Martha F Evans

Strength for Today: Daily Encouragement through Life's Transitions

Do you know someone facing retirement, downsizing, grandparenting, the loss of a spouse, reduced income, aging, or declining health? These life transitions happen to many of us, some with fanfare, some without mention. Martha Evans Sparks focuses on these life events in her third book Strength for T...

Writing and Madness: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics (Stanford, Calif.) )

Writing and Madness is Shoshana Felman's most influential work of literary theory and criticism. Exploring the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis through brilliant studies of Balzac, Nerval, Flaubert, and James, as well as Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida, this book seeks the s...

Raising Your Children's Children: Help for Grandparents Raising Grandkids

Sometimes, people mess up. They get addicted to drugs or alcohol, abandon their child, or just leave. This book is for those who want to step in and help, specifically the grandparents of those abandoned.Over six million children live in grandparent-headed households in the United States today. The ...

Cherish the Days: Inspiration and Insight for Long-Distance Caregivers

In our highly mobile society, many people are separated from aging loved ones. Caring for older parents is a difficult and emotionally draining challenge. Martha Evans Sparks, the Voice of the Caregiver, offers practical help to find balance and peace in caregiving.

Give Us This Day: Daily Hope for Caregivers

Like a cup of cool water on a hot afternoon, this book will provide spiritual refreshment to those caring for an ailing loved one. Written by the "Voice of Hope for Caregivers," the book offers no easy answers, just the simple reality that God can help us and wants to do so. Each of the sixty devoti...

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

Best known for its pivotal role in opening up the western frontier and its association with explorers and pioneers, the legendary Cumberland Gap has long been celebrated in music and literature. To better preserve that history, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park was authorized in 1940 and now c...

The Friendly Stars

"I came across this little paperback in a sailing store in Sausalito and had to buy it. The original edition was published in 1907. How often do you see books from that era reprinted in 1964 and still available nearly a century later? This book is obviously a classic.It's charm is in the description...

Fits and Starts: A Genealogy of Hysteria in Modern France