Library Assets

“A young African-American girl describes the familiar mother-daughter nightly ritual of combing the tangles out of her hair. When she cries because it hurts, her sympathetic mother tells her how […]

“Behavior with a Purpose provides a practical understanding of and clinically relevant interventions for common problems of youth in adoptive, foster and kinship homes. Specific attention is placed on food […]

“Twelve-year-old Paula Kyle was still mourning the death of her mother a little over a year before when, in 1974, she found herself riding down the road in a stranger’s […]

“The prolific use of drugs to treat ADHD stirs heated debate in therapy and parenting circles today. Is this medication really going to improve my son’s symptoms? How best can […]

Sunny is the story of Mandy, a foster child, who is given a puppy. Struggling with her own emotions of loss and belonging, Mandy tries to return the puppy to its […]

Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an […]

People are living longer with physical and mental disabilities and that is a direct result of extraordinary success in medicine and public health. Confronting the question of what quality of […]

(Hardcover, 28 pages) Donny isn’t sure what his grandmother thinks of him. She is so proper and his behavior is far from perfect. Yet, when Donny gets tangled up in […]

Casey’s dad has to go away for a couple of days…Again! Casey hates it when his father has to travel. But this time Dad leaves behind a special gift that […]

All you need is love, right? Wrong. The authors of Fighting for Your Marriage contend that conflict in intimate relationships is as normal and essential as love. How you fight […]