Family Relationships

Take a moment to think about family dynamics, and how you can understand, build upon, or change family (and other!) relationships.

Updated November 21, 2024
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Drama free : a guide to managing unhealthy family relationships
Tawwab, Nedra Glover
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles--and living your life, your way.     Every family has a story. For some of us, our...

362.82 Tawwab 2023

The origins of you : how breaking family patterns can liberate the way we live and love
Pharaon, Vienna
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon (@mindfulmft, +683K followers) comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your Family of Origin--the foundation of how we relate to others, ourselves, and the...

362.2085 Pharaon 2023

The big disconnect : protecting childhood and family relationships in the digital age
Steiner-Adair, Catherine
Paper Book
Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Pick; Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year Clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution are profoundly changing childhood and family dynamics, and offers solutions parents can use...

649.1 St35 2013

Mother, nature : a 5,000-mile journey to discover if a mother and son can survive their differences
Jenkins, Jedidiah
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . . "Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000-mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of a parent-child...

917.304 Jenkins Jenkins 2023

Sounds fake but okay : an asexual and aromantic perspective on love, relationships, sex, and pretty much anything else
Costello, Sarah
Paper Book
'Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.' True Love. Third Wheels. Dick pics. 'Dying alone'. Who decided this was...

306.7 Costello 2023

Sink : a memoir
Thomas, Joseph Earl
Paper Book
"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled...

372.374 Thomas Thomas 2023

I can't save you : a memoir
Chin-Quee, Anthony
Paper Book
At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story. A smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologis - an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated. As a self-described 'not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man,'...

617.51 Chin-Quee Chin-Quee 2023

The school of hard talks : how to have real conversations with your (almost grown) kids
Kline, Emily (Clinical psychologist)
Paper Book
"Think you can 'create' the perfect child? Dream on! Then stop dreaming and start reading this book. We can't control our kids' life trajectories, but we can create relationships with them that are genuine, warm, and encouraging. Here's your road map!" -Lenore Skenazy, president of...

155.5 Kline 2023

Moms moving on : real life advice for conquering divorce, co-parenting through conflict, and becoming your best self
Dempsey-Multack, Michelle
Paper Book
Trust your gut, take care of yourself, and find new life on the other side with this "straightforward" (Ilene S. Cohen, PhD, award-winning author of When It's Never About You), empowering guide to divorce for moms. We hear it all the time on the news. The divorce rates are...

306.893 Dempsey-Multac 2022

Us : getting past you & me to build a more loving relationship
Real, Terrence
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER * Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple, with the help of the renowned family therapist and author of The New Rules of Marriage ...

306.7 Real 2022

Codependent no more : how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself
Beattie, Melody
Paper Book
In a crisis, it's easy to revert to old patterns. Caring for your well-being during the coronavirus pandemic includes maintaining healthy boundaries and saying no to unhealthy relationships. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved...

616.86 Beattie 2022

You deserve better : what life has taught me about love, relationships, and becoming your best self
Cameron, Tyler
Paper Book
**The Instant National Bestseller**  From the Bachelorette breakout heartthrob, You Deserve Better combines Tyler Cameron's life story with a guide for both men and women to building healthy relationships in the tricky world of modern dating, proving why he's the...

791.45 Cameron Cameron 2021

Hormonal : the hidden intelligence of hormones : how they drive desire, shape relationships, influence our choices, and make us wiser
Haselton, Martie Gail
Paper Book
The hidden intelligence of hormones and their role in empowering women to succeed sexually, reproductively, and socially. Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to...

613.0424 Haselton 2018


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