Too often mothers make it impossible for a daughter to grow into her own person. These daughters never feel 'good enough' about themselves. They live with guilt and fear.Psychiatrist and social worker Abbey Strauss explores the nature of these complex and painful relationships; he also provides an approach on how to manage or psychologically remove oneself from these relationships when all other corrective efforts fail.

This is an exceptual book with sections that honestly discuss the effects that pain has on relationships, dealing with the medical community, the realities of access to adequate care, understanding the medications and how they are safely used, the medical nature of pain, suffering, sleep problems, and so on. Patients and families benefit from it's real life origins as they become more realistic and better equipped to deal with the pain.

Psychotherapy is more than a conversation. The process should be a tour of one's life. It looks at the origins of problematic behaviors and then learns how to correct these old and disruptive patterns. The actual therapeutic process is to learn and practice the proper skills, and maybe to give up unrealistic hopes, while developing better ways to make good choices, to maturely respond to others and situations, and to develop a less emotionally restricted manner of living. Psychotherapy mus...

We hear her anger and fear. The interaction with the therapist is sprightly, direct, piercing, and yet healing. She finally allows herself to reveal her real fragility; afterwards she begins to psychologically grow. She deals with transference towards her therapist, of her sexuality, the meaning of relationships, and her liaisons with life in general."More than just reading about what is needed in the therapy process -- it's actually watching it go step by step. There were times wh...

What if the best morning of your life suddenly turned into your worst nightmare? Sam Case is about to find out. Saving Rachel is the story of what happens when killers force a man to choose between his wife and his mistress...and the one he rejects must die. "If Dean Koontz collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock at the circus, this would be their brain child." –Vintage DM Book Reviews

In the Colorado mountain town of Glenwood Springs not far from Aspen artist/photographer Gwyn Sanders discovers a cryptic letter her sister Kelly left behind. The victim of a deadly hit and run Kelly reveals she was sexually involved with her sisters boyfriend and is scared for her life. Both Gwyn and her remaining sister Linda have since married their boyfriends so either of their husbands could be guilty of murder. The sisters received a large inheritance before meeting these men and kno...

When Buddy Pancake and his buddies stumble across the Wish List website, they jokingly post their "impossible" wishes. Imagine their surprise when the wishes start coming true! But Buddy and his pals neglected to read the fine print and now must pay the price for the wishes they've been granted. Wish List is a compelling, nail-biting, laugh-out-loud thriller.

***KATHRYN STOCKETT'S NEW NOVEL, THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING THE CALAMITY CLUB IS AVAILABLE NOW***Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver . . .There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter,...

A Girl Like You (A Donovan Creed Novel) is the next step in the evolution of hit man and former CIA assassin, Donovan Creed.When Rachel Case goes to the doctor for a routine blood test, scientists are astonished to learn she possesses a gene no one else on earth seems to have—a gene that holds the key to protecting the world from the deadliest pandemic in history. When government operatives kidnap Rachel in order to develop a vaccine, her lover, Donovan Creed, realizes the only way...

What would it take to make you a killer?One day a total stranger walks into your home and offers you $100k in cash. The only condition is that if you do, someone will die. The twist is, that person has killed before. Would you take the money?When he's not working for the government Donovan Creed, ruthless assassin, runs a special line in contract killings. Right now he's involved in a crazed social experiment, but he's finding it hard to reconcile with his conscience...

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU . . . DEADAfter a tough breakup with her boyfriend, Lucy Kincaid needs a different kind of break. So she heads west to join her brother, an ex-cop, for a long weekend of skiing in the mountains. At a picturesque lodge tucked high in the Sierra Nevada, Lucy finds just what she’s looking for: a peaceful retreat undisturbed by Internet, television, and cell phone distractions. She also finds an unexpected group of newlyweds seeking their own idyllic getaway.

Follow the Stone (An Irreverent Western Adventure) is a good-hearted, rollicking story about a former gunslinger and his crablike scout, who journey West with a mail order bride, a witch, and a wagon full of prostitutes!