family relationships

Alice Howland -- Harvard professor, gifted researcher, and lecturer, wife, and mother of three grown children -- sets out for a run and soon realizes she has no idea how to find her way home. She has taken the route for years, but nothing looks familiar. She is utterly lost. Medical consults reveal early-onset Alzheimer's. Alice slowly but inevitably loses memory and connection with reality, as told from her perspective. She gradually loses the ability to follow a conversational thread, the story line of a book, or to recall information she heard just moments before. Genova shows the disease progression through the reactions of others, as Alice does, so readers feel what she feels: a slowly building terror.

The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When they were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu. Shortly after the girls returned to the US for boarding school, Jessie first started to exhibit symptoms of severe bipolar disorder (she would later learn that this ran in the family, a well-kept secret). Jessie's mental illness was passed on to her son, Calen. It wasn't until Calen entered McLean's psychiatric hospital that Jessie herself was diagnosed. Fifteen years and twelve years of sobriety later, Jessie is a stable and productive member of society. Glenn continues to be the major support in Jessie's life.

Describes the lives of Marie Curie and her daughters. Nobel Prize winner and radiation pioneer Marie Curie was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII.

American Tom Wall must masquerade as his brother Earl, who may be a Nazi informant, in order to get key intelligence information from Sondegger, a Nazi spy.

Draws on clinical and epidemiological evidence to explore why people commit suicide, identifying three factors that those most at risk for committing suicide share, and offering advice on how to overcome suicidal thoughts.

The author reveals the true story of her teenage daughter's recovery from anorexia nervosa that introduces a home-based treatment method developed at the Maudsley Hospital in London by Christopher Dare in 1987.

Explores the challenges children face when they must care for their aging parents and offers practical advice on how to best cope with the changing dynamic of the parent-child relationship.

Presents the author's first-hand account of dealing with life after a debilitating brain virus and recreating a normal life while at the same time dealing with his aging mother's dementia.

The author shares some of the questions, fears, frustrations, and pressures that have been expressed to her by children ages eight-to-fourteen; and offers advice to parents on how to approach their children about personal issues, social situations, family matters, and other topics.

A collection of poems in whihc Jane Yolen reflects on her husband's radiation treatment and the impact it had on their life and family.