In this memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende ... recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family. Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts...

"Ellen Trawton is running away from it all - quite literally. She is engaged to marry an aristocratic man she doesn't love, she hates her job, and her mother...well, her mother is not a woman to be crossed. So Ellen escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow her - to her aunt's cottage on Ireland's dramatic Connemara coast. Once there, she is embraced by a family of aunts, uncles and cousins her mother never mentioned. Her imagination...

In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew-and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle....

This book is an introduction into the workings of Al-Anon, Alcoholics Anonymous. As people come together to find help and support in dealing with the effects of alcoholism, they often find help and solace in the experiences shared by other member. They come together for many different reasons, and return looking for one reason: hope of a better life. How Al-Anon Works for Families and Friends of Alcoholics opens wide the door to a remarkable fellowship...

Este libro es una introducción al funcionamiento de Al-Anon, Alcohólicos Anónimos. A medida que las personas se unen para encontrar ayuda y apoyo para lidiar con los efectos del alcoholismo, a menudo encuentran ayuda y consuelo en las experiencias compartidas por otros miembros. Se unen por muchas razones diferentes y regresan buscando una razón: la esperanza de una vida mejor.

Dissatisfied in following his father's path to a baseball career, a teen boy begins training as steeplechase rider with a grizzled race veteran. A young boy, unsure of what path to take in life, comes across a horse trainer who convinces him to train for the Derby Cup. Will he be able to convince his parents, beat the champion, and find the champion inside himself?

When Charlie Babbit's father dies, he learns that he has an autistic older brother who has been institutionalized for years. Charlie and his brother go on a journey, literally and emotionally.

How did an 89-year old grandmother turn a chance encounter into a revolution? In a small country town in Canada in 2004, ex-pat Australian Norma Geggie had a glimmer of an idea-a plan to support grandmothers in South Africa who had lost their children to AIDS and struggled to support their grandchildren. The idea took off and soon grew to involve thousands of grannies who combined efforts to help their bereft counterparts living in poverty in townships...

Natalie, a young girl whose soldier father has deployed to Iraq, tells the reader what life is like for her and her mother in the year that her father is away.

"New superiour court judge Alex Cormier is assigned to preside over the case of the alleged Sterling High School shooter. Lawyer Jordan McAffee represents Peter--the boy who, on the day of the shooting, was found in the corner of the gymnasium holding a gun to his head with a shaky hand. Detective Patrick DuCharme has one star witness, but her story keeps changing. And then there's the biggest problem of all--the star witness happens to be Judge Cormier's...