Gibson, Lindsay C.
Summary: If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent's behavior. These wounds can be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2015
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Summary: It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1988
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Summary: "A much-needed guide for parents of people in their twenties and thirties from one of the world's leading developmental psychologists. Your child is now an adult, but your job as a parent is far from over. Instead, your role must evolve to meet their ongoing, changing needs. But what exactly are these new needs? And why are they so different now than they were when you were a young adult? This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 STEGuerrero, Jean
Summary: "In the tradition of parent-child memoirs from The Liar's Club to The Glass Castle, here is the haunting story of a daughter's quest to understand her father, to save him from his own demons and to save herself from following his self-destructive path. Marco Antonio was born in Mexico but as a teenager migrated with his large family north to California, where he met Jean's mother, a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUERRERO, JEAN GUEMcConville, Mark
Summary: "From an expert in adolescent psychology comes a groundbreaking, timely, and necessary guide for parents of the 2.2 million young adults in America who are struggling to find their way in the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.6 MCCRosen, Rosanne
Summary: An enormous amount of your life has been spent dedicated to raising your children, worrying about their happiness, and being overly concerned with pleasing them. And what happened? Not what you expected! As adult children they often exhibit diminished family loyalty and uncaring behavior, expect you to earn their love and respect, and have little problem saying good-bye when they no longer need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153 ROSHibbs, B. Janet
Summary: "A clear-eyed, optimistic guide for parents with adult children who need help navigating the challenges to launching an independent life. Times were already tough for young adults looking for ways to start living independent lives after high school and college: rents were up, wages were down, then the Covid-19 pandemic hit and a generation of young people were forced out of classrooms and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOMGros-Daillon, Fritzi
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging Gros-DaillonLythcott-Haims, Julie
Summary: "Having tackled a far-reaching parenting crisis with her New York Times bestselling How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims is back with an equally powerful and persuasive book for the adult children of those hovering parents-and for everyone who struggles to be a grown-up in these challenging times"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Psych Lythcott-HaimsSummary: "Sisters Kate and Melanie haven't spoken to each other in years since a hurtful scene at Melanie's wedding. Their parents, Wendy and Al, have let the pain of their daughters' absence drive a wedge between them, and their tensions have led to a separation. Kate is determined to reunite the entire family for Christmas, and has the perfect spot...their old family home. The only problem is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HFC Productions, Inc. 2013
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday CLissy, Kara
Summary: "As the child of a parent or caregiver with an alcohol use disorder, you may still feel in many ways the impact of your experiences. Take the next steps on your healing journey with this up-to-date workbook full of therapeutic techniques, journal prompts, quizzes, and other short exercises and activities to empower you. This self-guided approach allows you to work at your own pace as you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R LissyThayer, Nancy
Summary: "Lisa Hudson feels more alive than she has in a long time after hiring hunky carpenter Mack Whitney to renovate her old Nantucket home. There's no denying the spark growing between them--despite the fact that Mack is ten years her junior. But her twentysomething children, Juliet and Theo, on the island for the summer, worry that the new relationship will only lead to Lisa's heartbreak. Yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC THACenter, Katherine
Summary: When her estranged, ailing mother asks her to move to Boston, firefighter Cassie Hanwell becomes the only woman in her new firehouse, where she faces discrimination, low funding, and her unwanted attraction to a fellow firefighter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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Summary: "On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three 'nudges' to change the outcome of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2021
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Summary: Jillian Slater hadn't seen her father or his mother in almost 20 years until, on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death, Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, calls and says Jillian's expenses would be paid if she'd fly in to New Orleans for the burial. What Adella didn't tell her was that the apartment house bears the dead weight of a long and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moore 2016St. John, Linda
Summary: A memoir by a celebrated "outsider" artist details how her dirt-poor childhood, her strange family, and her father's illness shaped her into the person she is today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ST. JOHN, LINDA STJParent, Gail.
Summary: Many books teach you how to handle your children after they graduate from diapers, but none tells you how to proceed once they graduate from high school. As new patterns emerge in the lives of young adults, parents find that their grown children have bigger problems. Comedy writer Gail Parent and noted psychotherapist Susan Ende combine their wit and expertise to give advice with an edge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 SECSummary: Sheds new light on fatherhood and the relationship between parent and child, discussing what we can learn from our fathers about humor, discipline, values, tradition, pride, loss, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.8 RUSHilderbrand, Elin.
Summary: "On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three 'nudges' to change the outcome of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HILOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OATSummary: This documentary focuses attention on the United States' aging population and the many adult children who are undertaking the primary care for their aging parents, underscoring today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings and social, cultural and economic issues. Immediately followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with medical correspondent Dr. Art Ulene which offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Video 2008