A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon,...
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- Author:Alvarez, JuliaSummary:
- Author:Zucker, BonnieSummary:
Parenting Kids With OCD provides parents with a comprehensive understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder, its symptoms, types, and presentation in children and teens. The treatment of OCD is explained, and guidelines on how to both...
- Author:Monroe, DebraSummary:
In this memoir, the soon-to-be divorced Debra buys a dilapidated Texas cabin miles from her teaching job. While waiting to adopt a child, she refurbishes and expands the rude dwelling. She soon finds herself in the strange new world of...
- Author:Glowacki, JamieSummary:
Let Jamie Glowacki show you how potty training is done. Her 6-step, proven process to get your toddler out of diapers and onto the toilet has already worked for tens of thousands of kids and their parents.Here's the good news: your...
- Author:Nixon, LindsaySummary:
"How do you honour blood and chosen kin with equal care? A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, Lindsay Nixon's NÎTISÂNAK is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also...
- Author:Kirkpatrick, DavidSummary:
When Dr. David Kirkpatrick's wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007, their lives--and marriage--changed forever. In this clear and honest guide for those loving a partner with dementia, Dr. Kirkpatrick shares his double...
- Author:Ricci, IsolinaSummary:
The groundbreaking classic, Mom's House, Dad's House, has become the standard for two generations of divorcing parents, and includes examples, self-tests, checklists, tools, and guidelines to help separated moms and dads with...
- Author:Rule, JaneSummary:
When the novel opens, Diana’s twin brother, David, a widower in his mid-sixties, is looking back on his life. As memories swamp him, he decides to take a critical step: to beg for his sister’s forgiveness.
Diana has never met... - Author:IBSEN, HenrikSummary:
Henrik Ibsen's 1894 play Little Eyolf tells the story of the Allmers family: the father, Alfred, his wife Rita, their crippled nine-year-old son Eyolf, and Alfred's sister Asta. As the play begins, Alfred has just gotten back...
- Author:Benham French, KelleySummary:
When Juniper French was born four months early, at twenty-three weeks gestation, Kelley and Thomas French chose to fight for Juniper's life. In one exquisite memoir, they trace the journey of their family from its fragile beginning to...
- Author:Gaskin, Ina May.Summary:
Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding and gives you invaluable practical advice that will help you nurse...
- Author:Weiner, JonathanSummary:
Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable....
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
From best-selling author Lesley Crewe comes a poignant and moving novel. Sisters Bay and Tansy are complete opposites. Widowed mother Bay has never lived anywhere but Louisbourg; restless Tansy left the town as a a teenager and stayed...
- Author:Wolf, Anthony E.Summary:
This is the book that made Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D. a best-selling author. Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall' focuses on the legendary task all parents must face: raising teenagers. In this...
- Author:Shapiro, Linda ApplemanSummary:
Psychotherapist Linda Appleman Shapiro tells her story as an immigrant daughter who grew up on the top floor of a small home in 1940s Brooklyn and struggled to understand her mentally ill mother.
- Author:Longaker, ChristineSummary:
Christine Longaker's experience with death and care of the dying began in 1976 when her husband was diagnosed with acute leukemia at the age of twenty-four. Since his death, she has devoted her life to ease the suffering of those facing...
- Author:Johnson, ShawneSummary:
Founded by a group of run-away slaves, its been up to their ancestors to keep the town prospering. However, many have forgotten the sacrifices their ancestors made to build the beautiful town that they live in.
- Author:Acheson, AlisonSummary:
A profoundly honest and intensely personal story of a woman who cares for her husband after the devastating terminal diagnosis of ALS. Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the...
- Author:Richards, DoyinSummary:
Doyin Richards' adventures in fatherhood have been documented on his blog, Daddy Doin' Work. With this book, he answers questions about fatherhood that many women want to know in his no-nonsense, entertaining style. He urges...
- Author:Fersko-Weiss, HenrySummary:
Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the...