Anne Enright

Winner of the Man Booker Prize.
Softcover book in VERY good condition.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

As nine members of the Hegarty clan gather for the wake of their drowned brother Liam, his sister Veronica remembers the secret he shared with her about what happened in their grandmother's house thirty years ago, a betrayal that spans three generations.

The Gathering

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Nevada

Shows parents how to help their children become productive adults, explaining how to overcome the common problem of getting work done, identifying areas of neurodevelopmental weakness, and demonstrating how to emphasize a child's strengths.

The Myth of Laziness

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Stacey Swann

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Iowa

A Novel

A boisterous, big-hearted, thoroughly modern family saga, in the spirit of Meg Wolitzer's The Uncoupling or Curtis Sittenfeld's ELIGIBLE, in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms, and is no stranger to infidelity herself; she's tired of being the long-suffering wife thanks to her husband's many affairs. Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of allies are divided. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down. The Briscoes must reckon with their choices, their capacity for forgiveness, and the confines of family. An expansive tour de force, Olympus, TX combines the archetypes of Greek and Roman mythology with the psychological complexity of a messy family. After all, at some point, we all wonder: What good is this destructive force we call love?

Olympus, Texas (First Edition) 

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maine

Olympus, Texas

Shawna Kay Rodenberg

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

A Memoir

A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg.

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Heather Gudenkauf

Listed the same day as I finished the novel. A very interesting, intriguing, sad story. The book spine is on good condition, the covers have the most wear (see pictures). All of the pages have started to yellow and some have odd black dot or a purple squiggly mark on it. Only a few pages have these imperfections from a previous owner. 1 page has a dog ear and 1 page has a dog ear that was opened (see picture/s). I would recommend this book to any new reader of suspense novels or a new reader of Heather Gudenkauf. Enjoy. 

Ohio

It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night. Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler. Calli's mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often angry husband. Now, though she denies that her husband could be involved in the possible abductions, she fears her decision to stay in her marriage has cost her more than her daughter's voice. Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli has been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Desperate to find his child, Martin Gregory is forced to confront a side of himself he did not know existed beneath his intellectual, professorial demeanor. Now these families are tied by the question of what happened to their children. And the answer is trapped in the silence of unspoken family secrets.

The Weight of Silence

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Gently used      From 1987

Book club edition 

Pennsylvania

The Prize Pulitzer

Mary Kay Andrews

Unsure of the contents. This book was given to me to read or sell. I wanted to read this book but the May-December marriage between Brice and his daughter’s frenemy turned me away. The book has a pen marking to indicate by previous owner that it was read (see picture). The book has discoloration on front and back of hardcover (see pictures). There is minor denting of hardcovers corners near spine (see picture). Would be a great purchase for someone who likes Andrews other books. Enjoy. 

Pull up a lounge chair and have a cocktail at Sunset Beach – it comes with a twist. Drue Campbell’s life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn’t seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother’s funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he’s remarried – to Drue’s eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they’re offering her a job. It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her inheritance – her grandparents’ beach bungalow in the sleepy town of Sunset Beach, a charming but storm-damaged eyesore now surrounded by waterfront McMansions. With no other prospects, Drue begrudgingly joins the firm, spending her days screening out the grifters whose phone calls flood the law office. Working with Wendy is no picnic either. But when a suspicious death at an exclusive beach resort nearby exposes possible corruption at her father’s firm, she goes from unwilling cubicle rat to unwitting investigator, and is drawn into a case that may – or may not – involve her father. With an office romance building, a decades-old missing persons case re-opened, and a cottage in rehab, one thing is for sure at Sunset Beach: there’s a storm on the horizon. Sunset Beach is a compelling ride, full of Mary Kay Andrews' signature wit, heart, and charm.

Sunset Beach

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Charles Whitfield

Utah

Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)

Describes how the inner child is denied as a result of early trauma and loss, and how by recovering it we can heal the fear, confusion, and unhappiness of adult life.

Healing the Child Within

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Memoir of terrifying relationship with a sociopathic father.

Washington

A memoir of my father

A Wolf at the Table

#hardcover #fiction #gmabookclub #mythology #drama #dysfunction #family #texas 

Illinois

James Boswell

John Boswell

Lenore Skenazy

California

A holiday songbook for the entire dysfunctional family features a wide array of Christmas song parodies that includes "Grandpa's Drunk," "O Holy Fight," and "Silent Wife."

The Dysfunctional Family Christmas Songbook

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North Carolina

The Butcher Boy

Kansas

James F. Winter

Missouri

Baptism by Toilet Water is Jim Winter's bittersweet memoir retracing his difficult childhood and early adult years. Growing up in the sixties with a raging alcoholic for a father, life for Jim, his mother, and four siblings meant years of physical and mental abuse. The intriguing title perfectly describes the paradox of growing up in a dysfunctional home while right next door lived his paternal grandparents, who exemplified Christian living. The two stark environments not only define the irony of Jim's early years, but hint at the main premise of the book, which is how good can come from bad. Fortunately for Jim and his siblings, their grandparent's home provided a much needed respite, but even more importantly, they taught the children a different way of life. Our home life was the furthest thing from a Christian home, yet, right next door lived our grandparents who modeled the Christian life. They were the spiritual paragons we so desperately needed. Despite this haven, we knew we were trapped, for even though we could see paradise from our fence, at best we could only visit it from time to time. After high school, Jim leaves him home, believing the worst is behind him. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. As illness and death ravage the family, Jim becomes stricken with grief. Jim then becomes tormented by his past and is certain God has forsaken him. When all hope seems lost, a series of remarkable events unfolds in what can only be described as divine intervention. Through Jim's Baptism by Toilet Water, he soon realizes Jesus Christ is illuminating the way through it all. Jim Winter lives in Waterloo, Illinois, with his wife, Aimee. He has two sons, Tyler and Zachary, and a daughter, Mallory.

Baptism by Toilet Water

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Don Frank

Jan Frank

Significantly highlighted/underlined.
Otherwise excellent.
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TT

Michigan

Building a Stronger Marriage by Breaking Destructive Cycles

Don and Jan Frank explore the tough husband-wife relationships caused by either or both coming from a dysfunctional family, especially when there has been sexual abuse. Readers learn how to tell if their mate was victimized as a child and how to deal with feelings about the abuse.

⭐ When Victims Marry

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Toxic Parents. Overcome Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaim Your Life 

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