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The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy

10 best books like The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy (Priscilla Gilman): Losing Clementine, A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness, Beginning With the End: A Memoir of Twin Loss and Healing, Sweet so Fragile, The Mothers of Country Day, Santa Claus and Little Sister, At the End, No Alternative, Cycles, Puppet

Losing Clementine
AuthorAshley Ream
ISBN0062093630
World renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard has decided that she’s done. After flushing away a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions, she gives herself thirty days to tie up loose ends—finish one last painting, make nice with her ex-husband and find a home for her cat. Clementine...
A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
AuthorTom Davis
ISBN1616491213
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...
Beginning With the End: A Memoir of Twin Loss and Healing
AuthorMary R. Morgan
ISBN1936467399
In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, son of then-governor of New York State Nelson A. Rockefeller, mysteriously disappeared off the remote coast of southern New Guinea. Amidst the glare of international public interest, the governor, along with his daughter Mary, Michael’s twin, set off on a futile...
Sweet so Fragile
AuthorMargaret Chatwin
ISBN1467969710
During a robbery, Jace Sullivan's wife, Cari, was murdered. If that wasn't bad enough, she was seven months pregnant when it happened. Though medics were able to save the child, the unfavorable circumstances behind the premature delivery has left baby Colton with severe health issues. Now, while...
The Mothers of Country Day
AuthorArlene Matthews
ISBN1467909075
Standardized test fraud, secrets, and scandal at a posh suburban private school...

When Josie Messina’s math wizard 12-year-old son earns a scholarship to one of New Jersey’s toniest private schools, Josie feels blessed but intimidated. Will a hardworking, cash-strapped single...
Santa Claus and Little Sister
AuthorBrian G. Snow
ISBN1467971944
Santa Claus and Little Sister is autobiographical in nature, selfishly therapeutic in design, and hard proof that we cannot control our future regardless how hard we try. This is a journey of one young optimistic East Coast teacher who taught at New Beginnings, a Los Angeles placement home for at-risk,...
At the End
AuthorJohn Hennessy
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Night 1: 12 billion taken.

Day 1: Confusion.

Night 2: 13 billion taken.

Day 2: Panic.

Night 3: 13 billion taken.

Day 3: The fight for survival begins.

In 2048, the human population borders 39 billion after...
No Alternative
AuthorWilliam Dickerson
ISBN0985188618
NO ALTERNATIVE is a coming-of-age drama that drills a hole into the world of suburban American teenagers in the early 90's. Thomas Harrison is determined to start his own alternative band, an obsession that blinds him to what's either the mental collapse, or the eruption of musical genius, of his little...
Cycles
AuthorLois D. Brown
When a pair of misfit teens uncover disturbing experiments conducted in the basement of their neighbor's house, they become entangled in medical research that could destroy their lives and forever alter the human aging process.

She remembers things that never happened.
She's a stranger...
Puppet
AuthorEva Wiseman
ISBN1770492968
A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.

The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old...
Perfect Chaos: A Daughter's Journey to Survive Bipolar, a Mother's Struggle to Save Her
AuthorLinea Johnson
ISBN0312581823
A dual memoir of a mother's and daughter's triumph over mental illness

The Johnsons—mother, father, and two daughters—were a loving, and close Seattle family. Then the younger daughter Linea started experiencing crippling bouts of suicidal depression. Multiple trips to the psych...
Letters to Mom
AuthorSharon Raines
ISBN0615621716
From the murderer on death row to the soldier in Afghanistan, priest to prostitutes, housewives to home wreckers--each has a common bond. Each was born of woman. Whether Heaven-sent or Satan's spawn, mothers leave an indelible print on the lives of children. For some, the print is a masterpiece. Carefully...
The Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly about the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids with Special Needs
AuthorDenise Brodey
ISBN1594630356
Candid, passionate, personal, and heartbreakingly funny, a view from within the whirlwind of parenting a child with special needs When then-magazine editor Denise Brodey's precocious four-year-old son was diagnosed with a combination of sensory integration dysfunction and childhood depression,...
I Can Only Give You Everything
AuthorBradford Tatum
Winner of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award and silver medalist in the 2011 Independent Book Publisher Award, I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING tells the life affirming story of how one little girl deals with an irreparable loss.

After the loss of her mother to breast cancer, nine year-old...
Ascending Into Euphoria: A Collection of Poetry
AuthorTiffany Tinney
ISBN1426966911
I have just finished reading this book. And, I had to post this review quickly before I lose the aura of the very first thoughts that occurred to me when I read this.

First things first, the cover of the book is excellent. The color, the gloss, the image is very attractive and soothing to the eye....
Double Time: How I Survived---and Mostly Thrived---Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins
AuthorJane Roper
ISBN0312552238
What do you do when you find out you’re pregnant – times two?!

When Jane Roper found out she was pregnant with twins, she searched high and low for a memoir of the first years with multiples, but came up empty-handed. Four years later, she wrote the book she wished she’d had as a new mother...
Wish I Could Have Said Goodbye
AuthorShari A. Brady
ISBN1477561218
Before my older sister Francesca died, I worked at the bakery and wrote songs, but now I write lists. Lists like ten reasons why it's my fault Francesca's dead, or five reasons why I should try and win Howie back, or one reason why I need to stop lying to everyone, including myself.

Wish I Could Have...
The Man Who Left
AuthorTheresa Weir
THE MAN WHO LEFT is about the importance of fathers. It's about the men who leave, and the men who stay.

It's a familiar story. Father leaves his wife and children and never looks back. Theresa Weir was five when her father left his family for a better life with a wealthy socialite. Many years passed...
Us
AuthorMatthew McKay
ISBN1893448126
Psychologist Dr. Matthew McKay tells the story of Margaret, a young woman tortured by her struggle with dissociative identity disorder, a severe and controversial psychological disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identity states or personalities. Treatment is aimed...
6 Seconds of Life
AuthorTonya Fitzharris
Maura has just jumped.

Now she has precisely six seconds until she hits the water below her--just six more seconds until she is finally freed from her mundane and aimless existence. Freed of all of the regrets and disappointments that have haunted her throughout her nineteen years.

She...
Cameron's Court
AuthorDaniel Amory
Cameron’s Court is set in modern day Chicago and is narrated by a troubled, young, native Chicagoan named Cameron Hoffenberg. The events he narrates take place one afternoon between a Christmas party for his high school achievements internship program and the ballet recital of his 4-year-old niece,...
A Touch of Honor
AuthorJ.P. Grider
ISBN0989161404
Honor hurts…all the time. The doctors say she’s fine – it’s all in her head. But Honor feels pain. What she doesn’t know is…it’s not her pain– it’s everyone else’s.
Seventeen year-old Honor Stevens is not an ordinary teenager. Sure, she looks like one on the outside…but...
Seven Tears
AuthorSheila Joyner
ISBN1622950569
I was six years old when I lost my innocence. Keeping quiet about it was more out of fear of his wrath. When it was finally revealed, I was a drama queen, they said. At age thirteen, they didnt believe me after the gang rape but found it justified to send me away to have the baby. I was a drama queen, they said....
Dead Things
AuthorMatt Darst
ISBN1937727157
Nearly two decades have passed since the fall of the United States. And the rise of the church to fill the void. Nearly twenty years since Ian Sumner lost his father. And the dead took to the streets to dine on the living. Now Ian and a lost band of survivors are trapped in the wilderness, miles from safety....
Devine Intervention
AuthorMartha Brockenbrough
ISBN0545382130
This is not that story.

Jerome Hancock is Heidi Devine's guardian angel. Sort of. He's more of an angel trainee, in heaven's soul-rehabilitation program for wayward teens. And he's just about to get kicked out for having too many absences and for violating too many of the Ten Commandments for...
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