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  Helping Mom Pass On with...

  Loving Son

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  For families walking through the final chapter of a loved one’s life, nothing truly prepares you for the emotional weight of hospice care. In Helping Mom Pass On with Dignity: My Hospice Journey and Lessons Learned, one son shares the deeply personal story of caring for his mother during her final months, and the life-changing lessons learned along the way. 
   
  This is not a medical textbook. It is a real and honest journey filled with love, fear, exhaustion, family struggles, hope, regret, and moments of unexpected peace. Written in a simple and heartfelt style, this audiobook speaks directly to caregivers, adult children, spouses, veterans, hospice workers, and anyone facing the painful reality of saying goodbye to someone they love. 
   
  You will walk beside a son who moved in with his mother years before her passing and honored her wish to remain at home with dignity during hospice care. Along the way, he shares powerful lessons about family conflict, caregiving stress, setting boundaries, asking for help, handling medications, dealing with guilt, and learning how to let go with love instead of fear. 
   
  You will hear about the “Angel in the Room,” the hospice nurse who brought comfort and sanity during the darkest moments. You will experience the sleepless nights, the hard questions no child ever expects to hear from a parent, and the emotional roller coaster of watching someone slowly prepare to leave this world. 
   
  Most importantly, this audiobook reminds listeners that they are not alone. Many caregivers silently carry feelings of doubt, grief, frustration, and regret. This story offers comfort, understanding, and reassurance that doing your best with love truly matters. 
   
  Whether you are preparing for hospice care, currently living through it, or trying to heal after losing someone close to you, this audiobook may help you feel seen, understood, and supported. 
   
  Sometimes the greatest act of love is simply being there.

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  Great Astronomers

  Robert Stawell Ball

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  Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astronomy. From the earliest ages the study of the stars has exercised the same fascination as it possesses at the present day. Among the most primitive peoples, the movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars commanded attention from their supposed influence on human affairs. From the days of Hipparchus down to the present hour the science of astronomy has steadily grown. One great observer after another has appeared from time to time, to reveal some new phenomenon with regard to the celestial bodies or their movements, while from time to time one commanding intellect after another has arisen to explain the true import of the facts of observations. The history of astronomy thus becomes inseparable from the history of the great men to whose labours its development is due.  In the ensuing chapters we have endeavoured to sketch the lives and the work of the great philosophers, by whose labours the science of astronomy has been created.  (from the Introduction)

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  Wild and Wonderful - Around the...

  Éanna Ní Lamhna

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  Glow-in-the-dark owls, eggs boiling in Icelandic hot pools, the gangster tactics of the devil's coach-horse beetle … Éanna Ní Lamhna has seen them all! 
  Éanna explores the wonders of our wild world, from a safari in Tanzania to the cloud forests of Costa Rica, from rat-hunting in Canada to whale watching in New Zealand. She draws on her experience as a diver to tell of face-to-face encounters with fascinating fan worms, elusive sea hares and a murderous crab, and rings the alarm bells on the environmental challenges facing us. 
  Éanna also recounts with cheerful relish the pitfalls and delights of being a broadcaster and a scientist. Sure why would anyone want to be anything else?  

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  Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and...

  Raymond Moore

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  When you read about what I got up to you’re going to say I got what I deserved. You’re right—I totally agree. Many of you won't like me no doubt and that’s ok—I understand, I really do. I’m not all bad though.I left the Isle of Skye in the early eighties to begin my nursing course in Edinburgh and it's fair to say I embraced the Capitals temptations with arms wide open. When I moved into a shared flat I met Bill, a musician, and got involved with his band Low Down, you know, helping them out, doing a bit of driving and humping gear about - it was great fun. Low Down were truly phenomenal. Man, I totally loved their music. We took drugs, I mean, I took drugs. Nothing heavy, just recreational-like.I met a lot of girls who I didn’t treat right and I’m not proud of my behaviour—honest. Nursing is a female-dominated profession and male nurses were thin on the ground. The opportunities for getting up to mischief were many. I worked hard and played harder.A lot of stuff I regret now. Especially what I did to Lisa – and others. Anyway, it couldn’t last, could it? The way I was living – something had to give.And it did.

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  When Crisis Meets Courage - A...

  Thomas Loughren

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  Tom Loughren has lived a life marked by courage, chaos, and the unseen moment that define true policing and community service. From policing in the Florida Everglades to standing at Ground Zero, Tom has seen the best and worst of humanity. This is more than an action-packed chronicle of his chases, investigations, and arrests. It's also the lessons learned - lessons in leadership, loyalty, and love for the work of law enforcement and the communities they serve. If you love a novel-style tale of heroism and bravery, this book is for you.

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  The Mountains of California

  John Muir

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  John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read by millions and are still popular today. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. His writings and philosophy strongly influenced the formation of the modern environmental movement. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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