Claire thought she was done with hospice nursing and was fully enjoying retirement. When her friend Marcy and Marcy's daughter, Whisper, lure her into a live-in hospice nursing job for a celebrity in the Florida Keys, Claire was hesitant. Her patient had an ego, was demanding, and had deep secrets. She could only pray that God would get her through this assignment alive.
Maren and Paul McCloud's combined, multi-generational family faces many challenges during the post 9-11 era, including raising two adopted children, the sudden, mysterious loss of Paul's job, his work as a doctor in Afghanistan, and their move from Colorado to the village of Dexum, Illinois. When Maren's grown son Matt moves home he involves the family in his own challenging relationships and in the mysterious events around Dexum. A shooting in the neighborhood may have been intended for Matt. Maren must salvage her marriage, protect her family, and preserve her own identity. The family learns to use five keys to open the doors to a happy life.
Eighty-four years old and terminally ill with cancer, psychiatrist Pat Ferguson wants nothing more than for her life, which no longer brings her joy, to be over. But when her ailing body refuses to let go, she asks her son Sean to do the unthinkable: to help her to die. Before We Say Goodbye is Sean Davison's personal account of the months he spent with his mother before her death. Written as a diary, it candidly recounts Davison's emotional struggle during that time, the tension between members of their family and his ultimate decision to grant his mother's last request and end her suffering. This touching, honest and thought-provoking memoir will resonate not only with countless families who have found themselves in a similar position, but with all of us who may one day have to face that choice: a choice that, for Sean Davison, would come to have life-changing consequences.
Readers are walked through strategies by a therapist and her former patient. 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder was lauded as a "brave and hopeful book" as well as "remarkably readable." Now, the authors have returned with a companion workbook—offering all new assignments, strategies, and personal reflections to help those who suffer from an eating disorder heal their relationship to food and their bodies. Clients of Costin and Grabb consistently tell them that knowing they are both recovered is one of the most helpful aspects of their treatment. With this experience as a foundation, the authors bring together years of clinical expertise and invaluable personal testimony, from themselves and others, to the strategies in this book. Readers will get a glimpse of what it's like to be in therapy with either Carolyn or Gwen. Filled with tried and true practical exercises, goal sheets, food journal forms, clinical anecdotes and stories, readers are guided in exploring their thoughts, feelings, and coping strategies while being encouraged to choose how they want to approach the material. This book is an important resource to anyone living with destructive or self-defeating eating behaviors.
No matter what size, every home has the potential to become a clutter nightmare. Each room has its own stuff and if not properly managed that stuff will build up over time, creating chaos. Instead of a peaceful haven, the home becomes a battlefield in the war of attrition between clutter and space. Susan Wright uses short easy chapters to provide pain-free techniques for sorting and shifting through items, reclaiming and maximising storage space and parting with objects one no longer needs or wants.
What would you do to learn about the way things really are? Would you be willing to kiss your old habits goodbye? All of them? What if you were bored? What if you suspected that all the adults you knew were lying to you, that there was nothing good on TV and you just really wanted to go outside and look at some flowers? What if you suspected that the flowers themselves were lying to you but only because you were lying to yourself? Meet Stephen, who meets Mr. Edviso. Stephen is fourteen, not real happy, and full of questions. Mr. Edviso is pretty even-keeled emotionally and full of answersbut answers that lead to more questions, answers that lead to what some call magic. If you are willing to swallow your anger, if you are willing to admit to yourself that your first reaction might be wrong, if you are willing to keep a cool head at least for the next five minutesthat is to carry the key.
“Dulong’s characters will win your heart” in the book that bids farewell to the colorful Florida community where second chances and friendships blossom (The Pilot). Josie Sullivan adores her Cedar Key home. It’s been the ideal place to raise her daughter, Orli, who’s just turning sixteen. Now that Josie has realized her dream of becoming a registered nurse, she’s been offered the perfect job too—helping the local doctor run his new practice. Until the clinic opens, Josie is filling in at Yarning Together, where she launches a series of knitting classes for men. Yet for all the vibrant changes, there are some tangled threads. Josie’s romance-author mother, Shelby, receives a worrying diagnosis. And though Josie has always guarded her independence, her connection to Orli’s father seems to be rekindling. Most of all, as Shelby’s college classmates rally around their dear friend, Josie begins to see that “home” is more than a place; it’s the relationships woven into each life, strand by strand . . . Praise for the Cedar Key series “You’ll fall instantly in love with Cedar Key and this homespun knitting community, crafted with expert hands.” —Lori Wilde, New York Times–bestselling author “DuLong brings us a heartwarming story with genuine characters. . . . Tender and poignant, perfect for those who love knitting as well as the bonds between women.” —RT Book Reviews “Poignant, absorbing, humorous . . . A debut that tugs at the heart.” —Sophia Nash, award-winning author of Whispering in French
An existential saga of working-class life in a British factory town and military service in the torrid jungles of the Far East from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe Key to the Door turns away from the boisterous pursuits of Arthur Seaton made infamous in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and focuses instead on the quieter rebellions of his older brother, Brian. Brian’s childhood and adolescence in the grimy streets of Nottingham are shaped by the Depression-era struggles of his family, the life and culture of the factory town, and the love and bullying of his iron-willed grandfather and erratic father. When Brian reaches adulthood, he frequents the local pubs, works hard at a cardboard factory, and runs into a sticky situation with a woman named Pauline that obliges him to marry her. Soon though, he is conscripted for the postwar occupation of Malaya, and his true colors begin to show. Brian declares that he only wears his uniform to collect his paycheck; he shows contempt for the soldiers who obey the rules; he pursues a relationship with an exotic Chinese dancer; and he sends poetry into the jungle in Morse code. At once a vivid family portrait and a study of “the desolate, companionless void of protest” prevalent in postwar England, Key to the Door establishes the Seaton Novels as a broad and sweeping saga of twentieth-century British life, set against the backdrop of Nottingham. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Sillitoe including rare images from the author’s estate.
