Family Nurse

In The Nurses, New York Times best-selling author and award-winning journalist Alexandra Robbins peers behind the staff-only door to write a lively, fast-paced story and a riveting work of investigative journalism. Robbins followed real-life nurses in four hospitals and interviewed hundreds of others in a captivating audiobook filled with joy and violence, miracles and heartbreak, dark humor and narrow victories, gripping drama and unsung heroism.

For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's been killing it at gymnastics. But when her cousin Cal moves in with her family, everything changes. Cal tells half-truths and tall tales, pranks Hannah constantly, and seems to be the reason her parents are fighting more and more. Nothing is how it used to be. She knows that Cal went through a lot after his mom died, and she is trying to be patient, but most days Hannah just wishes Cal never moved in.

Her family destroyed by injustice. Her spirit forged in the workhouse flames. Can one orphan heal her deepest wounds and ignite a future built on love? Haunted by devastating tragedy, her father unjustly hanged, her mother lost to grief, her brother dying in her arms, Mary Bennett finds herself alone in Victorian London clinging fiercely to one dream: becoming a nurse. Yet her path leads only through hardship: first, the brutal workhouse cruelly overseen by John Turner, the very man who destroyed her family; then harsh domestic service; and finally, the gruelling, dangerous toil of a match ...

Llama Llama has new neighbors! Nelly Gnu and her mama stop by for a play date, but Llama's not so sure it's time to share all his toys. Maybe just his blocks? It could be fun to make a castle with Nelly.... But wait - Nelly has Llama's little Fuzzy Llama! The fun turns to tears when Fuzzy Llama is ripped in two, "all because of Nelly Gnu!" Mama comes to the rescue and fixes Fuzzy, but she makes it clear: "I'll put Fuzzy on the stairs, until you're sure that you can share."

When Reena; her little brother, Luke; and their parents first move to Maine, Reena doesn't know what to expect. She's ready for beaches, blueberries, and all the lobster she can eat. Instead her parents "volunteer" Reena and Luke to work for an eccentric neighbor named Mrs. Falala, who has a pig named Paulie, a cat named China, a snake named Edna - and that stubborn cow, Zora.

"Forceful and iconic," raved Publishers Weekly in a starred review. This gorgeous book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son.

A Christmas Romance. A Christmas Miracle Threatens Everything... Holly Everhart knows heartbreak. A pediatric nurse unable to have children, she's made peace with her solitary life—until a feverish baby arrives on her childhood friend Jaxon Calloway's doorstep. Billionaire Jaxon might have escaped his troubled past, but when an infant needs saving, he turns to the one woman who's always understood him. Together, they make an impossible decision to protect the child, sparking a connection neither expected. There's just one problem: Jaxon is engaged to a woman who wants nothing to do with ...

Two-year-old Sarah lost her Syrian mother to cancer and never met her American father, a fallen gold star hero. When she lands in Dr. David Dutton’s office and gives him her mother’s letter, the good doctor forgets to sign his divorce papers and pledges to find Sarah’s paternal grandparents or a loving family to adopt her. After losing her baby boy, Jennifer Dutton wallowed in grief for three years. Now she wants a divorce from the husband who couldn't understand her sorrow. Her heart melts when she meets Sarah and reads her mother’s letter. Putting aside her plans for divorce, she ...

Carole Kramer Arsenault has spent the last two decades helping parents through pregnancy, labor, and all of their new responsibilities once baby comes home - both as a longtime pediatric nurse and as the founder of the most highly regarded baby care service in New England. From the first trimester to the fourth (baby’s crucial first three months), Arsenault and her team of professional nurses have seen it all.

When Lonnie Collins Motion was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now Lonnie is eleven and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister, Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn’t so bad after all. Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical voice captures Lonnie’s thoughtful perspectives of the world and his determination to one day put a family together again.

Mountain of My Dreams is a potentially six-book memoir (the first three books have been published) that tells the story of my family's decision to leave the suburbs in the early 1980s and move to beautiful Rappahannock County, Virginia to start a wholesale nursery. It is a story about a dream, a marriage, a family and endless adventures that often took the family out of their comfort zone. Unlike many back-to-the-land stories that follow a family for a year or two, we are still living the dream nearly fifty years later. Come along on our many adventures, as well as an equal number of ...

Former Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye delivers her latest collection, subtitled Poems About Families. They’re mostly focused on her relationship with her mother. Nye has a comfortable, unaffected delivery. Her voice has an unstudied tone, but, make no mistake, every syllable lands with precise intent. The poems are short and, at times, breathtakingly revealing, touching on acts of love and occasionally betrayal, on mysteries a child can never truly plumb. These snapshots come together to create a portrait of a vibrant, wounded, whole woman.

From brave and bold to creative and clever, Emily Winfield Martin's rhythmic rhyme expresses all the loving things that parents think of when they look at their children.

Hush, Little Bunny is a heartwarming, lyrical love letter from a papa bunny to his little one - from David Ezra Stein, Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Interrupting Chicken and Leaves. "Hush Little Baby" is a lullaby that parents have sung to their children for generations. Now Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein has reimagined the classic featuring an irresistible papa bunny and his little one.

Conquer the CPN Exam: Your Guide to Certified Pediatric Nurse Certification from PNCB is a concise and practical study guide created to help pediatric nurses review key concepts and prepare for the Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN) exam. This book is designed to supplement more comprehensive study materials, not replace them. It provides clear explanations of essential topics, allowing readers to focus their efforts on core principles and recognize areas where further study may be needed. The guide covers important pediatric nursing topics such as child growth and development, family-centered...

Llama Llama's tooth is wiggling! Is it time for his first tooth to come out? He's excited, but anxious. Who is this tooth fairy everyone talks about? Mama Llama reassures him; the tooth will come out when it's good and ready. But no one is ready for what happens next.... Suddenly, the tooth is GONE! Where did it go? And will the tooth fairy come at all, now? Anna Dewdney's fun rhyme is full of humor and comfort, and of course, a very happy ending.

'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.

"I really enjoyed this one. I honestly couldn't put it down. The ending was a total surprise. I'm still thinking about it!" - #1 Amazon and USA TODAY bestselling author Freida McFadden ER physician and medical researcher, Drake Cody, has developed an experimental drug that may treat spinal cord injury and help the paralyzed walk. A massive Big Pharma pay-off awaits twisted pharmaceutical genius Meryl Kampf if she can pirate Drake's breakthrough. Meryl, while ingesting increasing doses of cocaine and steroids, spearheads agents of an international crime syndicate and a traitor none suspect, ...

How Long Can She Nurse a Dream? For twenty-some years, Jenna Willows has sheltered a secret—even from her mother whom she serves as a private duty nurse. Long ago, it seemed that Jenna could keep that confidence forever. No one knew about the role she'd played in her former employer’s life. No one except Dr. Owen Potter and his wife, Marie. But shadows of that choice linger. Half a world away, the Potters lovingly raised their daughter, Grace, on the medical mission field in Kenya. For decades, Owen kept their arrangements to himself, even after his wife’s passing a few years back. ...

Logan Genetti wants to be the best nurse he can be, upcycle furniture, and have the kind of peace he never had as a kid. The woman he’s just saved from an oversized plant should have him looking for the nearest escape hatch, but there’s something about her that won’t allow him to walk away. Genevieve Beckstone prides herself on being independent. She built a billion-dollar corporation from the ground up and she rules every board room she steps into. When Logan Genetti finds her hiding behind a plant, accidentally high on pot brownies, she’s wearing a skin-tight dress her baby sister...