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Book Synopsis Even A Bird With Broken Wings Can Fly by : Lori Sue Schmitt
Download or read book Even A Bird With Broken Wings Can Fly written by Lori Sue Schmitt and published by PageFree Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born disabled, and am confined to a wheelchair. I have no use of my arms and legs, but learned to adapt. Join me on my journey through my struggles, my triumphs, through some wrongs I survived. Despite being disabled, I've carved my way.
Book Synopsis May Day: Recovering Humor from a Stroke by : Anna Marie Porter
Download or read book May Day: Recovering Humor from a Stroke written by Anna Marie Porter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than two months past her fifty-third birthday Anna Marie Porter suffered a stroke caused by the rupture of a cerebral cavernous malformation. She was suddenly paralyzed on her right side, unable to use any of her appendages save three fingers In the wake of such a life-altering event--and faced with months of rehab--she found comfort in poking fun at her situation; humor became her survival mechanism. What's so funny about having a stroke? Not much unless you have a healthy sense of humor--or even an unhealthy one! And if you're going to take a death-defying leap into the world of serious illness, "What good is sitting alone in your room?" So she didn't. She invited her friends, family, and colleagues in to her virtual hospital room through an online blog. That blog became the basis for this book. May Day: Recovering Humor From a Stroke is sometimes poignant, often funny, and always an enlightening look into the world of recovering from a serious setback.
Download or read book Kasey & Ivy written by Alison Hughes and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through twenty-six letters to her friend Nina, twelve-year-old Kasey chronicles the often humorous observations and impressions of her unexpected, month-long stay in a geriatric ward for the treatment of a rare but treatable bone disease ("osteo-something-something-itis"). Kasey tries to make her life less dull by wearing her own nightgowns, surrounding herself with her favorite stuffies and developing an unusual exercise routine. Hospital food, insomnia and the germy communal bath are enduring sources of dread, but some new (and unexpected) friends make her life bearable.
Download or read book Razor Here written by Ron Donaldson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At one time, Razor was a strapping, athletic, and active young man. Now, many years later, he has finally come to the realization that getting older really pisses him off. Now pear-shaped, slow, and forgetful, Razor is convinced he is not a pretty sight. Worse yet, Squatty Body his lovely, strong-willed wife is a real pain in his butt. In his first collection of humorous anecdotes and satirical commentary, based on real-life situations and current issues, retired teacher and avid storyteller R. D. Donaldson shares a delightful compilation of musings both hilarious and contemplative that highlight the adventures of Razor and Squatty Body two characters loosely based on Donaldson and his own wife. Razor was born on the golf course and will do anything to win his opponents' quarters including verbally slashing the enemy. Squatty Body is a deficient chef who has burned boiling water, screwed up buttered toast, and killed the neighbor's dog with her less-than-desirable cooking. Is the whole world going crazy? After all is said and done, Razor may just prove to everyone that he is the only sane one left standing in the midst of a bunch of nuts.
Book Synopsis Imagine Living Life Well with Perspective & Perseverance by : Maureen Whitaker
Download or read book Imagine Living Life Well with Perspective & Perseverance written by Maureen Whitaker and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Living Life Well with Perspective and Perseverance with Real Life and Medieval Society with Discretion Being the Better Part of Valor Life Changes: Five Years Hence--Book Four Volume VI, Part One The Otherside gives a preface called Inner Whispers to begin the book: "A greater truth in life is when one has listened to the inner whisperings of their mind to create a positive action by making a split-second decision to deal with any given situation, even if it is a risk to one's physical or mental self in doing so, they have done what they know." The Four Musketeers are aging gracefully and are in overall great health. Their activities and traveling in their motorcoach keeps them going and enjoying true life adventures in the Medieval Society. There we all have grand times with our many friends. We traveled to Ireland and had a wonderful time. We continued to provide Spiritual Seminars and educating the attendees with what we know and that which is given to us. We Four Musketeers went to Alaska during a lovely Spring one year, enjoying it a great deal! Anna turns age seventy, and they have a great party. We went on a Motorcoach tour to Washington State and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It proved to have many challenges and some life changes for the four of us. Most of it is complex. In Book Five, you will read Part II of Volume VI, then Book Six will have Volume VII.
Book Synopsis On Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Original Short Stories and Case Studies by : Dennis C. Tanner
Download or read book On Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Original Short Stories and Case Studies written by Dennis C. Tanner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Original Short Stories and Case Studies is a unique book. It is a collection of short stories and case studies about persons with neurogenic communication disorders. The short stories are based on people I have known as friends, acquaintances, or patients. The characters in the short stories are based on one person or a composite of several individuals. I have placed these characters in interesting fictional situations which provide a vehicle for showing their mettle in dealing with their communication disorders and life challenges. The case studies are based on actual clinical cases and situations, but literary license has been taken to make them reader-friendly and interesting. This book of short stories and case studies is not a scholarly clinical treatise on neurogenic communication disorders, nor does it aspire to be one. While I believe it provides accurate information about neurogenic communication disorders, it is a work of fiction and simply a different vehicle for understanding these complex and often devastating medical conditions.
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Book Synopsis Smiling at the Future by : Barbara Brady
Download or read book Smiling at the Future written by Barbara Brady and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dormant talents and strengths often surface in unlikely people—just ask Fannie Pekum. Perhaps you first met Fannie in the book, A Variety of Gifts. She’s alive and well, ever full of vim and vinegar, and continues to meddle in people’s lives. There’s constant chaos and turmoil with teenage Muriel and an odd assortment of friends. When her nemesis appears unexpectedly—along with a mangy dog, Fannie’s sense of decency and basic goodness is severely tested. Witty and wise, this homespun saga will capture your heart with a story for all ages.
Book Synopsis Margaux with an X by : Ronald Koertge
Download or read book Margaux with an X written by Ronald Koertge and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaux, known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family violence and abuse.
Download or read book Cyborg's Melody written by Donald Hatch and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyborg’s Melody is the story of a Christian warp generator mechanic whose wife is murdered by an unknown man. His attempt to flee the police, who believe the he is the murder, and catch the real killer lands him in the middle of a battle between a corporation bent on inter planetary conquest and a beleaguered underground organization trying to stop it.
Book Synopsis Late-Life Love: A Memoir by : Susan Gubar
Download or read book Late-Life Love: A Memoir written by Susan Gubar and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Winning [and] intelligent. . . . [An] impressive, often heartening addition to the literature of aging.” — Heller McAlpin, Wall Street Journal In this “unique blend of memoir and literary commentary” (Bookpage), acclaimed author and literary scholar Susan Gubar contemplates the beauty and strength of enduring love—both for her husband and for the literature that has shaped her life. Throughout the complications of devoted caregiving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, and a stressful move to a more manageable apartment, Gubar proves that love and desire have no expiration date—on the page or in life. Late-Life Love offers a resounding retort to ageist stereotypes, appraises the obstacles unique to senior couples, and celebrates second chances.
Book Synopsis Take Up Thy Bed and Walk by : Lois Keith
Download or read book Take Up Thy Bed and Walk written by Lois Keith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidi, The Secret Garden, and Pollyanna are all classic "girls' books, " featuring a miracle cure of an invalid character who literally gets up and walks away from illness or paralysis. Such stories were common in Victorian novels and they implicitly conveyed the idea that disability and physical suffering were punishment for wrongdoing: unruly girls could not enter womanhood unless they were tamed, and an accident was the perfect plot device for this transformation. Other characters, like Helen Burns in Jane Eyre or Beth in Little Women, were just too good to live, and died so that another character could be redeemed by their example. Lois Keith points out in this study that the temptation to either cure or kill off disabled characters has surprising tenacity. The widespread belief that a disabled life isn't a full life and that patients can cure themselves through force of will endures to the present day. In Take Up Thy Bed & Walk, Lois Keith brings her lively and observant eye to the classic books of childhood from Jane Eyre, Heidi, and Pollyanna, to modern American classics such as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie and Judy Blume's Deenie. Keith explores the recurring images of impairment and ill health in literature and asks the reader to reconsider the messages they send to a devoted young audience. This book is also a testament to the singular passion with which these books are read by younger readers and reminds us of the intensity of our own reading experience as children.
Book Synopsis Less Than a Treason by : Dana Stabenow
Download or read book Less Than a Treason written by Dana Stabenow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush. Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his rock hammer has disappeared from the Suulutaq Mine in the Park. Was it deliberate? An accident? Foul play? Native Aleut Private Investigator Kate Shugak may be the only person who can find out. But for the fact that Kate, too, is now among the missing...
Book Synopsis Such a Pretty Girl by : Nadina LaSpina
Download or read book Such a Pretty Girl written by Nadina LaSpina and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her; to her rebellion and her activism in the disability rights movement. LaSpina’s personal growth parallels the movement’s political development—from coming together, organizing, and fighting against exclusion from public and social life, to the forging of a common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the embracing of disability pride. While unique, the author's journey is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find one's place in an ableist world—a world not made for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative terms. La Spina refutes all stereotypical narratives of disability. Through the telling of her life’s story, without editorializing, she shows the harm that the overwhelming focus on pity and on a cure that remains elusive has done to disabled people. Her story exposes the disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy in a society that devalues those who are different and denies them basic rights. Written as continuous narrative and in a subtle and intimate voice, Such a Pretty Girl is a memoir as captivating as a novel. It is one of the few disability memoirs to focus on activism, and one of the first by an immigrant.
Download or read book God Jr. written by Dennis Cooper and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Closer “transcends the formulaic with exquisite writing on the level of Rimbaud’s Illuminations . . . an American masterpiece” (James McCourt, Los Angeles Times). God Jr. is the story of Jim, a father who survived the car crash that killed his teenage son Tommy. Tommy was distant, transfixed by video games and pop culture, and a mystery to the man who raised him. Now, disabled by the accident, yearning somehow to absolve his own guilt over the crash, Jim becomes obsessed with a mysterious building Tommy drew repetitively in a notebook before he died. As the fixation grows, Jim starts to take on elements of his son—at the expense of his job and marriage—but is he connecting with who Tommy truly was? A tender, wrenching look at guilt, grief, and the tenuous bonds of family, God Jr. is unlike anything Dennis Cooper has yet written. It is a triumphant achievement from one of our finest writers. “This beautiful book is a first-person narration of how grief grows and morphs after a death, and its style and naked pain make the reader feel like he has suffered a concussion . . . Carefully wrought in Cooper’s trademark short, clipped sentences. There’s no room for the pain to hide, and Cooper lays it bare with humor and striking honesty.” —Time Out Chicago “God Jr. is probably Cooper’s richest, most philosophical novel to date. If the cycle were a video game, this would be its Easter egg.” —SF Gate “Absorbing . . . carefully spare, pop-cultures prose that has earned him a cult following.” —Entertainment Weekly
Book Synopsis The Loose Ends List by : Carrie Firestone
Download or read book The Loose Ends List written by Carrie Firestone and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trip of a lifetime, a summer of love - unputdownable writing, perfect for fans of John Green and E. Lockhart. Maddie O'Neill Levine wants to spend the summer before college tying up loose ends with her best friends - kissing boys and soaking up the last of the summer sun. Then her beloved grandmother drops a bombshell; she has been diagnosed with cancer. To spend quality time with her family, Maddie's grandmother takes the whole family on a round-the-word cruise - but at the end of it, Gram might not return home. Here is a story about love, loss and the power of forgiveness.
Book Synopsis Marvelous Mark and His No-Good Dog by : Heather Grovet
Download or read book Marvelous Mark and His No-Good Dog written by Heather Grovet and published by Review & Herald Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark has no special talents. He thinks. Except talking. His best friend in Calgary had a nickname for him: Marvelous Mark Olsen and the Mighty Moving Mouth! That was then. At his old school he was the life of the party; now he's friendless. His parents are busy; his baby brother, Ryan, is a pest; and Grandpa Olsen, who used to be nice, has become an old grump ever since he lost the ability to walk. Life is terrible. Then Mark meets Jet, one not-so-swift cow dog who growls when he's happy. He's foolish. Daft, says Mr. McGinness, the cattle rancher. Rather play than work. He spends all his time chasing birds. About the only thing he likes better than birds is people. He'll never amount to anything much. I need this dog, Mark told his dad. Life gets better. Then Jet has a close encounter with a tractor. Dear God, don't let that be my dog. Please. Would Jet lose a leg? What good is a three-legged dog? In the end Mark discovers that if he can love a worthless, good-for-nothing dog, well, maybe God can love a boy who talks too much.
