"As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: Gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn't even tell them apart. They fell asleep to the sound of each other's breath at night, holding hands in the dark. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect suburban wife:...

A biography examining the controversial activist's journey from anguish and addiction to becoming the country's leading environmental champion fighting government corruption, corporate greed, and a captured media.

"For recovering parents -- a book on mending the broken bond between parent and child."--Back cover.

Faternal twins Joshua and Christophe, struggle with the responsibilities of adulthood and family in the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf coast. The two high school graduates both anticipate and dread their lives as adults. Joshua finds a job working as a dock laborer on the Gulf of Mexico, unloading cargo. But Christophe has less luck. Unable to find a job, and desperate to alleviate his family's poverty, he starts to sell drugs. Joshua does not approve,...

Discusses the problems associated with a family member, parent or child, who suffers from addiction.

When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan-the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent...

Eighteen-year-old Jules has always wished for a close-knit family. She never knew her father, and her ex-addict mother has always seemed more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only daughter. Jules's life and future look as flat and unchanging as her small Illinois town. Then a simple quest to find a baby picture for the senior yearbook leads to an earth-shattering discovery.

After losing her mother and grandmother during Hurricane Katrina, Laurel moves to another town and becomes a methamphetamine addict.

"Virginia, 1704: Celeste Talbot is a sensible young woman--until she falls for an English soldier reassigned to the Colonies. Leaving her family, she sets sail for America only to find that her younger sister has been kidnapped and forced on board the very same ship. Virginia, present day: Madeline Talbot has her hands full when she takes in her younger sister after a serious car accident. Maddee prays this will be the start of a better life for Nicole,...