Adult Children

Deja is excited about the upcoming show at Triple Bar and hopes to qualify for the championship show at the end of the summer. She is becoming a great team with her new horse, Macintosh and she thinks she could have a shot at the championship! But when Macintosh gets sick, Deja’s dreams for her show season might be ending before they have even started. As if this isn’t enough, she continues to have trouble getting along with Macintosh’s former owner, Chris Donaire. Her trainer gives her an ultimatum: get along with Chris or leave the barn. Will Deja be able to save her show season ...

Three young friends - Leo, Elsa, and Max - spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe - to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland - will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to?

Jane Teaberry hopes her life will settle down after all the trouble she found last summer. She moves into her college dorm with her friend, Peaches Parker, and just as they are settling into college life, one of the students is attacked during a break-in at the Archaeology lab where Peaches’ dad works. Two sand paintings from a recent dig in New Mexico are missing and Jane is determined to find out why. On the way to the library to learn more about them, someone pushes Jane out in front of a car. Trouble follows the girls when Jane, Peaches, and her cousin Ashley go on a road trip out ...

Marta Segrelles, psicóloga y autora de Abraza a la niña que fuiste, vuelve con un libro muy especial para sanar las heridas de la infancia que más huella dejan: las que están presentes en la relación con nuestra madre.

For fun-loving Mena, life’s a peach. But then her world-traveling fiancé goes missing—without leaving his usual note—and her peachy life suddenly turns rotten. “Where’s Waldo?” she demands. Her twin is dismissive (Wenda knows something!); the neighborhood punk girl Lulu is seen lurking about with GUILT written on her kitten face; and Waldo’s nemesis Wigor is caught with his hands in the cookie jar—but denies it, even with crumbs befouling his villainous mustache. The only one Mena trusts is Fritz, a Tom Swiftian neighborhood boy who adores Waldo and tries to help Mena ...

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

Matthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the crossfire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?

Andrew Sean Greer can’t wait to get home to San Francisco after a writer’s residency in Kansas. But when his mother, Sandra, decides to come along for the ride, he has a new goal: get her to crack a smile at every stop, whether breathtaking or breathtakingly kitschy. He’s always known his mother to be as efficient and serious as a chemist (which she happens to be), always in gray, eyebrow cocked, and handling challenges with grace. To mix things up, Andrew develops an elaborate itinerary of planned chaos.

Freedom hangs by a thread when steel and sorceries collide... For nearly twenty years, the land of Thursley has been free, thanks to Oswynn and Dunstan and the loyal friends who stood beside them on the Night of Blood. Now, a new threat looms on the horizon, and it's up to a new generation to save Thursley. Ardith is a fighter of unsurpassed skill and fierceness who has been trained by her father to be the ultimate warrior. But will she learn to temper her actions with mercy and compassion before it's too late? Cendric is a wizard like his mother. But his potential is locked away behind a ...

Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously until the FBI come knocking: they've begun a classified programme that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What Cassie doesn't realise is that there's more at risk than a few unsolved murders - especially when she's sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem.

What do three siblings, a talking dove, giants and Time Travel have in common? Join fifteen-year-old Mican, fourteen-year-old Ashton, and their twelve-year-old sister Shayla in a life-changing experience when they attend an Archeological Summer Camp in New Mexico. There they begin their Time Travel Adventure by skimming across the clouds to various locations in history, including seeing the bones of fallen giants, running for their lives from Noah’s Flood, hiding from live giants and dodging warring factions.

S.T.E.M. stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Children need to learn S.T.E.M. because these subjects help them understand the world around them. S.T.E.M. teaches kids to solve problems, think critically, and be creative. These skills are useful in school, everyday life, and future jobs. Learning S.T.E.M. also prepares children for careers in fields that are growing, like medicine, computer science, and engineering. By studying S.T.E.M., kids can make a big difference in the world when they grow up!

Markas hears news about dead people with weird symbols on their bodies. He decides to investigate symbols at the library to see if he can find anything. Shortly after he starts having dreams about the people and the rituals done on them. In one of such dreams, Markas sees visions of his own dad… Markas learns more data about the killer from his visions. A police investigation is also underway. As soon as possible, Marcus wants to bring his father the artifact that he found. As the sword gets closer, he suspects the visions will last longer.This is the forth book of "The Demon King’s ...

What do three siblings, a talking dove, a dragon, and a King have in common? They create a life-changing experience for an angry twelve-year-old named Ashton, his ten-year-old sister Shayla, and their thirteen-year-old brother Mican. Join them on an adventure from failing to follow instructions, which leads them into danger, to learning to joyfully serve the King of Kings.

LYRICS EDITION: Features all-new original lyrics and music from the Wynter Wild series “having problems putting it down.... an amazing, well written series” - Facebook reviewer When love makes sense… Wynter and her brothers are ready to rock venues all over Seattle. No one can deny the natural chemistry Rule212 has on stage. Behind the scenes there's tension brewing. It's not easy to work, play, and live together. Family means everything to Wynter and she'll do whatever it takes to protect hers. But something at the very heart of this family is ripping it apart. No secrets or lies - ...

In Our Mothers, Ourselves, Henry Cloud and John Townsend show how understanding how our mothers have profoundly influenced our lives can set us on a path toward wholeness and growth. No one has influenced the person you are today like your mother. The way she handled your needs as a child has shaped your worldview, your relationships, your marriage, your career, your self-image - your life. Our Mothers, Ourselves can help you identify areas that need reshaping, to make positive choices for personal change, and to establish a mature relationship with Mom today.

In Rethinking Your Teenager, family therapist Darby Fox challenges parents to redefine the goals of adolescence by reorienting their focus from what they want their child to be to on who they want their child to be. Darby not only equips parents with the insight to understand the changes taking place in their child's brain and body and support their adolescent's bid for independence, but also offers an approach that allows parents to engage their adolescent in a relationship instead of struggling in an endless battle for control.

This is the 5th book in the series of Abandoned Parents. It is a scientific analysis of alienation of adult children psychologically, sociological and biological. It speaks to the damage done to the human brain as a direct result of this cruelty. The book delves into the failure of efforts at reconciliation while proposing a new concept of healing.

Whether you've been looking forward to it or dreading it, the experience of coming home to an empty nest brings with it a well of emotions, realizations, and one gigantic, all-consuming thought: Now what? In Finding Joy in the Empty Nest, Jim Burns combines his personal experiences with his expertise as a family educator to help you navigate your new life as an empty nester and find joy in this new season of life.

The Iceberg Model is the core of the Thawing the Iceberg Series. As a unified model of addiction, codependency, and Adult/Child Syndrome the Iceberg Model provides a roadmap tracing the original pain of abandonment, the development of the survival skills that defend against that pain, and the sources of comfort & relief that become the addictions that cause even more pain. Maybe for the first time, see how it all fits together and what needs to happen to take this deadly combination apart.