From the Back Cover: As women, we know how important it is to take charge of our health care—to be informed and proactive. But too often we forget that our mental wellness is an integral part of our overall health. The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women is the definitive resource for women looking for answers to their mental health questions, whether those questions concern a disorder like depression or adjusting to major life changes like motherhood or divorce.

The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women

• Draws on the knowledge and practical experience of more than fifty psychologists and psychiatrists

• Helps women think through the psychological challenges inherent in the life cycle, from young adulthood through old age

• Focuses on key life issues, from sexuality and relationships to trauma and racism

• Provides important information on mental disorders, their biological treatments, and psychotherapeutic interventions

• Includes a comprehensive list of psychotropic medications, targeted reading suggestions, crucial online resources, and support groups

The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women covers what every woman should know about:

AGING What should I expect from menopause? What do I need to know about the benefits and risks of hormone therapy

SEXUALITY Is a “female Viagra” the solution to women’s sexual complaints? How does societal ambivalence about women’s sexuality affect me?

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY What do I need to know about psychopharmaceuticals? Does talk therapy help?

ANGER Why is it the most difficult emotion for many women to express?

POLYPHARMACY Why are some patients prescribed more than one type of psychotropic drug? Is this overmedicating

CHILDLESSNESS What if I don’t want to be a mother?

FINDING A PSYCHOTHERAPIST How do I know if a therapist is right for me? And how do I know what type of therapy I need?

BODY IMAGE AND EATING DISORDERS Are all eating disorders a reaction to societal pressures to be thin?

EMDR What exactly is EMDR? Is it a reputable therapy? PREGNANCY How will becoming a mother change me? How do I overcome postpartum depression?

COMPLEMENTARY TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION & ANXIETY Does St. John's Wort really work? What else might help?

AS WELL AS RELATIONSHIPS, MOTHERHOOD, DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY, AND MUCH MORE.

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About the Author: LAUREN SLATER, ED.D., is a psychologist and Knight-Ridder Science Journalist Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Science Writing 2002, and she is the author of numerous books, including Prozac Diary and Welcome to My Country.

JESSICA HENDERSON DANIEL, PH.D., ABPP, is director of training in psychology at Children’s Hospital, Boston, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and past president of the Society for the Psychology of Women in the American Psychological Association.

AMY ELIZABETH BANKS, M.D., is Medical Director for Mental Health at the Fenway Community Health Center, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a faculty member at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute.

Author is adoptee who relates his reunion experience with his birth parents in this book in the chapter entitled “Thanksgiving.” Connect to Author’s Home Page.

From the Publisher: This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives. It explores adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of the latest thinking in bereavement theory and research. The specific and unique aspects of different types of loss are discussed, such as infertility, aging, chronic illnesses and degenerative conditions, divorce and separation, immigration, adoption, loss of beliefs, and loss of employment. Harris and the contributing authors consider these from an experiential perspective, rather than a developmental one, in order to focus on the key elements of each loss as it may be experienced at any point in the lifespan. Concepts related to adaptation and coping with loss, such as resilience, hardiness, meaning making and the assumptive world, transcendence, and post traumatic growth are considered as part of the integration of loss into everyday life experience.

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About the Author: Darcy L. Harris, Ph.D., RSW, FT, is a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Programs and Coordinator of the Thanatology Program at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. She also maintains a private counseling practice, specializing in issues related to change, loss, and transition.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Chapter 7: “Adoption: A Life Begun With Loss” by Sherry R. Schachter and Jennifer A. Schachter.

Culture of Life is an excellent guide to the teachings of the Catholic Church on many of the most important, yet least understood, issues of our time. Father John J. Pasquini supplements his engaging theological presentation with supporting data from numerous sociological and scientific studies. The reader can only conclude that we ignore these fundamental life issues at our peril, both in this world and the next. Compiler’s Note: In addition to the usual pronouncements regarding such topics as abortion and sex, among others, there is also a Chapter entitled “Adoption: The Loving Choice.”

Many families experience the intense pain of cutoffs—the adult child who suddenly stops speaking to parents, the runaway teen severing family ties. Netzer sensitively discusses the paradoxical behavior which results in final separation, and shows how its symptoms can be recognized, prevented, or repaired once they have occurred.

From the Dust Jacket: In this fresh, challenging new book, Dr. Lerner invites us to join her in a groundbreaking exploration of the many faces of truth and deception in women’s lives. Through examples that are both startlingly intimate and deeply political, Dr. Lerner provides us with bold insights into the countless ways (and whys) that women show the false and hide the real.

Deception is not a “woman’s problem,” or even a uniquely human phenomenon: From viruses to large mammals, deception is continuously at play. We are all affected by lying and faking, by silence and pretending, by self-deception, and by brave—as well as misguided—efforts to tell the truth. Dr. Lerner shows us that women’s failure to live authentically and speak truly deserves our closest attention. She illustrates how pretending is so closely linked with femininity that it is, quite simply, what the culture teaches us to do.

Truth-telling is the central challenge in women’s lives, the foundation of intimacy, self-regard, and joy. At the center of a woman’s life is the quest to discover, speak and live her own truth, to cease living a life dictated and defined by others. Yet in the name of “truth” or “being ourselves,” we may hurt others by disregarding their different realities and move situations from bad to worse.

How can we approach the process of truth-telling, of knowing and being known, of refining and deepening our disclosures to one another? Like peace-making, truth-telling does not just “happen.” Sometimes it must be worked toward and planned.

Drawing on more than two decades of clinical experience, Dr. Lerner articulates her rich philosophy and thoughtful guidelines about speaking out and holding back. She shows us how honesty can sometimes impede truth-telling and how pretending can be a bold move toward the truth, rather than a misdirected flight from it. She examines how patriarchy shapes what truths a woman can uncover, share, and invent about herself. And she teaches us how to widen the path to truth-telling for everyone.

The Dance of Deception is Harriet Lerner’s most timely, provocative, and passionate work to date. From sexual faking to family secrets, readers will be rewarded with important insights into how we engage in deception and approach truth-telling—a subject that is at the heart of who we are in the world and what kind of world this is.

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About the Author: Harriet G. Lerner, Ph.D., is one of the most respected authorities on the psychology of women and the process of change in families. She is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the Menninger Clinic, and a distinguished lecturer, consultant, and workshop leader. Her bestselling books, The Dance of Anger, The Dance of Intimacy, and Women in Therapy, have won international acclaim and have been published in more than twenty-five foreign editions. Dr. Lerner writes a monthly advice column for New Woman magazine. She lives with her husband and their two teenage sons in Topeka, Kansas.

From the Dust Jacket: Sara Gordon was deeply in love. He was in his thirties, a handsome, charming, intelligent man who made a fortune in real estate and was now a successful bank executive with an enviable salary and lifestyle. A passionate yet tender lover, he was the kind of man every woman longs for. He was Brad Cunningham.

Sara—small, blond, and lovely—was a doctor who had almost given up on love when she met Brad. They planned to marry as soon as his divorce was final. Brad and his estranged wife, Cheryl, were engaged in a bitter custody fight over their three small boys. And Brad told Sara that Cheryl led a double life. She was a brilliant attorney, a partner in a top law firm, but she was also sexually promiscuous and picked up men at truck stops. Brad adored his sons and was determined to save them from their unfit mother.

And then suddenly Cheryl was dead, brutally bludgeoned and left in her van on a busy highway. Clearly her killer had expected other cars to smash into the van and make her death look like an accident. But a passing motorist risked his own life to maneuver the van off the highway.

Cheryl’s killer had not planned on that.

Thus begins Ann Rule’s gripping, true-life account of murder, greed, deception, and the deepest dimensions of evil. Brad was the likely suspect in Cheryl’s murder, but there was no solid evidence to link him to the crime. He married Sara, who adopted his three sons, and they began their new life together as a family on their luxurious estate. But gradually, inexplicably, Brad seemed to change. He spent money lavishly. He collected expensive cars and guns. He was a harsh disciplinarian, and he wanted absolute control. Their marriage became a nightmare—but did that mean that Brad was capable of murder?

That question haunts Ann Rule’s riveting and impeccably researched recreation of Cheryl’s murder and the eight years it took to bring her killer to justice. Her penetrating and ultimately shocking—study of Brad Cunningham’s life begins with his troubled boyhood and ends with one of the most bizarre trials in legal history. It is a convoluted story of destructive relationships, multiple marriages, infidelities, financial manipulations, and monstrous acts of harassment and revenge. It is also the story of Cheryl’s family and friends and the investigators and attorneys who would not let her murder go unsolved, even when their own lives were in danger.

Ann Rule has no equal in the delineation of the criminal mind. Brad Cunningham is, perhaps, the most complex subject she has ever chosen. The women who loved him were beautiful and extremely intelligent, yet they never saw his need to control and destroy them—not until it was too late. Her book is a chilling look at the evil that can lurk behind the most charismatic facade, and a reminder of the courage and brilliance it often takes to combat that evil.

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About the Author: Ann Rule is a former Seattle policewoman and the author of six New York Times national bestsellers, including Small Sacrifices, The Stranger Beside Me, If You Really Loved Me, Everything She Ever Wanted, A Rose for Her Grave, and You Belong to Me. She has testified before the U.S. Senate and presented a seminar at the FBI Academy. She served on the U.S. Justice Department task force setting up the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VI-CAP) now in use at FBI headquarters to track and trap serial killers. She lives near Seattle, Washington.

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By the Same Author: Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder, and Other True Cases (2007, Pocket Books) and But I Trusted You, and Other True Cases (2009, Pocket Books), among many others.

Imagine if you could completely overhaul your life in a short period of time. Imagine if you were given the eight key strategies to unlock your true potential, allowing you to find happiness and success in all areas of your life. Imagine if those secrets were all contained in the same book. They are! In Decoding Your Past, author Rob Morris takes you on the journey of his life-his triumphs, defeats, and successes. He shares his amazing story to lay a foundation for the eight key strategies to happiness and success that will change your life forever. His story is heart-wrenching, but as he will tell you, it’s how he became who he is today. He shows you how to turn adversity into a positive, driving force in your life to unlock potential you never realized you had. Rob demonstrates how your past influences the person you are today, and how you can overcome and take advantage of the life wisdom you’ve gained. He shares all of this through his compelling story and eight key strategies to happiness and success. This is a must-read for all.

From the Publisher: Deja Views of an Aging Orphan is distinctive, if not unique, in its views and experiences of still alive Hebrew National Orphan Home alumni and its use of a variety of literary styles including the memoir, the essay, news articles, poems, history, short story and letters. Many provide first-person accounts of growing up in an orphanage in the 1920s and ’30s and it is this first-person recounting that breaks new ground and casts new light on the subject of child-care—of such importance to society and its social policy-making.

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About the Author: Sam George Arcus is a 78-year-old, semi-retired, MSW social worker who spent most of his professional career in institutions including camps, Jewish Community Centers and now, monitoring nursing homes. He has had many professional articles published, including his most recent, Handbook For Volunteers in the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program.

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By the Same Author: Journeys: Sequel to “Deja Views of an Aging Orphan” (2002); The Hebrew National Orphan Home: Memories of Orphanage Life (co-edited with Ira A. Greenberg and Richard G. Safran; 2001, Bergin & Garvey); Kola: Episodes in the Life of a Siberian Husky (2005); and The Affluent American Dog: and Other Tails (2007).

From the Back Cover: Today, the question of motherhood is no longer just a matter of when but also if. And with the question of if comes a barrage of even more daunting questions: How will having a baby affect my career? My body? My health? My marriage? Do I Want to Be a Mom? shares the illuminating, candid voices of women from all walks of life who have grappled with these same difficult questions to help you come to a decision about motherhood that’s right for you.

Do I Want to Be a Mom? is for any woman who has ever wondered:

• Will I be sorry when I’m older if I don’t have kids?

• Am I selfish if I don’t want to have children?

• Can I afford children?

• What if my marriage breaks up?

• Can I take time off from work to have children?

• Can I have kids after forty if I change my mind?

From new moms to those who have never heard even the slightest chime from their biological clock, the reflective stories found in this book provide a framework to help you examine your motivations and make your own guilt-free decision. These stories convey the same concerns and fears you may have raised with yourself or your closest friends. as well as the uplifting reasons you may consider motherhood—the love, fun, and fulfillment that many women gain as mothers.

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About the Author: Diana L. Dell, M.D., FACOG, is board certified in obstetrics/gynecology and psychiatry and is a women’s health expert at Duke University Medical Center. She is coauthor of The PMDD Phenomenon. A Durham, North Carolina, resident, she is past president of the American Medical Women’s Association.

Suzan Erem is an award-winning author and journalist with fifteen years of experience writing for magazines and newspapers. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania, and has one child.

From the Dust Jacket: For each of the two and one half million Vietnam veterans there exists a story, but none more remarkable than that of Pfc. Paul Hensler.

At nineteen he was a green recruit based in Phan Rang, “new meat” in army slang, and “G.I. Joe” to every Vietnamese who wanted his attention, or dollars, or help. It was a strange, almost hallucinatory experience to be a middle-class American boy dropped into a foreign land among an Oriental people, under rigid military discipline. Within two months he was Uncle Paul to a family of thirteen orphans and within two years his “family” had expanded to a household of one hundred and twenty-six. A brother, a protector, a playmate on bomb-wrecked playgrounds, Pfc. Paul Hensler became all these things to the orphans whom he and two nuns fed, housed, and cared for—under the shadow and in the presence of war.

Since returning to America, Hensler has read the novels and has seen or worked on almost all the films about Vietnam, but he knew there was another story to tell. By writing this book he “was finally able to present another reality that was Vietnam.” In Don’t Cry, It’s Only Thunder there is still the unbearable being borne and the moral ambiguity that marks all accounts of the period. But, unlike most, this magnificently improbable story is about a soldier serving the duties of national patriotism while pledging his life to the boundless human spirit of his Vietnamese children.

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About the Author: Paul G. Hensler, the subject of this book, has lived the story. He has continued the work he started in Vietnam by helping place Asian children in foster homes. He has also co-produced a film about his experiences, Don’t Cry, It’s Only Thunder.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is the author of Farewell to Manzanar, a much acclaimed account of Japanese-American detention camps in the United States during World War II.

For better or worse, childhood experiences affect how individuals view themselves and their place in the world for the rest of their lives. Author Nicole Lawrence understands this as well as anyone, having survived a challenging childhood in a broken home and a dysfunctional relationship with her mother to find her own path through life. In Doors to Transformation, Nicole helps readers who may be struggling with their own childhood experiences by sharing her story of forgiveness and describing the tools that contributed to her healing journey. The transformational process includes coming to peace with the past as well as actively working toward releasing emotions so you can become the person you want to be. Compiler’s Note: This book touches tangentially on adoption and has a one-page appendix: “A Note for Those Adopted.”

Contents: Part One: We Are One, Birth to Eighteen Months; Part Two: I’m Me—You’re You, Eighteen Months to Three Years; Part Three: I’ll Be You—You Be Me, Three to Five Years; Part Four: Special Family Considerations.

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Compiler’s Note: The section regarding “Special Family Considerations” contains a four-page chapter on adoption.

This book gives readers an up-close and personal, behind-the-scenes look at the family in the exploding A&E show—Duck Dynasty. This Louisiana bayou family operates Duck Commander, a booming family business that has made them millions. You’ll hear all about the Robertson clan from Willie and what it was like growing up in the Robertson household. You’ll sample some of Willie’s favorite family recipes from Phil, Kay, and even some of his own concoctions; and you’ll get to know the beautiful Robertson women. You’ll hear from Korie about the joys and hardships of raising a family, running a business, and wrangling the Robertson men while staying fashionable and beautiful inside and out. Discover more about the family dynamics between brothers Willie, Jase, Jep, and parents Phil and Kay. You’ll even meet a fourth brother who isn’t in the show.

From the Back Cover: With homelessness on the rise, it is more vital than ever for communities to engage in dialogue and generate solutions. Firsthand accounts of those who are homeless or working to address homelessness add the human dimension that’s missing from statistical reports, which tend to dominate and sometimes misguide public discourse.

The forty-five interviews in Dwell At My Door have one commonality—they are real experiences of people who are deeply affected by homelessness. Many of the stories are bittersweet and many are inspirational. All of the stories will heighten readers’ awareness and bring insight into the lives and struggles of the people who shared them. The people interviewed speak with sincerity and candor about the paths that led them to homelessness. Their input is an important contribution for solving this pressing social issue.

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About the Author: Anna Carvlin was born in Santa Fe, NM, and currently resides there, though she grew up mostly in the south suburbs of Chicago. She holds a degree in biology with a minor in gender studies from the University of Illinois, as well as a master’s in international public health from Tulane. She completed training for a nonprofit management certificate from University of New Mexico. During a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps, she taught HIV/AIDS awareness in West Africa. She has worked and volunteered at homeless shelters in New York, Chicago and Santa Fe, including the original Catholic Worker, a transitional house for people with HIV, and a meals service and job training program for refugees and homeless people.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Section 2, “I Went Back to Him: Domestic violence victims tell their stories—Lisa: Horses and Men.”

Dynasty shows us that astrology is the only system that demonstrates the complexities of the family as an organic whole; the family’s place in the collective; and the role an individual plays in carrying on the ancestral line. Individuals in the family system are interwoven in a fabric which simultaneously both enhances and diminishes their individuality. To date there is no book dedicated to family patterns, the psychology of family dynamics, and family systems in natal astrology. Not only does this book fill a gap in astrological literature, it also adds an essential new dimension to the psychology of families and groups. The five personal case histories in Dynasty are life stories of Erin Sullivan’s clients—she writes their stories with both compassion and accuracy, weaving together various methods of analysing and working with individuals and their families. There is “Mohsin,” the adopted man; a story of autism; a poignant story of a woman whose child rejected her in utero! (Freud had it half right!); and the compelling story of a woman who carries the whole of her ancestral line, a deeply moving tale which verifies our personal links to our own ancestors—links that defy linear time.

From the Dust Jacket: His name is synonymous with genius. His work helped shape the twentieth century and point the way toward the next. In the more than forty years since his death, Albert Einstein has continued to intrigue and inspire new generations. Now, in the first full-scale biography of Einstein to be published in some twenty years, acclaimed author Denis Brian probes the private, public, and scientific personas of the enigmatic man behind the legend.

For two decades, Denis Brian pored over the Einstein archives and conducted extensive interviews with the scientist’s friends and associates. In the process, he discovered a wealth of absorbing new information, much of it previously withheld by those closest to Einstein—including Helen Dukas, his personal secretary, and Otto Nathan, the executor of Einstein’s estate (a daughter, Liserl, who may have been given up for adoption; his mentally ill son, Eduard, who died in a Swiss psychiatric hospital; a long string of affairs; and the recent allegations that his first wife, Mileva, was an unacknowledged collaborator in the discovery of the Relativity Theory.). What emerges in Brian’s brilliantly drawn life of Einstein is a down-to-earth and always compelling figure.

Brian skillfully illuminates the curious, quirky nature and the dreams and motivating events that drove the scientist-to-be on his improbable journey to the heights of achievement and worldwide admiration. Here is Einstein as a young boy, perplexing classmates and teachers alike with his refusal to conform. Here is the headstrong teenager, a seemingly reluctant student resolutely rejecting a life tied to a “practical” job. Yet ultimately, his work changed forever the way scientists viewed the world, from the first draft of his revolutionary special theory of relativity in 1905—it took twenty-five years for his famous E = mc² equation to be verified—to the development of the atomic bomb (and his controversial role as critic of the nuclear arms race that followed.)

Exploring this staggering legacy in conversation with many of Einstein’s contemporaries, Denis Brian penetrates the veil of formulas, theories, and experiments to expand our understanding of their meaning. With incisive, intimate detail, he recreates the world in which Einstein worked, in solitude and with others, revered by his assistants and enjoying warm relationships with other physicists.

Also included in Brian’s comprehensive portrait are the FBI’s investigation of Einstein’s alleged communist connections, as well as his efforts on behalf of Europe’s Jews during Hitler’s rise to power, and his ardent support of the formation of the state of Israel.

A complex man of many contradictions—a scientist engrossed in his work yet with a roving eye for women, a humanist whose compassion for the children of others did not extend to his own, a pacifist who helped create the most destruction weapon known to man—Albert Einstein is revealed as never before in this lucid, revealing biography. With rare photos, many appearing here for the first time, Einstein: A Life is, as befits its subject, a masterful achievement.

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About the Author: Denis Brian is the author of The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those who Knew Him and Genius Talk: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries. He lives in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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By the Same Author: The Unexpected Einstein: The Real Man Behind the Icon (2005).

Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father’s estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: He’d had another family before Will’s—a wife and two sons in England. This revelation leads to a flood of new questions. Did his father abandon this first family, or was he pushed away? Still reeling from loss, Boast is forced to reconsider the fundamental truths of his childhood and to look for traces of the man his father might truly have been. Setting out in search of his half-brothers, he attempts to reconcile their family history with his own, testing each childhood memory under the weight of his father’s secret. Moving between the Midwest and England, from scenes of his youth to the tentative discovery of his new family, Boast writes with visceral beauty about grief, memory, and his slow and tender journey to a new kind of love. With the piercing gaze of a novelist, Boast transforms the pain and confusion of his family history into an achingly poignant portrait of resilience, revising the stories he’s inherited to refashion both his past and his present. Heartbreaking and luminous, Epilogue is the stunning account of a young man’s struggle to understand all that he has lost and found, and to forge a new life for himself along the way.

From the Back Cover: Is it always wrong to lie? Is it always right to try to help another person? Are you bound to keep every promise you make? In Ethics for Everyone: How to Increase Your Moral Intelligence, you’ll find out how well you make moral choices and learn how to increase your ability to understand and analyze ethical dilemmas. This sensible, practical guide provides thoughtful—and sometimes surprising—answers to tough real-world questions. You’ll sort through dozens of tricky ethical issues with the help of:

• Twenty-one dramatic true stories showing real-life ethics in action—and you are asked to make ethical choices

• A personal ethics quiz to determine your own ethical potential e Harm and benefits assessments of various courses of action

• Expert opinions from spiritual leaders, counselors, attorneys, psychologists, and other experts

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About the Author: Arthur Dobrin, D.S.W., is the Leader Emeritus of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. He is Professor of Humanities at Hofstra University, where he teaches courses in comparative religious ethics, personal ethics, and moral development. He has appeared as a guest on CNN and has been featured in Time magazine.

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Compiler’s Note: The author specifically addresses the issue of secrecy in adoption in a chapter entitled “Do I Reveal a Secret If I Think It Helps?” in which he also reveals his interest/bias as an adoptive parent.

Discusses major changes in family dynamics and offers guidance on dealing with changes to reduce the degree of stress and instability that may follow such events. About the Author: T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., founder of the Child Development Unit at Children’s Hospital Boston, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development at Brown University. He is a famed advocate for children, and his many other internationally acclaimed books for parents include To Listen to a Child, Infants and Mothers, and, with Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., The Irreducible Needs of Children.

From the Dust Jacket: In Family: The Good F-Word, Troy Dunn shares his time-tested and proven tools for repairing a broken family. He believes that whether your marriage and family are teetering on the edge of disaster or are simply leaning in a bad direction, his very unique, reliable strategies will strengthen and even save your family. This book will not just reveal individual, couple and family “issues,” it will give you the tools you need to resolve them. Troy’s Life Changing Action Plan (LCA) includes four steps to determine what is wrong with your relationship, embrace the idea of change in a long-lasting way, repair damage, and provide empowerment and tools to permanently stabilize a family. You will also be startled to see yourself or your family in one of his eye-opening 10 Relationship Roadblocks. (The chapters on the biggest taboos of all money and sex—may change everything you ever thought about those two topics!) Troy’s advice is real, raw, and reliable.

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About the Author: Troy Dunn is the creator and executive producer of two hit television series the No. 1 rated show on WE Network, The Locator, and his newest series, APB with Troy Dunn, which airs on INT. Beyond being a recognized television personality, best-selling author and inspirational speaker, he considers his most important roles to be husband and father. He and his wife, high school sweetheart Jennifer, have been married for more than twenty-six years and have eight children, one of whom suffers from pediatric cancer. He is also the author of the best-selling book, Young Bucks, from which all proceeds have gone to pediatric cancer research. Dunn has spent nearly twenty-five years dedicated to repairing fractured families, beginning with the search for his own mother’s birth mother. He and his team have reunited over 40,000 people with missing loved ones, and did so by first giving them the tools to cut through the despair, resentments, blame, and anger that had driven them apart. Dunn’s track record speaks for itself, both in his personal life and his professional success. He is truly a family relationship expert, capable of repairing and rebuilding families of all types and situations ... including yours.

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By the Same Author: Lost and Found: The Guide to Finding Family, Friends, and Loved Ones (2003, MyFamily.com, Inc.) and It’s Never Too Late: Lessons for Life from The Locator (2010, Aylesbury Publishing), among others.

From the Dust Jacket: There are few families who are not affected in some way by genetic disorders, whether a crippling and devastating disease like cystic fibrosis, a chronic condition like high blood pressure, or a predisposition to alcoholism or mental illness. We know that heart disease, diabetes, and cancer all tend to “run in families.” Yet few of us know very much about genetic disorders–what they are, how they are transmitted, how they may be screened or treated, or even how to find information on them. Indeed, few of us know whether we or our children are at risk from such disorders.

While geneticists have long been interested in genealogy and genealogists in genetics, only recently have the two fields become linked in a way that promises dramatic advances in our understanding of the relationship between genetic disorders and ancestry. This book is an effort to explore that relationship, to alert you to things you and your family ought to know about both your family tree and genetic research, and to examine the scientific breakthroughs that have made possible much more effective control and treatment of inherited disease.

Written in a popular style, in language few of us will find difficult to understand, this groundbreaking work examines the genetics revolution and its implications for your health; it discusses genetic diseases and whether you and your family may be at risk; and it explores your mental and behavioral roots—your genetic susceptibility to manic depression, for example, or to alcoholism—all in the framework of ancestry and family health history. And if the question of ancestry should prove vexing, the book shows you how comparatively simple it is to trace your family history, establish your medical pedigree, and construct your very own family health tree.

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About the Author: Myra Vanderpool Gormley is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and a certified genealogist. She writes feature stories as well as a weekly column, “Shaking Your Family Tree,” which appears in newspapers throughout the country. She also writes about family history for Colonial Homes magazine.

She has been a guest on television and radio programs in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Kansas City, and in Canada, and has addressed numerous genealogical conferences on the subject of genetics and genealogy.

She was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1940 and was raised there and in Garden City, Kansas, where she began her newspaper career. She has also worked for Stars and Stripes in Europe, and for newspapers in San Antonio, Texas, and Seattle and Tacoma, Washington.

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Complier’s Note: See, particularly, Chapter 5: Adoption and Your Genetic Roots.

All families have secrets. Some secrets are healthy. But others—those John Bradshaw calls “dark secrets”—limit the wholeness and freedom of every member of the family, often generation after generation. John Bradshaw’s compelling new book takes us into the heart of the family’s mysterious power to impact our lives. It explores how secrets are created, how they influence us (even if we don’t know they exist), and the risks we take in exploring them. At the core of Family Secrets is a step-by-step guide to uncovering the secrets of the past and present, using a tool called the genogram to chart key relationships. Through many fascinating examples, this unique book shows how to recognize crucial gaps and silences, reconstruct missing information, and decipher partial memories. It also offers readers vital advice on how to deal with the truths revealed, plus ways to stay safely and honestly connected with our families.

From the Dust Jacket: “Shoppers pushed and trampled in Miami. Arms broken in Dallas. A hoax in Milwaukee, where hundreds showed up at County Stadium in the freezing cold because Cabbage Patch Kids were supposed to be parachuted out of a B-29. A store owner in California maintaining order with a baseball bat. A Kansas City mailman flying to England to adopt the Kids. Mayhem. Riots. Attempts at bribery. All became commonplace as millions of people believed‚ they simply had to have a Cabbage Patch Kid.”

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In November 1983 the world witnessed the beginnings of Cabbage Patch Madness—a phenomenon unrivaled in intensity and impact in the annals of American popular culture. Across the land, in virtually every major city, young adults, middle-aged parents, even kindly grandmothers were risking life and limb, joining legions of unruly shoppers in their attempts to purchase one of Coleco’s Cabbage Patch Kids, cuddly stuffed dolls many would call ugly ... the face only a mother could love. And judging by the dolls’ continued popularity the Kids may well be here to stay.

The father of the Kids, Xavier Roberts, was a north Georgia mountain boy who rose from poverty to become an indispensable force for Coleco, a multi-million dollar titan in the toy and game industry. Asa youngster, with a name that often evoked ridicule among his rural schoolmates, Xavier was a loner who spent many hours by his mother’s side as she quilted and made crafts for which the Appalachian region is so famous. In a 19th century German crafts book the young Xavier came upon something called “needle molding” (or “soft sculpture”), which he quickly recognized demanded the same skills his mother employed when fashioning her elaborate patchwork quilts. He promptly set his hand to this intriguing folk art form, and it wasn’t long before the first of the Little People (the early name for what would soon become the Cabbage Patch Kids) was born. An aspiring artist himself, he dreamed of the day his work would reach around the world.

The Little People became flesh and blood in Xavier’s fertile imagination: he could never bring himself to sell his cherished friends, but he could “adopt” them out to deserving and loving parents. The Cabbage Patch empire was founded on just this rationalization and certainly the fiction that they were real enabled Xavier to make imaginative leaps when first marketing them: he established Baby-land General, a “hospital” where they were “born” and housed until they were adopted; his sales people were “doctors” and “nurses”; each Little Person received a birthday card a year after the adoption; and, of course, no one was permitted to call them dolls—they were his “babies.” And they were also an instant, unparalleled commercial success.

Here is the story of the Cabbage Patch Kids and their creator, Xavier Roberts. Looking at all sides of the phenomenon—the madness of the crowds, the media attention, the controversy surrounding the adoption process and its psychological implications, Coleco’s eventual monetary involvement, and the collectors themselves—it becomes at once a moving story of an artist with a dream, a dream shared by the American public, and a story of an American success, entrepreneurship at its very best.

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About the Author: William Hoffman is the author of more than twenty books on famous personalities, including the international bestseller David: Report on a Rockefeller; Paul Mellon: Portrait of an Oil Baron; Queen Juliana: The Story of the Richest Woman in the World; The Stockholder (nominated by Business Week as one of the three best business books of the year); and Sidney (a biography of Sidney Poitier). Hoffman has written for many magazines, including Omni, Time, Sports Illustrated, Penthouse, and Saturday Evening Post; and, in addition, he has had two nationally syndicated newspaper columns and has appeared on more than 1,000 radio and television shows. Hoffman has visited with Roberts and his friends in Georgia and has spent hours of research on the Cabbage Patch phenomenon to bring the story to life.

The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth’s New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife. When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood’s most vivid chronicler. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth’s memoir trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as “powerful stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage” in the face of dire circumstances. Here, at last, is the full story of Chummy’s delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan’mave, identical twins who share a browbeaten husband, and return to Sister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form. As in Worth’s first two books, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times and Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse, the vividly portrayed denizens of a postwar East End contend with the trials of extreme poverty—unsanitary conditions, hunger, and disease—and find surprising ways to thrive in their tightly knit community. A rich portrait of a bygone era of comradeship and midwifery populated by unforgettable characters, Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End will appeal to readers of Frank McCourt, Katherine Boo, and James Herriot, as well as to the fans of the acclaimed PBS show based on the trilogy.

From the Back Cover: For millions of Americans, the quest to find one’s ancestors has become an obsession, and for some even a religion.

After writing a book about the history of his family, the author realized that half of it was missing, literally.

This is the story about how he found the other half, and what he learned along the way about the history and practice of genealogy, his fellow genealogy fanatics, and himself.

From the Dust Jacket: Now for the first time the whole story of Boys Town, the man who created and guided it, and the real stories of the boys it served, is warmly and faithfully told.

Thirty-two years ago, with a borrowed ninety dollars and five boys—three from the Juvenile Court and two from the streets—Father Flanagan founded his Boys Home in downtown Omaha. Today the home is located at Boys Town, a regular incorporated village eleven miles from the city. It occupies nine hundred acres and, with the new buildings just completed, cares for one thousand boys ranging in age from six to eighteen.

Here you will find the stories of the boys who made Boys Town—the destitute starvelings who came without a friend in the world, the puzzled and distrustful youths who had never known a kind word or a soft bed. Here you will see the same boys emerge as responsible citizens, some with a trade, others ready for college or professional careers.

Father Flanagan died on May 15, 1948, in Germany, where, at the request of the Army, he was establishing an organization to rehabilitate war orphans, as he had done in Japan and in the Philippines at the request of General MacArthur.

Boys Town is his monument, a tribute to a man who believed there were no bad boys, who believed any boy could be saved for himself and the community if given the proper understanding, training, food, shelter, security, and love. This is no mere story of bricks and dollars; it is a story of a life and a devotion that is unparalleled. It is a story with humor and kindliness, pathos and grief, hopelessness and hope fulfilled—a story of human beings humanly told.

From the Back Cover: Storms happen—sometimes predictably, often unpredictably. For parents, step-parents, grandparents, family, and friends who have experienced the death of a child or children, the deluge hits like a tsunami, drenching them physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. But the good news is that it is possible to rise above the devastating flood of despair and navigate onto a tranquil sea of hope.

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About the Author: Doug and B.J. Jensen have weathered the torrential rains of the death of a grown son, the loss of an unborn baby, unexpected barrenness, and discouraging failed attempts at adoption. Because of their sometimes overwhelming circumstances, they have traveled together through downpours of devastated dreams before they discovered the secret to finding hope and renewing their joy. Both have learned not to focus on the weather but on the Weather Maker; not to focus on the difficult challenges in their marriage, but on the Creator and Sustainer of Marriage.

The Jensens travel internationally as speakers, workshop facilitators. dramatists, and sign artists. They have written 18 books and produced 12 videos. The Jensens reside in San Diego near their surviving son, daughter-in-love, and three beautiful granddaughters.

From the Back Cover: Since children don’t come with an instruction manual, we asked the experts to write one.
Here it is—the comprehensive guide to rearing emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy children—from the most respected name in Christian parenting: Focus on the Family.

The Focus on the Family Complete Book of Baby and Child Care is unlike any other book of its kind. Taking a balanced, commonsense approach to the privilege of parenting, this indispensable guide delivers an encouraging, enlightening perspective and many helpful reference sections, including:

• 18 Special Concerns sections—At your fingertips you’ll find straightforward, reliable information on such worrisome topics as fevers in small children, teen sexuality, effective discipline, sexually transmitted diseases, eating disorder, and more.

• Medical Reference section—With detailed definitions/descriptions of common childhood illnesses and medical conditions, these pages will help you determine what you can do at home as well as help you evaluate when it’s time to contact your child’s physician.

• Emergency Care section—From 911 calls and preventive safety information to CPR chats and basic first-aid explanations, this handy section will show you what to do when your child needs immediate medical attention.

• Illustrations, Photographs, and Charts—A wide variety of visual aids is included to help you comprehend recommended techniques, appreciate the miraculous design of the human body, and recognize specific diseases and conditions.

This exhaustive reference tool is a must-have for today’s parent. In addition to advice from some of today’s most respected Christian physicians, you’ll find answers to you questions and explore realistic approaches to parenting that can give your children the best possible chance of growing into the healthy, well-adjusted adults you always dreamed they would be.

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Compiler’s Note: The book includes a brief chapter devoted to the subject of adopted children. According to the author, “Because this book is primarily concerned with rearing children, most of the issues and details of events prior to bringing an adopted child home will not be discussed here. Concerns related to adoption agencies, attorneys, regulations, foreign governments, finances, paperwork, the home study, and, above all, the endless patience often required of adoptive parents-to-be are all very important but ably covered in a variety of other books and materials. One topic that will be addressed here is the nature of the relationship between the adoptive parents and the birth parents (especially the mother), assuming that one or both of the birth parents are involved in the adoption process, since their interactions can have a significant impact on the child’s upbringing.”

With the rise of terrorist, poverty and corruption. A need for world peace is in high demand. But that peace can only come from God and his word. Even religions that only believe in the Old Testament must interpret the Bible properly. Search the scriptures for in them they believe they have eternal life and these are those that testify of God. It’s my desire to open the minds of people all over the world, toward understanding the word of God, he has blessed many and we tend to forget that he’s a God that never changes. His word is his bond. Abortion has been around during the Old and New Testament. God plan for salvation would be through abortion and by exposing the corruption of mankind. God want to make us the apple of his eye, but we sometimes have to pluck the polluted out. Micah 6:7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?