Rather, the developing child builds internal relational templates rooted in conscious and unconscious memories he internalized in childhood, and these guide his future interactions with others.
Jean let her cry until she began to run down and then gave her a box of Kleenex . " I've never , " Marion told her — this was very important and she got it out between sobs , before she could really talk plainly— " I've never — done ...
In this exquisite new novel of self-discovery, Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner addresses one of the great dramas of our lives: growing up and leaving home.
Higher and higher, above the alley, over the tops of tiles roofs, where I was gathered up by the wind and pushed up toward the night sky until everything below me disappeared and I was alone." -- from Rules of the Game by Amy Tan We leave ...
A little while later, when we said goodnight, Thumper gave me a big, sweet hug. Almost as if to say she knew where I'd just been. "You're alright Johnny," she said for the second time that night. “Don't worry so much.
When both brothers leave the Marine Corps, the failing economy in their home state forces them to move and one brother ends up in Iraq as a contractor. This is their story of success, humor, tragedy, adventure and love.
When the narrator begins taking his mischievous six year-old son Ryota with him to his weekly Zen meditation meeting, it's not so much for his spirituality but to afford his...
In the bestselling tradition of Russell Baker's Growing Up, Buchwald's compelling memoir shows a startling new side to a beloved humorist.
Written with much wit, wisdom and warmth, here is a memoir which anybody who has loved and lost will relate to.
What happens when the good guy falls for the bad girl.