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You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World

Robert J. Brown · Convergent Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable account of a quietly remarkable life, Robert Brown's memoir takes readers behind the scenes of pivotal moments from the 20th century, where the lessons he learned at his grandmother's knee helped him shape America as we know it today. Called "a world-class...
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Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials

Lucinda Herring · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

For all those seeking to reclaim their innate and legal right to care for their own dead, create home funeral vigils, and choose greener after-death care options that are less toxic and more sustainable for the earthMore natural after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing...
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Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture

Lee Airton · Adams Media
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An authentic and accessible guide to understanding - and engaging in - today's gender conversation.The days of two genders - male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink - are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people...
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Demystifying Hospice: Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers

Karen J Clayton · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Hospice care is available to patients and families dealing with terminal illness. , People often do not avail themselves of hospice care because they don't understand what it entails. Many wait until their last few days to request this extraordinary comfort care instead of using the full...
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Adopting Hope

Lorri Antosz Benson · Familius
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

All My Children actress Jill Larson moved mountains as a single mother to adopt her daughter from China. George Fadok, a former Navy commander, grappled with "changing the rules" eighteen years after placing his daughter in a closed adoption. Angela Paxton, wife of the Texas attorney...
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One Heart at a Time

Delilah · RosettaBooks
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

"You're listening to Delilah." Delilah, the most listened-to woman on American radio, has distinguished herself as the "Queen of Sappy Love Songs" and America's ultimate romance guru. But Delilah's life off-air is all the more extraordinary - a life full...
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Finding Theo: A Father's True Story of Loss, Courage, and Discovery

Timothy Krause · Clovercroft Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Theo Krause gains speed as he drops into a ravine on a remote Colorado mountain biking trail. Rounding a bend, his bike hits an awkward bump, hidden by the shadows, that catapults him head first into an aspen tree, splintering his neck. Staring at the sky, paralyzed, he thinks, "This...
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The Warner Boys: Our Family's Story of Autism and Hope

Curt Warner · Little A
Format: Hardcover

An emotional, revealing memoir of one family's life in seclusion - and the love, strength, and faith it took to save it.Seahawks star running back Curt Warner and his wife, Ana, were prominent figures in Seattle in the early 1990s. When they dropped from the public eye after Curt's...
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Parenting Mindfully: 101 Ways to Help Raise Caring and Responsible Kids in an Unpredictable World

Catherine DePino · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover

More than ever, life in our world, nation, and communities appears insecure and unpredictable. Every day, new and disturbing incidents appear on the news that feed this sense of unrest. In our communities, people don't attempt to understand one another's points of view, causing...
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On the Other Side of Chaos: Understanding the Addiction of a Loved One

Ellen Van Vechten JD · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

A lawyer turned counselor examines the chaos many families endure when addiction disrupts their lives. Based in part on her own family's journey, Van Vechten explains the science of addiction, the theory of treatment, and the Twelve-Step model of recovery, providing sensible information...
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