Family Conflict

The family saga of Johann Gehring, who at sixteen years old, travels to America. He begins his new life in the prairies of Nebraska. There he learns to dig a well and exist amid nature’s foes: tornados, prairie fires, and freezing winters. Johann changes his name to John and finds love with Helena. Together they build a home and raise five independent children including the head-strong, Berta. Helena teaches her children to be as strong as the prairie cottonwood. She warns that someday they will need to bend in the wind and support each other. Berta vow to be as formidable as the ...

How to Talk to Anyone is an introspective guide to mastering communication skills and improving social skills in the age of the global pandemic. This book will help you understand the reason why you struggle with interpersonal relationships and insecurities, providing you with proven methods and techniques that will help you overcome these issues.

What would you risk to find a cavern of gold? Your family? Your lover? Your life? Jake Garnes risks it all in this gritty drama that takes place in Lead, South Dakota, site of the Homestake Gold Mine, the largest modern-day gold mine in the United States, a place where dreams turn into nightmares as suddenly as a timber cracks and tunnels collapse. When Jake falls in love with Mary Stennis, her father, Sandy, tells Jake an unbelievable story of a cavern of gold he discovered in the accident that crippled him years before. Jake knows such a tale can’t be anything more than the wild ravings...

Filled with love for land, history, and people, it is more than anything else—a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a believer in peaceful resistance, became a leading poet and writer in Palestine, before being forced, with his own young family in tow, to flee and start a new life in Australia.

*This book was originally released as "His Mother's Son." For additional reader reviews, please visit the book page for "His Mother's Son." In place of his mother's love, her bitter grudge. Instead of a real life, an accidental one. Forced to live a lie, Paul feels trapped behind a wall of blame. Determined to escape the past, he mounts a quest to find the truth. It brings adventures around the world and deep within his soul. In time it even takes him past the point of no return. But when this search reveals the path to what he has pursued, will he have the strength to follow it?

Rod discovers love, gold, and family secrets as he travels back to his childhood home where he remembers playing the game of "Go to" and where he must play this game again, as an adult, to help his aunt resolve conflicts from her past during the last days of war in her village.

Are you in a mixed-orientation marriage where you or your partner identify as LGBTQ+? You’re not alone. Thousands of couples face similar challenges, and while it may feel overwhelming, there is a path to understanding, acceptance, and love. This guide offers practical tools and strategies for navigating the complexities of mixed-orientation marriage, whether you’re dealing with coming out, family dynamics, or legal and financial considerations.

Step into a captivating exploration of the deep, complex world of family dynamics with this profound eBook The Art of Family Love and Support. This engaging tome stretches out its insightful hand to guide you seamlessly through the intricacies and depth of fostering healthier, stronger bonds within your family. The Art of Family Love and Support is a comprehensive guide that takes you on an eye-opening journey. It begins with an in-depth look at understanding family dynamics, the foundation of a healthy, nurturing environment. Learn from Chapter 1 about the various types of dynamics and ...

From advice to the sleep deprived to dealing with the drama of toddler tantrums to thoughts on teenage egocentrism, this invaluable audiobook will teach you how to manage the expectations you have of yourself, your partner, and your children. Buddhism for Parents On the Go will help you conquer the day-to-day challenges of life, reduce your stress levels, and gain true insight into the ever-changing joys of parenthood.

Anna, a total theater kid, is less pretty and popular than her lookalike twin, Katie, but she doesn't let that get her down. She has two goals for junior year: she wants to become a major player in her high school's drama department, and she wants her best friend to become her boyfriend. And then an accident changes everything. She's sidelined from acting, and she seems to be losing the guy she's crushing on. What's more, this whack dude from her past--someone she'd like to keep her distance from--keeps trying to reconnect. Anna may have to rethink the role of "Anna." Maybe it's time she ...

The Mannings have applied these keys in their family for over 30 years and taught thousands of families as well how to use these keys to bring strong, life-long connections into their homes. See for yourself how to create a culture of friendship in your home for life!

Bailando con orquídeas: abrazando la resiliencia, el perdón y el crecimiento. Únase a mí en un viaje personal a través del delicado mundo de las orquídeas, donde estas impresionantes flores se convirtieron en mis compañeras en la navegación por los tormentosos mares de la vida. A través de historias de fortaleza y perdón, descubra cómo las orquídeas y el amor inquebrantable de mi cónyuge me ayudaron a reparar, florecer y reescribir mi historia.

Set against a present-day backdrop of civil unrest in Africa, The Last Elephant Hunter is a story about two families, one black, one white, whose lives interweave over a period of two years as the disorder worsens. In unflinching plot-driven prose, the story moves from an attack on Winsbert and Elizabeth Collins’ farm by Chakijane and Jacob Gabanya during the early days of simmering tensions, to a period two years later when the country is in a state of complete chaos and fragmentation. The Collins and Gabanya families continue to collide with each-other during this escalation, testing ...

This book will teach you how to build a strong, trust-based bond with your child, and how to instill responsibility and accountability by using effective communication and teaching about the consequences of your child’s actions.

The Present Parent Toolkit addresses the importance of being both mentally and emotionally available to your children. In the present, there is the opportunity to show up, pay attention, and become the parent you so want to be.

Fans of Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died will love this true story of a damaged primal bond between mother and daughter that, after decades of estrangement, was finally repaired. The conflict began when Carla, as a preteen, stepped in to defend her father against what she perceived as her mother’s harsh treatment—a move that destroyed the warm love she and her mother had for each other and began an “ice age” between them.

In most things, how much participation you put in matters. In court, however, being overly involved in the court proceedings, giving the court too much information to look over, tampering too much in what the lawyers are negotiating, and acting as an authority in front of the judge will get you into hot water. In 20 minutes, you'll learn how to separate yourself, emotionally, from the outcome of the court case. We will help you to recognize that the blueprint of your life and your identity doesn’t have to take this outcome as a failure.

Have you noticed that your sweet little son has become rebellious and impossible to manage? Don't be scared, your son is becoming a teenager. Like any parent, you find it hard to accept that your little baby is growing so fast. Until a few years ago, you were able to keep him under control, and he was the most obedient child in the world. But lately, you've started to notice changes. He has changed his way of dressing, he wants to look bigger to impress his friends, and he no longer respects the rules of the house.

One man wants to love her. One man wants to silence her. How long can she hide the shattering secret that puts her life in danger? In the peaceful New England countryside, a shot rings out… and a pretty farm girl disappears with a scandalous secret that could destroy a political empire. A year later, she resurfaces as Lark Chandler, with a stunning new face and a glamorous identity. With one goal in mind – revenge – she moves from the decadent playgrounds of the European jet set to the thrilling, high-pressure world of Hollywood, where she dazzles the film industry and ignites the ...

Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge. And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo.