Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c2016
Edition
First Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 319 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn in small bites about dealing with the day-to-day challenges of Alzheimer's disease, the family tensions, and ways of coping, as well as gain tips on diet and exercise.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three grown siblings confront their father's role in their mother's disappearance in this arresting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob. Jane Larkin disappeared without a trace in November 1976. When ten-year-old Miranda arrives home from school that autumn afternoon, finding her mother's pocketbook in its usual spot in the front hall, she assumes her mother will be back any minute. But as the hours tick by, alone...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
144 pages : 21 cm
Language
English
Description
What if you stopped feeling ashamed of constantly being late or of getting so hyperfocused on a task that you drop everything else you had to do? How can you as a partner, parent, or friend better understand your neurodivergent loved one's way of moving through the world? In Dirty Laundry, life partners Rich Pink and Rox Emery unapologetically guide you through the ups and downs of life with ADHD. Every chapter starts with a common symptom of ADHD,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 p.
Language
English
Description
"A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love. "The disease he has is addiction," Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend, K. "The disease I have is loving him." Their love affair is dramatic, urgent, overwhelming-an intoxicating antidote to the long, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who long been unable to communicate until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, who'd been trapped inside for more than two decades.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow descent down that mountain, on a trail built from conflict, compromise, and nagging doubts. Considering the limited economic advantages to marriage, the deluge of other mate options a swipe away, and the fact that almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce anyway, why do so many of us still chain ourselves to one human being for life?
In Foreverland,...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Cecil Lawton to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during World War I, a mission that brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 244 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Like most fathers, I'd dreamt of doing all sorts of things with my son. I had so many plans, but when I was told my son was autistic, those plans seemed more like a fantasy. Well, eight years after that dreadful diagnosis, I am writing this book to let every father know that your plans for you and your son can still be a reality. It's just the path that takes you there that has to be altered."Autism affects four times as many boys as it does girls....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing...
Author
Series
Mighty Jack volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does talk to tell Jack to trade their mom's car for a box of mysterious seeds.
Author
Series
Cavendon Hall volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating epic saga of courage and honor, following the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries. It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Cecily Ingham have lead the family in bringing the Cavendon estate back from the brink of disaster. But now, with the arrival of World War II, Cavendon Hall will face its biggest challenge yet. It is a challenge that...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An international bestseller, the story behind Henry Markram's breakthrough theory about autism, and how a family's unconditional love led to a scientific paradigm shift. Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming's mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she turned up again in a nearby village several days later, she was found in perfect health and happiness. No one was ever accused of a crime. The incident quickly faded from her memory, and her parents never...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author's obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her singular, focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief after the death of her brother.