This true, heart-wrenching love story will enlighten and offer support to those who struggle with the brutality and inevitability of Alzheimer's Disease. Readers will identify with the compassion of one care giver in comparison with the brutality of the disease itself.When I think of who my mother was in her prime, and who she became in the end, it's like imagining two different people. She too was a graduate from nursing school in 1943. Care giving was natural for her. She came from a large family of seven children who worked hard on their farm to make ends meet. She helped provide for the family and took care of her younger siblings. She enjoyed working in the hospital and felt at ease among the halls of medicine. She never would have wanted her life to become so dependent upon others but unfortunately, her nurturing role was reversed. My father stepped into the role of care giver for 15 years as she helplessly became the unwilling recipient.My greatest hope for today is to spread awareness of the disease and support extensive research for the promise of a cure once and for all.

Til Death Do Us Part, is the commemoration of a daughters love and admiration for her father and mother. Suzanne Johnson recognized the enduring love that her father always showed for her mother and uses this book to tell the world of that love. Even as Alzheimers piece-by-piece removed the woman that he loved, Suzannes father still held her dear. His struggles while dealing with his wifes devastating disease is a story of respect, endurance, and always, love. This is Suzanne Johnsons first book. Johnson currently teaches in a local child learning center and has worked as an aide for disabled children in the public schools. Her experience with disabilities and her prior career of nursing with the elderly, give Johnson a unique awareness of personal and family needs when dealing with physical and emotional limitations. Johnson lives in Maine with her husband of 32 years. They have two wonderful adult children and a lovable black lab.

Five elderly women and men in their lives: husbands, lovers, sons, and friends. All living in the margins of society, ageing, enduring, struggling to make two ends meet. These touching tales, with their humour, delicacy and warmth, are each centred on a woman character. There is Kuli ( Talaq ) who finds herself unexpectedly divorced in the heat of a quarrel, but decides to defy societal taboos with her ex-husband, companion of many years. Mohini, lonely after her sons leave home, vows that since her husband objects to her verbosity, she will henceforth talk only to the crows and cranes ( The Saga of Kagaboga ). Kamal ( The Poet s Wife ) discovers how harsh the indifference of today s world can be while Anandi ( He said, Pani ) moans the sudden loss of her only friend and the simple pleasures of their companionship, even as insensitive forces question her links with the old man. Finally, there is the ageing actress, Kusum ( Love Story ), who, after a lifetime of devotion to her lover, finds herself alone, and questioning what it was all about. This volume, spanning over three decades of writing, shows an unusually tender side to Mahasweta Devi, widely known for her satiric prose and biting indictment of societal inequalities. Mahasweta Devi is one of India s foremost writers. Her powerful fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996) and Ramon Magsaysay (1996) awards, the title of Officier del Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (2003) and the Nonino Prize (2005) amongst several other literary honours. She was also awarded the Padmasree in 1986, for her activist work among dispossessed tribal communities. Vikram Iyengar, currently engaged in research in performance studies, is also a Kathak dancer. He is based in Calcutta.

It can be tempting for engaged couples to focus on planning their wedding day and ignore preparations for the lifetime commitment that begins after the cake is cut. Now the bestselling resource for couples Preparing for Marriage has a companion devotional that includes fifty short devotions written by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Preparing for Marriage is a program created by FamilyLife, one of America's leading marriage and family ministries, and is designed to help Christian couples lay the foundation for a strong, lasting, and biblical marriage.