"An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky"--

Best-selling author Ayelet Waldman delivers a humorous, encouraging look at the nearly impossible-and often thankless! job of mothering.

Jack dreads summer because his single mother has to work and leaves him at home with his boring little sister who is autistic. She doesn't talk at all. Ever. But one day while they are at a flea market, she does talk. She tells Jack to trade their mother's car for a box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has ever made!

It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Cecily Ingham have lead the family in bringing the Cavendon estate back from the brink of disaster. But now, with the arrival of World War II, Cavendon Hall will face its biggest challenge yet. It is a challenge that will push the Inghams and Swanns to protect each other and the villagers, and reveal their true capacity for survival and rebirth. Told with Bradford's deft, evocative prose and featuring a beloved...

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men after skin cancer. It is highly curable; only 11% of cancer deaths are due to prostate cancer. While prostate cancer is a couples' disease, there is much attention paid to the man with cancer and very little to the partner or spouse. Katz includes both the medical information necessary to understanding the disease and first hand accounts from cancer patients and survivors and their partners....

A neuroscientist takes readers on a journey around the world and through history, from nineteenth-century Germany to present day India, to examine the science and scientists working to find a cure to Alzheimer's disease.

"For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness have done the hard maintenance and the research. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight; a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom? With their trademark sense...

Lorene Cary's grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew--even their shared past. Shares the story of the author's relationship with her remarkable grandmother, describing the latter's youth in the Jim Crow South, devotion to black causes, and management of her own business until age one hundred. Cary journeys through stories of her time with her Nana Jackson, and of five generations of...

"While applying for a passport, ... Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery: she had a secret half-brother. Her mother told Mary Carter that the abandoned boy was a 'youthful mistake' from an encounter with a married man. Nine years later, Mary Carter tracked Ronnie down at the barbershop where he worked and found a near-broken man--someone kind and happy to meet her, but someone deeply and irreversibly damaged by a life of neglect and abuse...