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In Magnolia, Georgia, local legend says that a couple who holds hands around the forever tree will have an unending love. Even so, Bill Wellington held Lindsay Jones's hands around that tree years ago&and then left her behind. He chose the big city, and now he wants to bring his grandmother there. But to his amazement, he finds that Granny has a boyfriendand a vibrant life. A life that includes Lindsay, Granny's caregiver. Bill never thought he'd want to come home, yet Magnolia clearly has its charms. As does Lindsay, who makes him long for a second chance at forever love.

Deeply moving and masterfully imagined, Siddons presents readers with a novel that gets to the heart of the confusing power of love and family in Fault Lines. Merritt Fowler is a natural caregiver, but after years of giving, she no longer knows who she is or what is important to her. Setting out on a wild adventure to the Santa Cruz mountains, Merritt searches for the bedrock of strength and courage that can save her.Merritt Fowler is a natural caretaker -- of her physician husband, Pom; her lovely, fragile daughter, Glynn; her erratic younger sister, Laura; even her destructive mother-in-law. Exhausted and confused, Merritt no longer knows who she is or what is important to her. She only knows that she is searching for something.pWhen a family argument sends Glynn running from her Atlanta home to her Aunt Laura in Hollywood, Merritt feels compelled to follow. On impulse, the three women take off in Laura's red Mustang convertible, barreling up the wild coast from the Palm Springs desert to the Santa Cruz mountains outside San Francisco -- earthquake country. There, in the protective shade of the great redwoods, Merritt, Glynn and Laura struggle to see if the widening fissures between mother, daughter and sister can be healed as they search for the bedrock of strength and courage that can save them.pDeeply moving and masterfully imagined, a novel that gets to the heart of the confusing power of love and family, Fault Lines is Anne Rivers Siddons at the height of her remarkable storytelling powers.pA literary meteor shower....One great read. It moves guickly, brings you to laughter and tears, builds suspense and tells a hell of a great story beautifully.br-- Detriot News/Free PressA literary meteor shower....One great read. It moves guickly, brings you to laughter and tears, builds suspense and tells a hell of a great story beautifully. -- Detriot News/Free Press

Balancing Act draws upon multiple census and survey sources to detail the shifting conditions under which women balance their roles as mothers, wives, and breadwinners. The authors show how women have made great strides in education, where female college enrollment now exceeds that of males, and in the workplace, where women now enter a wider variety of occupations and stay on the job longer than previous generations, even after becoming wives and mothers. Despite these gains, however, many American women are struggling to make ends meet. Lower-paying service positions remain predominantly female and, although the salary gap between men and women has shrunk, women are still paid less for similar work. Also, as women continue to establish a greater presence outside the home, many have delayed marriage and motherhood. Marked jumps in divorce and out-of-wedlock childbirth have given rise to increasing numbers of female-headed households. Balancing Act focuses on how American women juggle the simultaneous demands of caregiving and wage earning and compares the patterns of their lives with those of women in other countries. The United States is the only industrialized nation without policies to support working mothers; most telling is the absence of subsidized child-care services. As a consequence, the risk of poverty is the single greatest danger facing American mothers, with African American women the most adversely affected.

With her analysis of the thirty-year campaign to reform and ultimately to end welfare, Gwendolyn Mink levels a seating indictment of anti-welfare politicians' assault on poor mothers. She charges that the basic elements of the new welfare policy subordinate poor single mothers in a separate system of law. Mink points to the racial, class, and gender biases of both liberals and conservatives to explain the odd but sturdy consensus behind welfare reforms that force the poor single mother to relinquish basic rights and compel her to find economic security in work outside the home.PMink explores how and why we should cure the unique inequality of poor single mothers by reorienting the emphasis of welfare policy away from regulating mothers to rewarding the work they do. Every mother is a working mother, the bumper sticker proclaims, but the work mothers do pays no wages. Mink argues that women's equality depends on economic support for caregivers' work.PWelfare's End challenges the ways in which policymakers define the problem they seek to cure. While legislators assume that something is wrong with poor single mothers, Mink insists that something is wrong with a system that invades their tights and negates their work. Showing how welfare reform harms women, Mink invites the design of policies to promote gender justice.

divThe most comprehensive women's health guide ever-- fromiPrevention/imagazinebriPrevention's Ultimate Guide to Women's Health and Wellness/ioffers a gold mine of trustworthy, practical advice, recommendations, and remedies from leading physicians, nutritionists, fitness instructors, psychologists, and other health care experts.brbrIn this all-in-one reference book and symptom finder, you'll discover the ultimate remedies for more than 100 health problems-- colds, back pain, fatigue, allergies, headaches, depression, and dozens more. Best of all, the advice is tailored to women's unique biological needs.brbrWithiPrevention's Ultimate Guide to Women's Health and Wellness/ion hand, you'll learn about all your options-- medical treatments, natural alternatives, mind-body techniques, and home remedies. And the advice is targeted to a woman's age and reproductive status, decade by decade.brbrStart with simple, doctor-approved, step-by-step plans for getting more exercise and re-energizing your life, reaching and maintaining your ideal weight, achieving emotional balance, enjoying a healthy sex life, and reversing premature signs of aging. You'll also find:brbr* A complete guide to women's vitamin, mineral, and nutrition needsbr* An at-a-glance guide to using popular herbal remedies wiselybr* Real-life stress-relief plans for caregivers and career women alikebr* The best strategies for PMS, menstrual discomforts, contraception, pregnancy, infertility, perimenopause, and other female concernsbr* Solutions for perplexing reproductive-system problems like fibroids, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and polycystic ovary syndromebr* Master plans for controlling major health conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's diseasebr* Self-care checklists to prevent illness or detect problems at their earliest, most treatable stagesbrbrIn this blend of advic

blockquote p In this eloquent collection of essaysfrom the editor of the national bestseller iUnholy Ghost: Writers on Depression/icontributors reveal their experiences in caring for family through illness and death /p /blockquote p Today, thirty million people look after frail family members in their own homes. This number will increase drastically over the next decadeas baby boomers tiptoe toward old age; as soldiers return home from war wounded, mentally and physically; as a growing number of Americans find themselves caught between the needs of elderly parents and young children; as medical advances extend lives and health insurance fails to cover them. This compelling book offers both literary solace and guidance to the people who find themselves witness toand participants inthe fading lives of their intimates. /p p Some of the country's most accomplished writers offer frank insights and revelations about this complex relationship. Julia Glass describes the tension between giving careto her two young sonsand needing care after being diagnosed with breast cancer; Ann Harleman explores her decision to place her husband in an institution; Sam Lipsyte alternates between dark humor and profound understanding in telling the story of his mother's battle with cancer; Ann Hood wishes she'd had imore/i time as a caregiver, to prepare herself for the loss of her daughter; Andrew Solomon examines the humbling experience of returning as an adult to be cared for by his father; cartoonist Stan Mack offers an illustrated piece about the humor and hell of making his way through the medical bureaucracy alongside his partner, Janet; Julia Alvarez writes about the competition between her and her three sisters to be the best daughter as they tend to their ailing parents. iAn Uncertain Inheritance/i examines the caregiving relationship from every anglechildren caring for parents; parents caring for children; sib-lings, spouses, and close friends, al

Most cancer patients fear unremitting pain more than the prospect of an untimely death, and are surprised to learn that most of the pain and related symptoms of cancer can be successfully addressed by an informed patient working with a determined health care team. This book helps you be that informed patient.brThoroughly revising their widely praised 1994 book, You Don't Have to Suffer, Dr. Richard B. Patt and Susan Lang offer a much-needed handbook for patients and caregivers on all aspects of cancer pain. The authors identify the reasons why patients are so often under-medicated--from patients who feel the need to tough it out to doctors buried in time-consuming paperwork--and argue that properly medicated patients are better able to resume active lives and marshal strength to fight their disease, while those in chronic pain not only suffer, but also jeopardize their recovery. They demonstrate methods that can be used to cope with the practical aspects of dealing with cancer suffering (like talking to your doctor and loved ones), and describe all of the pain-relieving options available in the modern medical arsenal--from drugs and high-tech medical procedures to psychological and cognitive techniques. The authors also discuss depression and other psychological components that can contribute to suffering, and explain how psychological, cognitive, and mind/body techniques can help relieve the suffering associated with cancer. The book includes detailed charts of all the pain medications presently available and it lists many available resources, from pain specialists to hospice and home care.brThis volume will empower cancer patients to make informed decisions about their care and will be of enormous value to the growing number of patients, family members, and health-care professionals determined to relieve needless suffering.brA well-written and comprehensive handbook for cancer patients and their caregivers. This will be an invaluable resource for people car

Sue Shellenbarger's "Work & Family" columns have been appearing regularly in The Wall Street Journal since 1991. The former chief of the Journal's Chicago news bureau, Shellenbarger has been writing and editing for the Journal for seventeen years. She has also served as a contributing editor and columnist for Parenting magazine and as a financial markets columnist for the Associated Press.Few issues are more universal than tension between work and family. From the hard-pressed manager with no time for children, spouse or aged parents, to the single assembly-line worker with no child care for a night-shift job, tens of millions of Americans endure work-family conflict daily.brbrWorries about family needs are flooding the workplace because no one is home during the day anymore in most American households to attend to family. Three-quarters of mothers of children under 18 and two-thirds of caregivers to the elderly also hold paid jobs.brbrEven those who do stay home to care for loved ones are touched by our collective anxiety over work and family. The American obsession with work as a centerpiece of personal identity compels all of us to develop a rationale for the roles we choose vis-

By revealing the core desires every woman shares--to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a grand adventure, and to unveil beauty--the authors invite women to recover their feminine hearts, created in the image of an intimate and passionate God.Every little girl has dreams of being swept up into a great adventure, of being the beautiful princess. Sadly, when women grow up, they are often swept up into a life filled merely with duty and demands. Many Christian women are tired, struggling under the weight of the pressure to be a good servant, a nurturing caregiver, or a capable home manager.pWhat Wild at Heart did for men, Captivating is doing for women. Setting their hearts free. This groundbreaking book shows readers the glorious design of women before the fall, describes how the feminine heart can be restored, and casts a vision for the power, freedom, and beauty of a woman released to be all she was meant to be. By revealing the core desires every woman shares-to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a grand adventure, and to unveil beauty-John and Stasi Eldredge invite women to recover their feminine hearts, created in the image of an intimate and passionate God. Further, they encourage men to discover the secret of a woman's soul and to delight in the beauty and strength women were created to offer.

A compassionate, medically reliable, and thoroughly informative resource for anyone who wants to understand the possible causes of fecal incontinence and learn about important advances in management and treatment, this book also includes a glossary of terms and valuable information about contacting support groups and using additional resources. Illustrations.People who live with fecal incontinence - a condition causing the involuntary loss of liquid or solid stool or gas at inappropriate times - often feel alone and isolated. Some avoid working outside the home, or give up treasured friends and activities, or even miss an event as important as their child's wedding. All of these people should know that two million others in the United States have fecal incontinence, and each one of them feels alone, too. This book - with its valuable information and message of hope - is for anyone who has this problem. Keeping Control is a compassionate, medically reliable, and thoroughly informative resource for anyone who wants to understand the causes of fecal incontinence, learn about important advances in treatment and management, and do something about the problem. Written by a noted Johns Hopkins physician and an experienced medical writer and editor, Keeping Control explains the mechanisms of normal bowel function and describes the latest medical findings about what can cause incontinence, from preexisting conditions and diseases to accidents and surgical or childbirth injuries. It thoroughly explains the wide range of treatment options, including remarkable successes with biofeedback and habit training. It includes special advice for managing incontinence in children and older people. And it offers important information on how to work with your physician to take control of the problem. Keeping Control also includes a glossary of terms and valuable information about contacting support groups and using additional resources. An epilogue by Nancy Norton, founder of the Internat

Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks is Lela Knox Shanks's personal account of caregiving for her husband, Hughes, in their home after he was stricken with Alzheimer's disease. Shanks describes her initial denial, her discovery of coping skills, her eventual acceptance of his illness, and her ultimate recognition that the key to successful caregiving lies in never losing sight of the patient's humanness. The book outlines twenty coping and survival strategies to guide caregivers to untapped inner resources and shows caregiving's intangible rewards of increased self-respect and self-knowledge.