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Adolescence Anecdotes Adult children of aging parents United States Biography Adult children of alcoholics United States Biography Aging parents Care United States Children Children's diaries, American Girls United States Drama Memory United States United States. Army Officers DramaKoslow, Sally.
Summary: A journalist and mother of two formerly dependent adult children analyzes the reasons behind the current young adult generation's unwillingness or inability to pursue independence, assessing the economic and social aspects of prolonged dependency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.235 KOSSummary: This documentary focuses attention on the United States' aging population and the many adult children who are undertaking the primary care for their aging parents, underscoring today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings and social, cultural and economic issues. Immediately followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with medical correspondent Dr. Art Ulene which offers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Video 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8084 CARSt. John, Linda
Summary: A memoir by a celebrated "outsider" artist details how her dirt-poor childhood, her strange family, and her father's illness shaped her into the person she is today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ST. JOHN, LINDA STJWoititz, Janet Geringer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.292 WOIMoss, Barbara Robinette.
Summary: A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.292 MOSMoss, Barbara Robinette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 MOSOomen, Anne-Marie
Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 920 OOM1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OOM
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOM
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Summary: "For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir—both heartbreaking and darkly funny—that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis" -
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2024
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Summary: "A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist--a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCPHEE, MARTHA MCPFederico, Meg.
Summary: The author relates her poignant and hilariously tumultuous journey caring for her eighty-year-old mother and newly minted step-father who were forced to accept full-time home care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Summary: "The acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager within the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where cult-like privilege, shocking social and racialdisparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hide in plain sight. As a child in Florida, T Kira...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADDEN, T KIRA MADRenkl, Margaret
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RENMeans, Brittany
Summary: "I can't write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. That's not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car was normal. Better, it was comfy and fun. I loved my bed made of clothes inside a trash bag that I sank into slowly like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movie... I loved the motels and their swimming pools and trashy daytime TV channels......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEANS, BRITTANY MEAUrbatsch, Kevin
Summary: Presents advice on setting up and managing a special needs trust, covering trust benefits, funding, duties of trustees, pooled trusts, taxes, wills, and death of beneficiaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.05 URBSummary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MAJRose, Amy
Summary: Survivor Amy Rose recounts her upbringing in an abusive cult which forbade independent learning, and how she discovered books in a secret library that opened up her world and inspired her to escape.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023