During the time of the Civil War, women were expected to stay home, get married and have children. Daisy Jane Allen has other ideas. She wants to be a nurse and use her gift of healing. With the very reluctant approval of her well-to-do father, she studies medicine under Doctor Robert Lawrence. Love blooms between student and instructor though neither are aware of the other's feelings. The Civil War rages and the Union needs doctors. Duty calls and Robert signs up. When he tells Daisy he is going to war, he shocks her by also proposing marriage and asks her to accompany him as his nurse and...

This book is for all those who may have to enter, or place a loved one in a skilled nursing home. It comes from someone who has twenty-seven years of experience "in the trenches" as a director of nursing, administrator, regional manager and consultant in long-term care facilities, commonly known as nursing homes, reaching across the country. I have witnessed many, many family members' joy, tragedy, discouragement and elation in my nursing homes and I have learned from each of them. This is also for those who will feel or have felt the aching, pounding guilt because you had no other choice but...

Jeremy sets out on a great adventure in the Great Woods to prove that he is a brave kitten. Along the way, he meets lots of new friends-a blue butterfly, a raccoon, a cranky squirrel, a bunny, a scary snake, and a wise owl who gives him some good advice and a ride home.

"Dandelions in December" is an extraordinary adventure in one woman's life...beginning with the loss of her 19-year old daughter, then through the trials and tribulations of nursing school, divorce, and finally into nursing home administration. Elaine Stubbs deftly weaves her story with humor and grace. This is a first person look at day-to-day life in nursing homes....The care...the love...and the laughter that must take place in order to remain sane. Meet a hungry alligator about to enjoy a dinner of aged meat (a nursing home resident). The gator is chased away by an administrator with a...

A rich, sultry love story set in the colorful city of New Orleans, a place that drips with atmosphere like Spanish moss in the live oak trees of Louisiana's plantations. Two young women, Martine and Nicole, meet on the streets of Paris where they turn to prostitution in order to survive. They are arrested and are starving to death in prison. Mere hours before the grim reaper appears to claim them, they learn that the government can no longer afford to feed them, so all the imprisoned prostitutes are being released. Martine and Nicole learn that an American woman has requested the French...