Faint Echoes Of Laughter (Empty Chairs, #2)
10 best books like Faint Echoes Of Laughter (Empty Chairs, #2) (Stacey Danson): A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness, A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness, Leaving the Hall Light On, The Tender Land: A Family Love Story, The Invisible Storm, Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir, The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse, Out of Sync, Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey Through Grief to Gratitude
A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
| Author | Victoria Costello |
| ISBN | 1616144661 |
Every family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello's family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of silence finally endangered the youngest members of the family, her children.
In this riveting...
A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
| Author | Tom Davis |
| ISBN | 1616491213 |
The story of a loving family coming to grips with its own fragilities, A Legacy of Madness relays the author's journey to uncover, and ultimately understand, the history of mental illness that led generations of his suburban American family to their demise. Dede Davis had worried, fussed, and obsessed...
Leaving the Hall Light On
| Author | Madeline Sharples |
| ISBN | 0982579489 |
Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother's Memoir of Living with Her Son's Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist,...
| Author | Kathleen Finneran |
| ISBN | 0618340742 |
A superb portrait of family life, THE TENDER LAND is a love story unlike any other. The Finnerans -- parents and five children, Irish Catholics in St. Louis -- are a seemingly unexceptional family. Theirs is a story seldom told, yet it makes manifest how rich and truly extraordinary the ordinary daily...
In this powerful memoir, Juanima divulges a plunge into a darkness few are able or willing to speak about: the terrifying, anxiety-driven world of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her family unaware, Juanima endures abuse and multiple rapes as a child, and at nineteen years of age decides to...
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1938314026 |
At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas to watch the train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be only an occasional and troubled visitor. Linda Joy Myers's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story...
| Author | Sue William Silverman |
Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper--or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps...
| Author | Jane Rowan |
| ISBN | 0981583024 |
In this brave and touching memoir, Jane Rowan shares her journey through the healing process of recovering from childhood sexual abuse; a past she knew nothing about until vague, foggy memories began invading her mind.
The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse opens with...
| Author | Belinda Nicoll |
| ISBN | 0985571306 |
In 2001, when a couple leaves South Africa for a stay abroad, they land at JFK International Airport on September 11th, unprepared for the sight of smoke billowing from the Manhattan skyline or the horror of a second plane exploding into the North Tower. Over the next ten years, as their host country confronts...
Linda Hoye was in her early twenties when she found herself parentless for the second time.
Adopted at five months of age, her heritage, medical history, and access to information about who she was or where she came from was sealed; it was as if she had never existed before being adopted. When...
| Author | Marianne Curtis |
| ISBN | 1481063928 |
Author Marianne Curtis reveals her own personal, heart-wrenching, and, ultimately, inspiring story in Finding Gloria. Her past is laid bare in achingly honest detail, and her willingness to share her story with resonate with readers everywhere.
Pouring her own hardships out onto the page,...
| Author | Jeanne Safer |
| ISBN | 0385337566 |
What is it like to grow up with a sibling who is difficult or damaged?
Few bonds in our lives are as psychologically and emotionally significant as the ones we share with our sisters and brothers, although little has been written about this formative relationship. In this first-of-its-kind...
| Author | Alyson Schafer |
| ISBN | 0470837438 |
Within each new mother lives an ideal that like the perfect house and husband is doomed to fall short. The "good mother myth" an ideal that parents create for themselves says psychotherapist and parent coach Alyson Sch fer, is the sort of widely held misconception that ultimately sabotages people's...
| Author | Alyse Myers |
| ISBN | 1416543058 |
After her mother's death, Alyse Myers covets only one thing: a wooden box that sits in the back of a closet. Its contents have been kept from her for her entire life. When she was thirteen years old her mother promised she could have the box, "when I'm dead. In fact, it'll be my present to you." Growing up in...
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
| Author | Erica Jong |
| ISBN | 1585424447 |
I discovered Jong's 1973 debut FEAR OF FLYING in my basement at 14, and it was the most thrilling overnight-read of my life. I spied it on a forgotten shelf on a private quest for a “sex book,” which was any book in which sex was implied, discussed, or— please, lord— described. The front cover featured...
Stalking the Soul: Emotional Abuse and the Erosion of Identity
| Author | Marie-France Hirigoyen |
Life is full of extremes, especially when it comes to the use of power. This book addresses the situations of abuse where manipulation isn't easy to identify. To the point, where a person's soul can be damaged so deeply that it could take them a lifetime to overcome what has happened to them.
In...
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0385267622 |
In her previous (excellent) book, THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD, Alice Miller still wrote from a psychoanalytic frame of reference. Now she has abandoned that model of therapy, believing that it only further instills in the client a repression of feeling memory.
Everyone who thinks that s/he...
| Author | Robin Warshaw |
| ISBN | 0060925728 |
Robin Warshaw clearly outlines date/acquaintance rape in this book, funded by the Center for Antisocial and Violent Behavior of the National Institute of Mental Health and executed under the banner of Ms. Magazine. While a bit dated (published first in 1988), this book captures the emergence of date/acquaintance...
Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers
| Author | Kate St. Vincent Vogl |
| ISBN | 0878393315 |
I expected to find an interesting and intelligent read from this author, but found so much more. There is precision and beauty and a twining of tales that will be meaningful to anyone who has been a mother or had a mother, adoptive or otherwise. Kate St. Vincent Vogl tells the story of coming to terms with...
Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs on the back-burner. After her mother dies of cancer, she goes on a spiritual journey looking for enlightenment and a purpose for her life. Eventually, she ends up as a volunteer in the relief effort following...
Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman s search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck s investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows the profound...
| Author | Daleen Berry |
| ISBN | 0615388604 |
This memoir follows the author’s harrowing journey from teen mom to award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. At thirteen, Daleen Berry was raped. By sixteen, she was barefoot and pregnant. And at twenty-one she was a mother of four children, tumbling headlong into a dark...
Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman finds that her days have been reduced to errands, car pools and suburban gossip. What was an easy decision for Sam years ago has become a nagging awareness that this life was her choice. Now she deals with a husband who shows...
Three Thousand Miles for a Wish
| Author | Safiya Hussain |
| ISBN | 0957096003 |
What would you do if your whole world came crashing down? Broken promises of love. Deceits of life. Safiya is deep in despair and nearing self-destruction. But a chance opportunity to escape suicidal misery beckons her. Millions said it is the land of wishes . Mecca - Saudi Arabia. Millions said it is...
