Author: Matthew Caudill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991476527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In We Can Hear You Just Fine, seven visually impaired young authors from Appalachia, the Inner Bluegrass, the Western Coalfields and other parts of Kentucky offer vivid, incisive and illuminating portraits of their lives. Their essays cover a range of topics: the travails and triumphs of visual impairment, the difficulties of marginalization, the decision to leave home for the Kentucky School for the Blind, learning to live with schizoaffective disorder, the rapid life changes attending pregnancy and childbirth, pastoral recollections of rural communities, an autodidact's path to producing his own internet radio show, and the relief of finding community and achieving independence. Their book highlights the particularities of their lives, but also serves as a poignant reminder that the desire for acceptance and dignity, and the drive to succeed and make meaning in the world is common to all of us.
We Can Hear You Just Fine
Author: Matthew Caudill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991476527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In We Can Hear You Just Fine, seven visually impaired young authors from Appalachia, the Inner Bluegrass, the Western Coalfields and other parts of Kentucky offer vivid, incisive and illuminating portraits of their lives. Their essays cover a range of topics: the travails and triumphs of visual impairment, the difficulties of marginalization, the decision to leave home for the Kentucky School for the Blind, learning to live with schizoaffective disorder, the rapid life changes attending pregnancy and childbirth, pastoral recollections of rural communities, an autodidact's path to producing his own internet radio show, and the relief of finding community and achieving independence. Their book highlights the particularities of their lives, but also serves as a poignant reminder that the desire for acceptance and dignity, and the drive to succeed and make meaning in the world is common to all of us.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991476527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In We Can Hear You Just Fine, seven visually impaired young authors from Appalachia, the Inner Bluegrass, the Western Coalfields and other parts of Kentucky offer vivid, incisive and illuminating portraits of their lives. Their essays cover a range of topics: the travails and triumphs of visual impairment, the difficulties of marginalization, the decision to leave home for the Kentucky School for the Blind, learning to live with schizoaffective disorder, the rapid life changes attending pregnancy and childbirth, pastoral recollections of rural communities, an autodidact's path to producing his own internet radio show, and the relief of finding community and achieving independence. Their book highlights the particularities of their lives, but also serves as a poignant reminder that the desire for acceptance and dignity, and the drive to succeed and make meaning in the world is common to all of us.
I Can Hear You Whisper
Author: Lydia Denworth
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142181862
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
“A skilled science translator, Denworth makes decibels, teslas and brain plasticity understandable to all.”—Washington Post Lydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was identified with significant hearing loss that was likely to get worse. Denworth knew the importance of enrichment to the developing brain but had never contemplated the opposite: deprivation. How would a child’s brain grow outside the world of sound? How would he communicate? Would he learn to read and write? An acclaimed science journalist as well as a mother, Denworth made it her mission to find out, interviewing experts on language development, inventors of groundbreaking technology, Deaf leaders, and neuroscientists at the frontiers of brain plasticity research. I Can Hear You Whisper chronicles Denworth’s search for answers—and her new understanding of Deaf culture and the exquisite relationship between sound, language, and learning.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142181862
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
“A skilled science translator, Denworth makes decibels, teslas and brain plasticity understandable to all.”—Washington Post Lydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was identified with significant hearing loss that was likely to get worse. Denworth knew the importance of enrichment to the developing brain but had never contemplated the opposite: deprivation. How would a child’s brain grow outside the world of sound? How would he communicate? Would he learn to read and write? An acclaimed science journalist as well as a mother, Denworth made it her mission to find out, interviewing experts on language development, inventors of groundbreaking technology, Deaf leaders, and neuroscientists at the frontiers of brain plasticity research. I Can Hear You Whisper chronicles Denworth’s search for answers—and her new understanding of Deaf culture and the exquisite relationship between sound, language, and learning.
No One Will Hear You
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786027894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An investigative reality show tracks two serial killers—who become locked in a twisted competition—in a thriller by the author of Road to Perdition. The first video arrives by email. An unidentified man. A naked woman. Her scream caught in a freeze-frame. The producers of TV’s Crime Seen! can't believe what they’re witnessing: an all-out sadist “auditioning” for a starring role in reality television. And if he doesn’t get it, he'll kill again. TV host and former sheriff J. C. Harrow has no choice but to meet the demented demands of the self-proclaimed “Don Juan”—putting him in the spotlight along with another ruthless maniac who has captivated millions of viewers. Now two killers are competing for fame—and for victims. “Cutting-edge action and suspense.” —David Morrell "Unforgettable. . .Collins is a literary Houdini." —James Rollins
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786027894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An investigative reality show tracks two serial killers—who become locked in a twisted competition—in a thriller by the author of Road to Perdition. The first video arrives by email. An unidentified man. A naked woman. Her scream caught in a freeze-frame. The producers of TV’s Crime Seen! can't believe what they’re witnessing: an all-out sadist “auditioning” for a starring role in reality television. And if he doesn’t get it, he'll kill again. TV host and former sheriff J. C. Harrow has no choice but to meet the demented demands of the self-proclaimed “Don Juan”—putting him in the spotlight along with another ruthless maniac who has captivated millions of viewers. Now two killers are competing for fame—and for victims. “Cutting-edge action and suspense.” —David Morrell "Unforgettable. . .Collins is a literary Houdini." —James Rollins
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Stars in the Deep
Author: David F. Snider
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149904562X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
When NAVCOM takes the ECS Destiny irretrievably off course, the colonists and crew find themselves stranded in space, uncertain of their final destination..
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149904562X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
When NAVCOM takes the ECS Destiny irretrievably off course, the colonists and crew find themselves stranded in space, uncertain of their final destination..
Boots
Author: Kate Hannigan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534439188
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When Mae's Aunt Willa and Aunt Jane, both pilots, are kidnapped by evil Metallic Falcon, Josie, Mae, and Akiko, the Infinity Trinity, pursue them from Chicago to Sweetwater, Texas, to Paris, France.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534439188
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When Mae's Aunt Willa and Aunt Jane, both pilots, are kidnapped by evil Metallic Falcon, Josie, Mae, and Akiko, the Infinity Trinity, pursue them from Chicago to Sweetwater, Texas, to Paris, France.
Chronicles of Eden - Act VII
Author: Alexander Gordon
Publisher: Alexander Gordon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
Daniel and his girls may be on a quest to instill peace throughout Eden, but first they need to deal with some very big changes in their lives. Between one of them turning into a lustful demon to another having her long lost daughter seeking bloody revenge, things are about to heat up in a very dangerous way for everyone. New friends will be met along the way, a legendary sword will be within reach, a dark evil will return to bring about chaos, and Daniel will need to step up as the knight his growing harem truly deserves. Is Daniel ready to draw his blade to protect those he loves, even if it means pointing it at someone he doesn't want to kill?
Publisher: Alexander Gordon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
Daniel and his girls may be on a quest to instill peace throughout Eden, but first they need to deal with some very big changes in their lives. Between one of them turning into a lustful demon to another having her long lost daughter seeking bloody revenge, things are about to heat up in a very dangerous way for everyone. New friends will be met along the way, a legendary sword will be within reach, a dark evil will return to bring about chaos, and Daniel will need to step up as the knight his growing harem truly deserves. Is Daniel ready to draw his blade to protect those he loves, even if it means pointing it at someone he doesn't want to kill?
Kill Ratio
Author: Bryan Cassiday
Publisher: Bryan Cassiday
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The end of America is near. A plague that kills its victims and resurrects them as flesh-eating ghouls has decimated the American population, forcing what's left of the government to take shelter underground in the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia. On the West Coast, CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson and a ragtag band of survivors decide to head to Washington, DC, to find out if anyone is still in charge, even though Halverson knows that someone in the upper echelons of the government is trying to drone him. Halverson suspects the assassin is a high-level CIA employee. Whoever he is, he has tried to drone Halverson before and will try again. Of that much Halverson is sure. Halverson and fellow refugees Victoria Brady, Blackfoot Chogan, and Emma Lawson become trapped in Las Vegas by General Quantrill, a militia commandant who runs the strip with an iron hand and has a terrifying secret. Whether America survives or not, it will never be the same.
Publisher: Bryan Cassiday
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The end of America is near. A plague that kills its victims and resurrects them as flesh-eating ghouls has decimated the American population, forcing what's left of the government to take shelter underground in the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia. On the West Coast, CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson and a ragtag band of survivors decide to head to Washington, DC, to find out if anyone is still in charge, even though Halverson knows that someone in the upper echelons of the government is trying to drone him. Halverson suspects the assassin is a high-level CIA employee. Whoever he is, he has tried to drone Halverson before and will try again. Of that much Halverson is sure. Halverson and fellow refugees Victoria Brady, Blackfoot Chogan, and Emma Lawson become trapped in Las Vegas by General Quantrill, a militia commandant who runs the strip with an iron hand and has a terrifying secret. Whether America survives or not, it will never be the same.
The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Box Set
Author: Kevin Kwan
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385693818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
Book Description
The internationally bestselling Crazy Rich Asians series reveals the outrageous world of high net worth society with humor and heart. Crazy Rich Asians is now a major motion picture. “There’s rich, there’s filthy rich, and then there’s crazy rich.” —People New Yorker Rachel Chu does not know that her loving boyfriend, Nicholas Young, also happens to be Singapore’s most eligible bachelor and likely heir to a massive fortune. So when she agrees to spend the summer in Nick’s home, her life unexpectedly becomes an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers. And that’s all before she discovers the true identity of her long-lost father . . . This box set includes the entire trilogy: Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385693818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
Book Description
The internationally bestselling Crazy Rich Asians series reveals the outrageous world of high net worth society with humor and heart. Crazy Rich Asians is now a major motion picture. “There’s rich, there’s filthy rich, and then there’s crazy rich.” —People New Yorker Rachel Chu does not know that her loving boyfriend, Nicholas Young, also happens to be Singapore’s most eligible bachelor and likely heir to a massive fortune. So when she agrees to spend the summer in Nick’s home, her life unexpectedly becomes an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers. And that’s all before she discovers the true identity of her long-lost father . . . This box set includes the entire trilogy: Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems.
Secrets of the North Table
Author: Alan Hafer
Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing
ISBN: 1589397932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
WHEN ADAM ROBERTS decides to find out if his nightmares are connected to his past, he returns to his childhood home. He never suspects he will find bodies buried in a secret tomb, learn everything he has been told about his family's history was a lie, and discover hidden secrets so explosive his own relatives will kill to keep them buried. Thus begins a quest that leads Adam and the woman he loves into a web of lies spun for more than one hundred years. But finding out what's in the family closet could prove fatal. Understanding himself means he must uncover the past his family had buried. Instead of an immigrant farmer, his grandfather had been the son of a legendary outlaw leader of the Old West. His grandmother, a quiet woman whose kitchen had always smelled of freshly baked bread, had been suspected by her husband of being a murderess. And then Adam discovers he has a granduncle he never knew existed who will stop at nothing to keep him from learning any more about the murders.
Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing
ISBN: 1589397932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
WHEN ADAM ROBERTS decides to find out if his nightmares are connected to his past, he returns to his childhood home. He never suspects he will find bodies buried in a secret tomb, learn everything he has been told about his family's history was a lie, and discover hidden secrets so explosive his own relatives will kill to keep them buried. Thus begins a quest that leads Adam and the woman he loves into a web of lies spun for more than one hundred years. But finding out what's in the family closet could prove fatal. Understanding himself means he must uncover the past his family had buried. Instead of an immigrant farmer, his grandfather had been the son of a legendary outlaw leader of the Old West. His grandmother, a quiet woman whose kitchen had always smelled of freshly baked bread, had been suspected by her husband of being a murderess. And then Adam discovers he has a granduncle he never knew existed who will stop at nothing to keep him from learning any more about the murders.