
216) The portable Veblen
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"A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming Veblen and her fiancé Paul, a brilliant neurologist--find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate tête-à-tête with a very charismatic squirrel. Veblen (named after the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous...
217) The imperfects
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"The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first time in years, forced to confront old resentments and betrayals, when their mysterious, eccentric matriarch, Helen, passes away. But their lives are about to change when they find a secret inheritance hidden among her possessions--the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow gemstone that went missing from the Austrian Empire a century...
218) See what I have done
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English
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When her father and stepmother are found brutally murdered on a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie Borden - thirty-two years old and still living at home - immediately becomes a suspect. But after a notorious trial, she is found innocent, and no one is ever convicted of the crime. Meanwhile, others in the claustrophobic Borden household have their own motives and their own stories to tell: Lizzie's unmarried older sister, a put-upon Irish housemaid, and...
219) Something like hope
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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193 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen year-old in juvenile lockup, wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-control girls, and shadows from her past make her task seem impossible.
220) The apology
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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115 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"This book, The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear attempts to transform the abuse she suffered, with unflinching truthfulness, compassion, and a expansive vision for the future. Through The Apology Eve has set out to provide a new way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally imagine how to be free. In it, she grapples with questions she has sought answers...
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