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Generation MySpace: Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence – How Social Networking Is Changing Everything about Friendship, Gossip, Sex, Drugs, and Our Kids’ Values Candice M. Kelsey: Does your teen or preteen spend countless hours on social websites (MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) and text-messaging by cell phone? If so, his or her privacy, social standing, self-esteem, values, and sexuality are affected. Learn how to assess your child’s wired environment – and how you can set appropriate limits.

Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon: Renouncing globally procured foodstuffs for comestibles grown and raised within a 100 miles of their home challenged the authors’ ingenuity, taste buds, and at times, even their relationship. Was it a worthwhile experiment?

Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody’s Guide to Affordable, World-class Medical Tourism Josef Woodman: Worried about the cost of an upcoming surgical, dental, or cosmetic procedure? Using a clinic in another country might save you 15-85%, but wise planning and careful shopping are essential. This book will help you with budgeting, planning, and clinic selection.

Any Day with Hair Is a Good Hair Day: How to Get Through Cancer and Get on with Your Life (Trust Me, I’ve been There) Michelle Rapkin: Cancer may be a six-letter word that scared you witless, but you’ve got more control than you probably realize. Her hard-earned wisdom and down-to-earth suggestions will coach you through the ins and outs of life with cancer, but the effervescent Rapkin will also have you laughing.

The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies Muriel R. Gillick, M.D: Wake up and smell the coffee! says Gillick, a Harvard professor and physician. All the supplements and facelifts in the world can’t change the fact that we all age. As individuals, as communities, and as a society, we need to focus on quality of life and prepare for the inevitable changes ahead of us. Will you have access to what you’ll need in your community?

One Bite at a Time: Nourishing Recipes for Cancer Survivors and Their Friends Rebecca Katz with Marsha Tomassi and Mat Edelson: Gorgeous photos entice you to make fresh, simple recipes from around the world. Never had cancer? Thank your lucky stars, but let this book tempt you into making healthy dishes too!

Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife Cathryn Jakobson Ramin: Why, when we hit middle-age, do so many of us have trouble remembering? Concerned about her own forgetfulness, journalist Jakobson Ramin set out to learn about memory. We travel along as she explores how we establish and then (hopefully) recall memories, why so many baby boomers are now plagued by forgetfulness – and ways to cultivate our capacity to remember.

The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking after Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent Barry J. Jacobs: “It reads like a novel but also provides really good, straightforward, worthwhile advice. This is a ‘must read.’” – SUZANNE MINTZ, PRESIDENT AND COFOUNDER, NATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVERS ASSOCIATION.

Life after Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke Joel Stein, M.D.; Julie Silver, M.D.; and Elizabeth Pegg Frates, M.D.: Improve your overall health, understand how underlying conditions lead to strokes, and lower your risks of having another.

Living Well in a Nursing Home: Everything You and Your Folks Need to Know Lynn Dickinson, M.A.; and Xenia Vosen, Ph.D.; with Severine Biedermann: The authors provide guidance to help you choose the type of facility, and then which specific facility; manage the move; communicate with staff; have enjoyable visits; resolve conflicts; and understand nursing home life.