Will I ever stop crying? When will I feel like me again? Am I financially ruined? How do I begin to rebuild? If you are one of the thousands of women in this country living through the craziness of divorce, this book is for you. This is a book to pick up every time you think, What was he thinking? Joey Florentino is a police officer, a father, and a divorcée. This is not a touchy-feely self-help book. It's not an ex-bashing book with tips for revenge. And it's not a clinical book dispensing diagnoses. He Can Do His Own Laundry is straight talk from an everyday guy. Through his own recovery from divorce, he has discovered tools to navigate the emotional, physical, financial, and spiritual aspects of divorce. While there are no magic words to make things better overnight, you can begin the process towards real growth in all areas of your life. By putting your former marriage behind you, you can start living the life you were meant to live. And on days when it's hard to see how any good can come of this, remember: He Can Do His Own Laundry!

The Clothesline is a nostalgic yet practical guide to a less complicated time, when women shared household secrets, recipes and remedies over the back fence. Filled with historic and contemporary photographs and illustrations, the book includes tips on creating a fun yet functional laundry room, information on laundry collectibles, hints for easy care of heirloom linens, and traditional wash-day recipes like lavender ironing water and verbena soap. Visit the Clothesline website for helpful tips, excerpts from the book, and author tour information.

The Wife Drought is about women, men, family and work. Written in Annabel Crabb's inimitable style, it's full of candid and funny stories from the author's work in and around politics and the media, historical nuggets about the role of 'The Wife' in Australia, and intriguing research about the attitudes that pulse beneath the surface of egalitarian Australia.

"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--

A revealing memoir of a young woman, mother and military wife who raised five children, including David, her eldest son who was born deaf and later was permanently blinded. She writes about the struggles they endured.

Bringing Home the Laundry combines a psychologist's advice with the stories and insights of parents and their college-aged kids. It reassures you that your child's departure for college does not sever family ties, but can mark the beginning of a deeply satisfying, exciting new phase in your parent-child relationship.

In this insightful, practical guide, Kristine Carlson offers proven strategies and techniques that empower mothers to manage their busy lives with less stress, more happiness, and greater harmony within themselves and their homes. She reveals how to: Be a Mom, Not a Friend Pursue Your Passion, But Not at the Expense of Your Children Balance Being a Woman and a Mom Empower yourself to live the life you dream of

A young Vietnamese man trying to make a fresh start after being imprisoned on drug charges. In between seeking reconciliation with his mother and doing battle with the ghosts of his past, Hung works in a commercial laundry as part of a rehabilitation programme.

Madrona Bay Hospital's Patient Relations manager, Robyn Kelly, finds patient Jason Hilliard strangled with IV tubing in his hospital bed. Now she's got a hospital in panic, a police investigation going awry, and anonymous letters that promise more trouble to come. Robyn is in the cross-hairs and over her head.