Large Print

Reading Program 2004

Nurturing For Community

THE ENDURING HUMAN SPIRIT: THOUGHT–PROVOKING STORIES ON CARING FOR OUR ELDERS
Charles Tindell 224 pages
Idyll Arbor, Inc., 2003 (#03522) $16.00

This book answers the questions: How can people deal with their parents’ aging and their own aging? What keeps the spirit alive and growing? How can people provide better care to the elderly? Stories of real people telling how to keep the spirits of the elderly alive even under difficult circumstances.

OUT TO PASTURE, OVER WHAT HILL? OLDER BUT WILDER
Effie Leland Wilder Hardcover/547 pages
Random House, 2002 (#03557) $14.00

Anyone who thinks retirement is all “rocking chair and Medicare” is in for surprises when they meet the folks at Fair Acres Retirement Home in the pages of this book, which includes three complete novels. Whether readers are familiar with Hattie and her cohorts or meeting them for the first time, they will not be able to resist these charming folks who have a lot of living to do.

Spiritual Growth

STORIES FOR THE HEART: THE SECOND COLLECTION
Compiled by Alice Gray, Editor      377 pages
The Gale Group, 2001                    (#03574) $17.95

This collection offers more than 100 stories that draw on the wisdom, humor and love of such well-known writers and speakers as Ruth Bell Graham, Charles Stanley, Joni Eareckson Tada and Max Lucado.