Thomas, Katherine Woodward
Summary: "Thomas forges a new path for those in the midst of a breakup or divorce. Her five-step plan promises a new way to end a failing relationship that isn't bitter and needlessly painful, but is instead characterized by goodwill, generosity, and respect. With its precepts, couples learn how to do minimal damage to themselves, each other, and their children"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 THOMarta, Suzy Yehl.
Summary: This intimate and powerful book offers ground-breaking techniques and concrete strategies to help children of any age, such as: Games, activities, and play-based exercises that help children and teens process their emotions when they don't have the words to describe what they are feeling. Inspiring stories from two decades of Rainbows groups will comfort and encourage adults trying to cope and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2003
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dais, Dawn
Summary: "Dawn Dais knows all about life's rollercoasters. In fact, she's made a career of writing books about them. Whether she was going from couch potato to marathoner, navigating pregnancy, or tackling parenting, her books have become go to guides for honest, been there done that wisdom delivered with wicked humor. But what do you do when life blindsides you with a challenge that is decidedly less...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Higginbotham, Anastasia
Summary: ""How can you not love a children's author who sees so clearly from her reader's point of view?"-Julie Bowen, actress, Modern Family"This book provides, through honest language and evocative imagery, a uniquely realistic view of how children experience divorce. While neither softening or white-washing this difficult topic, Higginbotham offers an ultimately comforting message to parents and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.8 HIGSmith, Maggie
Summary: "Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, MAGGIE SMI1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, MAGGIE SMI
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMITH SMIStahl, Philip Michael.
Contents: Introduction -- Conflict, communication, co-parenting, and competition : how your battles with your ex affect your children -- It's time for a truce : parenting plans promote peace -- Your child is not a percentage : how to share your child -- Your child's childhood : developmental needs through the years -- Talking to your children -- Children aren't property : it's your child's life --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Impact Publishers 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 STAMandelstein, Paul.
Contents: Lemons into lemonade -- Breaking up is hard to do -- Creating your new home -- Daily life as a single dad -- The noncustodial dance -- Ex-communications: 10 ways to make talking to your ex easier -- Settling up: legal and custody issues -- Let's get real about the kids -- Keeping yourself together -- Birthdays and holidays -- Kids, friends, dating, and lovers -- Taking a chance on love again:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8920 MANBrown, Laurene Krasny.
Summary: Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households, and adjusting to a stepparent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 1986
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.89 BROKenwood, Nina
Summary: In the months between high school and university, eighteen-year-old Natalie must deal with her parents breaking up, her best friends getting together, and her own budding romance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction KenwoodCenter, Katherine
Summary: "A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dempsey-Multack, Michelle
Summary: "We hear about it all the time on the news. The divorce rates are rising. More children are being raised in split up homes. But you didn't think it would happen to you. Luckily, you're not alone. Popular divorce coach Michelle Dempsey-Multack not only survived her own divorce, but figured out how to move on with her life, just like you will, too. Now happily remarried with a blended family,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.McBride, Karyl.
Summary: "Author of the bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers Dr. Karyl McBride draws on her expertise in treating children and partners damaged by narcissists in this practical new guide to divorce and its aftermath. With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. McBride guides you through the emotional fallout...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 MCBPerry, Laurie Beasley.
Contents: Tightly wound -- Unraveling -- Joining pieces together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERRY, LAURIE PERWinchester, Kent.
Summary: Answers common questions about divorce, its effects on the family, relationships with parents after a divorce, and related matters, and provides observations from children who have experienced a divorce in their families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Pub. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.8 WINAckerman, Marc J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 ACKAnderson, Keith
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.89 AndFrancis, Isabella
Summary: You’re someone who wants to make sure your child has the support, love and care they need to grow up and become a fully functional adult. You’re also someone acutely aware of the hold a narcissist can have over you. After all, you left your partner for a very good reason. Now that you’ve broken free there’s something that will have shocked you: they still have a hold over you! They’re still...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Isabella Francis 0000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306 FRAHolt, K. A
Summary: Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018