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 MCBWhite, April
Summary: "From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 WHIHellis, Lori
Summary: "The book begins with a list of rules to help you through the tough parts. They're reliable, time-tested, formulated from the author's 27 years in practice. In a clear, concise, and contemporary voice, author Lori Hellis offers step-by-step, start-to-finish advice on the many phases of divorce. She covers the full spectrum of divorce issues from beginning to end, from how to start and what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 HELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation HellisFuller, Alexandra
Summary: Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FULLER, ALEXANDRA FULHigginbotham, 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 HIGFrancis, 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 FRASmith, 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
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Shenkman, Martin M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 SHEChildress, C. A.
Summary: Provides a brief primer on the features of the narcissistic personality parent that impact the role of legal professionals working with children and families surrounding divorce and child custody issues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oaksong Press 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 616 CHIKnox, Grace Louise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3746 KParis, Wendy
Summary: "Engaging and groundbreaking, Splitopia challenges outdated, negative assumptions about divorce with sharp wit, searing honesty, rigorous research, and intimate interviews, and offers guidance for healthier, happier splits. When Wendy Paris announced that she and her husband were separating, friends forecast a tsunami of devastation--for both of them and their child. But as Paris would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 PARRecca, Sophia
Summary: The fourteen-year-old author tells the story of her parents' divorce and how she demanded that both parents remain in her life, no matter what.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.89 RECSummary: A series of presentations addressing various aspects of divorce, offering practical advice in the areas of: legal matters; helping children through divorce; financial and real estate matters; emotional aspects. Recorded live at "D"aisy (Divorce) Camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Films 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 DIVMargulies, Sam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Soma, Taki
Summary: Taki Soma’s life has taken unexpected turns on top of twists over the years, a journey that starts in Japan in the early 1980s and spins through traumatic family loss, a childhood murder, drugs, comics, medical mysteries, true love, fertility, pets, and zombies. All of that and more is depicted here in a series of brilliant, deceptively simple short comics chronicling one young artist’s blazing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Hill Publishing 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOMA, TAKI SOMThomas, 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 THODoskow, Emily
Summary: When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. Doskow shows you how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down; where to find your state's child support guidelines; how to enforce and change custody and support orders; what military families need to know,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Sherman, Charles Edward
Summary: Provides advice on a successful divorce, covering such topics as money management, parenting arrangements, tax issues, negotiating an agreement, and choosing a lawyer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 SHEDuhig, Holly
Summary: Through accessible and relatable text, readers are exposed to what it's like to live with a single parent. Topics such as single parenting, separation, and divorce must be handled with care, and this volume addresses these issues with sensitivity and compassion. Readers expand their knowledge of social issues and are made aware of how to handle possible changes in a family dynamic. Full-color...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.89 DUHHughes, Sloane
Summary: "About 50 percent of the marriages in the United States end in divorce. Just because parents split up, however, doesn't mean the family is broken. No matter the reason for the divorce, children's lives will be different. This book empathetically presents children with new ways of thinking about life during and after their parents' divorce, help in vocalizing and working through their feelings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.89 HUGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: J Families HughesRoberts, Jillian
Summary: Describes what happens when parents choose to separate and divorce, and addresses children's concerns about the changes that happen in their family structure as a result of this situation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.8 ROBMelton, Glennon Doyle
Summary: Traces the author's journey of self-discovery after the dissolution of her marriage, revealing how she found healing by rejecting gender standards and refusing to settle for a "good-enough" life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, GLENNON DOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MELTON MELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation MeltonWasser, Laura A.
Contents: Welcome to divorce in the twenty-first century -- How do you know? -- Getting started on ending it -- "We need to talk..." -- Separating -- Breaking up without completely losing it -- Lawyering up -- Custody -- Spousal support -- Child support -- Dividing up assets and liabilities -- Discovering discovery -- Resolution-and settlement -- Court-the last resort -- Wrapping it up -- This really is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.7301 WASFuller, Alexandra
Summary: The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband. --Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015