Friendship Development

Arthur and his pals can't wait for the next book in the Scare-Your-Pants-Off series, until they learn that a parents' group is trying to ban the popular books. The gang learns about standing up for what's right as they get help from a surprising source.

Alexandra Collier was a writer living in a light-filled Brooklyn brownstone in New York with the man she loved. But when she woke up to a ravenous hunger to have a baby that her partner didn't share, she had to make a choice between love or a future family. From defying her family's expectations to searching for sperm and navigating pregnancy alone, Ally deftly takes us through the ecstatic, complicated and demanding path to becoming a solo mother by choice.

Everyone wants to do something to improve race relations, but many of us don't know where to start. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, lifelong friends Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler will show you how. Through important lessons they have learned, you will learn how to begin and grow authentic friendships across racial and ethnic barriers.

In The Friendship Equation, you’ll discover the key ingredients that build and sustain meaningful relationships. Drawing from psychology, personal experiences, and real-world insights, this book explores the science and heart behind true friendship. Whether you’re looking to deepen existing bonds, make new friends, or navigate the challenges of modern relationships, this book provides the roadmap.

Discover how to celebrate your life as an empty nester…without guilt or sorrow. Does your quiet home give you heartaches and tears? Do you not know what to do with your life now that the kids are gone? Becoming an empty nester is a sudden and painful change. It is such a difficult time that 38.6 percent of empty nesters suffer from clinical depression and one in four marriages ends in divorce.

"Raise a Resilient ADHD Daughter" with confidence and understanding, even if you feel overwhelmed by her unique challenges! Is your daughter’s ADHD making everyday life an emotional rollercoaster, leaving you feeling exhausted and uncertain about how to support her? Are school struggles and social challenges causing stress, making you wonder if you’ll ever find actionable support? Do you wish there were a way to empower her, helping her thrive academically and socially while maintaining her individuality? You are not alone.

An illuminating, intricately woven memoir about friendships, loss, and language—a stunning affirmation of the conversations that shape and sustain us, even in the presence of death.

Friendship 2030 is an exploration of human connection, and a guide to making meaningful connections in the digital era. Many of us struggle as the landscape of social connections changes around us. This book will enrich your understanding and help strengthen a foundation for a thriving social life. With tips on how to expand your social circles, nurture and sustain friendships, and leverage technology, Friendship 2030 is an uplifting, informative and helpful listen.

Doesn’t it seem like there simply isn’t enough time to take care of ourselves, our families, and our to do lists? Even when we’re partnered and surrounded by friends, we’re often too afraid of burdening others to ask for help. So how do we survive today’s age of overwork and stress, and who can we turn to for the support we need to stay afloat? Now, writer and cartoonist Sophie Lucido Johnson offers a radical answer to our age of overwhelm in Kin.

Are you stuck in a cycle you want to break because you feel ready to free yourself on a higher level? You are someone who deserves to be able to live your life in a way that allows you to be who you are deep down within. But how can you ever hope to do that? The truth is there’s a resource that’s ready and waiting to change the way you live: Psychic Empath (2 in 1) is for people who want to banish negative energy, connect with empathy, and unlock their inner psychic skills.

The Friendship Upgrade illuminates the growing issue of personal isolation and equips women to exchange clickable connection for real time, face-to-face friendships. Through the deeply personal stories of real women, it examines our varied routes to isolation - divorce, an emptied nest, increased mobility - as well as the impact of technology, over-efficient living, and the patterned choices that can root us in chronic loneliness.

Im Musikbusiness gibt es kaum einen größeren Superstar, als Whitney Houston es gewesen ist. Nachdem ihr 1985 veröffentlichtes Debütalbum sie auf Anhieb an die Spitze katapultierte, führte Whitney zwei Jahrzehnte lang die internationalen Charts an und begeisterte und berührte Fans auf der ganzen Welt.

Griefland. It's a place no one wants to visit - a place without borders where language is inadequate and pain is constant. It's a place where every morning, one awakens to the stark reality that a loved one will never be seen, heard - or embraced - again. This is a place that Armen Bacon and Nancy Miller know all too well, for both of them, when they met, had lost a child to drug addiction. Both of them had also enjoyed a comfortable, middle-class life - until it was rocked by the sudden death of a son Alex, and a daughter, Rachel.

"How to Maintain Healthy Relationships" is a practical and in-depth guide to building, strengthening, and maintaining healthy bonds in all aspects of life: relationship, family, friendships, and work. Through straightforward advice, real-life examples, and strategies backed by modern psychology, this book will help you communicate effectively, set healthy boundaries, resolve conflicts maturely, and cultivate empathy and mutual respect.

In a time when so many suffer from isolation and it feels like developing authentic relationships and true belonging is harder than ever, Chris and Julie Bennett invite you into their story to discover why we were meant for togetherness and why it's worth facing any amount of hardship to keep our faith, families, and communities at the center of who we are.

Loose Woman tells of a life-changing year - 1979 - when Beth Kaplan, a successful actor, surprised herself by agreeing to live and work with a group of intellectually disabled men in France. In this intimate, sometimes hilarious memoir, she leaves behind the backstage and bars of the Canadian theatre scene to embark on an extraordinary odyssey of self-discovery and redemption.

Friends Along the Way is a beautifully written tribute to the people who shape our lives through the gift of friendship. Through tender, poetic reflections, this book honors the ones we meet in childhood, the friends who cheer us on in adulthood, and the quiet constants who walk beside us through life’s biggest and smallest moments. From swing sets and slumber parties to office chats and late-night texts, each chapter captures the feeling of being seen, known, and loved by the friends who’ve made the journey brighter.

Listening helps us be there for others, to support them in tough times and to strengthen our relationships with partners, family, friends and colleagues. From opening up a conversation with someone who might be struggling, to how to use gentle encouragement to help others share their stories, How to Listen demonstrates the power of listening without judgement and draws on the extensive experience of Samaritans in offering practical advice to apply to your own life.

I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me. You can't get more alone than that. You can't be more lost. I've got too many people who love me. There's no way I'm dying like this. In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown off the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, the families, the local fishing community, and the US Coast Guard in three states mobilized in an unprecedented search effort.

Eres un animal. No te preocupes. ¡No tiene nada de malo reconocerlo! Por mucho que nos queramos resistir a aceptarlo, somos tan animales como el perro que se siente dueño de tu sillón o el gato que se duerme sobre el teclado de tu computadora. Sin embargo, algo nos distingue de todos ellos y nos convierte en, bueno, humanos. ¿Qué es eso que nos separa? Con letras certeras sobre la pérdida de la confianza en estos días, que nos condena a una vida tan hiperconectada como solitaria, Vico nos enseña que la amistad es importante, que compartir y sabernos parte de algo es vital.