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Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Compassionate, groundbreaking, and urgently needed, Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the strength and well-being of these very caregivers--the...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has led an isolated life as a young mother and a wife to Pete, an ambitious assistant professor at a Bible college. They're the picture of domestic tranquility-until a local girl is murdered and Loretta begins receiving messages from beyond. Pete dismisses them as delusions of a fevered female imagination. Loretta knows they're real-and frightening. Defying Pete's demands, Loretta finds an encouraging supporter in...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward. Frances Mae Livingston's firm grip of her family's destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she's losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she's enough....
4) Toxic prey
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Series
Prey series volume 34
Letty Davenport novels volume 03
Lucas Davenport novel volume 34
Prey novel volume 34
Letty Davenport novels volume 03
Lucas Davenport novel volume 34
Prey novel volume 34
Language
English
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Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is untenable, and the...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system. Pryce started her social work career with an internship where...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading Ob/Gyn and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health. The medical system today is increasingly complicated and impersonal, and unfortunately, it is not going to be less so in the future. The rules of engagement have changed in medicine, but no one has bothered to inform patients. Much is written about Black women...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell...
Author
Publisher
Sinequanon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La Organización Mundial de la Salud define la salud mental como un «estado de bienestar psíquico que permite a las personas hacer frente a los momentos de estrés de la vida, desarrollar todas sus habilidades, poder aprender y trabajar adecuadamente y contribuir a la mejora de su comunidad». Según las estadísticas, una de cada cuatro personas sufrirá un trastorno mental a lo largo de su vida. En este libro, el doctor José Luis Carrasco -referente...
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Publisher
Stark House Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Dark Corner: Kathleen Conley is the perfect secretary. And she knows a tail when she sees one. The guy in the white suit has been following her detective boss, Bradford Galt, all evening. So Galt braces the guy and takes him to his office for a little talk, and has Kathleen follow him after he leaves. Turns out the man in the white suit is working for Jardine, his ex-partner, the man who set him up a few years back to take a homicide rap-the...
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