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Dignity in Death: Accepting, Assisting, and Preparing for the End of Life
Dignity in Death is an essential guidebook, full of necessary facts, though not the kind of information we relish thinking or talking about. That’s probably why so many leave this world without having put their house in order. Barbara Frandsen makes a good case for preparing for the […]
Reviewed by: Ann McCauley
Recent Reviews
Memoir and Autobiography
Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
What an absolutely amazing and fascinating memoir/history/biography. The author, Catherine Ehrlich, is the granddaughter of Irma (Hutter) Kolmar Ehrlich. Irma’s life (she was born in 1890) spanned the turn of the 20th century, both World War I and World War II, and all of the upheavals wrought by […]
Love in Any Language: A Memoir of a Cross Cultural Marriage
A young American woman joins the Peace Corps and completes a stint in Peru. She finds love with young Peruvian man, whom she marries; they embark on a life adventure. This sounds like a movie or a novel, but it’s the real-life story of Evelyn Kohl La Torre […]
Like Love
Michele Morano’s memoir Like Love provides readers an exploratory look at what that four-letter L word means from childhood to adulthood. It’s a meandering adventure that takes the reader through the intricacies of relationships that come in many forms, from what happens when a mother leaves a father […]
