Confessions Of A Former Only Child

Fifth-grader, Ella, is not happy about the birth of her new baby brother, Spencer.

"Daniel J. Tomasulo chronicles and confesses his childhood delusions, his particularly challenging experiences as a parent, and his life as a psychologist with refreshing candor and laugh-out-loud humor. His memories of being a kid--controlling streetlights, avoiding any foods with seeds lest he get pregnant, enduring his mother's cold love--are vivid, and his life as a parent is riddled with dilemmas. To start, he finds himself locked in a rubber-walled hospital room while his wife is in labor, and later he faces the necessity of giving mouth-to-mouth to his daughter's suffocating Raggedy Ann doll. As a professional who specializes in the highly personal, he traces the unusual and illuminating connections between his own life and evocative scenes from the lives of his patients"--P. [4] of cover.

After Katie gets caught teasing a schoolmate, she's told to meet with Mrs. Petrowski, the school counselor, so she can make right her wrong and learn to be a better friend. Bothered at first, it doesn't take long before Katie realizes that bullying has hurt not only the people around her, but her, too. Told from the unusual point of view of the bullier rather than the bullied, Confessions of a Former Bully provides kids with real life tools they can use to identify and stop relational aggression.

Fans of Harriet the Spy and Mean Girls will cheer when they meet Charlie C. Cooper, reformed bully, gifted hacker, slightly misguided fashionista, and so-called middle child! This debut tween novel stars the hilariously fresh Charlie Cooper as she tries to ditch her middle-child reputation and make cool friends at her new school in Los Angeles. But being cool isn't as easy as it looks—especially when her dandruff-ridden psychologist tasks Charlie with finding the biggest loser in school and becoming her friend. In public. As Charlie says, "Just kill me now, please."

Memoirs of Dakini: True Confessions of a Former Flower Child is a collection of memories telling of my life in the streets, from the small town of Woodstock, New York, through the Lower East side of New York City, all the way to Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue. Follow my true story as one of the last Flower Children. Read about my struggles with the drug culture, loneliness, rape, suicide attempts, kidnapping, beatings and the pain which drove me further away from the love I sought.I first left home at the young age of 13. I bounced back and forth from the streets until the age of 15, when my parents relinquished control and set me free. With only a knapsack on my back and $100 in my pocket, I left home for good on that October night of 1969. My adventures over the next 4 ½ years are detailed in this book.

A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.

The memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap—right from the source—for dealing with the sociopath in your life. “[A] gripping and important book . . . revelatory . . . quite the memorable roller coaster ride.”—The New York Times Book Review As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence. Who are we? We are highly successful, noncriminal sociopaths and we comprise 4 percent of the American population.” Confessions of a Sociopath—part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious—takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes them tick while debunking myths about sociopathy and offering a road map for dealing with the sociopaths in your life. M. E. Thomas draws from her own experiences as a diagnosed sociopath; her popular blog, Sociopathworld; and scientific literature to unveil for the very first time these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight.”

In pursuit of the love and attention I craved but did not receive from my family, I ran away from home to become a "flower child". I ended up spending most of my teen years either fighting for my life in the streets or serving time as a ward of the state. By the time I was 18, I had given up hope of a normal life and had resigned to the fact that I would spend the rest of my life as one of those sad faces that no one wants to look at; one of those that call the street their home. That image you see on the cover of the book is me. I was 19 years old and living on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. The absolute defining moment in my life was the day the drug deal went bad. It started out just like any other day, at least for the girlfriend of a dealer. However, this time it went bad. Really bad. I sat on the living floor and watched as the transaction took place. Money to the dealers, coke to the "customer". No big deal. But then; suddenly, the front door was violently kicked in. Men in masks were wielding shot guns and demanded all the money and drugs in the house. The dealers (my boyfriend included) refused. It was then that things got worse. The men turned to the pregnant girl and aimed the shotguns at her swollen belly. That girl was me. The year was 1973.Through sheer willpower and determination I was able to overcome insurmountable odds and got off of the streets. I returned to school and pursued my education with a vengeance. Not only was I able attain an Associate's Degree, but was driven to earn a Master's Degree in business. I finally found what I was looking for: a life worth living. I have faced many demons on my chosen path but I have a firm belief that it was for all for a higher purpose. My passion is to find others that may be lost on that same path and give them back what the streets have taken from them. Hope.

Who is Lucky Saint? She's a fifteen-year-old wild child who discovered her mother's murdered body in the family swimming pool when she was only five years old. Daughter of the notorious and controlling Gino Santangelo, who's kept her cloistered in their Bel Air mansion. Now she's ready to discover the world. Lucky navigates her teen years through first romances, family dramas, and adventures as Gino, a powerful Vegas hotel owner with a dubious past, struggles to control his willful daughter. Lucky strikes out on her own path -- a path that will lead her to become the powerful and charismatic woman she was destined to be.