Lisa Appignanesi was born Elsbieta Borenztejn in Pol&. Unlike other holocaust memoirs, hers is the story of how the nucleus of a family survived outside the camps, beyond the ghetto & eventually made it to the new world, where Lisa's mother found that her years of masquerading as an Aryan stood her in great stead in anti-semitic post-war Catholic Quebec. As her mother's memory fails, Lisa finds her self trying to unravel the truth about her family, searching not only for signs of her mother's lost brother
- a Jewish Schindler character, making money & saving Jews in Warsaw
- but also for the truth about how her parents managed to survive, & for her own birth certificate. It's above all the compelling story of one woman's determination not to go under, & the story of her father, who learned to make himself invisible & hide behind silent rage. This is a remarkable tale of terror, courage, deprivation, persecution, survival, & Jewish family life.

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In this third & final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment & Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary of permenant loss of a mother-figure & the expression of anxiety, grief & mourning which accompany such loss. The theories presented differ in many ways from those advanced by Freud & elaborated by his followers, so much so that the frame of reference now offered for understanding personality developement & psychopathology amounts to a new paradigm. ...

The Clems were a family living the American dream until their fifteen-year-old daughter Carren became addicted to Meth. Within two months of first taking the highly addictive drug, Carren had moved out of the family home, spent her entire savings on Meth & resorted to stealing, dealing & prostitution to pay for her habit.

Told from both Carren

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In her bestselling book Losses & Gains, Lya Luft draws on her own experiences of loss & gain in marriage & family to address ...

Stripped of everything, 48 survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 find themselves stranded on a tropical isl&. This band of friends, family, enemies, & strangers must work together to stay alive. But the island isn't going to make it easy for them...

As an environmentalist, Faith Harrington could be one of the biggest assets for the group's survival. But the events that lead her to board Flight 815 have left her wracked with guilt & self-doubt.

As Faith reflects on the incidents from her past, she'll have to deal with the present reality of being surrounded by strangers in a hostile new environment.

Will this mysterious new world offer Faith an opportunity to start over? Or will she fall victim to one of the island's deadly perils?





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