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.

My Grandmother wrote a diary of my Grandfather's illness from a cancerous brain tumor and his passing. She did so with the thought that later someone might be helped by her telling of her experiences and how she made it through her grief by depending on her faith. She and my mother wished to turn this diary into a book, but did not know how to do this back in the 1960s. Now I have the chance to make that wish come true. The title of the book is the one they chose. The words inside are my Grandmother's words, I only humbly add some explanatory material and organization. May her sharing of her experience accomplish what she wished - that someone may be helped and encouraged to hold fast and make it through.

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.

Ephesians 5:21-33 says, in part: 'Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God...' If you love your spouse in life, love him/her in death. In clearing Edgar's affairs, I had to resolve our most poignant legal issues alone (I could not argue with him anymore, he had been freed). 'Til Death Do Us Part: A Real Love Story explores the last year of our 30 year marriage and how we made it our best year as we battled his terminal esophageal cancer. I appreciated our marriage so much more after death parted us, but you can reclaim, restore, and renew yours as you learn to appreciate what is really important now!

This is a story written from two different perspectives: one of a husband and one of a wife. Our individual lives started from two diverse worlds and combined to become one life in 1987. We considered ourselves the typical, normal suburban family. As we grew in our marriage and focused on raising our children, we were determined to do so with God in first place and the kids in church. Unfortunately, the circumstances of life came into play a few years into our marriage and developed into a near cataclysmic end to two wonderful relationships: Our marriage to each other and our marriage to Christ. Jeff and Suzanne Coulter have been married since 1987. Jeff Coulter was born in 1966 and is from Williamsburg, Ohio. A devout Christian throughout his early adulthood, Jeff reached a crossroad with the death of his mother in 1988 and found himself turning away from God. On April 22nd, 2014 Jeff was nearly killed in a head on collision. Beating the odds and surviving the crash, one week later Jeff suffered multiple pulmonary emboli. Only 1 out of 20 survive such a traumatic incident. Jeff slipped into a void of nothingness; the absolute absence of the presence of God. A void filled with demonic beings and symbolic icons of hell and death. Miraculously surviving the crash and emboli, God also delivered Jeff from alcoholism and chronic depression. Through it all there was his wife Suzanne at his side as if she belonged there by God’s own invitation. Driving him along the way. Jeff has since rededicated his life to Christ and now dedicates himself to church ministries, online ministries and authoring diverse books.

Author Marilyn Cash Gooding shares how she felt God at her side every step of the way through her husbands diagnosis of brain cancer, the dying process, the release of the hand of the love of her life into the hand of Jesus, the months of grieving that followed, and her eventual return to wholeness. Marilyn, your new book is so honest and true to life. Many people will identify with its content. You are an anointed and talented writer. It is full of God-given nuggets. Thanks, Marilyn, for being so obedient in writing it and for sharing your pain for your family, friends, and the world to see. Your personal relationship with Jesus is evident. That alone causes people to desire what you have with Him. It is a book that gives people hope. It makes you smile and makes you sad. As I read it, it shows the faithfulness of God. It reveals His love for you and your love for Him and your family. Sharon Van Der Veer, intercessor for the body of Christ from Pella, IA