Author: Chad Simpson
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609381262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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Contains eighteen short stories by American author Chad Simpson.

Author: Carly Findlay
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 146070939X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A forthright, honest and rousingly triumphant memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. Say hello to Carly. 'In fairytales,the characters who look different are often castas the villain or monsters. It's only when they shed their unconventional skinthat they are seen as "good" or less frightening. There are very fewstories where the character that looks different is the hero of the story ... I've been the hero of mystory - telling it on my own terms, proud about my facial difference anddisability, not wanting a cure for my rare, severe and sometimes confrontingskin condition, and knowing that I am beautiful even though I don't have beautyprivilege.' This honest, outspoken and thought-provoking memoir by award-winning writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay will challenge all your assumptions and beliefs about what it is like to have a visibly different appearance. Carly lives with a rare skin condition, Ichthyosis, and what she faces every day, and what she has to live with, will have you cheering for her and her courage and irrepressible spirit. This is both a moving memoir and a proud manifesto on disability and appearance diversity issues. 'Believe the hype - by turns frank, funny, and fearsome, Findlay's extraordinary memoir is an early contender for 2019's best Australian non-fiction ... a powerful and moving invitation to examine the structures of privilege and dehumanisation that we so desperately need address in this country.' Better Read Than Dead 'A proud celebration of appearance difference ... a valuable read.' Herald Sun 'Defiant, unsettling and thought-provoking' The Age

Author: Rayna Rose Exelbierd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736250808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Didn't you know? Everyone deserves to hear hello. Rayna Rose wrote this book to teach about family, friendship, kindness, and connection. I hope my story inspires you to write your own! All you need is a poem or a story, some art and then you're off to a great start! You can do anything you set your mind to, I believe in you!

Author: Tracy Smith
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476652554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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In this family story that includes more than 70 letters from Vietnam, the raw honesty of one homesick teenage boy speaks for every lonely soldier at war. Huey crew chief Larry Smith grew into a hardened man in his First Cavalry helicopter while his little sister Tracy started kindergarten back in New Jersey and learned of war from the family television. As Larry turned 19 in December 1967, battles intensified and his letters darkened, casting doubt on his promise to return home. Decades after the war, as he lay in a coma, Tracy read her brother's letters in full and vowed to uncover the whole truth of his war. What she learned makes the case for generational trauma in the mental health realm: children do not belong in war, nor should they watch one unfold on television.

Author: Randy K. Mills
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253347955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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"Kenneth Kays was born in the conservative farm country of southern Illinois. The sixties were in full flower by the time Ken went off to college and discovered a world quite different from the one back home. On campus, drug culture flourished and the Vietnam War had polarized students. College meant a draft exemption, but in spring of 1969 Kays flunked out of school and soon received his draft notification. Denied conscientious objector status, he fled to Canada only to return. Yielding at last to pressure from family and community leaders, he joined up." "In deference to his nonviolent beliefs, the Army assigned him to a medical unit; he refused to carry a weapon. On May 7, 1970, after only seventeen days in Vietnam and just one day after joining a new platoon, the young medic found himself in a ferocious fire fight. Kays' actions at Fire Support Base Maureen would bring him the nation's highest award for military valor. The fighting that night at FSB Maureen was four hours of terrifying chaos. Seven men died. Yet it was just another unheralded skirmish toward the end of a long and fruitless war. Kays returned home with little fanfare and, with other vets, struggled to reconcile his anti-war beliefs and what he and others had done in Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Nikki J
Publisher: NikNak Nation Publishing
ISBN: 0615659683
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Nikki was a bright and precocious child that loved her mom and siblings. Due to circumstances that she couldn't control, she ended up in foster care. There she experienced all sorts of abuse and fell victim to the system that should have protected her. Not long after adoption, a spiral of events led to the climatic throw down that forever changed the course of her life. Take the journey with her back to the beginning as she endured “the pain” of abuse and the instability of foster care; while staying determined to live “in the promise” of knowing that God will never leave you or forsake you. That if you hold on, keep the faith, and keep hope, He always has something better. According to most statistics Nikki J. should be a neglectful mother of at least three children, incarcerated, a high school dropout, or dead. But fortunately for the world she’s just too darn stubborn to do what anybody says. She decided to write this book instead. Take the ride to the beginning as against all odds Nikki hangs on long enough for her promise to arrive. Determined not to let her hurt, pain, anger, and disappointment determine her future; here’s her incredible story of forgiveness, unbelievable strength, hope, perseverance, and faith. Allow her experiences to spark change so no matter what your pain is, you keep faith in your promise!

Author: Shaina Feinberg
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524891916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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When your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Times columnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in this gorgeously illustrated collection of sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating first-person stories. Based on one of Feinberg and Rothman's columns in the New York Times, “How We Got By: New Yorkers’ Advice for Getting Through a Crisis,” How We Got By is an ambitious journalistic undertaking rendered in an artful, collectible package. Each accompanied by one of Rothman’s full-color illustrated portraits, these personal accounts touch on a wide variety of subjects, from money and business to relationships, family, trauma, and death. A window into the world of how others think, feel, and, ultimately, survive, How We Got By invites us to remember our shared humanity as well as our truly extraordinary resilience.

Author: Joel Lee Russell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1893652025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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“The true life story of the adventures of Joel, from the frozn wasteland of Northern Ohio to the sweltering battlefields of South Vietnam, Joel takes you into the battles with him during the Tet Offensive. Read about the radical transformation of a dope smoking weirdo into a man of destiny. Excellent reading.” -- Patrick Russell “A great book of life, taking us on a roller coaster ride of the Spirit. Many laughs and many tears as you follow through the humor and pain. Very strong testimony that will win souls!” -- Buster Curtsinger

Author: Dolores Cook Raisch
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663241783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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The war in Vietnam was a turbulent time in our nation’s history that stirred strong feelings and deep emotions as America changed in ways that could not have been anticipated or avoided. To Vietnam and Back is an intimate family memoir that, through a lifeline of letters, offers a unique and warmly told story about one soldier’s year in Vietnam and one family anxiously awaiting his return. Readers will take a step back in time to a pivotal period of the Vietnam War, 1967-1968, and glimpse what it was like to not only leave home for the uncertainty of an increasingly controversial conflict, but also to be the parents, siblings and friends left at home to provide support the only way they knew how... through heartfelt words of everyday life. The pages are filled with emotion, humor, family and neighborhood news, while also depicting the uncertainty, fear and division caused by the war in Vietnam. It is a year of back and forth letters that brought encouragement and hope to the writers and recipients of those letters. In essence, To Vietnam and Back is a journey of the written kind that revisits and illustrates the timeless value of family, friends, faith and love.

Author: D. Livelystone
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480945765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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About the Book D. Livelystone delivers a stunning fairytale-like story about a man from Switzerland who meets his soulmate, Dallas. After Dallas lives years with a broken heart, this beautiful stranger suddenly appears out of nowhere, in the checkout line of a market, asking for directions and holding the line up, while Dallas gets irritated with him. Weeks before she jokingly asked the universe to send her knight in shining armor and said, “I don't care if he's from another country,” while on his flight over, Riley knew he would meet someone special. Read this adventurous, addicting love story, filled with loyalty, love, betrayal, deceit, steamy sex, and romance to discover her next move. About the Author D. Livelystone is an up-and-coming writer, actor, and model. Her alluring combination of beauty, wit, fantasy dreamlike detail, humor, intuitiveness, and a very creative imagination makes her an intriguing writer.