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24) The erratics
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty. When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though their parents disowned them years before, the sisters now...
27) The apology
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
National Academy Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
On March 8-9, 1999, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, with funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, held a workshop for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to discuss recent evaluation evidence on the effectiveness of home visitation programs.
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Reports the results of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Discusses implications and suggests alternatives for types of personal and familial problems the programs are meant to address, the range of services and interventions that the child protection system can make available, and an assessment of these programs"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives--or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays...
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