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A World Elsewhere is an extraordinary evocation of Indian social life in the 1960s and 1970s. Set in the state of Orissa, the novel depicts the life of the Guru family, especially their daughter, Asha. Intelligent, curious and sensitive, Ashas happy childhood turns into a lonely and troubled adolescence as her future is mapped out by the social conventions of the day: she will be an educated wife, mother, and housekeeper, married to a man of her familys...
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Contemporary marriages are facing relationship challenges caused by the shift in recent decades from the traditional pattern of marriages and family relationships to the current form of companionship or partnership relationships. This new system requires special strategies for families to survive. Most people are unaware of the need for education in order to enjoy marital success. Consequently, about fifty percent of marriages in North America fail....
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In 1985, when a small freckle on Fanny Gutirrezs cheek grew to the size of a quarter and turned dark brown, the young mother sought medical advice. She soon learned she had malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. In Until the End, her husband, author Jess L. Gutirrez, shares her battle with cancer and how the diagnosis and treatment affected Fanny, Jess, and their two young sons. It narrates the familys very real and vivid personal...
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Ruth Steinberg's Frame of Reference is the Holocaust. But the Holocaust is a minor character in these gripping and evocative poems. The major players are the poet and her parents as they learn to live in the aftermath of their dislocation, trauma and loss. With an honesty that adds intensity to the poems, she uses her poetic power to explore the implications and consequences of her history. I was deeply moved by these poems and admiring of the line...
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Are you at the end of your rope coping with a very colicky baby who screams for hours on end? Has it been so long since you had a good night's sleep that you would give your right arm to just lay in silence for an hour or even just for ten minutes? Surviving Baby Colic: How to Stop Your Baby's Crying is the practical guide you've been waiting for! Authors LeahMarie C. Ritz and Judy Ritz share their insights and advice on how to survive this challenging...
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This book tells you a great deal about how to evaluate and select housing accommodations for the aging seniors in your life or loved ones in deteriorating health and reveals information that administrators at assisted living facilities, home health agencies and CCRCs, for example, may not tell you unless you ask. It explores many housing options that boomers and seniors need to consider when making housing decisions at a critical time in their lives....
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When Love Takes Over: A Celebration of SGL Couples of Color exclusively profile eighteen African- American gay couples who are in committed long term relationships. The couples detail how they met, their journey towards self-acceptance, liberation and ultimately how they fell in love and maintain their relationships. All the while defying the myth that two black men are incapable of loving each other for a lifetime.
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"In the Arms of a Stranger" is Dale J Bingham's touching and moving account of his career as a paramedic. From his early years as a medic in Southern California, to his work as a Tulsa, Oklahoma paramedic, he gives an inside look at the rewards, the trials, and the heartaches that emergency workers face everyday. In between, he writes of his own struggles with a difficult career and of tragically losing his own mother to the very part of life, he...
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"Mothers raise their daughters and love their sons," is an old adage that has been around in the African-American community for years. With the release of movies like Boyz In The Hood and Menace to Society, this adage has grown in popularity in the African-American community and has often been used to explain the ills facing many young African-American men. For any African-American mother who has heard this adage and believed it true, comes a compelling...
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Packed with 101 separate, unique, and inspiring tips to help the would-be romantic fly like cupid's arrow, leap tall wedding cakes in a single bound, and stop his bride-to-be's wedding dress train from derailing, Supergroom! is every man's one-stop love shop for all things borrowed and blue. No amorous detail of the wedding process is left unexplored, from the week before the ceremony to the week after the honeymoon. From following up the proposal...
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Miss the old days when the best place in the world was your grandfather's house? Well, rekindle that family spirit through the stories in this book and relive some of those fond memories! Watch as a boy and his grandfather, his "Gumpa", pronounced "GOOM-pah", grow together in the small upstate New York town of Endwell. Laugh as their light hearted enchanting adventures enjoy a fun and carefree Gumpa flair, taking them from barbers to nursing homes...
12) The Key Wish
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Jasons sisters get all the attentionand cause him all sorts of trouble. His older sister, Tayleigh, once made a wish that got her suspended from the dance team, and then Jason had to move to a new middle school. His twin, Polly, also made a wish which almost ruined the family vacation when she started hearing and seeing Thomas Jeffersons ghost everywhere. Jason cant wait to get away for a bit, and lucky for him, he gets to go on a band trip to the...
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They Made Me An Addict shows the journey of Moses, a young African American male who grows up fascinated by the street lifestyle and dismayed by its tragic results.. He decides to write a book about the streets from the inside out. The only way he knows how to do it is to hang with the thugs and do what they do and say what they say. He changes his church upbringing lifestyle to that of a hardcore juvenile delinquent. He says when he begins his quest,...
14) The Perfect Fit
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Do opposites really attract? Why doesnt my partner understand me? What can I do to make this relationship work? The Perfect Fit, by Dr. Sandra K. Woods, explores and answers these questions and more. Woods proposes the existence of two basic temperament types that are opposite and complementary in nature: one of Being, and one of Doing. She discusses the underlying dynamics, the traits common to each temperament type, and the attractive forces that...
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Currently, kids are being hyper-sexualized by the exploding provocativeness in the media. Parents can develop the skills to recognize these subtle influences and the knowledge to counteract and do something about it. In The Sexualization of America's Kids, Mr. Wright draws on his 22 years as a therapist, working with over 1,000 kids and their families, to demonstrate how this provocativeness affects our kids. He uses their stories to discuss how kids...
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Charm is the ultimate social lubricant. It puts people at ease and soothes tensions in any situation. Charm can stop feuds, create friendships, and even spread joy. It's what makes people laugh and want to be around you. With enough charm, you'll move forward in academia, achieve business success, and enjoy happier, more satisfying relations with loved ones.
The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm breaks down the individual components of the sometimes...
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All parents want to see their children happy. We try to give them what they ask for, but these material objects don't provide lasting happiness. Building a healthy self-concept in children is the key to bringing about circumstances that will make them happy. In What Your Mother Never Told You, author Anastasia Agouros offers tools for empowering children to attract happiness from the inside and then guides them to actualize their desires using the...
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This volume is for people over 40, who are planning to marry. It shows ways to make the marriage successful and warns of serious pitfalls. The real-life situations give authenticity to the concepts.Dr. Starr writes from the experience of working with hundreds of single and single-again people, many of whom are struggling with remarriage. This book is for you.Dr. Dennis Franck, Director, Single Adult Ministries, Assembly of GodWhat a timely book that...
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Right or wrong, a series of fragile relationships collides through chance, coincidence, or fate. Twelve years ago, Kirk made an innocent but terrible mistake. As he faces down another night of tormented dreams, he struggles to shake the scars he still bears. After sixty years as man and wife, Ira and Betsy's love is as vibrant as it was the day their eyes made contact across a dusty country parking lot. Now, disease and willful destruction tear away...
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Amazing Relationship - All Out of Love is a book I wrote out of Gods inspiration after I have seen many family problems of mother and daughter in law relationship. My fear was on 1 Timothy 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, especially for his immediate family he has denied the faith, and is worse than a heathen. The ways we provide and appreciate love differ from person to person. To me it was that I give my personal support to my in...
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