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How to Age Gracefully: Essays About the Art of Living by Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic

A clear-eyed, honest memoir that finds humor, beauty, and meaning in the realities of aging. Scoblic’s book traces her move to an assisted living facility, capturing the experience with both heartfelt candor and the discerning eye of a journalist. Following…
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Teaching Literature for Cognitive Development: A Double Perspective by Don Gutteridge

Slender and precise… An immersive study. Drawing on current curriculum, the work and research of renowned scholars, and especially his own teaching experience, Gutteridge examines the nature of student classification based on their understanding of literature, and its devastating impacts…
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A Bagful of Kittens Headed to the Lake: Selected Essays by Cathy Carlton Hews

Brutally honest, compulsively readable, and at times painful to read… In this intimate and gripping collection of essays, Hews shines a light on her own struggles of caring for her father who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s. Hews’s father’s deterioration by late-onset…