title: The Seven-Year Stretch: Growing Through Adolescence : The Family Process and How It Works
author: Jennifer F. Wyatt
description: Kastner (psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Univ. of Washington) and writer Wyatt, both of whom are parents of two children, examine the dynamics of adolescent growth within the family. Each of eight chapters deals separately with a major developmental area of adolescence: trust, freedom, a concept of self, character, social skills, sexuality, risk-taking, and launching. In discussing how adolescents achieve each of these goals, the authors concentrate on the family dynamics involved. Taking a wholistic approach, they argue cogently that "to understand what's going on with an individual, we need to explore the network of relationships of which he or she is a part." Sample vignettes are drawn from families who function at various levels, from healthy to very unhealthy. This work should prove to be a valuable resource to both parents and others, including educators, who work with adolescents. Highly recommended for all public and undergraduate libraries.?Kay L. Brodie, Chesapeake Coll., Wye Mills., Md.<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Baby, It’s You
  
  By Belle Calhoune
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Seven Brides, Seven Brothers Book 6
  
  
  Seven boys adopted from the foster care system by Alec and Maggie Donahue, a
  loving Irish couple living in Breeze Point, Cape Cod. Now grown men, the
  brothers are making their way in the world in their chosen professions, each
  hoping to find a love to last a lifetime. Faith. Family. Honor. The ties that
  bind them together. And an abundance of love.
  
  
  The Heartbreaker
  
  
  Wyatt Donahue has always been a ladies’ man, even though his heart has never
  been touched by love. Blonde and blue-eyed, Wyatt is a short-stop for a
  professional baseball team, The Bay State Bombers. Sidelined by a knee injury,
  Wyatt is devastated when a car accident further damages his baseball
  prospects. Wanting nothing more than to get back to his pro baseball career,
  Wyatt finds himself sinking into a depression when his condition doesn’t
  improve. When a stunning beauty from his past offers him a lifeline, will
  Wyatt take it?
  
  
  Kaitlyn O’