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Travel Dreams and Nightmares: Four Women Explore the World

By Louise Szabo, Barbara Brown, Jan Jacobson and Wendy Quarry iUniverse At a fateful travel writing workshop, Barbara, Louise, and Janet knew they had to collaborate. Soon, Wendy joined them, and the new writing group got to work. Louise enjoys easy travels, wine, and good food. She takes you deep inside a Hungarian wine cellar...

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The Legacy of C. W. Kyte

By Joan Levy Earle General Store Publishing This is the story of the Kyte family business, founded in 1889 in Cornwall, Ontario, by C.W. Kyte, a newspaper pressman by trade but an entrepreneur in his heart. As Jack Earle approached middle-age — he yearned for independence. C.W. Kyte’s Stationers played a huge role in the...

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I’m Still Here: A New Philosophy of Alzheimer’s Care

By John Zeisel, Ph.D. Avery Trade Press There currently is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease — although research continues to indicate that it can be treated. For more than 15 years, John Zeisel, Ph.D., has spear headed a movement to treat Alzheimer’s non-pharmacologically by focusing on the mind’s strengths. I’m Still Here is a...

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This Is Your Brain on Music

Daniel Levitin Penguin Random House Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Daniel Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research and musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van...

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A Celebration of Sex After 50

Dr. Douglas E. Rosenau and Dr. Jim and Carolyn Childerston Thomas Nelson Here’s a great book for our generation (over 50). The print is large enough to read and you don’t have to wade through a lot of information that doesn’t apply. The authors have included a wealth of medical information for readers whose bodies aren’t young...

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