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What happens when you become your parent's parent? That's what longtime NPR journalist Kitty Eisele had to figure out when she became a full-time caregiver for her beloved dad. After moving back to her childhood home, she finds herself bewildered by the medical, legal, and emotional challenges of elder-care, to say nothing of the time her dad headed off on a 300-mile road trip without telling her. Kitty's dad was experiencing cognitive decline, but she felt like the one losing her mind. Twenty-Four Seven explores how we help our loved ones live—and die—and what they mean to us. Support for...

Introducing “Missing Niqui McCown,” the 2001 disappearance of a 28-year-old woman who vanished three weeks before her wedding. The final known moments of Niqui’s whereabouts were captured by a surveillance camera in a laundromat in Richmond, Indiana. Detectives have spent 22 years trying to piece together what happened next. They would find plenty of leads (her car turned up five months later in Dayton, OH) and many suspects (including a former police officer) but they have not found Niqui. A windy trail of clues has led to what some would call a definitive answer, but ...

Archivo histórico de la ciudad heroica y pueblo mágico de Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas

From the Upper Room of Pentecost to Azusa Street in Los Angeles, God has used prayer movements throughout history to change the world. Over fifteen years ago, a group of students gathered for a prayer vigil in Chichester, England—and the prayers they started haven’t stopped. Out of that first meeting came 24-7 Prayer: an international movement of prayer, mission, and justice that has reached Chinese underground churches, Indian slums, Papua New Guinea jungles, ancient English cathedrals, and even a brewery in Missouri.

Bloomsbury presents Bloody Skies: XV Fighter Command Against all Odds by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by Christopher Ragland. This book details the operations of the USAAF’s overlooked XV Fighter Command that protected the bombers during the campaign against the Romanian oil fields in World...