Linda Bartee Doyne writes as LindaJane Riley, a woman who is from an era when women were nurturers and men were hunters. She learned very early in life to take care of the old, young or sick family members. When she left home, she had no intention of being a caretaker ever again. She married a Navy man, Riley, and supported him in every aspect of military life. But, when his alcoholism became too insane, she left him. Fifteen years later she makes a difficult choice to take care of her estranged, near-death, alcoholic husband. It was not an easy decision, but, for her, it was the only right decision. After all, she thought, it's only a short detour in my life. How long could he really last? LindaJane waited for Riley to die while taking care of his every need. She waited. But when he would just get to the end, he would miraculously survive. He seemed to be immortal. She dubbed him The Immortal Alcoholic. She struggles with the moral and legal issues of trying to keep him alive, or letting him die, while he clearly states he would rather be dead than sober. LindaJane seeks help and/or advice but receives very little from medical professionals and family. She finds the strength she needs from comments to the blog she created (Immortal Alcoholic) that she hoped would connect her to others in her situation. The comments inspire her to create a support group. She writes this book, The Immortal Alcoholic's Wife, and a Workbook for Caretakers of End-Stage Alcoholics. She learns to find her passion in writing and helping others through her experiences, disappointments, frustrations and humor. In spite of care-taking an immortal alcoholic, she is thriving. This book is her journey from childhood through Riley's hospice. It shares the knowledge she gains and the frustration from being inside the insanity. Anyone with an alcoholic in their life will find this book helpful, humorous and encouraging. Readers will find this book as a road map through the maze of alcoholic insanity.

A Mummer's Wife tells the story of Kate Ede, a bored Midlands housewife unhappily married to an asthmatic draper. When a handsome travelling actor comes to lodge with her family, she succumbs to temptation, with disastrous consequences. This scholarly edition includes a critical introduction, author biography, explanatory footnotes, and a wealth of contextual material.

The Immortal Life of Riley tells of the journey through from childhood that may explain some of the reasons why alcoholism became a way of life for Riley. This book fills in the blanks left open in the Immortal Alcoholic's Wife. Riley's military career and previous marriages are all apart of his history. He was a good man who had a bad addiction. He was loved by as many people as he hurt. This is an account of his reality.

The gods of legend rise again on the world of Amyrantha, in this first book in Fallon's brilliant new four-book series.

A biography of the actor who gained fame playing Count Dracula in the 1931 classic film.

What is a professional green emissary? Xin Nianyin explained the problem with her body. Ever since he had married Gu Qi, he had been carrying the colorful flags and showing mercy day after day. It could be said that he had walked among the myriad purple and red flowers, and left none of the leaves behind. However, he had left everything to the Gu family's third young mistress, Xin Xianyin. As the saying goes, living in this world is hard to come by, but these days are also really frustrating. Xin Nianyin decided to just give up and pat her butt to prepare to give way to a sage. Who knew that the man who had been wasting time just a second ago would prepare a washboard and wait in the living room with a flattering look on his face, "Wife, this is the diamond ring I prepared for you." Xin Nianyin spat out a mouthful of blood, "Who wants the green diamond!?" Get lost, you dead scumbag! "

Based on the Commonwealth Harvard Alcohol Research and Teaching Program, this clinically oriented work is designed to give internists and primary care practitioners the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and care for patients with alcoholism.

Emma Hamilton, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling role in Britains naval victory over France and Spain in 1805. In this new book Barry Gough, employing the letters between the protagonists, and the unpublished examination of her career by famed American historian of the Royal Navy Arthur Marder, strongly defends Emma. He shows how this most talented of women and the beauty of her age fell victim to innuendo, slander and cruel caricature. She was to die in poverty in Calais in 1815, just months before Napoleons final defeat. Englands greatest sailor fell deeply in love with Emma in the years before Trafalgar. This, together with his quest for glory and victory entangled him in an inescapable web of circumstances and calumny. The author explores the evolving scandal, the high political stakes that were involved, and the love affair itself which so influenced the fortunes of Englands glory and the fate of her Wooden Walls. No novelist could have created such a tortuous scenario, charged as it was with high emotions, slurs, insults and slander. Richly illustrated throughout, the book shows Emma, probably the most painted woman of her age, in all her glories; it also shows how heartlessly caricaturists treated her. That Hamilton woman will long remain a controversial figure but here the author places her as one of the forces that gave the Royal Navy its will to fight and conquer. He depicts sympathetically a woman entrapped in circumstances of her own making, her saga reminding us of how frail is human fortune.