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Meant to Be

The chairman of Parade magazine describes how he learned the identity of his true father, a Russian Jewish man secretly loved by his German protestant mother, and how he met his half-brother thirty-five years later.

By Walter Anderson

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9780786262069 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $29.45 | About this edition: The chairman of Parade magazine describes how he learned the identity of his true father, a Russian Jewish man secretly loved by his German protestant mother, and how he met his half-brother thirty-five years later.

9780060099060 | Harpercollins, September 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The chairman of Parade magazine describes how he learned the identity of his true father, a Russian Jewish man secretly loved by his German protestant mother, and how he met his half-brother thirty-five years later.

Miscellaneous:

9780061865589 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $10.99

Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake

Product Description: In Sweet Charlotteâs Seventh Mistake Cori Crooks records her search for identity among the things left behind by her delinquent family, her deceased, drug-addicted con-artist mother, and her missing biological father. Told through old photographs, diary entries, letters, and the results of a mail-order DNA test, Cori pieces together a profound scrapbook that begins as a paternity search and becomes a chronicle of her motherâs reckless life...read more

By Cori Crooks

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9781580052498 | Seal Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In Sweet Charlotteâs Seventh Mistake Cori Crooks records her search for identity among the things left behind by her delinquent family, her deceased, drug-addicted con-artist mother, and her missing biological father.

Family Abuse And Violence: A Social Problems Perspective

A text outlining the study of family abuse and violence.

By Dean D. Knudsen and Joann Miller

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9780759108004 | Altamira Pr, October 30, 2006, cover price $114.00

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9780759108011 | Altamira Pr, October 30, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A text outlining the study of family abuse and violence.

Divided We Fall: Family Discord And the Fracturing of America

Product Description: In the weeks that followed the horror of September 11, politicians of both major parties resolutely asserted America's national unity. Barely four years later, the illusions of the rhetoric of unity have given way to the divisive oversimplifications of Red vs...read more

By Bryce Christensen

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9780765803160 | Transaction Pub, February 28, 2006, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: In the weeks that followed the horror of September 11, politicians of both major parties resolutely asserted America's national unity.

Family Treatment: Evidence-Based Practice with Populations at Risk

By Cynthia Franklin, Oliver Harris, Curtis Janzen (editor) and Cathleen Jordan

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9780534641450 | 4th edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, July 15, 2005), cover price $186.95

Meant to Be: The True Story of a Son Who Discovers He Is His Mother's Deepest Secret

The chairman of Parade magazine describes how he learned the identity of his true father, a Russian-Jewish man secretly loved by his German protestant mother, and how he met his half-brother thirty-five years later. By the author of The Confidence Course. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Walter Anderson

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9780060099077 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 2004), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The chairman of Parade magazine describes how he learned the identity of his true father, a Russian Jewish man secretly loved by his German Protestant mother, and how he met his half-brother thirty-five years later.

Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life

Product Description: Â Â Â Â Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser escaped her emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a better way to live. In the process, Strasser rediscovered what she had suppressed through that long span of time: exceptional strength and a passion for writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Judith Strasser

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9780299199302 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Â Â Â Â Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser escaped her emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a better way to live.

Molly on the Pickle Boat

Product Description: It is a memoir

By Regina Sellers

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9780972512008 | Pickle Boat Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It is a memoir

Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

The connection between controlling abusive or alcoholic parents and adult problems with self-esteem, work, or intimacy is examined in a compelling guide to coming to terms with a troubled childhood. Reprint.

By Susan Forward

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9780553381405 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The connection between controlling abusive or alcoholic parents and adult problems with self-esteem, work, or intimacy is examined in a compelling guide to coming to terms with a troubled childhood.

9780553284348 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, January 1, 1996), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The connection between controlling abusive or alcoholic parents and adult problems with self-esteem, work, or intimacy is examined in a compelling guide to coming to terms with a troubled childhood

CD/Spoken Word:

9781452634425 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 19, 2011), cover price $83.99

9781452604428 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 19, 2011), cover price $39.99

9781452654423 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 19, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: When you were a child.

Living on a Dream: A Marriage Tale

The author documents the story of her parents' painful marriage

By Patt Blue

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9781578060573 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 1, 1998, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The author documents the story of her parents' painful marriage

The Family at Risk: Issues and Trends in Family Preservation Services

Product Description: The Family at Risk offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of the family preservation movement, a relatively new and highly controversial form of service delivery to families at imminent risk of child removal. Mandated by federal legislation and hotly debated by politicians, practitioners, and public citizens, family preservation programs provide flexible, labor-intensive, home-based services that allow families to remain intact while addressing issues that threaten their safety and survival...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marianne Berry

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9781570031632 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Family at Risk offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of the family preservation movement, a relatively new and highly controversial form of service delivery to families at imminent risk of child removal.

Turmoil to Turning Points: Building Hope for Children in Crisis Placements

Draws on case studies of high-risk children and their families to discuss principles and strategies for helping children placed in care away from their homes, and looks at what can be done to improve child and family services

By Kagan

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9780393702187 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Draws on case studies of high-risk children and their families to discuss principles and strategies for helping children placed in care away from their homes, and looks at what can be done to improve child and family services

Working With Children & Families Affected by Substance Abuse: A Guide for Early Childhood Education and Human Service Staff

Product Description: Practical information and tested strategies for working with children and adults in families affected by drug and alcohol abuse. The guide covers parenting skills, suggestions for working with infants and young toddlers, parent education, and more.

By Center for Applied Research in Education (corporate author), Durant and Kathleen Pullan Watkins

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9780876289358 | Center for Applied Research in, May 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Practical information and tested strategies for working with children and adults in families affected by drug and alcohol abuse.

The Vulnerable Child: The Hidden Epidemic of Neglected and Troubled Children Even Within the Middle Class

Refuting common misconceptions about troubled children, an eye-opening study goes beyond ethnic and socioeconomic stereotypes to explore the well-being of young people in American society and offers suggestions on how to help youngsters cope with family relocation, divorce, and other problems.

By Richard Weissbourd

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9780201483956 | Perseus Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Explores the well-being of young people in American society, and suggests ways to help youngsters cope with family problems

Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide

A tragic portrait of adolescents who kill their parents is revealed in this volume: these young people almost always kill out of desperation as they are almost always victims of severe child abuse, neglect and dysfunctional parenting. Drawing upon her experience as a clinician, expert witness and scholar, the author asserts that a combination of interconnected problems creates the conditions for parricide, including: severe sexual, physical and//or verbal abuse of the child; escalating violence in the family; and increasing vulnerability of the child to stressors in the home. This sensitive volume includes an examination of interventions that are effective in treating such children. Heide concludes that ado

By Kathleen M. Heide

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9780814205631 | Ohio State Univ Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A tragic portrait of adolescents who kill their parents is revealed in this volume: these young people almost always kill out of desperation as they are almost always victims of severe child abuse, neglect and dysfunctional parenting.

Paperback:

9780803970601 | Reprint edition (Sage Pubns, September 30, 1994), cover price $64.00

Strengthening High-Risk Families: A Handbook for Practitioners

Product Description: A bold new paradigm for intervening with high-risk families. The authors recommAnd hands-on, family-centered assessment and treatment strategies to empower families to change. Special attention is given to treating families with physical or sexual abuse, domestic violence, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, or homelessness...read more

By Judith L. Girard and Lisa Kaplan

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9780029169155 | Lexington Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: A bold new paradigm for intervening with high-risk families.

Sporting the Right Right: Surviving Family Violence

By Walter H. Jackson

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9780963408600 | Self Expansion, October 1, 1992, cover price $9.95

How to Avoid Your Parents' Mistakes When You Raise Your Children

A guide to raising children addresses such family dysfunctions as verbal and physical abuse, addictions, illness, and death and offers readers advice on how to avoid repeating the mistakes their own parents made. Reprint.

By Jonathan Grimm (illustrator) and Claudette Wassil-Grimm

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9780671727437 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A guide for parents raised in dysfunctional families explains how to break the destructive cycle of poor parenting to raise emotionally healthy, stable children

The Co-Dependent Parent: Free Yourself by Freeing Your Child

Tells how to teach children self-respect and integrity without being too demanding, protective, or lenient as a result of co-dependency

By Barbara Cottman Becnel

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9780929923123 | Contemporary Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Argues that children mimic their parents' behavior, including the unhealthy behavior that creates dysfunctional families, and outlines methods for family recovery

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9780062501264 | Reprint edition (Harper San Francisco, June 1, 1991), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Tells how to teach children self-respect and integrity without being too demanding, protective, or lenient as a result of co-dependency

Working With Families in Crisis: School-Based Intervention

Product Description: A student in crisis often signifies a family in crisis. When this is the case, school personnel can most effectively help the student by working with the whole family. Although school counselors are constrained by time considerations and a limited scope of responsibility, many times they are the first helping professionals to know there is a problem and they are often the only mental health workers who will come into contact with these families...read more

By Melvyn Raider and William Steele

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9780898623628 | Guilford Pubn, March 1, 1991, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: A student in crisis often signifies a family in crisis.

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9780898622416 | Guilford Pubn, March 1, 1991, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A student in crisis often signifies a family in crisis.

Double Duty: Dual Dynamics Within the Chemically Dependent Home

An addiction recovery expert looks at how children of alcoholics must learn to deal with their own addictions, and offers case histories

By Claudia Black

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9780345361523 | Ballantine Books, October 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An addiction recovery expert looks at how children of alcoholics must learn to deal with their own addictions, and offers case histories

Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

The connection between controlling, abusive, or alcoholic parents and adult problems with self-esteem, work, or intimacy is examined in a compelling guide to coming to terms with a troubled childhood

By Craig Buck and Susan Forward

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9780553057003 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, August 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The connection between controlling, abusive, or alcoholic parents and adult problems with self-esteem, work, or intimacy is examined in a compelling guide to coming to terms with a troubled childhood

Families at Risk: Treating the Multiproblem Family

Product Description: The role of professional services in helping the problem-ridden family endure as a viable institution is studied in this practice-oriented work which integrates family therapy and other modern approaches with the rich experience and expertise of earlier family social work...read more

By Ludwig L. Geismar and Katherine M. Wood

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9780898854374 | Human Sciences Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The role of professional services in helping the problem-ridden family endure as a viable institution is studied in this practice-oriented work which integrates family therapy and other modern approaches with the rich experience and expertise of earlier family social work.

Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage

Describes twenty-four programs involving health care, social services, child care, and education (view table of contents)

By Lisbeth B. Schorr

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9780385242431 | Anchor Books, May 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Describes twenty-four programs involving health care, social services, child care, and education

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9780385242448 | Anchor Books, April 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes twenty-four programs involving health care, social services, child care, and education

Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change

In this analysis, the President of the Children's Defense Fund describes the disintegrating state of the family over a generation, dispels common assumptions, and sets a bold agenda to strengthen families and protect children

By Marian Wright Edelman

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9780674292284 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this analysis, the President of the Children's Defense Fund describes the disintegrating state of the family over a generation, dispels common assumptions, and sets a bold agenda to strengthen families and protect children

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9780674292291 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1989), cover price $23.50 | About this edition: In this analysis, the President of the Children's Defense Fund describes the disintegrating state of the family over a generation, dispels common assumptions, and sets a bold agenda to strengthen families and protect children

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