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Parenting your parents : straight talk about aging in the family / by Mindszenthy, Bart J.,author.; Gordon, Michael,1941-author.; Rochon, Paula,writer of foreword.;
Millions of people are dealing with aging parents and are stunned with the complexities and demands of their care. As demographics change and societies adapt, that caring - that parenting - isn't getting any simpler. In the fourth edition of this eldercare classic, advocate Bart J. Mindszenthy and geriatrician Dr. Michael Gordon present twenty-seven case studies of families working through the eldercare puzzle. With new scenarios covering legalized marijuana and medically assisted dying, this revised and updated edition of Parenting Your Parents makes the case for good planning, family unity, and being aware of your loved ones' health. With the help of Gordon and Mindszenthy's expert advice, care providers are able to shed guilt and worry and become confident that they have done all they could to make their parents' latter years as fulfilling and comfortable as possible.
Subjects: Case studies.; Adult children of aging parents; Aging parents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Game Face [electronic resource] : by Green, Shari.aut; cloudLibrary;
Thirteen-year-old Jonah is determined to prove that anxiety won’t stop him from succeeding as his hockey team’s goalie in this dynamic novel in verse.  What-ifs rattle around his brain at the worst times, like when he’s in the middle of a playoff game. What if he lets his teammates down? What if he can’t make it pro? And the biggest what-if of all, the one he keeps to himself — what if he’s like his dad, whose life is controlled by anxiety that has only gotten worse since Jonah’s mom died in a car crash? To prove that he’s not like that, Jonah is determined to succeed in the high-stress role of goalie. He and his best friend Ty have big plans for their hockey futures. But when Ty suffers a medical crisis during a pivotal game, Jonah’s anxiety ramps up to new levels It takes courage to ask for help, but Jonah starts to realize that his team goes beyond the people who lace up their skates with him every week, and maybe it’s okay to look for support on and off the ice.  From the adrenaline rush of sudden-death overtime to the weight of worrying about letting your teammates — and yourself — down, this novel in verse will hook readers from the first line.   Key Text Features dialogue poems   Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.5 Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.Children/juvenile.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Depression & Mental Illness; Stories in Verse; Hockey;
© 2023., Groundwood Books Ltd,
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Focused / by Gerber, Alyson.;
Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her she is determined to learn how to focus.LSC
Subjects: Developmentally disabled children; Parent and child; Families; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Chess; Life skills;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Daughters of the bamboo grove : from China to America, a true story of abduction, adoption, and separated twins / by Demick, Barbara,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."On a warm day in September 2000, a twenty-eight-year-old woman named Zanhua gave birth to twin girls in a small hut nestled in bamboo behind her brother's rural home in China's Hunan province. The twins, Fangfang and Shuangjie, were welcome additions to her young family but also not her first children. Hidden in the hut, they were born under the shadow of China's notorious one-child policy. Fearing the ire of family planning officials, Zanhua and her husband decided to leave one twin in the care of relatives, hoping each toddler on their own might stay under the radar. But, in late 2002, Fangfang was violently snatched away from her aunt's care. The family worried they would never see her again, but they didn't imagine she could be sent to the United States. She might as well have been sent to another world. Following her stories written as the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Barbara Demick, author of National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy, embarks on a journey that encompasses the origins, shocking cruelty, and long term impact of China's one-child rule; the rise of international adoption and the religious currents that buoyed it; and the exceedingly rare phenomenon of twin separation. Today, Esther -- formerly Fangfang -- is a photographer in Texas, and Demick brings to vivid life the Christian family that felt called to adopt her, having no idea that she was kidnapped. Through Demick's indefatigable reporting and the activist work to find these lost children, will these two long-lost sisters finally find each other, and if they do, will they feel whole again? A remarkable window into the volatile, constantly changing China of the last half century and the long-reaching legacy of the country's most infamous law, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove is also the moving story of two sisters torn apart by the forces of history and brought together again by their families' determination and one reporter's dogged work"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Zeng family.; Adopted children; Family reunification; Intercountry adoption; Intercountry adoption; Twins;
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Case histories. [videorecording] / by Abbington, Amanda,1974-; Ashton, Zawe.; Atkinson, Kate.Case histories.Videorecording.; Coulter, Eric.; Glenaan, Kenny.; Harness, Peter,1976-; Isaacs, Jason,1963-; Little, Natasha.; Pharoah, Ashley.; Acorn Media (Firm); RLJ Entertainment.;
Series devised by Ashley Pharoah.Jason Isaacs, Amanda Abbington, Natasha Little, Zawe Ashton, Natasha Little.A tough guy with a soft heart, Jackson Brodie is a former Edinburgh cop trying to make a living as a private detective. But while he has a hard time paying his bills, he has no shortage of clients seeking his services. Some are parents looking for children and some are children looking for parents; some are worried about the future and some are seeking information about the past-an area that continues to haunt Brodie, too.PG.DVD; widescreen presentation (16:9); stereo.
Subjects: Atkinson, Kate.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Private investigators; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., RLJ Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A world of curiosities / by Penny, Louise,author.;
"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end? Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother's murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt? As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 150-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge. In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache's home"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character); Murder; Police; Revenge;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Curious George. [videorecording] / by Stallings, Share,film producer.; Tately, Chuck,screenwriter.; Weinstein, Phil,film director.; Goodman, John,1952-actor.; Bassett, Angela,actor.; Bennett, Jeff,1962-actor.; Welker, Frank,actor.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, Heitor Pereira.Angela Bassett, John Goodman, Frank Welker, Jeff Bennett, Alexander Polinsky.When Curious George is offered a special space mission, Ted can't deny his little friend this exciting journey, especially after Curious George completes the training. But when he crash lands in Africa, a worried Ted goes searching, expecting the worst, only to have it turn out to be the best.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1; Region 1, NTSC.
Subjects: Curious George (Fictitious character); Monkeys; Human-animal relationships; Friendship; Children's films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for children.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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A world of curiosities [sound recording] / by Penny, Louise,author.; Bathurst, Robert,1957-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Robert Bathurst."Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end? Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother's murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt? As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 150-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge. In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache's home"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Novels.; Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character); Murder; Police; Revenge;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Small things / by Tregonning, Mel,1983-2014.;
"In a wordless graphic picture book, a young boy's struggle with anxiety is represented by swarms of tiny creatures that follow and gnaw away at him. As his schoolwork and social interactions suffer, he feels more alone and out of control. He ultimately begins to overcome his isolation when he opens up to his sister and learns that he is not the only one beset with worries."--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Stories without words.; Depression, Mental; Loneliness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Narwhal's otter friend [yoto card] : Yoto card / by Clanton, Ben,1988-;
Read by Socks Whitmore, Kirby Heyborne, Ben Clanton.For use with a Yoto Player, the Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.Narwhal and Jelly...and Otty? Exuberant Narwhal and skeptical Jelly test the waters of adding a new friend to their pod when they meet Otty the super-adventurous otter in the fourth book of this blockbuster early graphic-novel series, adapted for audio! Dive into three new stories about the joy of adventure and the power of friendship! In the first story, Otty the otter makes her debut splash; while Narwhal greets her with immediate enthusiasm, Jelly's not so sure about her...mostly because he worries she'll take his place as Narwhal's best friend. Listeners will easily see why Narwhal's so excited to meet Otty, a boisterous explorer who even has an aunt who's a real live sea captain! But listeners will also relate to Jelly's uneasiness seeing his best friend making a new pal. Jelly tries to work out his jealousy in story two, and in story three, the new trio says "Ahoy, adventure!" and discover they all have more in common than they thought...including a love of waffles! Jelly also takes over the "Super Waffle and Strawberry Sidekick" comic providing a sidekick's-eye view of defeating the dreaded dEVILed egg!Ages 5 to 9.System requirements: 1 Yoto Player smart speaker or Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Narwhal; Jellyfishes; Otters; Friendship; Preloaded audiobook.; Yoto audio card.;
© 2021., Yoto Inc.
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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