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Product Description: As a young girl in the Midwest, Constance Hanstedt was consumed by fear―of her parents, especially her disapproving mother, Virginia; of social situations; and of people in general. Unable to connect with those around her, she embraced perfectionism as a substitute for love...read more

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9781631529528 | She Writes Pr, April 21, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: As a young girl in the Midwest, Constance Hanstedt was consumed by fear―of her parents, especially her disapproving mother, Virginia; of social situations; and of people in general.
9780385306720, titled "Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love" | Reprint edition (Delta, June 1, 1992), cover price $12.95 | also contains Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love | About this edition: Everyone experiences grief, but few books offer real helpwith the debilitating emotions of bereavement.

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Product Description: Alzheimer’s disease is a growing public health crisis. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, there are 5.4 million victims of this disease; by 2050, there will be close to 15 million people who suffer from this debilitating disorder of memory, thinking, personality, and functioning...read more

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9781611687736 | Dartmouth College, April 7, 2015, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Alzheimer’s disease is a growing public health crisis.

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9781611687446 | 1 edition (Dartmouth College, April 17, 2015), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Alzheimer’s disease is a growing public health crisis.

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9780399215322, titled "Good-Bye, My Wishing Star" | Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | also contains Good-Bye, My Wishing Star | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Jens, who adores the farm where she has lived all her life, is devastated when severe financial problems may force her family to sell out and move to the city.

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Product Description: Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction...read more

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9780062130822 | Harpercollins, September 2, 2014, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: A New York Times BestsellerEmmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.
9780391024731, titled "Statistics for Geographers and Social Scientists" | Humanities Pr, August 1, 1981, cover price $37.75 | also contains Statistics for Geographers and Social Scientists

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9780062130853 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 8, 2015), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.

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9781628994094, titled "Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimers" | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, January 1, 2015), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: When Meryl Comer's husband Harvey Gralnick was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 1996, she watched as the man who headed hematology and oncology research at the National Institutes of Health started to misplace important documents and forget clinical details that had once been cataloged encyclopedically in his mind.

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Product Description: Celebrate Kwanzaa with your own paper kinara pop-up card! The kinara, mkeka (the mat used in Kwanzaa celebrations), and ear of corn are important symbols of Kwanzaa. Follow storyteller Randel McGee as he explores Kwanzaa in CELEBRATE KWANZAA WITH PAPER CRAFTS...read more

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9780385493819, titled "The Testament" | Large print edition (Doubleday, March 1, 1999), cover price $32.95 | also contains The Testament | About this edition: A suicidal billionaire, a burnt-out Washington litigator, and a woman who has forsaken technology to work in the wilds of Brazil are all brought together by an astounding mystery of the testament

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9780766063716 | Enslow Elementary, January 1, 2015, cover price $10.53
9780385485340, titled "Alzheimer's: Answers to Hard Questions for Families" | Reprint edition (Main Street Books, November 1, 1997), cover price $15.00 | also contains Alzheimer''s: Answers to Hard Questions for Families | About this edition: Answers questions about the ethical, medical, emotional, and psychological implications of Alzheimer's disease

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9780766063709 | Enslow Elementary, January 1, 2015, cover price $25.27 | About this edition: Celebrate Kwanzaa with your own paper kinara pop-up card!

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Product Description: After a chance encounter with a handsome, idealistic stranger on a plane in 1969, Polly Young-Eisendrath rediscovered Ed Epstein a decade later when she least expected it. After untangling themselves from their existing relationships, they married in 1985 and spent the next 25 years together...read more

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9781609613600 | Rodale Pr, October 7, 2014, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: After a chance encounter with a handsome, idealistic stranger on a plane in 1969, Polly Young-Eisendrath rediscovered Ed Epstein a decade later when she least expected it.

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9781938314926 | Ingram Pub Services, September 16, 2014, cover price $16.95

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This comprehensive guide answers questions for the victims of Alzheimer's Disease and their families, covering obtaining an accurate diagnosis, what specific drugs have proven helpful, and legal and financial issues

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9780393022636, titled "The Loss of Self: A Family Resource for the Care of Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders" | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | also contains The Loss of Self: A Family Resource for the Care of Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders | About this edition: This comprehensive guide answers questions for the victims of Alzheimer's Disease and their families, covering obtaining an accurate diagnosis, what specific drugs have proven helpful, and legal and financial issues

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Product Description: From the earliest indicators and faint forebodings to the eventual grim diagnosis, Deborah Shouse carries readers along on the difficult—and at times joyous—road she and her parents walked through the Land of Dementia—Alzheimer's disease...read more

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9781937612498 | 1 edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, November 19, 2013), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: From the earliest indicators and faint forebodings to the eventual grim diagnosis, Deborah Shouse carries readers along on the difficult—and at times joyous—road she and her parents walked through the Land of Dementia—Alzheimer's disease.
9780977759040 | Creativity Connection, September 30, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Love in the Land of Dementia offers readers a sense of compassion, deepening love and increased connection with the person who has Alzheimer's, along with practical tools for living with dementia.

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9780826353665 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, August 15, 2013, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: John Portmann has written a thoughtful and moving meditation on contemporary sexual ethics, particularly respecting the sex of older people. While billed as a book about sex and Alzheimer's, it is far more than that; it is a far-ranging plea to consider the virtue of generosity in all of our sexual dealings and in our attitudes toward those of others...read more

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9780415641647 | Routledge, June 21, 2013, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: John Portmann has written a thoughtful and moving meditation on contemporary sexual ethics, particularly respecting the sex of older people.

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9780415641654 | Routledge, June 19, 2013, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: A growing epidemic, Alzheimer’s punishes not only its victims but also those married to them.

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Product Description: In spending time with his 86-year-old mother in the advanced stages of Alzheimer'sdisease, author Eliezer Sobel discovered something astounding. Although she could no longer speak full sentences or follow a story line, his mother could still read! He observed her sitting in rapt attention as she paged through magazines and coffee-table books, reading individual words and short phrases aloud...read more

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9781937907075, titled "Blue Sky, White Clouds: A Book for Memory-Challenged Adults" | 1 edition (Rainbow Ridge Pub, November 1, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In spending time with his 86-year-old mother in the advanced stages of Alzheimer'sdisease, author Eliezer Sobel discovered something astounding.

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Product Description: As Molly Brown spirals down into the deep darkness that is Alzheimer's disease, her daughter Pamela accompanies her, stumbling to learn the dos, the don'ts and the how tos of loving and caring for her ailing mother in Battling Alzheimer's...read more

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9781587769252, titled "Battling Alzheimer’s: A Daughter's Perspective on Caregiving" | Hudson House Pub, July 13, 2012, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: As Molly Brown spirals down into the deep darkness that is Alzheimer's disease, her daughter Pamela accompanies her, stumbling to learn the dos, the don'ts and the how tos of loving and caring for her ailing mother in Battling Alzheimer's.

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Describes the types of behavior and symptoms associated with the disease, offers practical advice to those caring for its victims, and discusses the option of nursing homes

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9781601468604 | 1 edition (Hcpro Inc, March 19, 2012), cover price $179.00
9780201632019, titled "Alzheimer''s Disease: A Guide for Families" | Revised edition (Perseus Books, January 1, 1993), cover price $18.00 | also contains Alzheimer''s Disease: A Guide for Families | About this edition: Describes the types of behavior and symptoms associated with the disease, offers practical advice to those caring for its victims, and discusses the option of nursing homes

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Product Description: A candid and gripping account of one man's effort to care for and support his wife of 39 years as she slowly and painfully degenerated from an active, vivacious wife and mother into an invalid who lost control of her body, her mind and ultimately her spirit and will to live...read more

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9781466391376 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 20, 2011, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A candid and gripping account of one man's effort to care for and support his wife of 39 years as she slowly and painfully degenerated from an active, vivacious wife and mother into an invalid who lost control of her body, her mind and ultimately her spirit and will to live.

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Product Description: Responding to families’ questions and fears with compassion. Typically the patient―and his or her course of treatment―are the natural focal points when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). But Alzheimer’s is an equally debilitating illness for family members and caregivers who must come to terms with its far-reaching emotional and physical burdens...read more

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9780393705775 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 31, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Responding to families’ questions and fears with compassion.

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Product Description: From the winner of the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction In his award-winning memoir In the Shadow of Memory, Floyd Skloot told the hard story of coming to terms with a brain-ravaging virus. A World of Light, written with the same insight, passion, and humor that distinguished the earlier volume, moves Skloot’s story from the reassembly of a self after neurological calamity to the reconstruction of a shattered life...read more

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9780803243187 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Continuing the story of his recovery from a viral attack that compromised his memory and cognitive powers, the author works to create a cohesive life for himself and his wife and faces the challenge of his mother's advancing dementia.

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9780803238473 | Bison Books, July 1, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From the winner of the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction In his award-winning memoir In the Shadow of Memory, Floyd Skloot told the hard story of coming to terms with a brain-ravaging virus.

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Product Description: A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer's and Love is a feature-length memoir by acclaimed Minnesota poet Nancy Paddock. The book tells the story of her parents' descent into the netherworld of Alzheimer's, and the challenges and choices for care that she and her sisters faced while confronting this most baffling and tragic of diseases, now afflicting millions of people and their families...read more

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9780979650949, titled "A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer’s and Love" | Blueroad Pr, July 1, 2011, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer's and Love is a feature-length memoir by acclaimed Minnesota poet Nancy Paddock.

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Product Description: This book is designed to be an easy read for all dealing with someone with Alzheimer's; from the caregiver in the personal home to professional caregivers working in the long term care setting. It includes an overview of dementias as well as ways to cope with behaviors...read more

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9781438967486 | Authorhouse, June 19, 2009, cover price $12.49 | About this edition: This book is designed to be an easy read for all dealing with someone with Alzheimer's; from the caregiver in the personal home to professional caregivers working in the long term care setting.

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Product Description: When Is Today? is a true story of our family's ''time travel'' through the world of Alzheimer's disease. When both of my parents were diagnosed with the disease, it was overwhelming. I began to keep a journal of our experiences.The hope in writing this book is to offer others the needed strength and some comfort as well in dealing with a loved one with this disease...read more

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9781434990426 | Rosedog Pr, November 20, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: When Is Today?

This is the story of how a daughter and her mother find the truth of the heart and its healing powers. It's a chronicle of the transformative potentials found in simple acts of caring, compassion and love. There's magic in these pages, teaching precious insights to make every day a little richer and more fulfilling. Though a book about death and dying, this is much more than that, giving strength and support for anyone struggling with and ultimately embracing life's greatest challenges.

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9780595689811 | Iuniverse Inc, March 2, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is the story of how a daughter and her mother find the truth of the heart and its healing powers.

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9780595443161 | Iuniverse Inc, March 30, 2008, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: An inspirational tale of one family's love, devotion and faith When I arrived, I approached the figure in the wheelchair. I asked him who I was but my father-in-law did not recognize me. When I tried to help him, he became angry and violent...read more

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9781596635623 | 1 edition (Seaboard Pr, November 30, 2007), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: An inspirational tale of one family's love, devotion and faith When I arrived, I approached the figure in the wheelchair.

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Product Description: Award Winning Finalist National Best Book Awards 2008, USA Book News Finalist Indie Excellence Book Awards Best in Health and Well Being Help Has Arrived Alzheimer's Care at Home Alzheimer's Care with Dignity, is the help you have been waiting for...read more

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9780929915623 | Headline Books, June 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Award Winning Finalist National Best Book Awards 2008, USA Book News Finalist Indie Excellence Book Awards Best in Health and Well Being Help Has Arrived Alzheimer's Care at Home Alzheimer's Care with Dignity, is the help you have been waiting for.

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