Psychological theory has traditionally overlooked or minimized the role of siblings in development, focusing instead on parent-child attachment relationships. The importance of sisters has been even more marginalized. Sue A. Kuba explores this omission in The Role of Sisters in Women's Development, seeking to broaden and enrich current understanding of the psychology of women. This unique work is distinguished by Kuba's phenomenological method of research, rooted in a single prompt: "Tell me about your relationship with your sister." Rich in detail, the responses (many of which are reproduced at length within the book) provide a complex picture of sister relationships across the lifespan. Integrating these stories with current literature about gender and family composition for sisters of difference (disabled and lesbian sisters) and ethnic sisters, this book provides useful recommendations for therapeutic understanding of the significance of sisters in everyday life, integrating diverse perspectives in order to address the ways clinicians can enhance psychological work with women clients. A valuable contribution to the field of mental health, The Role of Sisters in Women's Development is highly recommended for therapists who wish to broaden their inquiry into the sister connection, as well as anyone who wants to further understand the importance of sisterhood.

Ask the Grey Sisters: Sault Ste. Marie and the General Hospital, 1898-1998 tells the story of the creation and one-hundred-year history of the Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital. At a time when Canada's healthcare system is at a crossroads and we are asked to make crucial decisions for its future, it is intriguing and enlightening to look at the colourful past of a typical community hospital. Throughout the 1890s, Sault Ste. Marie was a town in search of a hospital. Its glory days at the centre of the fur-trade route were long gone and the Sault was in the process of becoming a modern industrial community. Such a community needed a hospital as a centrepiece to attract investors and as a necessary social institution to care for the hundreds of workers who were flocking to town without family support. The General Hospital was established in 1898 after the town committee charged with developing a hospital had been refused funding by both the federal and provincial governments. In desperation, the committee met with the provincial Inspector of Asylums and Prisons (the only provincial official with hospitals in his mandate). "If you wish a hospital of which the work is serious and lasting," he is reported to have advised them, "ask the Grey Sisters." And so began a fruitful association between the community of Sault Ste. Marie and two orders of Grey Sisters who have operated the hospital through its one-hundred-year history. Based in part on the extensive archival collections of both orders of nuns, this history includes material from the sisters' Chronicles and their personal reminiscences. The result is an intimate and detailed portrait of a community hospital, placed in the context of an emerging provincial system of health care.

The Deceitful Sister-in-Law is a story about a young girl named Katie who had grown up in a large family. She married young and had a family of her own. She had her heart broken by her husband, whom she felt was her one true love, and she had to return home to her parents with her children, having to rely on the comfort and support to help her and her children heal their broken hearts and help Katie rebuild a solid foundation for her and her children. As time went on, Katie's mother told Katie that she needed to get back into the dating world and learn to trust again and assured her that her true love was still waiting to find her. Though Katie, living her life for her children, felt hesitant to date again for fear of getting her heart broken once more, Katie's mother and children assured her that it was okay to move on and start dating again and that they were all there to provide support and comfort to help Katie find the right person. As Katie began dating again, she found no connections and was ready to give up dating until her mother insisted on setting Katie up on a blind date with a gentleman that dined at her mother's work. Katie's mother assured Katie he was the one for her. Katie, allowing her mother to set her up on a blind date, found true love but also found that her true love has a sister with secrets that will later bring pain.

Sister Paula was educated and trained as a licensed social worker and then came to California to work for Holy Family Adoption Services when she was twenty-six. Here she found her true calling—helping young pregnant women in crisis; it was work that combined her spiritual belief in the sanctity of human life and her skills as a social worker. This book follows Sister Paula’s trajectory as she helped launch the pro-life movement with pregnancy help centers, crisis hotlines, and conventions that brought together pregnancy counselors from around the U.S. She inspired countless men and women, young and old, to join the pro-life cause with her intelligence, charisma, and humor. Sister Paula’s focus on the good of the mother and baby led her to become an international pro-life speaker, and in this book, colleagues and friends recall the many ways that her kindness, compassion, and positive outlook transformed their lives. Although she died in 2021, Sister Paula’s work of protecting the unborn will never be forgotten.