Friends of the Family

Friends of the Family
Author: Tommy Dades
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2009-05-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0061876321

“One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city.” —New York Times Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hit men. As told by Tommy Dades and Michael Vecchione—the cop and District Attorney investigator who solved New York’s coldest case—along with co-writer David Fisher, Friends of the Family is shocking true crime in the tradition of Nicolas Pileggi’s Wiseguys and Underboss by Peter Mass—a chilling, in-depth examination of what the New York Daily News calls “the worst betrayal of the badge in the NYPD’s history.”

A Friend of the Family

A Friend of the Family
Author: Lauren Grodstein
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1565129679

After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance.

100 Questions & Answers About Caring for Family Or Friends with Cancer

100 Questions & Answers About Caring for Family Or Friends with Cancer
Author: Susannah L. Rose
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1449618278

Whether you are a friend or relative of someone suffering from cancer, this book offers help. The only book available to provide both the professional healthcare giver's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Caring for Family or Friends with Cancer, Second Edition gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, home care, insurance, quality of life and more. This book, completely revised and updated for this new edition, is an invaluable resource for family and friends who are coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of cancer.

A Friend's and Relative's Guide to Supporting the Family with Autism

A Friend's and Relative's Guide to Supporting the Family with Autism
Author: Ann Palmer
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1849058776

A guide for the family of autistic children discusses the feelings that family members are likely to experience after a child is diagnosed as well as changes that will take place in a household, and covers the condition's characteristics.

Friends of the Family

Friends of the Family
Author: Camilla Bittle
Publisher: St Martins Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312104641

Well-insulated from an outside world riddled by war, the children of a history professor romp through the campus of a Massachusetts private school and develop special friendships that will last for years to come. By the author of Dear Family.

Dementia - Support for Family and Friends, Second Edition

Dementia - Support for Family and Friends, Second Edition
Author: Dave Pulsford
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 178450811X

A comprehensive and practical guide to dementia, this book is essential reading for anyone who has a friend or relative with the condition. This updated edition reflects new guidance on approaches to supporting people with dementia, focussing especially on the UK, and includes quotes from people with dementia as well as from family carers. The book explores each stage of the journey people with dementia face and explains how it affects the person, as well as those around them both at home and in residential settings. It shows how best to offer support and where to get professional and informal assistance. Focussing on the progressive nature of dementia and the issues that can arise as a result, it gives practical advice that can help to ensure the best possible quality of life both for the person with dementia and the people around them.