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Helping your transgender teen: a guide for parents
Par Irwin Krieger. 2018
"Going through puberty and adolescence presents unwelcome changes for many transgender youth, and this book provides advice to parents of…
transgender teens to help them understand what their child is experiencing and feeling during this challenging time. Addressing common fears and concerns that parents of transgender teens share, the book guides them through steps they can take with their child, including advice on hormones and surgery and how to transition socially. It addresses the recent increase in teens presenting with non-binary identities, and reflects major legal, social and medical developments regarding transgender issues. The author's insights are gained from his professional experience of providing psychotherapy regarding gender identity. He provides resources and further reading to help parents expand their knowledge. Although aimed predominantly at parents, this book is useful for anyone working with teenagers and young adults as it provides many answers to common questions about adolescent gender identity." -- Provided by publisherOut of denial: piecing together a fractured life
Par Robert K Anderson. 2008
The memoir of a closeted gay married man who grew up in the conformist Fifties and got stuck in a…
maze of denial. Adult. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Strong languageMuch has been written of the marriage of President John Adams and his wife Abigail. But few people know of…
the strong bond Abigail shared with her sisters, Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw Peabody. AdultThe stolen year: how COVID changed children's lives, and where we go now
Par Anya Kamenetz. 2022
An NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children's lives and how our country has nearly always failed to…
put our children first. The onset of COVID broke a 150-year social contract between America and its children. Tens of millions of students lost what little support they had from the government not just school but food, heat, and physical and emotional safety. The cost was enormous. But this crisis began much earlier than 2020. In The Stolen Year, Anya Kamenetz exposes a long-running indifference to the plight of children and families in American life and calls for a reckoning. She follows families across the country as they live through the pandemic, facing loss and resilience: a boy with autism in San Francisco who gains a foster brother and a Hispanic family in Texas that loses a member to COVID, and finds solace when they need it most. Kamenetz also recounts the history that brought us to this point: how we thrust children and caregivers into poverty, how we over-police families of color, how we rely on mothers instead of infrastructure. And how our government, in failing to support our children through this tumultuous time, has stolen years of their lives. Strong languageCoping with parental death: insights and tips for teenagers (Empowering you)
Par Michelle Shreeve. 2022
"Losing a parent at any time in one's life is difficult, but losing a parent when a teenager brings its…
own distinct challenges. |Coping with Parental Death| offers coping strategies, expert advice, useful resources, and valuable insight from other young adults, providing support to those struggling with the death of one or both of their parents." -- Provided by publisherThe skin I'm in: a first look at racism (First look at ... book)
Par Pat Thomas. 2003
Our shed: a father-daughter building story
Par Robert Broder. 2020
A father teaches his daughter how to build a backyard shed for storing the necessities of family life--a lawn mower,…
sprinkler, sleds, kid toys. For each practical element the dad brings to the project, his daughter adds her own imaginative creative spin. For grades K-3. UnratedSometimes people fight, even when they love each other (The safe Child, Happy Parent Ser.)
Par Dagmar Geisler. 2019
How to not die alone: the surprising science that will help you find love
Par Logan Ury. 2021
Love, as the saying goes, make fools of us all. But behavioral scientist and dating coach Logan Ury wants to…
fix that. Logan studied psychology at Harvard and spent years researching relationships. Here, she explains expectations, emotions, and other invisible forces that drive our faulty decision-making. Each chapter focuses on a different decision, from the first date on, and includes big ideas from behavioral science, original research, hands-on exercises, and stories about people just like you, to help you find-and keep-love. Adult. UnratedWho would I be if my father had been someone else? This startling and beautiful book is a valiant attempt…
to answer this universal and searching question. The subjects of this book are revealed in essays of 350 words and illustrated with contemporary and archival photos of their fathers. AdultRosie colored glasses
Par Brianna Wolfson. 2018
Whimsical, heartbreaking and uplifting, this is a novel about the many ways love can find you. Rosie Colored Glasses triumphs…
with the most endearing examples of how mothers and fathers and sons and daughters bend for one another. Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosie's daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willow's bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosie's divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosie's behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed. Rex had removed his Rosie colored glasses long ago, but will Willow do the same? UnratedAguas de estuario
Par Velia Vidal. 2020
"In these letters, Velia Vidal recounts her wanderings since she returned to the Chocó region of Colombia, to the Pacific…
Ocean, and devoted herself to the promotion of reading and culture. Incorporating elements from her surroundings, she elaborates metaphors that account for her internal tide and the tensions between the center and the periphery. Through writing, the author constructs a personal history and geography." -- Translation provided by NLSPoser: my life in twenty-three yoga poses
Par Claire Dederer. 2011
Claire Dederer started taking yoga because of a sore back. She wryly describes how it became part of her life…
as a wife, mother, daughter, and writer in Seattle. Adult. UnratedAlso a poet: Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
Par Ada Calhoun. 2022
"When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for…
his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind." -- Provided by publisherThe familia grande: a memoir
Par Camille Kouchner. 2022
"Camille Kouchner's childhood was marked by sun-drenched summers in the south of France, where a vibrant cast of family and…
friends would gather at their Sanary-sur-Mer house. This familia grande, which included much of the country's elite, spent memorable days and nights laughing, debating, drinking, and dancing. But a long-held secret poisoned Camille's memories. In February 2017, Camille returned to Sanary at forty-one to bury her mother, who died with none of her five children present. Her passing would stir up old emotions, ultimately leading Camille to publicly confront the truth. |The Familia Grande| poignantly explores the dynamics of abuse, and the questions of guilt and shame surrounding it. Published in France in 2021, the book sparked an important conversation about incest, and the attitudes and laws that have so often allowed influential men to evade consequences for their crimes." -- Provided by publisherBecoming citizens: family life and the politics of disability
Par Susan Schwartzenberg. 2005
Chronicles the lives of thirteen families in the Seattle area who raised children with developmental disabilities between 1940 and 1980.…
Describes the parents' efforts to find services for their children and how they lobbied to get Education for All legislation passed in the state. Adult. UnratedHungry monkey: a food-loving father's quest to raise an adventurous eater
Par Matthew Amster-Burton. 2010
Who gets to decide what's for dinner--the kid or the parents? This lighthearted account of a father teaching his daughter…
about a wide range of tasty foods includes recipes. Adult. UnratedA view of the ocean
Par Jan De Hartog. 2007
Dutch author, De Hartog writes a moving memoir of his love for his mother and caring for her through her…
battle with cancer. Both lived through the horrors of WWII: the mother in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. His mother's courage through it all inspired his own spiritual awakening. Adult. UnratedDancing on broken glass: a novel
Par Ka Hancock. 2012
Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They're both plagued with faulty…
genes, he has bipolar disorder, and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry. Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work and they put it all in writing. Mickey promises to take his medication. Lucy promises not to blame him for what is beyond his control. He promises honesty. She promises patience. Like any marriage, they have good days and bad days, and some very bad days. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. Everything. Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is. Adult. UnratedHow to cuss in western: and other missives from the high desert
Par Michael P Branch. 2018
Edward Abbey encouraged his readers to "be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your…
enemies with passion and laughter." Here is Michael Branch's response. Full of clear-eyed explorations of the natural world, witty cultural observations, and heart-warming family connections, How to Cuss in Western is a cranky and hilarious love letter of sorts to the western Great Basin Desert of Nevada