4/29/2024
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A family guide for caregiving
by Andrea Sankar with CM Cassady
Call Number: 616.029 SANKAR
This book is an intimate account based on extensive interviews with family and professional caregivers as well as with other family members, friends, and patients. The author addresses the concerns and problems of those who face the decision of whether to care for a dying loved one at home, including preparing the home environment for caregiving; how to use professional caregivers in the home setting; managing the patient's pain, agitation, and other conditions; and how to recognize impending death and what to do immediately after death. She draws from stories that represent a wide range of circumstances and causes of death.
A Frankie Elkin Novel
by Lisa Gardner
Call Number: Mystery GARDNER Elkin v.1 // Also in Large Print
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
Naming what you feel and knowing what to do about it
by Jennie Allen
Call Number: 248.4 ALLEN
In this book, Jennie Allen uses scientific research, biblical insight, and her own story to help you exchange stuffing, dismissing, or minimizing your emotions for a five-step process to know what you feel and what to do about it, debunk the myth that feelings are sinful by learning how emotional maturity leads to deeper connection with God and others, live emotionally healthy by applying biblical wisdom and therapeutic research that works whether you self-identify as “emotional” or not, and sit with feelings that are confusing and painful by discovering the depth of God’s love and compassion for you.
by Haro Aso
Call Number: Graphic Novel ASO
Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can’t be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn’t an empty paradise, it’s a vicious game. And the only way to survive is to play.
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