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1 Divorce Busting : A Revolutionary and Rapid Program for Staying Together
Michele Weiner-Davis

Current:
9.7
"You will find a step-by-step, nuts and bolts approach to getting unstuck and making your marriage loving again". It shows reader in pain that working it out is better than getting out. more] [Submit]
2 Vicki Lansky's Divorce Book for Parents : Helping Your Children Cope With Divorce and Its Aftermath
Vicki Lansky

Current:
9.7
Vicki Lansky's Divorce Book for Parents is a pragmatic yet warm and understanding guide for parents and children on just about every aspect of divorce. From tips on talking to the kids about it, to information on negotiating the real ... [more] [Submit]
3 Growing Up With Divorce : Helping Your Child Avoid Immediate and Later Emotional Problems
Neil Kalter

Current:
9.7
A practical guide to understanding and coping with the short and long-term effects of divorce on children. "A wise discussin of the reaction of children of different ages to divorce, and the advice on how to help them cope. The book is clea ... [more] [Submit]
4 The Divorce Culture : Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and Family
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Current:
9.6
From divorce as a last resort to divorce as a means of self-expression and personal growth, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead chronicles a sea change in the American way of breaking up and calls us to count the cost in moral and social consequences. ... [more] [Submit]
5 Mom's House, Dad's House : A Complete Guide for Parents Who Are Separated, Divorced, or Remarried
Isolina, Ph.D. Ricci

Current:
9.5
According to the Stepfamily Association of America, 60 percent of all families are breaking up, and custody and visitation issues loom large in the lives of many parents. Isolina Ricci's Mom's House, Dad's House guides separated, div ... [more] [Submit]
6 Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way
M. Gary Neuman, Patricia Romanowski

Current:
9.5
Kids tend to blame themselves when parents divorce. The Sandcastles workshop--now mandatory in over a dozen counties throughout the United States--is a half-day group session for children of divorce between the ages of 6 and 17. This intens ... [more] [Submit]
7 It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear : A Read-Together Book for Parents & Young Children During Divorce
Vicki Lansky, Jane Prince (Illustrator)

Current:
9.5
How do you talk to your children about your divorce? How can you best handle their responses? Here's a children's book and parenting tool rolled into one. It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear is a picture book designed to be read by parent ... [more] [Submit]
8 Case Against Divorce
Diane Medved

Current:
9.4
Divorce may not be the answer to marital problems. Clinical psychologist Diane Medved offers step-by-step methods for recognizing marital troubles and how to work them out together, the truths behind the myths of divorce, and the most commo ... [more] [Submit]
9 Uncoupling : Turning Points in Intimate Relationships
Diane Vaughan

Current:
9.2
Now in trade paperback, the ground-breaking and carefully documented book that shows how couples come apart. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
10 When a Mate Wants Out : Secrets for Saving a Marriage
Jim Conway, Sally Conway

Current:
9.2
Based on twelve years' experience of counseling hundreds of individuals whose spouse wants out, this book guides the mate who wants to save the marriage toward the best way to bring about restoration. more] [Submit]
11 Divorce and Money : How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce (4th)
Violet Woodhouse

Current:
9.2
Anger and hurt tend to figure strongly in divorce, hand-in-hand with resentment, sadness, and fear about your future. And more often than not, these emotional woes all coalesce under the banner of money. Nolo Press is known for its thorough ... [more] [Submit]
12 Joint Custody With a Jerk : Raising a Child With an Uncooperative Ex
Julia A. Ross

Current:
9.2
This hands-on, practical guide offers many proven comunication techniques that will not only help readers deal with a difficult ex-husband ot ex0wife by describing examples of common problems, but also teach them how to examine their roles ... [more] [Submit]
13 Divorce Casualties : Protecting Your Children from Parental Alienation
Douglas Darnall

Current:
9.2
Helps parents recognize the often subtle causes of alienation and teaches them how to prevent or minimize its damaging effects. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
14 The Smart Divorce: A Practical Guide to the 200 Things You Must Know
Susan T. Goldstein, Valerie H. Colb

Current:
9.2
Anyone thinking about divorce needs a reliable source of information that can keep it from becoming an expensive, heart-rending mess. In a convenient format, The Smart Divorce helps readers confront the most common questions and conc ... [more] [Submit]
15 A Child Called 'It' : One Child's Courage to Survive
David J. Pelzer, Dave Pelzer

Current:
9.1
David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." T ... [more] [Submit]
16 The Lost Boy : A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
Dave Pelzer, David J. Pelzer

Current:
9.1
"The Lost Boy" is the harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of a boy's journey through the foster-care system in search of a family to love. This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to "A Child Called "It". The Lost Boy" is Pelzer' ... [more] [Submit]
17 A Man Named Dave : A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
David J. Pelzer, Dave Pelzer

Current:
9.0
The third tale in David Pelzer's autobiographical trilogy, A Man Named Dave is an inspiring story of terror, recovery, and hope experienced by the author throughout his life. Known for his work as a child abuse advocate, Pelzer has b ... [more] [Submit]
18 Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Susan Forward, Craig Buck

Current:
9.0
All parents fall short from time to time. But Susan Forward pulls no punches when it comes to those whose deficiencies cripple their children emotionally. Her brisk, unreserved guide to overcoming the stultifying agony of parental manipulat ... [more] [Submit]
19 Allies in Healing : When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused As a Child, a Support Book
Laura Davis

Current:
8.9
Filled with information, support, and guidance, here is the eagerly awaited book that answers the most important questions asked by partners of survivors of child sexual abuse. Laura Davis, the coauthor of the bestselling The Courage to Hea ... [more] [Submit]
20 Ghosts from the Nursery : Tracing the Roots of Violence
Robin Karr-Morse

Current:
8.7
Hardly a week goes by without a headline screaming out the details of another heinous crime committed by an adolescent or young child. A 14-year-old massacres his classmates at a school prayer circle, two even younger boys fire into a crowd ... [more] [Submit]
21 Struggle for Intimacy
Janet Geringer Wotitiz, Janet Geringer Woititz

Current:
8.7
The struggle for intimacy is part of a life-long process for those who have grown up with alcoholism or dysfunction in the home. To be intimate, to be close, to be vulnerable, contradicts all the survival skills learned by Children of Alcoh ... [more] [Submit]
22 The Sexual Healing Journey : A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Wendy Maltz, Carol Arian (Illustrator)

Current:
8.7
A step-by-step guide to recovery from sexual abuse offers first-person accounts of women and men at every stage of the sexual healing journey and includes exercises and techniques for survivors. Reprint. $25,000 ad/promo. First serial,. ... [more] [Submit]
23 Legacy of the Heart : The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood
Wayne Muller

Current:
8.6
A gentle, entirely new approach to uncovering a source of spiritual strength hidden in the scars of childhood. Wayne Muller brings together the teachings of many different religions and spiritual traditions in a healing program that will ap ... [more] [Submit]
24 When Rabbit Howls
Truddi Chase

Current:
8.6
To escape the horror of violent abuse, the two-year-old child "went to sleep" and created the inner world of "the Troops," the 92 voices that shielded her from pain, but that she didn't know existed until adulthood. This is a journey throug ... [more] [Submit]
25 Outgrowing the Pain : A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children
Eliana Gil

Current:
8.5
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26 Victims No Longer : Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse
Mike Lew, Ellen Bass

Current:
8.5
For the millions of men who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse and for all those who wish to help them, this work offers new hope, understanding, and essential advice. Read m ... [more] [Submit]
27 Emotional Incest Syndrome : What to Do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
Dr. Patricia Love

Current:
8.4
From Dr. Patricia Love, a ground-breaking work that identifies, explores and treats the harmful effects that emotionally and psychologically invasive parents have on their children, and provides a program for overcoming the chronic problems ... [more] [Submit]
28 Ghosts in the Bedroom : A Guide for Partners of Incest Survivors
Ken Graber

Current:
8.4
While it is important for abuse survivors to get help, all too often their partners are forgotten. Ken Graber's book is for those forgotten victims whose lives have also been affected by the sexual abuse their partners have suffered. ... [more] [Submit]
29 Adult Children of Abusive Parents : A Healing Program for Those Who Have Been Physically, Sexually, or Emotionally Abused
Steven Farmer

Current:
8.4
The violent forms of child abuse that make headlines are not the only ones that leave lifelong scars. A child who grows up in an unstable environment where empathy, clear boundaries and trust are lacking, can end up living a ravaged adultho ... [more] [Submit]
30 Ghost Girl : The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her
Torey L. Hayden

Current:
8.3
Recounting her experiences with Jadie, a student in her class, a teacher describes how she persuaded Jadie to break her silence and reveal the family secrets that were plaguing her. By the author of One Child. Reprint. PW. ... [more] [Submit]
31 When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships
Neil S., Ph.D. Jacobson, John Mordechai Gottman

Current:
8.2
When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships by Neil Jacobson and John Gottman, is based on a decade of research with more than 200 couples in dangerous relationships. Jacobson and Gottman, professors at the ... [more] [Submit]
32 Outgrowing the Pain Together : A Book for Spouses and Partners of Adults Abuse As Children
Eliana, Phd Gil

Current:
8.1
A guide to overcoming childhood abuse for couples guides the partners into understanding what adult survivors go through, offering a series of self-help exercises. Read moremore] [Submit]
33 Crazy Time : Surviving Divorce and Building a New Life
Abigail Trafford

Current:
8.1
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34 Co-Parenting After Divorce : How to Raise Happy, Healthy Children in Two-Home Families
Diana Shulman

Current:
8.1
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35 My Parents Still Love Me Even Though They're Getting Divorced : An Interactive Tale for Children
Lois V. Nightingale, Blanca Apodaca (Illustrator)

Current:
8.0
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36 Second Chances : Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce
Judith S. Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee

Current:
7.9
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37 Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon

Current:
7.7
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38 Divorced Dads : Shattering the Myths
Sanford L. Braver, Diane O'Connell

Current:
7.7
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39 The (Almost) Painless Divorce : What Your Lawyer Won't Tell You
Jenny Garden

Current:
7.6
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40 Rebuilding : When Your Relationship Ends
Bruce Fisher

Current:
7.5
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41 Ask the Children : What America's Children Really Think About Working Parents
Ellen Galinsky

Current:
7.4
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42 The Good Divorce : Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart
Constance Ahrons

Current:
7.4
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43 Children of Divorce : A Developmental Approach to Residence and Visitation
Mitchell A.,Ph.D. Baris, Carla B., Ph.D. Garrity

Current:
7.4
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44 First Person Plural : My Life As a Multiple
Cameron, Phd. West

Current:
7.3
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45 The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond
Patricia Evans

Current:
7.2
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46 First Person Plural : My Life As a Multiple
Cameron, Ph.D West

Current:
7.1
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47 Child Custody Made Simple : Understanding the Law of Child Custody and Child Support
Webster Watnik

Current:
7.1
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48 Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out; On relationship and recovery
Patricia Evans

Current:
7.1
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49 The Healing Power of Play : Working With Abused Children
Eliana Gil

Current:
7.1
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50 Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
Sue William Silverman

Current:
7.1
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