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"Can you come sit at the table? Tammy Letherer's husband of twelve years spoke these words on a Tuesday night, just before Christmas, after he had put their three children in bed. He had a piece of paper and two fingers of scotch in front of him. As he read from the list in his hand, his next words would shatter her world and destroy every assumption she'd ever made about love, friendship, and faithfulness. In The Buddha at My Table, Letherer describes--in...
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"Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, however, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. Throughout her rise to fame and during some of the most pivotal moments of her life, Demi battled addiction, body image issues, and childhood trauma that would follow her for years all while juggling a skyrocketing career and at times negative public perception....
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Having been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation, Baldwin uses a very personal approach to offer practical guidance to help others avoid the anguish he has endured. In his own life and others', Baldwin has seen the heavy toll that divorce can take--psychologically, emotionally, and financially. This is an important, informative, and deeply felt book on a contentious subject that offers hope of finding a better way.
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A highly successful couples therapist reveals the true story of her own failed marriage-and reflects on why we stay so long in unhappy relationships. For years, Sharyn Wolf was a practicing psychotherapist and "relationship expert" revitalizing the marriages of countless couples. But while she was being interviewed on Oprah and other shows and writing bestselling books, instructing millions on how to flirt, find mates, and "stay lovers for life,"...
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Crotch Thinking is the story of one baby boomer's sexuality from his third year to his seventieth. Repression, hormones, and cultural forces led to a shotgun marriage and two daughters he adored and abandoned for a second, trophy wife. Passionate pleasure with her obscured the permanent pain brought on by her alcohol and drug addictions and his codependence. Then, the joy of their son's open adoption was overshadowed by failed treatment attempts and...
6) Not Natural
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Not Natural is the term with which I was labeled as a child by my relatives.
It has always caused me severe pain and suffering throughout my life.
With no memory of the first 10 years of my life, and only vague exceptions to this with some painful and hurtful events and absolutely no knowledge of what occurred in that period to cause my mind to close, my journey through this life has been fraught with obstacles that, at times, have seemed...
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For seven years, Delaine Moore devoted herself to being the perfect wife and stay-at-home mom. Then, one day, she discovers her husband's infidelities, and suddenly she finds herself in a new role: 37 years old, mother of three . . . and going through a divorce. In the midst of this emotional turmoil, Moore discovers that her long-dormant libido has suddenly come alive—and, surprising even herself, she decides to listen to what it’s
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HOW MANY OF US don't see the warning signs of narcissistic personality disorder before finding ourselves in the grip of a battle to save ourselves and those we love from disaster? Singer, actress, and voiceover talent Regina Rossi Valentine lived a successful professional life in the public eye and now reveals her true account of the private struggles she endured over the course of two decades with a narcissistic husband, getting through only thanks...
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I never thought, when I met my husband at 18, got married at 25, had my third baby at 30 or even two years ago when I started writing this book, that I would find myself in the position I am now... a single mum to three boys, two dogs with a now ex-husband.
This is a brutally honest account of life since I weed on that stick. Pregnancy, haemorrhoids, cabbage leaves, mum mates, tantrums, holidays, hormones, sex, dogs and divorce.
This is definitely...
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A mother who gives away her daughter in a relative's kitchen; a little girl, who watches from behind, a partly closed door; a father, who leaves his daughter beside the trashcans in an alley, while stealing her brother, Leah lives these lives and more in this memoir of growing up, a girl in post-WWII America.
Holding Up the Sky by Lessie Auletti shares parent-child relationships as seen through the eyes of Leah, a little girl born shortly after Pearl...
11) Breaking Free
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Breaking Free is a book of one woman's journey to freedom. I woke up this morning with an idea, a creative thought. I realized that I was no longer lost but found. The shattered fragments of my life shifted into place, and my concept of self was reestablished. I was imperfect but learning. I saw beauty of spirit, clarity of mind, a loving heart, courage and unfailing strength and said, "Here am I." I remembered that I was a dreamer, always had been,...
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Years ago, a marriage ended for me, and a new life started. This book is partly a self-help book, partly a memoir of what I did to get my life back on track.
I cover the steps taken to get life sorted out in eight self-contained chapters covering finance, work, legalities, social life, health and a few other aspects that need to be taken care of once you end up alone.
How you take that next step after a marriage end is up to you. This book is how...
13) Sucking Up Yellow Jackets: Raising an Undiagnosed Asperger Syndrome Son Obsessed with Explosives
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Not being able to grasp what other people are thinking wreaks havoc on a kind child and people around him.
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In 1977, Jeanne's German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he's gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he declares that he has fled to Germany and she will never see him, or her children, again.
The next four months are filled with agony, despair,...
The next four months are filled with agony, despair,...
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Kirkus Best Books of 2018 "You can quit waiting for the other shoe to drop: I'm in it for life." Those are the fateful, repeated words that help convince Kathryn Taylor to remarry, retire from her thirty-year profession, sell her home, and relocate in support of her new husband's career. But five years later, in a car packed with food she has carefully prepared to nourish her husband's dying brother, the other shoe does drop. Taylor's...
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A smart-alec agnostic from Silicon Valley reaches the end of her rope after discovering her husband has been cheating with an eBay addict he met on Craigslist. Desperate, she signs up for an online marriage support site. Enter Jamie Blaine, a scatter-brained former late-night suicide crisis responder from Tennessee. Blaine is about to take a job as a Kroger night stocker when he's offered a chance to make some quick, easy cash serving as a "love coach"...
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Hi, my name is Kasia Cunningham and by the age of 8 I have been discriminated against, judged, felt hopeless, and didn't want to be me anymore. These things were caused by the lack of diversity in my school systems and the lack of information about my roots growing up. It was a challenge growing up. For instance, I went to a predominantly white school up until I was ten then switching to a predominantly black school and being clueless as to why I...
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At the age of thirty-five, desperate to salvage a self that has been suffocating for years-and to save her two-year-old son from witnessing a miserable relationship between his parents-Jane Binns leaves her husband of twelve years. She has no plan or intention but to leave, however, and therein begins the misadventures lying in wait for her.
Over the years that follow, Binns falls in love with Steve, a man eighteen years her senior who has been...
20) How God Restores
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In this true story you'll find fascinating chapters that keep you drawn in throughout the whole book. Claudia Aviles tells her testimony of the story which led her through the most liberating freedom that anyone can experience when it comes to forgiveness.
Here you'll see the many changes she's experienced in her life, and how she has accepted them. You'll learn a lot about her struggles through life and how each time she would guard her heart, and...
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