Safe At Home

Author : Mitchell Consky
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459750296

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Home Safe by Mitchell Consky Pdf

During a pandemic lockdown full of pyjama dance parties, life talks, and final goodbyes, a family helps a father die with dignity. In April 2020, journalist Mitchell Consky received bad news: his father was diagnosed with a rare and terminal cancer, with less than two months to live. Suddenly, he and his extended family — many of them healthcare workers — were tasked with reconciling the social distancing required by the Covid-19 pandemic with a family-based approach to end-of-life care. The result was a home hospice during the first lockdown. Suspended within the chaos of medication and treatments were dance parties, episodes of Tiger King, and his father’s many deadpan jokes. Leaning into his journalistic intuitions, Mitchell interviewed his father daily, making audio recordings of final talks, emotional goodbyes, and the unexpected laughter that filled his father’s final days. Serving as a catalyst for fatherly affection, these interviews became an opportunity for emotional confession during the slowed-down time of a shuttered world, and reflect how far a family went in making a dying loved one feel safe at home.

Author : Elizabeth Berg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588368522

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Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg Pdf

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Elizabeth Berg's Once Upon a Time, There Was You. In this novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen’s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen’s husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.

Author : Sharon Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0439896401

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Safe at Home by Sharon Robinson Pdf

After the death of his father, Elijah Breeze, a ten-year-old African American boy, moves back to New York City with his mother and attends a summer baseball camp as he tries to make new friends and adapt to urban ways.

Author : Debra Lynn Dadd
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 087477859X

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Home Safe Home by Debra Lynn Dadd Pdf

Home Safe Home is the ultimate reference of its kind, written by the leading authority on eliminating toxics in the home. It offers more than four hundred tips, including do-it-yourself formulas for inexpensive, safe products to replace the harmful substances we are exposed to in our own households. If you suffer from unexplained headaches, fatigue, or depression, or if you worry about the link between increased use of toxic chemicals and the rising rate of cancer, the many suggestions in this book can make your life virtually toxic-free! Here are some of the many useful facts you'll learn: - You can make a window cleaner from vinegar and water that is safe, more effective, and less expensive than any product on the market. - A mineral powder, which costs pennies per use, is the safest way to get whites their whitest. - Simply changing your type of sheets and pillows may cure insomnia.

Author : Stephen Benatar
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590173725

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Wish Her Safe At Home by Stephen Benatar Pdf

Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam’s oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.

Author : Susan Kesselring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Home accidents
ISBN : 1609542991

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Being Safe at Home by Susan Kesselring Pdf

Presents tips for being safe around the house, including picking up toys when finished playing, only putting cords into sockets, and what do do when a smoke detector goes off.

Author : Gregory Jordan
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781600786969

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Willie Mays Aikens by Gregory Jordan Pdf

An intimate portrait of a tortured player, this biography culls interviews, letters, and the personal account of baseball legend Willie Mays Aikens. Touted from a young age as the next Reggie Jackson, Aikens' promising career quickly turned disastrous when he fell into drug abuse and was ultimately sentenced to the longest prison sentence ever given to a professional athlete in a drug case. Not only an exploration of baseball and culture in the 1980s, this book also delves into the United States justice and penal systems.

Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101653548

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Safe at Home by Mike Lupica Pdf

#1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica continues his tribute to the underdog in his Comeback Kids series for young middle-grade readers Nick Crandall feels like he doesn't belong anywhere. He never has felt like he belongs, really. He doesn't fit in this new family with his new foster parents, both of whom are professors. They don't know the first thing about sports, and he's not exactly a model student. It's only a matter of time until they realize he's not the right kid for them. And Nick certainly doesn't belong playing varsity baseball. He's only twelve years old! His teammates want a catcher their own age, not some kid. But Nick needs to prove something. He needs to prove that he belongs–to his parents, to his team, and to himself. Praise for the Comeback Kids: “Lupica portrays the action clearly and vividly, with a real sense of the excitement and unpredictable nature of the games. These are worthy additions to collections seeking to draw in middle-grade boys with an enthusiasm for athletics.” –School Library Journal “These should score big with middle-graders looking for alternatives to Matt Christopher's titles.” –Publisher’s Weekly “This title is a good choice for reluctant readers with a background in baseball.” –School Library Journal

Author : June Hutton,Tony Wanless
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459747814

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Four Umbrellas by June Hutton,Tony Wanless Pdf

A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from — memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes — in interests, goals, and behaviour — until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known. A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer’s are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person’s disease.

Author : Felicity Warner
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781848505186

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A Safe Journey Home by Felicity Warner Pdf

Have you ever sat with someone as they were dying and wished that you could make it a better experience? Helping others face death with dignity and positivity is an act of profound kindness that also helps give the caregiver a chance to come to terms with this critical moment in our life’s journey. Felicity Warner reveals her guide to the unique experience of death in A Safe Journey Home, based on years of experience in hospice care. This essential guide will tell you all you need to know to help a loved one or friend to die gently and with dignity once medicine has reached its limits. You can honour their experience and nurture it, by giving them all your attention, kindness and love. Accompanied by beautiful illustrations that will act as a comfort to all those experiencing death or bereavement, this book is a powerful guide to a subject that affects us all.

Author : Canada. Division of Aging and Seniors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : House & Home
ISBN : UIUC:30112063178484

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The Safe Living Guide by Canada. Division of Aging and Seniors Pdf

Author : Bob Muzikowski,Gregg Lewis
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 0310241073

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Safe at Home by Bob Muzikowski,Gregg Lewis Pdf

The exciting life of one committed man whose simple little idea ("Let's play ball!") God is using to make a huge impact on thousands of disenfranchised children, their families, their community, their city and their world.

Author : Judith Skillman,Linera Lucas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781476683928

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When Home Is Not Safe by Judith Skillman,Linera Lucas Pdf

Even if you haven't been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could tell you about it. Perhaps you are a therapist, teacher, academic, or social worker who wants to help those who are suffering. Or maybe you are in an abusive relationship and need to know that you are not alone. The poems, memoirs, and creative nonfiction pieces collected here tell of real incidents of abuse, as well as of those who left destructive and unsalvageable relationships. The beauty and truth of the language, as well as the honesty and courage, set this anthology apart from self-help manuals and academic treatises on domestic violence. This book offers a path forward to healing, health and fulfillment, using the power of art to give voice where voice has been stifled, forgotten, overlooked or denied.

Author : Karen Goodman,Kirk Simon
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : DVD-ROMs
ISBN : 1402732783

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Safe Road Home by Karen Goodman,Kirk Simon Pdf

Accompanied by a DVD of an HBO documentary entitled: Smashed--toxic tales of teens and alcohol.

Author : Kate Denton
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Romanc
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373030576

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Home Safe by Kate Denton Pdf

Home Safe by Kate Denton released on Apr 24, 1990 is available now for purchase.