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Feeding My Mother

Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with her Mom's Memory Loss

By: Jann Arden

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Feeding My Mother

Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with her Mom's Memory Loss

By: Jann Arden

This edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann's diaries and her mother's final days. When beloved singer and songwriter Jann Arden's parents built a house just across the way from her, she thought they would be her refuge from the demands of her career. And for a time that was how it worked. But then her dad fell ill and died, and just days after his funeral, her mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. In Feeding My Mother, Jann shares what it is like for a daughter to become her mother's caregiver—in her own frank and funny words, and in recipes she invented to tempt her mom. Full of heartbreak, but also full of love and wonder.

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210

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Vintage Canada

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0735273936

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9780735273931

The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

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The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

#1 Bestseller A heartfelt, comic and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwriter, member of Canada's Music Hall of Fame and star of her own hit TV sitcom. A little bit All Creatures Great and Small, a little bit Fargo and all Jann Arden! On mean Harp Bittlemore’s blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don’t grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away. But Willa Bittlemore, just turning 14, is planning her own rebellion. Something doesn’t add up in the story she’s been told about her missing sister, and she's beginning to question if her horrible parents are even her parents at all. Just as things are really coming to a head, a bright young police officer starts investigating a cold case involving a baby stolen from a little rural hospital 28 years earlier, and Willa and the cows find out exactly how far the Bittlemores will go to protect a festering secret. Written with Jann’s trademark outrageous humour and full of her down-to-earth wisdom, The Bittlemores is a rural fairytale, a coming-of-age story and a prairie mystery all-in-one, saturated with her observations of the world she grew up in and her deep connection to the animals we exploit. This marvel of a first novel digs into how people come to be so cruel, but it also glories in the miracle of human kindness.

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385

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Random House

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1039008739

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9781039008731

If I Knew Then

Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging

By: Jann Arden

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If I Knew Then

Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging

By: Jann Arden

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash. Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am—that so many women are—is just the best time of my life." Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self—and all of us—that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose—not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures.

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217

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Vintage Canada

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0735279993

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9780735279995

Falling Backwards

A Memoir

By: Jann Arden

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Falling Backwards

A Memoir

By: Jann Arden

Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene—always candid, always unplugged. You thought you knew Jann Arden, but there is more—to her readers' delight, in Falling Backwards Jann reveals her childhood, her bond with family, her struggle in the formative years and what keeps her so grounded in the whirlwind entertainment industry. Jann has always been true to herself, except for a minor lapse when she was young. Oh wait, wasn't that all of us? From the tender and honest to the laugh-out-loud funny, Jann's stories from home and from the road during her pre-celebrity years will take you to unexpected places, including high school parties in farmer's fields, sleepovers under the stars, hard-to-believe summer jobs and the time she was stuck upside down in a brick barbecue. She reminds us of the inestimable value to a child of having teachers who believe in you and wide open spaces to play. But with the good times come the bad (and not just the bad perm). Jann opens up about the darker side of her so-called prairie perfect nuclear family and the first signs that her eldest brother was a uniquely troubled young man. In the days when Jann was experiencing a lot of firsts—first school play, first home perm, first kiss—how lucky for all of us that she stole away to her basement and taught herself her first song on her mother's guitar. In addition to being an incredible musician and multi-award-winning lyricist, Jann is a natural writer and simply an inspiration. Jann will capture your heart—and keep you in stitches—with her powerful stories about coming of age as an artist and as a human being. Jann brings her wit and that infectious sparkle to everything she does. This book is no exception.

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Vintage Canada

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0307399850

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9780307399854

If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You

Selected Journals of Jann Arden

By: Jann Arden

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If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You

Selected Journals of Jann Arden

By: Jann Arden

From cat food to death, bra size to spirituality, family to goose poop (yes, goose poop), these are the journals of Canadian recording artist Jann Arden. Her writing is wry and insightful, confessional and compassionate. Also included in if i knew, don't you think i'd tell you? are Jann's line drawings and open spaces inviting readers to think out loud, be human, draw, emote, express, participate, live, be a piece of it all OCo in other words, journal with Jann.

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200

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Insomniac Press

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1897414552

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9781897414552

The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

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Random House

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1039008739

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Feeding My Mother

Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with her Mom's Memory Loss

By: Jann Arden

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Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with her Mom's Memory Loss

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Vintage Canada

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0735273936

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Falling Backwards

A Memoir

By: Jann Arden

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A Memoir

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Vintage Canada

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I'll Tell You One Damn Thing and That's All i Know

By: Jann Arden

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I'll Tell You One Damn Thing and That's All i Know

By: Jann Arden

Arden artfully conveys real-life experiences and depths of emotion through her insightful lyrics. Her wit was first put to the page in the fall of 2002 when her first collection of journals, if i knew, don't you think i'd tell you? was published. These are best of the next, selected directly from her won on-line journals.

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199

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Insomniac Press

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1897414560

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9781897414569

Leggins

By: Teresa Lee,Jann Johnson Lardie

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Leggins

By: Teresa Lee,Jann Johnson Lardie

A spark of true friendship can ignite most unexpectedly, and suddenly you’re hooked. Some best friends are the strangest of combinations, but it works. It’s chemistry! Enjoy the escapades of two best friends, Leggins and Mary Francis. Laugh and sometimes suffer through the ups and downs they manage to navigate, while growing up in the 1950s. Share in the adventures and life experiences of a tightly knit group of neighborhood friends. A story woven with humor and life lessons, for all ages. Join Leggins and Mary Francis, as together they learn: Having a best friend means being one.

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250

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FriesenPress

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1460248872

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9781460248874

Home Sweeter Home

Creating A Haven Of Simplicity And Spirit

By: Jann Mitchell

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Home Sweeter Home

Creating A Haven Of Simplicity And Spirit

By: Jann Mitchell

We search the world for spirituality and peace--only to discover that happiness and satisfaction are not found "out there" in the world but right here, in our houses and in our hearts. "There's no place like home" holds true whether we live in a castle or a condo, a mansion or a studio apartment. Home Sweeter Home offers creative insights and suggestions for making our home life more nurturing, spiritual, and rewarding for ourselves, our families, and our friends.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451663048

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9781451663044

Women of Yucatan

Thirty Who Dare to Change Their World

By: George Ann Huck,Jann E. Freed

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Women of Yucatan

Thirty Who Dare to Change Their World

By: George Ann Huck,Jann E. Freed

In the strongly patriarchal society of the Mexican state of Yucatan, it's not surprising that few women have dared to challenge the gender inequalities set against them at birth. They live in an environment where rape can be forgotten as a crime if the victim agrees to marry her aggressor and where negative pregnancy tests are often a prerequisite for employment in the maquiladora factories. This book profiles 30 women who have dared to challenge such injustices and dramatically transform their situations. From local theatre directors and choreographers to civic leaders and politicians, each woman formed a unique leadership of circumstance dependent largely on the context of her personal experiences. The profiles, based on personal interviews and supplemented by photographs, describe the women's accomplishments and motivations as well as the obstacles they have confronted.

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261

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McFarland

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0786445262

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9780786445264

If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You

Selected Journals of Jann Arden

By: Jann Arden

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If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You

Selected Journals of Jann Arden

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Insomniac Press

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1897414552

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9781897414552

I'll Tell You One Damn Thing, and That's All I Know!

By: Jann Arden

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I'll Tell You One Damn Thing, and That's All I Know!

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Book's by Jann Arden

Feeding My Mother

Feeding My Mother

The Bittlemores

The Bittlemores

If I Knew Then

If I Knew Then

Falling Backwards

Falling Backwards

If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You

If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You

The Bittlemores

The Bittlemores

Feeding My Mother

Feeding My Mother

Falling Backwards

Falling Backwards

I'll Tell You One Damn Thing and That's All i Know

I'll Tell You One Damn Thing and That's All i Know

Leggins

Leggins

Home Sweeter Home

Home Sweeter Home

Women of Yucatan

Women of Yucatan

If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You

If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You

I'll Tell You One Damn Thing, and That's All I Know!

I'll Tell You One Damn Thing, and That's All I Know!

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