Author: Lorraine Paul Noznisky
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460218094
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Mother's Statement: This book is about our experience with my daughter Debra's walk with cancer. It is every mother's nightmare - losing a child. It began the first day my daughter was diagnosed. Never did I consider the possibility that my diary would serve any purpose other than to try to understand the mystery and confusions, or lack of information, or misinformation during her treatments; also our hopes, disappointments, the roller-coaster of emotions, and the confusing medications. We have never been able to verify her treatments, as after numerous requests, we were not given Debra's medical records.
Debra's Gifts
Author: Lorraine Paul Noznisky
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460218094
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Mother's Statement: This book is about our experience with my daughter Debra's walk with cancer. It is every mother's nightmare - losing a child. It began the first day my daughter was diagnosed. Never did I consider the possibility that my diary would serve any purpose other than to try to understand the mystery and confusions, or lack of information, or misinformation during her treatments; also our hopes, disappointments, the roller-coaster of emotions, and the confusing medications. We have never been able to verify her treatments, as after numerous requests, we were not given Debra's medical records.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460218094
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Mother's Statement: This book is about our experience with my daughter Debra's walk with cancer. It is every mother's nightmare - losing a child. It began the first day my daughter was diagnosed. Never did I consider the possibility that my diary would serve any purpose other than to try to understand the mystery and confusions, or lack of information, or misinformation during her treatments; also our hopes, disappointments, the roller-coaster of emotions, and the confusing medications. We have never been able to verify her treatments, as after numerous requests, we were not given Debra's medical records.
Stubborn Debra Sue
Author: Jeffery Tracey Sr.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1645841642
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Stubborn Debra Sue is an inspirational story that is based on true events about a little girl who never gave up. It tells about a little girl who becomes handicapped after being afflicted with polio and how she overcomes the many obstacles that she is faced with in her young life. It tells of her determination to run and play with other children her age despite her handicap, how students knocked her down while trying to pass her because she was too slow, and how she would fall down, get up, and fall down again. But stubborn Debra Sue refused to stay down. Debra Sue refused to be bullied, and she refused to let her older brother from being bullied. Even though she was handicap, she was her brother’s protector. It tells the agony that Debra Sue endured with the many operations that she incurred because of her polio. Some of the surgeries were successful while others failed. She always kept a positive attitude. It tells how she masked her pain and suffering so that people would not feel sorry for her. It tells about her love for all animals and how she took in all strays that came her way despite her mother’s disapproval. It tells about her friendships and the pain and agony she felt when her best friend betrayed her. When Debra Sue wanted to do something, she would refuse to let her handicap stop her from doing it. She would study the situation, and then she would figure out a way to do it. Stubborn Debra Sue gave true meaning to the phrase “Where there is a will, there is a way.”
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1645841642
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Stubborn Debra Sue is an inspirational story that is based on true events about a little girl who never gave up. It tells about a little girl who becomes handicapped after being afflicted with polio and how she overcomes the many obstacles that she is faced with in her young life. It tells of her determination to run and play with other children her age despite her handicap, how students knocked her down while trying to pass her because she was too slow, and how she would fall down, get up, and fall down again. But stubborn Debra Sue refused to stay down. Debra Sue refused to be bullied, and she refused to let her older brother from being bullied. Even though she was handicap, she was her brother’s protector. It tells the agony that Debra Sue endured with the many operations that she incurred because of her polio. Some of the surgeries were successful while others failed. She always kept a positive attitude. It tells how she masked her pain and suffering so that people would not feel sorry for her. It tells about her love for all animals and how she took in all strays that came her way despite her mother’s disapproval. It tells about her friendships and the pain and agony she felt when her best friend betrayed her. When Debra Sue wanted to do something, she would refuse to let her handicap stop her from doing it. She would study the situation, and then she would figure out a way to do it. Stubborn Debra Sue gave true meaning to the phrase “Where there is a will, there is a way.”
Power of a Positive Friend GIFT
Author: Karol Ladd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439122806
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Friendship. It's one of the most powerful forces around. It adds peace to frazzled days, provides companionship for lonely tasks, and makes any joyous event twice as fun. Written by best-selling author Karol Ladd and her best friend, Terry Ann Kelly, this fourth book in the popular Power of a Positive series shares practical principles on how to be a friend and nurture friendships. Exploring topics such as "Building on Your Common Interests," "Attitudes and Actions That Divide Relationships," "Being Real with Your Friends," and "The Forgiveness Factor," this book will help you enrich current friendships and develop new and lasting ones. The easy-to-read format and you-can-do-it principles will change the way you view your friendships forever.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439122806
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Friendship. It's one of the most powerful forces around. It adds peace to frazzled days, provides companionship for lonely tasks, and makes any joyous event twice as fun. Written by best-selling author Karol Ladd and her best friend, Terry Ann Kelly, this fourth book in the popular Power of a Positive series shares practical principles on how to be a friend and nurture friendships. Exploring topics such as "Building on Your Common Interests," "Attitudes and Actions That Divide Relationships," "Being Real with Your Friends," and "The Forgiveness Factor," this book will help you enrich current friendships and develop new and lasting ones. The easy-to-read format and you-can-do-it principles will change the way you view your friendships forever.
Untold Secrets
Author: Debra Guiou Stufflebean
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595861296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A deeply troubled woman, Debra DeVereaux, is admitted to a hospital psychiatric ward in 1985 under suicide watch. Intrigued by her dreams and insistence that she speaks directly to God, a psychotherapist teams up with the hospital's chaplain to unravel the mystery of Untold Secrets. Debra is like every woman, seeking to understand why; even like many women, walking a fine line between sanity and insanity. But she is a unique woman, confronting God in this "Road to Damascus" experience. Emotionally, Debra is spent. Spiritually, she is hanging by a tether. The key to stopping her downward spiral, is unlocking doors to not only her past, but to past generations. What bearing could Mary Todd Lincoln's secret have on Debra DeVereaux? How could Laura Todd's marriage to a Kansas marshall have any impact? How did Debra's mother wind up on the orphan train? Readers will find Untold Secrets has it all: romance, suspense, inspiration. The author does not shy away from the demons of sickness: rape, murder, adultery, kidnapping, abandonment, abuse and addiction. Her science versus spirituality approach to discovering the truth lends itself to interesting book discussions. Can memories be genetically transferred through DNA? Are dreams gifts from God?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595861296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A deeply troubled woman, Debra DeVereaux, is admitted to a hospital psychiatric ward in 1985 under suicide watch. Intrigued by her dreams and insistence that she speaks directly to God, a psychotherapist teams up with the hospital's chaplain to unravel the mystery of Untold Secrets. Debra is like every woman, seeking to understand why; even like many women, walking a fine line between sanity and insanity. But she is a unique woman, confronting God in this "Road to Damascus" experience. Emotionally, Debra is spent. Spiritually, she is hanging by a tether. The key to stopping her downward spiral, is unlocking doors to not only her past, but to past generations. What bearing could Mary Todd Lincoln's secret have on Debra DeVereaux? How could Laura Todd's marriage to a Kansas marshall have any impact? How did Debra's mother wind up on the orphan train? Readers will find Untold Secrets has it all: romance, suspense, inspiration. The author does not shy away from the demons of sickness: rape, murder, adultery, kidnapping, abandonment, abuse and addiction. Her science versus spirituality approach to discovering the truth lends itself to interesting book discussions. Can memories be genetically transferred through DNA? Are dreams gifts from God?
Chinook County
Author: Don Moeller
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681813343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Chinook County flippantly brings to life author’s experiences as a small-town trial attorney for twenty years in Oregon, through the adventures of his alter-ego, Donnie Moore. Donnie’s adventures start with the harrowing chase, capture, and prosecution of drug dealers as the district attorney for Wheeler County in the time-warped, ranch lifestyle of rural central Oregon. The closure of a local lumber mill, which causes its laid-off workers to emigrate with their families from Wheeler County for work elsewhere, leads Donnie to move his family and his legal practice to Chinook City on the North Oregon Coast. That's where Donnie encounters an incompetent prosecutor and a corrupt judge and county treasurer, the latter of whom gets killed by “new money” (or survives, as an alternative possibility). Besides graphically retelling how Donnie obtains relief through the Court of Appeals for a defrauded probate client from an erroneous judgment by the corrupted trial court judge, Donnie’s adventurous tales help the reader to relive his fearful encounter with a “suicide-by-cop” client and his adventures collaborating with a laid-off creamery ice cream truck driver-client, in converting local cow farts into an award-winning “green” energy source for the farmers’ cooperative creamery.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681813343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Chinook County flippantly brings to life author’s experiences as a small-town trial attorney for twenty years in Oregon, through the adventures of his alter-ego, Donnie Moore. Donnie’s adventures start with the harrowing chase, capture, and prosecution of drug dealers as the district attorney for Wheeler County in the time-warped, ranch lifestyle of rural central Oregon. The closure of a local lumber mill, which causes its laid-off workers to emigrate with their families from Wheeler County for work elsewhere, leads Donnie to move his family and his legal practice to Chinook City on the North Oregon Coast. That's where Donnie encounters an incompetent prosecutor and a corrupt judge and county treasurer, the latter of whom gets killed by “new money” (or survives, as an alternative possibility). Besides graphically retelling how Donnie obtains relief through the Court of Appeals for a defrauded probate client from an erroneous judgment by the corrupted trial court judge, Donnie’s adventurous tales help the reader to relive his fearful encounter with a “suicide-by-cop” client and his adventures collaborating with a laid-off creamery ice cream truck driver-client, in converting local cow farts into an award-winning “green” energy source for the farmers’ cooperative creamery.
Auchentrolly Park Drive
Author: Marilyn Jones
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493190970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This is a story of Baltimore in the 1950’s. It takes a look at prejudice in America and within the Black race. It is a tale of love, deception, secrets, murder ... and the supernatural.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493190970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This is a story of Baltimore in the 1950’s. It takes a look at prejudice in America and within the Black race. It is a tale of love, deception, secrets, murder ... and the supernatural.
Debra’s and Shauna’s Man Caves
Author: Dallas Glades
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669837017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
One man, Leeway Matchers Jr. and two women; Shauna Matchers-Poster, his daughter and Debra Amber, his niece from a half-brother are at the center of the story. Three mothers; Juniors Mother, Ms. Lezzy, His ex-wife, and Shauna’s mother, Marie Wyatt and Debra’s mother affectionately known as Mama shaped Junior’s life. What they have in common is their beginning, South Carolina. They were all born in South Carolina. The two cousins see each other after Marie’s mother’s funeral in South Carolina and promise to keep in touch before another funeral but that does not happen. When Shauna goes back to South Carolina for her father’s mother’s funeral, Ms. Lezzy, Debra makes sure Shauna does not get away this time. They exchange email addresses and phone numbers. After two years of emailing each other about their lives and sagas they are pulled to meet each other in person once again for another funeral. The circle of life takes them on a journey dating back two decades. The world was challenging for the two young women sharing one indisputable fact, they grew up without their fathers. The women find that their strategies of living without a positive father figure as a role model may have clouded their judgments when it came to which type of men they should have allowed in their lives. Stories of molestation, rape, abuse, and betrayal are shared. You will experience the struggles or at least get a glimpse of being a struggling African American single mother. Confessions of marrying the right and wrong man, abortions (before Roe vs. Wade was overturned), and military sexual trauma (women who fought for our country but died at the hands of their fellow military buddies). Experience issues like; returning to college as a middle-aged mother (before student loan debts were canceled), raising a child with epilepsy, dealing with child neglect issues, holding out for the right careers, child support, and raising Black sons in America before the Black Lives Matter movement. Issues so heart-breaking they will make you laugh and cry at the same time. The cousins' “man cave” confessions will have you glued to every page as their journey to find the right man to unlock the man cave takes them into one eviction after another. This smart-witted, questionable-language-drama is filled with plenty of inspirational moments as the two cousins encourage each other to keep moving forward through prayer and praise. Their lives are an open book of laughter, love, pain, and strength you will love.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669837017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
One man, Leeway Matchers Jr. and two women; Shauna Matchers-Poster, his daughter and Debra Amber, his niece from a half-brother are at the center of the story. Three mothers; Juniors Mother, Ms. Lezzy, His ex-wife, and Shauna’s mother, Marie Wyatt and Debra’s mother affectionately known as Mama shaped Junior’s life. What they have in common is their beginning, South Carolina. They were all born in South Carolina. The two cousins see each other after Marie’s mother’s funeral in South Carolina and promise to keep in touch before another funeral but that does not happen. When Shauna goes back to South Carolina for her father’s mother’s funeral, Ms. Lezzy, Debra makes sure Shauna does not get away this time. They exchange email addresses and phone numbers. After two years of emailing each other about their lives and sagas they are pulled to meet each other in person once again for another funeral. The circle of life takes them on a journey dating back two decades. The world was challenging for the two young women sharing one indisputable fact, they grew up without their fathers. The women find that their strategies of living without a positive father figure as a role model may have clouded their judgments when it came to which type of men they should have allowed in their lives. Stories of molestation, rape, abuse, and betrayal are shared. You will experience the struggles or at least get a glimpse of being a struggling African American single mother. Confessions of marrying the right and wrong man, abortions (before Roe vs. Wade was overturned), and military sexual trauma (women who fought for our country but died at the hands of their fellow military buddies). Experience issues like; returning to college as a middle-aged mother (before student loan debts were canceled), raising a child with epilepsy, dealing with child neglect issues, holding out for the right careers, child support, and raising Black sons in America before the Black Lives Matter movement. Issues so heart-breaking they will make you laugh and cry at the same time. The cousins' “man cave” confessions will have you glued to every page as their journey to find the right man to unlock the man cave takes them into one eviction after another. This smart-witted, questionable-language-drama is filled with plenty of inspirational moments as the two cousins encourage each other to keep moving forward through prayer and praise. Their lives are an open book of laughter, love, pain, and strength you will love.
Bringing Ben Home
Author: Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593420101
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder. In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young—a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was “an awful mistake.” The Texas legal system didn’t see it that way. It allowed shoddy police work, paid witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct to convict Spencer of murder, and it ignored later efforts to correct this error. The state’s bureaucratic intransigence caused Spencer to spend more than half his life in prison. Eventually independent investigators, new witness testimony, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new Dallas DA convinced a Texas judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing, and in 2021 he was released from prison. As Spencer’s fight to clear himself demonstrates, our legal systems are broken: expedience is more important than the truth. That is starting to change as states across the country implement new efforts to reduce wrongful convictions, and one of the states leading the way is Texas. Award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty has spent years digging into this issue, and she has immersed herself in Spencer’s case. She has combed police files and court records, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and had extensive conversations with Spencer, and in Bringing Ben Home she threads together two narratives: how an innocent Black man got caught up in and couldn’t escape a legal system that refused to admit its mistakes; and what Texas and other states are doing to address wrongful convictions to make the legal process more equitable for everyone. By turns fascinating and enraging, personal and provocative, Bringing Ben Home is the powerful story of one innocent man who refused to admit that he was guilty of murder, and how his plight became part of a paradigm shift in how the legal system thinks about innocence as it institutes new methods to overturn wrongful convictions to better protect people like Ben Spencer.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593420101
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder. In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young—a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was “an awful mistake.” The Texas legal system didn’t see it that way. It allowed shoddy police work, paid witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct to convict Spencer of murder, and it ignored later efforts to correct this error. The state’s bureaucratic intransigence caused Spencer to spend more than half his life in prison. Eventually independent investigators, new witness testimony, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new Dallas DA convinced a Texas judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing, and in 2021 he was released from prison. As Spencer’s fight to clear himself demonstrates, our legal systems are broken: expedience is more important than the truth. That is starting to change as states across the country implement new efforts to reduce wrongful convictions, and one of the states leading the way is Texas. Award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty has spent years digging into this issue, and she has immersed herself in Spencer’s case. She has combed police files and court records, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and had extensive conversations with Spencer, and in Bringing Ben Home she threads together two narratives: how an innocent Black man got caught up in and couldn’t escape a legal system that refused to admit its mistakes; and what Texas and other states are doing to address wrongful convictions to make the legal process more equitable for everyone. By turns fascinating and enraging, personal and provocative, Bringing Ben Home is the powerful story of one innocent man who refused to admit that he was guilty of murder, and how his plight became part of a paradigm shift in how the legal system thinks about innocence as it institutes new methods to overturn wrongful convictions to better protect people like Ben Spencer.
Caught Up
Author: Irene
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1449099831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Caught Up is a Hot and Steamy romance, with a little mystery. There are three main characters. Sherri, Lisa, and Sharmaine. All three women have unique personalities. They struggle, live, love and learn. In the process of growing they get caught up in lies and betrayal that changes the courses of their lives. "Sherri, likes to explore sexually. She seems timid but she spice things up when she need to. "Lisa, is strong, she think first then reacts. You have to be real smart to get over on her. "Sharmaine, doesn't think at all, she only think of herself. What about her children? This Romance story is one to keep youre mind intrigued and youre emotions out of control, enjoy the ride.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1449099831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Caught Up is a Hot and Steamy romance, with a little mystery. There are three main characters. Sherri, Lisa, and Sharmaine. All three women have unique personalities. They struggle, live, love and learn. In the process of growing they get caught up in lies and betrayal that changes the courses of their lives. "Sherri, likes to explore sexually. She seems timid but she spice things up when she need to. "Lisa, is strong, she think first then reacts. You have to be real smart to get over on her. "Sharmaine, doesn't think at all, she only think of herself. What about her children? This Romance story is one to keep youre mind intrigued and youre emotions out of control, enjoy the ride.
Gifts of Art: The Met’s 150th Anniversary
Author: Max Hollein
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588397351
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
In honor of the institution’s 150th year, this publication celebrates the 203 collectors who committed more than 2,500 works of art to The Met for the sesquicentennial. These meaningful additions change the ways in which we think about the Museum’s holdings and deepen the stories The Met can tell about all the works in the collection. Highlights featured in this volume include an imposing stone head from an Egyptian sarcophagus; an opulent horse armor commissioned by King Philip IV of Spain; a Tibetan war mask; an early American daguerreotype; Sir Edward Burne-Jones’s enigmatic watercolor; an early twentieth-century Japanese bamboo shrine cabinet; poignant photographs made by Robert Frank for his iconic series The Americans; the Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera’s 1949 tondo Iberic; Steve Miller’s 1961 Gibson guitar; important works by Georg Baselitz; art from the Iranian Saqqakhana school; the vibrant bark painting of Aboriginal Australian artist Nonggirrnga Marawili; and recent creations by artists such as Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Robert Gober, and Wangechi Mutu.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588397351
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
In honor of the institution’s 150th year, this publication celebrates the 203 collectors who committed more than 2,500 works of art to The Met for the sesquicentennial. These meaningful additions change the ways in which we think about the Museum’s holdings and deepen the stories The Met can tell about all the works in the collection. Highlights featured in this volume include an imposing stone head from an Egyptian sarcophagus; an opulent horse armor commissioned by King Philip IV of Spain; a Tibetan war mask; an early American daguerreotype; Sir Edward Burne-Jones’s enigmatic watercolor; an early twentieth-century Japanese bamboo shrine cabinet; poignant photographs made by Robert Frank for his iconic series The Americans; the Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera’s 1949 tondo Iberic; Steve Miller’s 1961 Gibson guitar; important works by Georg Baselitz; art from the Iranian Saqqakhana school; the vibrant bark painting of Aboriginal Australian artist Nonggirrnga Marawili; and recent creations by artists such as Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Robert Gober, and Wangechi Mutu.