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Women rowing north navigating life's currents and flourishing as we age
—Pipher, Mary Bray, author.
2019

DAISY Sound Recording

The author of Reviving Ophelia (DB 40455) examines the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as a daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural anthropologist, Pipher explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face. Bestseller. 2019.

Item Details

Edition: Daisy edition.

Description:

  • 1 DAISY disc (audio (9 hours, 41 minutes)) : sound ; 12 cm
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • digital DAISY
  • audio file Daisy

Target Audience Note:

  • Female narrator. NLS/BPH
  • Bestseller. NLS/BPH

Other Title: Navigating life's currents and flourishing as we age

Notes:

  • Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials.
  • Narrated by: Jennifer Hubbard.
  • Digital talking book. 2 levels and 31 navigation points. Digitally mastered.
  • Recorded from: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019] 9781632869609.
  • System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software.
  • DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
  • 2019 Mary Pipher

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • I. Challenges of the journey: A new stretch of the river
  • The lay of the land
  • The worn body
  • Intensity and poignancy
  • Caregiving
  • Swept away
  • Loneliness and solitude
  • II. Travel skills: Understanding ourselves
  • Making intentional choices
  • Building a good day
  • Creating community
  • Crafting resplendent narratives
  • Anchoring in gratitude
  • III. The people on the boat: Travel companions
  • Co-captains
  • The lifeboat of family
  • Grandchildren
  • IV. The Northern lights: Moon River: authenticity and self-acceptance
  • The long view
  • Everything is illuminated.

LCCN: 2019992381

Control Number: 3175004

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2019.
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