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"The first book written for parents with the primary goal of equipping them with the knowledge and skills to support their children through medical challenges on a day-to-day basis, and specifically with medical trauma-experiences in healthcare that can profoundly affect a child's response and willingness to even go to the doctor"--

Follows 14-year-old Jenny as she describes her day-to-day life with her younger autistic brother, Ezra.

"Having been the jilted bride once before, Noelle Jensen, a student at Northern Arizona University, has put her life smoothly back on track. Expecting a ring from her boyfriend, Chase, she is devastated when Chase instead proposes to her sister and roommate, Melody, who recently returned home from serving a Church mission. Even though he enjoys dating, Pierce Logan is afraid of commitment. Understandably, since four years ago, his parents split while...

"The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate-a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net"--

Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir, Where the Past Begins
Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how...

Jenny Farrell (Katherine Heigl) has led an openly gay life with everyone except her closely knit, middle-class family. And while hiding the truth hasn't stopped Jenny from loving her parents (Tom Wilkinson and Linda Emond) or siblings, it hasn't allowed them to really know one another either. So when she announces that she's going to marry the woman her family thought was just her roommate, the news suddenly lands on them like a depth charge. Now...

Ellen Trawton is running away from it all. She hates her job, she doesn't love the aristocratic man to whom she is engaged, and her relationship with her controlling mother is becoming increasingly strained. So Ellen leaves London, fleeing to her aunt's cottage in Connemara. Cutting ties with London society, Ellen gives in to Ireland's charm and warmth, thinking her future may lie where so much of her past has been hidden. Her imagination is soon...

Details how the author survived a horrific plane crash that left her with third degree burns over eighty percent of her body and learned to embrace the power of love, motherhood, community, faith, and the simple joys of everyday life.

"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--

"Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn't be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She's inherited her father's rundown house on Martha's Vineyard, but she can't hold down a job, and her latest romantic disaster has the entire island talking. Tabitha Frost is dignified, refined. She prefers a fine wine and has inherited the impeccable taste of her mother, the iconic...