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In Worship of Hollow Gods, James Sniechowski bears witness to the world of a sensitive, nine-year-old boy, subjected to the underbelly of his Polish Catholic family in working class Detroit. The year is 1950. The family gathers for a Friday night family poker/pinochle party. The outcome reveals a world no one ever talked about then and are forbidden to talk about now---the unspoken, the impermissible, the reality beneath every family's practiced facade---and...
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Camping Activity Book for Families offers up a wide variety of activities, games, crafts, songs, and good old-fashioned fun for parents and children to share in the wonders of the outdoors. Whether it's creating pinecone art and giant nests or going on nature-themed scavenger hunts, observing the night sky, or playing flashlight tag at the campground, this book gets the whole family engaged in everything outdoors. Fully revised and updated, with age-specific...
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Insights on Caring for Any Aging Parent• Timely guidance for the challenges• Encouragement for the journeyYou had plans for this time in your life, but now a parent needs care. It's a confusing, stressful, and exhausting time. But it can also be a time of remarkable spiritual growth. Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You helps you navigate your role as caregiver with God's grace and guidance. And it alerts you to the difficult issues...
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Cualquier crisis individual o colectiva es una oportunidad para mejorar. Lograrlo depende de conocimientos, actitudes y valores que constituyen esa capacidad humana que permite salir fortalecido después de momentos difíciles. Y la pandemia que estamos viviendo es una de
esas crisis que demanda el uso de dicha capacidad. Lamentablemente pocas personas han comprendido que estamos frente a la posibilidad
de crear escenarios que nos permitan ser más...
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The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Leonid Gayev, the bizarre and uninspired brother of Madame Ranevskaya. It has since become one of twentieth century theater's most important-and most frequently staged-dramatic works.
After five years of living in...
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Older adults require living arrangements tailored to their personal needs and wishes, which often change over time. This poses ongoing challenges to you as a caregiver. To help you face these head-on, this book provides information about services and facilities that may prove beneficial to your aging loved one. We explore independence, comfort, and safety issues to help you make an informed decision that balances your loved one's best interest with...
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Complacent, self-made millionaire Scott Northwood wakes up one morning to discover he's been given the ability to extend the lives of people who are about to die just when they are on the verge of achieving something important.
But there's a catch-he must shorten his own lifespan by an equivalent amount of time.
Scott plunges into a moral and emotional maelstrom as his desire to live out his own comfortable life collides with a growing sense...
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Sister Mary Threadgold is founder of Sonas, an organization promoting a positive attitude to aging. Her book highlights the five areas of life that correspond to human need, namely the physical, social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. She looks at issues that arise in later life in each of these areas and at possible ways of coping with these difficulties. Each section ends with a way of relating these issues to Christian thinking.
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A quick-to-use resource for first-time parents on why newborns don't take baths, why one should burp their baby, why a newborn has constant gas, and much more!
Most new parents approach their upcoming adventure with mixed feelings of excitement and trepidation. There are so many questions that seem to be unanswered about their newborns and toddlers.
Wouldn't it be great to have a book that helps answer those questions-especially the medically-based...
71) Hollin Clough
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Jen admires her father and Frank believes that his daughters are happy, but no one in any family knows the whole story.
This family has fractured before, and been patched up by secrets and evasions.
Now things are about to change.
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Hola, esta es una nueva historia de Sir David El Trovador, esta vez quise hacer un libro que para mí es muy difícil de escribir. Mi madre está muriendo en un hogar de ancianos en California. Consideren que es un infierno conducir desde Ciudad Canguro (Salt Lake City) ya que aquí en Australia estamos en una isla y tendría que conducir mi auto realmente rápido sobre el agua para poder llegar hasta California. Lo he estado pensando mucho y francamente...
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The bond between grandparents and grandchildren is very unique and truly special, and it is never more evident than on the pages of this wonderfully endearing picture book. Author Debbie Daniele drew on her own experience as a wife, mother, and now grandmother to pen As I Grow Up and You Grow Down, skillfully capturing the wonder and beauty of the multi-generational relationship and its role in the development of a child's character. This uncomplicated...
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Senior Transitions 101 is more than just a comprehensive handbook for navigating senior care options. It's also a source of support and understanding for the caregiver.
With clarity, compassion, and practicality, Dr. Amy Arp gently guides you through every challenge you might encounter as your parent or loved one grows older.
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• Manage caregiver stress before it leads to burnout
• Organize your loved one's affairs without...
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A veces, el momento de lajubilación y el envejecimiento de nuestros padres provoca que estos se abandonen, se encierren en sí mismos o se muestren agresivos. ¿Cómo acompañarlos con calma en esta etapa, cuando se reconsidera el papel de cada uno en la familia? ¿Cómo encontrar el equilibrio adecuado, sin sacrificios inútiles ni culpabilidad excesiva? Este libro nos aporta las claves para comprender tanto sus reacciones como las nuestras, y actuar...
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Megan Riley is a young girl growing up in a big family and a big world. Her story takes you on a journey with twists and turns you may not expect, and it opens the doors of her soul. She reveals who she really is, what she sees and experiences, when it all started, where she has been on her journey, how she overcame her nightmares and obstacles, and why she is sharing her story with the world. Using a form of poetry known as spoken word, this story...
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Birthed out of real-life experience, Living with Purpose in a Worn-out Body is a big dose of authentic spiritual encouragement for frail elderly who struggle to find purpose at the end of their lives. These devotionals addressed to God raise in prayer the many concerns of the frail elderly and provide opportunities to reminisce and reflect on their blessings.
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Never give up on a wish for a happy ever after...
Callie Derbyshire has it all: her dream job as a carer at Bay View, finally she has found the love of her life. Everything is perfect.
Well, almost.
Ex-partners are insistent on stirring up trouble, and Callie's favorite resident, Ruby, hasn't been her usual self.
But after discovering the truth about Ruby's lost love, Callie is determined to give Ruby's romantic story the happy ending it deserves....
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Linda Seidel's lightly fictionalized memoir lets readers feel what it's like for a naturally skeptical, yet persistently naïve, older woman to watch her parents age out of life, to think about the epiphanies they enable her to have, and to reflect on the lives of "elders" she didn't appreciate until she'd worn through some years herself. The elders, whose stories Seidel reconstructs were quintessentially American-meaning complex, subtle and challenging-whether...
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Getting older goes hand in hand with losses of many kinds-ending careers, empty nests, illness, the deaths of loved ones-and this book by one of the world's most beloved grief experts helps one acknowledge and mourn the many losses of aging while also offering advice for living better in old age. The 100 practical tips and activities address the emotional, spiritual, cognitive, social, and physical needs of seniors who want to age authentically and...
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