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The Healthy Navajo K'é Podcast is supported by Diné College, Northern Arizona University, and Arizona Department of Health Services. The podcast shares information and resources on Navajo infant, child, adolescent, maternal and overall family health.
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Mark only has one emotion: anger Fourteen-year-old Mark feels betrayed by his father, who has recently remarried. He spends his time feeling resentful and angry, especially after a humiliating experience with a girl. Mark's mood only worsens until even his best friends have had enough. When he recklessly decides to take his stepmother's car for a spin, he meets with near-tragic consequences. Can he learn to let go of his anger before things get out...
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What if the one person you can't stand is the only one you can depend on? Nobody ever asked Betsy Reisman if she wanted to be a twin, but since she and Meg are stuck with each other, they've reached a truce. Mostly they keep busy-Betsy with her beloved piano and her plans to go to Juilliard and Meg with learning her fifth (or is it sixth?) language. It's about to get harder, though, since their parents, both writers, have decided to take the year...
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A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age: How do you define family? Jenny Fitzgerald is an artist who never fit in with her sports-obsessed parents and siblings. Still, she loves her family-even if she doesn't relate to them. Even if, unlike her younger siblings, Jenny's father is Donor 142. She's always known the truth, but before now, it hasn't seemed to matter much. But this summer-her sixteenth-is different. Where does Jenny really belong?...
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Sometimes you just have to pack a suitcase and walk out the door Marly knows her older sister, Kit, is tall, beautiful, and outspoken-everything Marly isn't. But does everyone have to remind her of it all the time? Since her parents' divorce, her mom hasn't had a single nice thing to say-and even if she did, she's always working. So Marly packs her bags and catches the bus to stay with her dad. She knows he'll want her, and hopefully his new wife...
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How can Mick break free from a family that won't let him go? In the second book in the Blue-Eyed Son trilogy, Mick's brutal brother, Terry, prepares for his annual May Day party. But this is no ordinary party-it's two full days of disgusting pranks and drunken violence. Terry throws the bash to prove that if you aren't in his circle, then you're in his sights. Mick's parents would rather not know what goes on, so they clear out and leave their sons...
6) Secret Star
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When a strange and wild boy walks into her life, Tess is forced to confront a past she had long ago forgotten Fourteen-year-old Tess can't remember the first ten years of her life-and if they were anything like her life now, she'd prefer that they stay forgotten. Since her mother's death, she and her disabled stepfather have lived without a phone, electricity, or even much food on the table. At school, her classmates think she's weird, but she's bigger...
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In this romantic comedy, a bartender on the brink of a new relationship is confronted by her estranged mother, a celebrity who deserted her.I was seven years old when I realized my mother was not a great person
Since Savvy was abandoned by her rockstar mother, she has craved a normal life. But after years of financing her boyfriend's lacklustre career, he leaves her when he hits the bigtime.
Savvy's friends at the burlesque club where she serves...
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You can buy a lot of things with enough money, but you can't buy the truth After Val skips one Sunday dinner with her cousin Michelle's family, everything changes. Val and Michelle's fathers aren't getting along, and she just wanted to avoid the tension that she knew would be on the menu. Val's mom died of cancer two years ago, and now her father's love and her mother's memory are all she has. But Michelle can't let it go, and in her anger she drops...
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Go inside the historic Iraq War coverage of NBC News with this in-depth, illustrated history, with a foreword by Tom Brokaw.
Operation Iraqi Freedom marked a new era in television war coverage. On-the-spot reporting by journalists, photographers, and cameramen captured combat in ways that are nothing less than historic. Viewers were transported to the front lines and embedded among the troops. Among all network and cable news organizations covering...
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A tale of two brothers, one lucky hat, and a whole lot of style Ben and Charlie are utterly preoccupied with fashion: Older brother Ben thinks he represents the cutting edge of what's hip, and younger brother Charlie tags along. Chief among Ben's treasure chest of dapper duds is his good-luck Bogie hat, a fedora that makes him look like Humphrey Bogart. But when Ben starts dating a girl named Penny, his notion of what's cool and what isn't gets thrown...
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A family heals in unexpected ways in the wake of senseless tragedy Alexander Porter is on the phone with his six-year-old son when he is struck by lightning and killed. It is a freak accident, without meaning or justice. Alex's sudden death disintegrates his family. His mother takes off for a new life in California. His father descends into kleptomania. His ex-wife begins selling makeup door to door. His sister mourns by taking Sam, Alex's son, on...
12) Labor of Love
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Love finally connects with her mother-and finds her whole world turned upside down Big changes are afoot for Love Bukowski. Just when she meets her half-sister for the first time in Los Angeles, she gets a call from her long-lost mother and hops a plane back to Martha's Vineyard. Love is ready to embrace the new and exciting steps toward her senior year-but in Massachusetts, she finds more than she bargained for. Her mom is still not there, her boyfriend,...
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A billionaire's baby deal!
One look into his infant son's trusting blue gaze and Aiden Langford knows his wild, carefree days are over. If only he can get Sarah Daltrey, his son's temporary guardian, to give him daddy lessons...; Certainly the soft-hearted entrepreneur will agree to his ten-day proposal to stay as the nanny. Aiden just needs to keep his mind on parenting and off Sarah's seductive curves...;
Being in the handsome tycoon's arms...
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Everyone dreams of an idyllic life with fulfilling work and quiet retirement. This is exactly what the reverend John Leffingwell expected, but his world is turned upside down when his son is diagnosed with AIDS. The emotional and financial drain of his son's illness leads Reverend Leffingwell to a poor neighborhood in Seattle, where he finds crime, devastation, and most importantly, himself.
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Pennsylvania, 1913. The four Wittmann brothers manufacture steel precision tools. Jochen (Joe) is a ruthless businessman who seeks to improve the bottom line at any cost. Friedrich (Fred) dabbles in Socialism but would never sacrifice his dividends. Wilhelm (Willie) prefers to collect art rather than visit the factory floor. Only Karl (Charles), a widower, has the vision to keep the family business in the black. Now, as the winds of war sweep across...
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This is a novel about something we all know, something we carry within us: our inward rage, our lives of fantasy. Not all of us accommodate rage or fantasy in the same way. Most of us--bless us--go about our peaceful business, though our confidential fury may produce fantasies we'd rather not confess. Sometimes some of us translate fantasies to outer life. Most of us do not. Brown, in KILLING EVERYBODY (he has no other name we know), carries in his...
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Beatrice and Henry-the parents of the protagonist of Dale Peck's debut novel, Martin and John-are first drawn together when the teenage Henry is battling a brain tumor he believes will soon claim his life. But forty years later they're still a couple, in a story that moves from Long Island to the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, and from love to hate and back again. Peck bisects the story of Henry and Beatrice's marriage with a stunning fifty-page...
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Raised by a career soldier, a working class Englishman tries to find his place-both in and out of uniform-in this compelling novel of love and war Charlie Scorton sees his best friend killed beside him in the mine, and resolves to join the army. His father throws him out for deserting the coal miner's life, but Charlie never looks back. For twenty-four years, he roams the empire, a king's soldier who is finally left with no choice but to come home....
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When Sammy must spend weeks alone with his grandfather, he learns that the old man isn't quite as boring as he thought... When his parents leave for Detroit, Sammy is left alone with his out-of-touch grandfather in a dull, creaky house. All Sammy wants to do is run away to rejoin his folks. But Grandpa's world holds a few surprises, including a majestic crane found in the woods with a broken wing. Sammy finds himself seeing his grandfather's world...
20) The Bulwark
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Rufus and Hannah Barnes are good Quakers, highly respected in their new community of Dukla, Pennsylvania and strictly loyal to their faith. They pass this loyalty on to their children, including Solon Barnes, who must hold on to his Quaker convictions while living in an increasingly materialistic modern society. After falling for the lovely Benecia_x2014_a daughter of the wealthy Wallin family_x2014_Solon is given a position at her father's bank in...
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