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Maureen, whose beloved husband died two years ago, is stuck in her bereavement and spends her time hanging out with her outspoken Jewish friend, Susan, and excessively exercising. Life revs up when fifty-five-year-old Bob Goldman, a nurse, moves into the Florida condo next door, then goes into overdrive when her sickly daughter, Alyssa, shows up from Brooklyn needing help. Maureen gradually learns her daughter's dreadful secrets.Can Maureen save her daughter? Is she too old to fall in love? To have sex?

The first circumnavigation of the Americas was accomplished by the Canadian Survey Ship Hudson in an 11 month voyage (1969 - 1970). She carried an international team of marine scientists along with a large contingent of Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) researchers to a number of remote and poorly-documented parts of four of the world's oceans, and to a group of unsurveyed fiords along the Chilean coast. The expedition established Canada's global-scale interest in the oceans including their biology, seafloor environments and the geological characteristics of their underlying basins. Dr. C. Mann and the Captain D. Butler, two Canadian federal government employees, were among the outstanding members of the Hudson 70 Coordintaing Committee that, respectively, guided the development of the expedition's scientific program and ensured safety-minded ship's operations under a range of weather and sea ice conditions. Data gathered during the circumnavigation were still being analyzed and published in the scientific literature as late as the early 1990s.

The Lower Rappahannock River Fords of Culpeper County is a comprehensive history of the river crossings and the surrounding community. The history begins with the Indians, covers the explorers and settlers, and deals heavily with the Civil War. The fords were guarded and fought over for two years by both the northern and southern armies. The book ends in the early 1900s when the fords were made obsolete by upstream bridges. Now the crossings have reverted back to pristine wilderness settings with faint signs of what once was there. Included in the book are detailed maps identifying the fords, residences, churches, schools, gold mines, and other features that made up the region. Appendices add in-depth detail to the history and the people. Photographs are provided showing historical structures and features. For a region so rich in history, much of it has never been documented, until now.