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Journey to Fulfillment is the story of a couple who have enjoyed 50 years of marriage. It includes tales of their ancestors, their children, and their grandchildren. Following is the authors introduction. When I was young I often asked my mother, Do you think Ill ever get married? My mothers reply was always yes, to which she would immediately add, the Blaisdell girls were shy like you in high school, but they both found husbands when they went to...
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Joey was a quiet, shy, country boy from a small southern town who could not wait to turn eighteen. After a childhood marred by neglect and abuse, he planned to leave home and vowed never to return. The struggle to survive in a changing economy led Joey into debt. He made a fateful decision to return home after a decade on his own. Immediately after returning home, old wounds would be reopened. Still, after his mother suffered a debilitating stroke,...
63) A Simple Man
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In a newly built home in the mountains, an old man named Clarence Callahan prepares for a lengthy visit with his youngest daughter, Liza Jane. The experiences they share in the month they are together would not only bring them immense joy but it would keep precious memories alive from the past while making new memories.
Liza is a caring and fun-loving businesswoman, who set aside a month to devote spending quality time with her ailing father. She...
64) The Interview
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This book will touch every emotion, and inform the reader how easy it is to become homeless, and how we can help each other to avoid this life change. It gives hope to those who want to get out of this unfortunate life.
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Meghan is caught between the past and the present. Part of her lives in Arizona, part of her feels at ease in New Hampshire. When she returns to the lake of her childhood, she is alone. Both her parents are dead and she is widowed. But soon she does not feel alone. The community of Pawtuckaway Lake embraces her as they did Jack MacNamara, her father. She revisits much of what she left behind: work, love, places and old feelings. Does she continue...
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Better Living, Better Dying
Reconciling Freedom and Surrender in Aging
The aging baby boomer generation born from 1945 to 1965 poses a real challenge in aging services for themselves and their families. Many of them are not well prepared for the challenges coming their way. Neither are their children. Most people are so busy being human "doings" they have overlooked developing as human beings. You are never too old to begin the adult self-development...
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A poignant memoir of growing up in a rural setting delimited by geography and family. Characters are as vivid as they are ordinary. It relates the people and experiences of the author's youth with the glow of nostalgia and the gut of realism, all in an emotionally pulsing yet leisurely pace.
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Mean moms say no. Mean moms are consistent. Mean moms trust themselves. Mean moms don't care what everyone else is doing. Mean moms teach kids the life skills they need to know. Mean moms slow it down. Mean moms fail their kids a little bit every day. And mean moms prepare their kids for the world, not the world for their kids, raising children into adults who know how to make themselves happy. Mean Moms Rule.
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It was January of 2009 when Tom Stockburger first noticed his wife, Lucy, acting strangely. He attributed it to exhaustion and sent Lucy to take a nap, with no idea that just a few hours later she would suffer a seizure that eventually led to the life-changing diagnosis of brain cancer. Without warning, Tom and Lucy were propelled on a thirty-two-month journey that would test their inner strength, faith, and courage in more ways than they ever imagined....
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The purpose of this book is to celebrate a unique generation, ther multitude of 70+ seniors of the 21st century, who lead purposeful, rewarding and independent lives in specially designed retirement communities. The authors, in their early 80's, live it up each and every day in their chosen community. With humor, wistfulness, seriousness and common sense, they introduce some of their neighbors and provide a bird's eye view of active life after retirement....
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Monica Drake exhibe en La locura de amar la vida la cara más vulnerable y humana de varios personajes a lo largo de décadas, a menudo huyendo o tratando de encontrar su sitio en un mundo demasiado grande y hostil. A lo largo de ese tiempo, de esas páginas, la vida revela su esencia como algo simultáneamente comprimido y expansivo, en un reflejo de lo que implica haber vivido tanto, y asistir al paso de esos años en un abrir y cerrar de ojos....
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Set in London between 1973 and 1983, Adrift is a compelling true story portraying the way a husband's mental illness tragically destroys a happy marriage. It examines the agonising dilemma faced by his wife struggling to make sense of his baffling condition yet concerned for their young children and her own safety.
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"Secrets of Life Before Birth"is the presentation of the long processes leading to the conception and later the birth of an individual, in this case: Whomus, but it could be the story of any one of us.The distinction found in this book is the conversations translated from the many interactions among different actors in this story. The highly specialized unicellular precursors of a human being can be followed in their interactions among themselves...
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From the first time you were sent home to "tell your mother what you did" to the earliest schoolyard crush and beyond, this family-oriented collection of stories, told through the eyes of a young boy, rediscovers a time when life revolved around parents and grandparents, neighborhood, school and church. With a near-eidetic memory, author Robert Layton reminds us of the events that shaped our lives. The stories within reflect the youthful curiosities,...
75) The Mommy Cup
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Through a simple story, The Mommy Cup teaches how important it is for those who take care of others to make sure to take the time to take care of themselves too. Although it is a simple message, it is too easily set aside in the busy demands of day-to-day life. Read it with a friend or a child, and get ready to renew your life. How full is your mommy cup?
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In his poignant memoir, Ken Ludmer, details his often raucous, always conflicted, and yet loving relationship with his mother. After sixty plus years of their epic battle, Ludmer and his Ma attempt to heal their wounds as he cares for her, following her broken hip at age 91. In the last eighteen months of her once brave and independent, world traveling life, they tell their stories to one another as they relive their battles in this American family...
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The author understands that discipline is vital to a child's development. Just as children need food, clothes,shelter, love, support, they need to be taught to respect boundaries, She knows that parents are the children first teachers and they have a responsibility to train them to be people of character. It's not the father or mother's job. IT'S BOTH.
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While the current conversation about work-family balance and "having it all" tends to focus on women, both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Yet, both will benefit from re-evaluating what it means to have it all and fighting for changes in their relationships and society to make greater equality possible. Here, Miriam Liss and Holly Hollomon Schiffrin discuss the ways in which...
79) Chewy's Chest
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Step into the world of Chewy, a five year old boy growing up on a farm back in the fiftys. Follow Chewy as he goes through difficult times learning to deal with the loss of a loved one and the discovery of things hidden. Watch Chewy as he goes from a boy lost in tragedy to a boy that finds long lost family secrets from the past that help to bring him out of his shell and back into the world with his dad. As Chewy struggles with the loss of his mother...
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