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Now What?: Notes From the Front Lines of Old Age

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For Everyone Old, Getting Old, or Loving Someone Who Is.A memoir about aging that goes where most books won't—into the actual, daily, unvarnished reality of being old.At nearly 90, feminist activist and award-winning author Sandra Butler delivers Now What? Notes From the Front Lines of Old Age, a bracing, big-hearted follow-up to Leaving Home at 83. Readers of that book called it "a captivating" ... Read more

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For Everyone Old, Getting Old, or Loving Someone Who Is.A memoir about aging that goes where most books won't—into the actual, daily, unvarnished reality of being old.At nearly 90, feminist activist and award-winning author Sandra Butler delivers Now What? Notes From the Front Lines of Old Age, a bracing, big-hearted follow-up to Leaving Home at 83. Readers of that book called it "a captivating"
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Leaving Home at 83

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So, You Think 83 is Too Late to Start Over? Think Again!Join Sandra Butler as she leaves her home and community of fifty years to move into a residential facility in an unfamiliar city. With meals, activities and proximity to her children, what could possibly go wrong? Well, as it turns out-just about everything.Butler vividly portrays the intricate challenges of this late-life transition, ... Read more

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So, You Think 83 is Too Late to Start Over? Think Again!Join Sandra Butler as she leaves her home and community of fifty years to move into a residential facility in an unfamiliar city. With meals, activities and proximity to her children, what could possibly go wrong? Well, as it turns out-just about everything.Butler vividly portrays the intricate challenges of this late-life transition,
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The Kitchen Is Closed

And Other Benefits of Being Old

by Sandra Butler ...

In her eighties, Sandra Butler does not identify as elderly. Or mature. She's neither plucky nor a burden, and she's not over any hills. She's old, and she's ready to reclaim that word.In this funny and intensely personal collection of essays, Butler chronicles her experience moving from aging to old, remembering and forgetting all the wrong things, feeling frustrated with technology, keeping up ... Read more

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In her eighties, Sandra Butler does not identify as elderly. Or mature. She's neither plucky nor a burden, and she's not over any hills. She's old, and she's ready to reclaim that word.In this funny and intensely personal collection of essays, Butler chronicles her experience moving from aging to old, remembering and forgetting all the wrong things, feeling frustrated with technology, keeping up
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The Tigers in Your Dreams

by Sandra Butler Ladwig ...

The Tigers in Your Dreams is an emotional book containing 14 short stories about adoptees searching for and contacting their birth families, and siblings in search of siblings that they may or may not have known about. This book also contains information and tips for your own search. Sandra and her Committee of eight, M.L.A. Marianne Jablonski and Minister Iris Evans, were instrumental in opening ... Read more

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The Tigers in Your Dreams is an emotional book containing 14 short stories about adoptees searching for and contacting their birth families, and siblings in search of siblings that they may or may not have known about. This book also contains information and tips for your own search. Sandra and her Committee of eight, M.L.A. Marianne Jablonski and Minister Iris Evans, were instrumental in opening
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It Never Ends

Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters

by Nan Gefen, Sandra Butler ...

It Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters explores the complex challenges and unexpected rewards of aging mothers in their relationships with their midlife daughters. Based on interviews with women between 65 and 85, it illuminates issues of closeness, distance, longing, and need that arise. Mothers speak openly about the ongoing effects of the past on the present, the cultural, familial, and ... Read more

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It Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters explores the complex challenges and unexpected rewards of aging mothers in their relationships with their midlife daughters. Based on interviews with women between 65 and 85, it illuminates issues of closeness, distance, longing, and need that arise. Mothers speak openly about the ongoing effects of the past on the present, the cultural, familial, and
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Gerontological Social Work in Small Towns and Rural Communities

by Lenard W Kaye, Sandra Butler ...

Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas!Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the specific practice concerns for social workers assisting older adults in rural areas, including the aging ... Read more

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Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas!Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the specific practice concerns for social workers assisting older adults in rural areas, including the aging
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Object Lessons in Love and Loss

by Karen Von Hahn ...

A funny, poignant, and at times heartbreaking memoir about one mother and her love of beautiful objets — and how it ultimately proved destructive.Being left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn’t quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her stylish and captivating mother, Susan — a mercurial, grandiose, Guerlain ... Read more

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A funny, poignant, and at times heartbreaking memoir about one mother and her love of beautiful objets — and how it ultimately proved destructive.Being left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn’t quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her stylish and captivating mother, Susan — a mercurial, grandiose, Guerlain
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It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

by Robert Fulghum ...

From the author to the reader:Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher.As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience.As a teacher, I was always surprised by what ... Read more

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From the author to the reader:Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher.As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience.As a teacher, I was always surprised by what
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The Ruined House

A Novel

by Ruby Namdar ...

“In The Ruined House a ‘small harmless modicum of vanity’ turns into an apocalyptic bonfire. Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge. It's a daring study of madness, masculinity, myth-making and the human fragility that emerges in the mix."—Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World ... Read more

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“In The Ruined House a ‘small harmless modicum of vanity’ turns into an apocalyptic bonfire. Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge. It's a daring study of madness, masculinity, myth-making and the human fragility that emerges in the mix."—Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World
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The Worst Noel

Hellish Holiday Tales

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Blood, Marriage, Wine, & Glitter

by S. Bear Bergman ...

S. Bear Bergman is an acclaimed writer and lecturer on trans issues. In hir third essay collection, Bear tackles the concept of the "modern family" as the trans parent of a young son; in Bear's extended family "orchard," drag sisters, sperm-donor parents, and other relations provide more branches of love and support than a mere family tree. Defiantly queer yet full of tenderness and hilarity, Bear ... Read more

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S. Bear Bergman is an acclaimed writer and lecturer on trans issues. In hir third essay collection, Bear tackles the concept of the "modern family" as the trans parent of a young son; in Bear's extended family "orchard," drag sisters, sperm-donor parents, and other relations provide more branches of love and support than a mere family tree. Defiantly queer yet full of tenderness and hilarity, Bear
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Pitching My Tent

On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith

by Anita Diamant ...

From the bestselling author of The Red Tent and Good Harbor, a collection of intimate, autobiographical reflections on the milestones, revelations, and balancing acts of life as a wife, mother, friend, and member of a religious community.Before The Red Tent won her international literary acclaim, Anita Diamant was a columnist in Boston. Over the course of twenty years, she wrote essays that ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of The Red Tent and Good Harbor, a collection of intimate, autobiographical reflections on the milestones, revelations, and balancing acts of life as a wife, mother, friend, and member of a religious community.Before The Red Tent won her international literary acclaim, Anita Diamant was a columnist in Boston. Over the course of twenty years, she wrote essays that
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