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 book you want everyone you love to read : sane and sage advice to help you navigate all of your most important relationships
Perry, Philippa
Paper Book
INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From author of the million-copy international bestselling The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, psychotherapist Philippa Perry helps you with managing all the other important relationships and connections in your life...

158.2 Perry 2023

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

Sink : a memoir
Thomas, Joseph Earl
Paper Book
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2023, BET'S FAVORITE MEMOIRS OF 2023, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2024 "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese...

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

When a loved one has dementia : a comforting companion for family and friends
Helmink, Eveline
Paper Book
Dementia enters life through the back door, slipping in unnoticed. Once it's there, it can make you feel powerless, angry, and unsure how to move forward. When her mother developed dementia, Eveline Helmink wasn't prepared. As she learned firsthand, when your loved one is suffering, it takes a...

616.831 Helmink 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

Change your brain every day : simple daily practices to strengthen your mind, memory, moods, focus, energy, habits, and relationships
Amen, Daniel G.
Paper Book
Wall Street JournalandPublishers Weeklybestseller366 Days to a Better Brain, Mind, and Life!In Change Your Brain Every Daypsychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years' clinical practice with tens of thousands...

612.82 Amen 2023

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

Ma and me : a memoir
Reang, Putsata
Paper Book
Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award. Finalist for the 2023 Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lambda Literary Award "A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope." --Publishers Weekly...

306.7663 Reang Reang 2022


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