Touchstone: 629 books
Little Family, Big Values
Lessons in Love, Respect, and Understanding for Families of Any Size
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
From the stars of TLC's critically acclaimed reality show Little People, Big World comes heartfelt advice to help today's families overcome life's obstacles together and grow closer in the process.
The Roloffs are no ordinary family. Parents Matt and Amy are little people raising four children:...
Born Reading
Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age -- From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children’s book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five.
Every parent wants...
by Niels H. Lauersen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Dr. Niels Lauersen, clinical professor of Ob/Gyn at New York Medical College, provides sensitive, clear-cut answers to the pregnant woman's most difficult and pressing questions.
Pregnancy is a time of great emotional and physical change that creates countless concerns and questions for the...
The Tender Heart
Conquering Your Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2001
Insight, explanations, and practical solutions for overcoming insecurity and sensitivity -- from a top psychologist
In simple language, Joseph Nowinski explains that insecurity is not a flaw or shortcoming, but rather a personality trait that reflects both temperament and life experiences. And, most...
by Donna Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Whether your child is 18 months or 18 years of age, the time to start planning for college costs is now! No matter what your financial situation, or the amount of time you have to plan, there is a way to pay for college. With an extensive state-by-state listing of loan sources, as well as a complete...
Good-bye To All That
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
When her Hollywood career goes haywire, a young woman must say good-bye to all that . . . or must she?
Raquel Azorian has worked her way from temp to executive assistant and is this close to a promotion to junior marketing exec at Belmore Corporation, the media behemoth she’s devoted herself...
The Husbands and Wives Club
A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
A PAGE-TURNING GLIMPSE INTO FIVE MARRIAGES AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE THEM
For more than a year, journalist Laurie Abraham sat in with five troubled couples as they underwent the searing process of group marriage therapy. Published as The New York Times Magazine’s cover story "Can This Marriage...
Point Clear
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Caroline Berry is lost at twenty-seven, living in New York -- not as the writer she once hoped to be but as an assistant at two part-time jobs. In an attempt to figure out a next step, she heads for Point Clear, Alabama, to spend several weeks relaxing at an old southern hotel on Mobile Bay -- unaware...
Gods of Wood and Stone
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Two men from disparate worlds search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood in this “rough, tough, and thoughtful” (Phil Mushnick, New York Post) debut from Pulitzer Prize finalist and front-page columnist...
One Foot in Love
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Small in number yet formidable in spirit, the Leave Him and Live Sisterhood adopts a recent widow, challenging everything she knows about life and loving.
Rowtina Washington is devastated when her adoring husband, Turtle, is killed in a tragic accident. When his ghost begins to appear to her,...
Sacred Time
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2003
The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family.
In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise...
Diamond Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel Platinum, Diamond Life returns to the smoke and mirrors world of fame with brand new characters and more true to life plotlines.
Alex Maxwell’s career as a journalist and celebrity ghostwriter is taking off, but it pales in comparison to her...
Her Infinite Variety
Stories of Shakespeare and the Women He Loved
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2001
With elegance, sympathy, and nuance, Her Infinite Variety celebrates the women in William Shakespeare's world. These lyrical stories move from Elizabethan London, where Shakespeare is drawn to the plight of the young wife of a wealthy friend, to a wintry Denmark, where Ophelia struggles to understand...
Sunday's on the Phone to Monday
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The Royal Tenenbaums meets J. D. Salinger in this “sharply observed and bittersweet family romance with a rock ’n’ roll heart” (Elle).
Claudio and Mathilde Simone, once romantic bohemians hopelessly enamored with each other, find themselves nestled in domesticity in New York, running...