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  • Lexington Brown and The Pond Projector
    Allen Frost
    Lexington Brown the boy inventor has grown old, but the pond in his backyard has been hiding the most amazing invention of all, one that brings his past and his two best friends back together. A magical illustrated children’s book for all ages. ...
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    13,09 €

  • The Broken Mirror
    James Hollis
    The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves explores the need to know ourselves more deeply, and the many obstacles that stand in our way. The various chapters illustrate internal obstacles such as intimidation by the magnitude of the project, the readiness to avoid the hard work, and gnawing self-doubt, but also provide tools to strengthen consciousness to take these obs...
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    31,77 €

  • The Broken Mirror
    James Hollis
    The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves explores the need to know ourselves more deeply, and the many obstacles that stand in our way. The various chapters illustrate internal obstacles such as intimidation by the magnitude of the project, the readiness to avoid the hard work, and gnawing self-doubt, but also provide tools to strengthen consciousness to take these obs...
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    47,69 €

  • Retirement
    Alice Joiner
    She has not been in this place before. The journey did not take as long as she had thought it would when she was younger. This place where she now found herself at the end of a short road was her new canvas. She wished that it had been a much longer journey, filled with many more years surrounded by children’s laughter, as well as endless romantic nights with her husband, but h...
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    12,99 €

  • Creeks and Crises
    Hank Neufeld
    Hank Neufeld has published an intriguing memoir which covers his early life as well as his retirement years. His boyhood, a time of confusion and surprising pleasures, hardly prepares him for his future, although Nature plays a wonderfully-intuitive role during this time. Woven throughout Part 1’s multiple vignettes are poignant descriptions of his boyish reverence for wild cre...
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    21,30 €

  • Love Poems as We Age
    Jeffrey Zygmont
    Love Poems as We Age is collection of forty-five poems that examine love through the lens of time and maturity. Written to mark the sixty-fifth birthday of the poet’s wife, the poems celebrate a couple’s accomplishment, and they describe the beauty and grandeur two people encounter together in day-to-day, settled life. From aging bodies to sleep habits, from income sources to s...
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    3,82 €

  • The Granny Who Stands on Her Head
    Ann Richardson
    'Somewhere in the middle of my seventies, I realised that I liked being old.' So begins this set of engaging stories and thoughts on growing older by someone with a vast range of life experience to share.  Part memoir and part reflection on the joys and challenges of modern life, this book explores the nature of old age and how it compares to what came before. The author argues...
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    17,62 €

  • From Duty to Delight
    Eileen Scipione
    Tired of just doing your duty in the bedroom? This book is for you. Do you want to have all (and I mean all) that God designed for a wife’s sexual pleasure? This book is very practical. Do you want calming tools to bring down your levels of fear and anxiety when intimate with your husband? This book gives step-by-step instructions for reducing fear and worry and even wrong attr...
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    12,16 €

  • FUNERALS YOUR WAY
    Sarah Jones
    This short book gives you the information, suggestions and step-by-step guidance you need to create funerals that truly reflect the person who has died. This second edition includes updated chapters about green funerals, funerals in the digital age and information about how to support wellbeing after bereavement. It will help you if you want to express your own wishes, want to ...
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    14,71 €

  • The Fine Year
    P.B. Child / P.BChild
    This is the story of a sixty-year-old man who travels the country seeing and listing bird species, what is known in the birding world as a Big Year. Leaning heavily on his family for emotional support, he deals with the loss of his parents and the retirement from his career by fulfilling one of his lifetime goals. Throughout the year, he visits the locations other birders have ...
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    27,26 €

  • The Long Goodbye
    Cathy D. Giomblanco / Cathy DGiomblanco
    The title of The Long Good-Bye is just that. This is the story of a wonderful life that was cut short too soon, not in the physical sense but in the mind. A story of a gifted artist who began the slow decline into Alzheimer’s dementia, eventually forgetting who she was and who her loved ones were. This is also a story of the ones who loved her and how they dealt with the progre...
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    13,51 €

  • The Color Blue of the Hermits Robe
    Patsy Stanley
    Jim, Dossie, and their son Hector are adventurous hermits living in travel trailers, exploring parks across the country. Content, they educate Hector at libraries while surviving through hunting and fishing. But time changes all things. Dossie changes. She buys a house and makes them leave the road. They try to stay but are yearning to travel again. Dossie’s sudden change confu...
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    9,30 €

  • The Stranger in my Recliner
    Doreen McGettigan
    He gently helped her back up onto her feet and then picked up what he thought was her grocery bags. After giving her a quick look over and insuring she had no injuries he insisted on giving her a ride home.After asking her numerous times for her address and struggling not to get frustrated with her, Sophie finally admitted to him, she had no home to go to and nowhere to stay.Jo...
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    22,55 €

  • To the Moon and Back
    Kathi Macias
    In To the Moon and Back, Kathi Macias presents a story that might be familiar to many but is framed in a new, dynamic fashion. It is a novel that speaks to the fragility of relationships, while centering on one of today’s hot-button issues. In these pages, Alzheimer’s steals memories, while also paving the way for a deeper understanding of the power of hope, love, and faith. To...
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    16,21 €

  • The Last Resort
    Lilly Maytree
    A winter in some of Alaska’s deepest wilderness has made many changes in the crew of the Dreadnaught, when a series of unavoidable circumstances forces the misfit family into making the most difficult decision any of them ever faced. It is the kind one hopes they never come to, and the hardest to make. It is the last resort. ...
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    10,60 €

  • Talk of the Towers
    Billie Hicklin
    Talk of the Towers is the story of two octogenarians who met and fell in love in a retirement community. They took a chance on happiness that can happen at any age. ...
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    39,12 €

  • Solomon’s Porch
    Janet Morris Grimes
    Time. Solomon is running out of it. A broken and forgotten man fighting the demons of dementia, he longs for the past when both he and his beloved military town of Ginger Ridge once thrived.  When his stooped body collides with the hardened realities of the present, Solomon lies in a coma as an unidentifiable victim of a hit-and-run accident in a faraway city.  With nothing to ...
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    15,86 €

  • Elderchild
    Marlene Fabian Stiles
    How does an Alzheimer’s patient feel when they realize they are losing their grip on reality? What do they do to cope when  past and present blur together? Although ficitonal, "Elderchild" draws heavily on my personal experience as my mother’s caregiver to bring clarity to her gradual decline. In "Elderchild," Rhea’s first person account explores her terror as she realizes her ...
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    12,52 €

  • Lost In The Wilderness
    Lilly Maytree
    Just when things aboard the Dreadnaught have settled down to relative harmony among the crew, and the goal of finding a place to call home in Alaska seems within reach-the unthinkable happens. Now, Stella Madison and friends must discover if they have what it truly takes to survive in the wilderness, whatever that illusive quality may be. Oddly enough, it is found in the most u...
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    10,11 €

  • Before the Fog
    Mary Finnerty-Morris
    Before the Fog is a story of a family and the changes that have come about in their daily lives in dealing with Alzheimer’s disease. Francis, a former member of the army, and his wife, Lizzie, having met and married in harder times, reared two children: Mark, their eldest, and Elizabeth, the apple of her father’s eye. A very difficult child, Elizabeth demanded a lot of attentio...
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    10,07 €

  • A Thief In The House
    Lilly Maytree
    Stella Madison is back, this time with a bevy of friends. But just how far should a person go when it comes to sticking by their friends? There’s a thief in the rambling old mansion she moved into. And while it was someone who was quick to lend help when Stella needed it most, how can she possibly return the favor without jeopardizing herself along with them? No person is ...
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    9,55 €

  • The Blue Hour
    M J Greenwood
    The Blue Hour - two love affairs and two summers, 75 years apart Damaged by a toxic relationship, Ava Westmorland flees the ruins of her life in London for a carer’s job in a Cornish village. She hopes a combination of countryside and coast will heal her shattered heart. But she has yet to face tyrannical Tilly Barwise; the 89-year-old she will be looking after. Sharp, cantanke...
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    11,52 €

  • Illusional Loves
    Marsha Harris-Manley
    Lincoln is a young lady lost without her father. He was the only person Lincoln has ever had a true bond with. She’s trying to maneuver in a world she is not equipped to handle on her own. She is left with a self-centered mother, who’s only concerned with the fact she got pregnant by a soldier (Lincoln’s dad), and she will always get a monthly benefit check from the army. Linco...
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    12,83 €

  • No Regrets
    Rayna Neises
    Raw, real, personal heart-warming stories and practical suggestions for journeying through one’s caregiving season with dignity and grace. ...
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    15,72 €

  • Alive & Kicking At Eighty
    Bonnie Markham
    'Alive and Kicking at Eighty' is full of self-care strategies that supports any willing man or woman over the age of 40 to challenge the age-old stereotypes that cause too many to give up on their God given dreams, a meaningful lifestyle and settle for the unfulfilled lifestyle associated with being 'over the hill'. 'Alive and Kicking at Eighty' is a passionate, compassionate d...
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    16,61 €

  • Did I Kill My Brother?
    Jeff Bell
    Did I Kill My Brother is the story of Jeff Bell’s experiences he wishes to share with as many as possible. He went through great trials with his older brother, Rod, being an invalid from a jobsite accident and from diabetes. It was heartbreaking for Jeff that he couldn’t do more for Rod who had done so much for him in his life. Jeff takes you through the final situation of Rod’...
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    12,00 €

  • Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap
    Brian Herd
    Informative and insightful, this is the essential family guide to preparing for ageing parents. This is a book that forces us to confront what most of us avoid - planning for our ageing parents. Our natural inclination is to wait and see what might happen. But when it does happen, or starts to unfold, we, and our siblings, are totally unprepared. Poor decisions, disputes with...
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    50,72 €

  • El Nido Vacío
    Wanda Vazquez
    El Nido Vacío fue creado porque yo nunca entendí lo que realmente significaba 'nido vacío'. Y luego de 30 años esperados, finalmente tuve mi experiencia de primera mano.¿Nido vacío o no era?Finalmente encontré la respuesta y quería compartir mi experiencia contigo. Espero que encuentres este libro útil, así como comienzas tu propio viaje a través del nido vacío. ...
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    11,08 €

  • The Lock-Picker
    Sue Proffitt
    Sue Proffitt’s remarkable second poetry collection, The Lock-Picker, is about living alongside her mother who was suffering from dementia. Her poems explore the nature of self, memory, identity and what it truly means only to exist in the present moment. The journey from first diagnosis to its inevitable end is shown with shattering intimacy ... as if we are beamed into the sce...
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    15,65 €

  • Be My Friend Until I Die
    Elizabeth S Cole
    This brief memoir is for anyone who is struggling to care for a dying loved one who has Alzheimers disease. It explores the attributes of a 48 year marriage that enabled Jack and Betsy to navigate their last and most difficult journey together; mutual respect, honest communication, enduring love, and a shared sense of humor. Betsy has written a loving and candid account of thei...
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    16,63 €


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