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  We Are All Welcome Here

  by Elizabeth Berg

  Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters’ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. Her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom. It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis’s birth, tensions... (more)
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  The Spare Room

  by Helen Garner

  A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women—one dying, the other called to care for her—from an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need? Helen has little idea what lies ahead—and what strength she must muster—when she offers her spare room to an old friend, Nicola, who has arrived in the city for cancer... (more)
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  South of Superior

  by Ellen Airgood

  A debut novel full of heart, in which love, friendship, and charity teach a young woman to live a bigger life. When Madeline Stone walks away from Chicago and moves five hundred miles north to the coast of Lake Superior, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, she isn't prepared for how much her life will change. Charged with caring for an aging family friend, Madeline finds herself in the middle of beautiful... (more)
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  Promise Not to Tell

  by Jennifer McMahon

  Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl named Tori is murdered—a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del—shunned and derided by classmates as "Potato Girl"—was brutally slain. Del's killer has not been... (more)
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  Circle of Care: When It's Your Turn as Family Caregiver

  by Gail Sheehy

  "I didn't expect this." No one really expects it, but at some time or another, just about everyone has been—or will be—responsible for giving care, for a sustained period, to someone close to them. Gail Sheehy, who has chronicled every major turning point for twentieth-century Americans, as well as reported on everything from politics to sexuality, knows firsthand the trials, fears, and rare joys of... (more)
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  On Hummingbird Wings

  by Lauraine Snelling

  "But Mother is always dying," is Gillian Ormsby's sarcastic response when her younger, favored sister tells her that she has to go take care of their hypochondriac mother. Much against her will, since she and her mother never have gotten along, Gillian arrives in California to find the garden and yard dead, the blinds all drawn, and her mother indeed in bed--waiting to die. But when Gillian talks with the doctor,... (more)
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  Tristan

  by Thomas Mann

  Tristan is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Thomas Mann is in the German language. If you enjoy the works of Thomas Mann then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
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  Just Like Family: Inside the Lives of Nannies, the Parents They Work for, and the Children They Love

  by Tasha Blaine

  When she was in her early thirties,Tasha Blaine briefly became a nanny. She expected an easy, nine-to-five stint, but instead she discovered the vast, varied, and largely unknown world of nannies. Often overlooked and invisible, these women also hold great power in the families they work for. Blaine was learning what so many parents want to know: What does our nanny think of us? And what happens all day behind our... (more)
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  Pieta

  by William Zink

  Jim Priest's mother is dying. With his daughter beside him, he alternates caretaking duties with his sister. A year earlier his father died in mysterious fashion -- the head of the Virgin Mary from a lifelong sculpting project of The Pieta fell on top of him, killing him instantly. As days pass by, his mother falling in and out of coherency, the buried secrets of a bittersweet childhood re-emerge, forcing the four... (more)
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  Am I my parent's keeper? let's talk about it! WORKBOOK

  by Cosette Riggs

  This workbook is a tool that helps you get ready to take care of your elderly parent. It is an additional help that goes along with the book "Am I my parent's keeper? Let's talk about it! This small book is just what you need to keep track of the journey you are starting with your parent. It has a place for your parent's contact numbers, a spot for you to make notes of all the care they will need. It will show... (more)
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  The Azheimer's caregiving puzzle : putting together the pieces

  by Patricia Callone, Connie Kudlacek

  In the U.S. 5.2 million people live with Alzheimer's disease, it is the sixth-leading cause of death and ten million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's in their lifetime. Alzheimer's often takes a bigger toll on the caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer’s; generally family members, loved-ones and friends. The burdens placed on caregivers run the gamut of social, psychological, physical and economic... (more)
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  Pieces of My Sister's Life

  by Elizabeth Joy Arnold

  Beautiful, heartbreaking and insightful, this captivating debut novel explores the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood in a story that will resonate with readers of Judy Blume's Summer Sister, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper and Elisabeth Robinson's The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters. In Pieces of My Sister's Life, Elizabeth Joy Arnold paints a wise and sensitive portrait of the passions that... (more)
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  The Loss of Self

  A Family Resource for the Care of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders

  by Donna Cohen

  A tremendous resource for all those grappling with Alzheimer's disease, including patients, families, caregivers, and professionals. This fully revised and updated edition gives the latest information on causes, preventive measures, diagnosis, treatment, and drugs. But The Loss of Self goes even further than the biological, medical, and social issues to explore the emotional challenges any person coping with... (more)
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  The Complete Canadian Eldercare Guide: A Handbook to Caring for Your Aging Parents

  by Caroline Tapp-McDougall

  Providing eldercare while holding down a stressful job and a busy home life is a recipe for burnout. It is the worst climate in which to make thoughtful, informed decisions that have significant impact on the quality of life of an aging parent. The Complete Canadian Eldercare Guide provides the advice people need to make the tough decisions about housing, finances, legal planning, and independence and... (more)
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  At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness

  by Arthur W. Frank

  In this deeply affecting memoir, Arthur W. Frank explores the events of illness from within: the transformation from person to patient, the pain, the wonder,and the ceremony of recovery. To illuminate what illness can teach us about life, Frank draws upon his own encounters with serious illness -- a heart attack at age thirty-nine and, a year later, a diagnosis of cancer. In poignant and clear prose, he offers... (more)
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  What the Dying Teach Us

  Lessons on Living

  by Samuel Lee Oliver

  What the Dying Teach Us is a collection of actual experiences and insights shared by terminally ill persons. Their experiences will teach you valuable lessons about hope, values, and faith and about giving and affirming life. These stories, which reveal the awareness of our spiritual selves and the transforming nature of grief, will touch your heart and renew your soul.
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  Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return

  by Mary Ellen Geist

  Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment and recognition. The New York Times wrote a front page story on Mary Ellen on Thanksgiving 2005. It was one of the most... (more)
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  Welcome to the Departure Lounge

  Adventures in Mothering Mother

  by Meg Federico

  The adventure begins when Meg’s mother, Addie, vacationing in Florida, takes a spill. At the hospital, Addie bolts upright on her gurney and yells “I demand an autopsy!” before passing out cold. “One minute, she is unconscious, the next, she’s nuts,” observes Meg Federico in this hilarious and poignant memoir of taking care of eighty-year-old Addie and her relatively new (and equally old) husband, Walter, in... (more)
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  God a Logs On Living and Dying

  by Sam Oliver

  When I wrote these daily moments with God, I felt myself paying more attention to whatever it was that I was focusing on that day. For me, the insights took me to a place where judgments cease and the desire to understand became more prevalent. Such a view of living makes a person begin to seek first to understand, instead of, act on what a person understands to be life s point of view in any given moment. Life is... (more)
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  The Moon in the Water: Reflections on an Aging Parent

  by Kathy J. Phillips

  Named a Best Book of 2008 by Library Journal In a series of moving vignettes, the author begins by describing a particular representation of Water-Moon Kuan Yin, a Buddhist teacher and goddess associated with compassion, who often sits on a precarious overhang or floats on a flimsy petal. Then Kuan Yin steps out of the frame to join the author in the mundane challenges of caring for her father-transferring... (more)