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Ten million people in the United States shake due to essential tremor. It is a syndrome with no cure. Medications and other procedures can calm many tremors, but not for everyone. Essential tremor can begin in childhood, but also may not surface until one’s 60s. Side effects are depression, embarrassment, uncontrollable shaking of the head, hands, arms, or legs, and difficulty using utensils or tools. This book is full of information and individual insights into how different people deal with essential tremor (ET) on the job and with family.

Three old friends take a vacation together once a year. This year they go to Newport, RI so Bernice, the retired photographer, can take pictures of the 1890-1900s mansions built by multimillions for a travel magazine. While there, Lucille, the retired English teacher, swears she saw a ghost. Kathleen, the retired pastor, volunteers at a center aiding pregnant teens and women in Texas. Before and after the trip she helps a teen (age 16) escape from a Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints cult. The teen, Rebecca, was sent to Texas to live with an aunt. The grandparents who sent her did not know ...

How long should Emily wait? Her newlywed husband never returned from the Vietnam War and his letters ceased arriving. She longed for him because he had promised to return and she had promised to wait. She went to college, taught school, retired, and then built a home on Georgian Bay in Ontario where her grandparents' old cottage had been. She enjoyed all the summers she had spent with them, even though she had experienced a near-tragic event one summer. A nightmare about the event was reoccuring. Her friend, Penny, visits often and the two friends decide to try to find George, Emily's ...

Shelby, a journalist, is abducted by Caleb, her husband's brother supposedly to hide her from a gang because she believes she killed one of them. Soon she realizes she is a prisoner in an underground hideout. She demands he let her go. When she finally is released, she drives away with her husband's baby who was born while she was a prisoner and with several debit cards. Shelby thinks she is finally free, but is she? Caleb told her that her husband is dead so she is resigned to take care of little Samantha alone. She begins a new life in a small California town and is amazed at the changes ...