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The Healthy Navajo K'é Podcast is supported by Diné College, Northern Arizona University, and Arizona Department of Health Services. The podcast shares information and resources on Navajo infant, child, adolescent, maternal and overall family health.
21) Mother ghost
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A year after the death of his mother, Keith Bennet has moved on with his life-- until the jewelry that she was buried in shows up one morning on his bathroom sink. Already distant and disconnected from his wife Karen, she tries to convince Keith that he needs help. Believing that their troubled relationship cannot take another stress, she threatens to take their son and leave if he continues down this path. Forced with the ultimatum, Keith launches...
22) Daniel Deronda
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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for...
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"A deliciously compulsive first novel from the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Lights On, Rats Out, Private Means follows two married intellectuals who find themselves at odds with one another and dare to look elsewhere for intimacy and thrills.With their daughters fully grown and their relationship fraying, Upper West Side-based couple Alice and Peter are further agitated when Alice's beloved dog, Maebelle, goes missing. As Alice mourns...
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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"For the past thirty-three years, Angela Gillespie has sent to friends and family around the world an end-of-the-year letter titled "Hello from the Gillespies." It's always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herself-she tells the truth.... The Gillespies are far from the perfect family that Angela has made them out to be. Her husband is coping badly with retirement. Her thirty-two-year-old twins are having career meltdowns....
26) Sail
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Struggling to maintain family cohesion after the death of her husband, Anne Dunne plans an elaborate sailing vacation that is unexpectedly challenged by difficulties with her children and a catastrophic accident.
27) Upstate
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In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. He has been too busy at home in northern England, holding together his business as a successful property developer. His younger daughter, Helen-a music executive in London-hasn't gone, either, and the two sisters, close but competitive, have never quite recovered from their parents' bitter divorce and the early death of...
28) The mercy rule
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After overcoming a difficult childhood in foster care, pediatrician Lucy Weiss, a suburban wife and mother, finds herself back in the world of families living on the edge as she begins working with at-risk young patients and their families.
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"After a tumultuous childhood, Christa Liddle has hidden away, both figuratively and literally. Happily studying sea snails in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Christa finds her tranquil existence thrown into chaos when her once-famous father--long thoughtdead after a plane crash--turns out to be alive, well, and ready to make amends. The world goes wild, fascinated by this real-life saga, pinning Christa and her family under the spotlight. As if that...
30) Eventide
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Elsie Keim, who is slowly going blind, keeps her condition a secret from her new neighbor Landon Troyer, with whom she has fallen in love, but when her brother tells him the truth, it changes everything.
32) The parting gift
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"The Parting Gift is an epistolary novel, one long letter written by a nameless narrator to his host of the last four months, a recounting of the events that caused him to show up in this unnamed American city with an erotic story of obsession, jealousy and revenge that took place at the other side of the world, in a seaside farming community in Israel, with disastrous results"--
35) Jesse's Story
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Jesse lived a tortured life characterized by mental illness and drug addiction. He developed a criminal lifestyle but was not very good at it. This is a story of his coming to grips with the consequences of his behaviors and his attempts to right his wrongs. While this is a true tale, certain events have been fictionalized to protect the privacy of those affected by Jesse's struggles. This is a tale of suffering and redemption.
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Whether solo parenting for night, a week, half time or for the rest of time; this book offers cheats to get your parenting zen on. These tips on cooking, laundry, first aid and taking care of yourself prioritize saving you money, time, sanity, energy and letting your kids f' up in a supported way. Going it alone will challenge you to the core more than any reality TV show. Somedays you will feel like superhero, other days a melted mess on the couch....
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Behind the Scene is a personal story of one little girl's experience growing up on a small Midwest farm. She was born into a large family, living in poverty, where her family's mode of transportation was a horse and buggy. This was required by the Amish religion her family belonged to. Early in her life, her dad wanted a car. They left the Amish and joined the Mennonites.
The deep, dark secrets of her family's dysfunction, she vowed never to expose...
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After two personal tragedies in one year, the landscape of Gertrude's life looks flat and barren. Suddenly childless, she wanders in a vast emptiness for months. Her women gather, bringing sustenance and encouragement, but it is not until a long look in the mirror shows a serious weight loss and sickly pallor, that she knows a change must be made. Summoning an intrepid strength, Gert pulls herself together and takes a step forward. With relief and...
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In an effort to improve her station in life, Amanda manipulated her daughter to tap into the power of the government and society's desire to protect children. Weaknesses in the child protection system and human errors are combined, causing the destruction of her immediate and extended family.
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Are you hurting as a result of a family rift? Do you find it difficult to have healthy relationships with family members? You are not alone. Unfortunately, family estrangement is far too common, even among Christian families. In the pages of this book, Julie shares her personal experience with such heartache. Many years of miscommunication, hurtful words and unhealthy interactions eventually led to a full estrangement from her family.But her story...
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