Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 9780544104822
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An expanded version of A Fire in My Hands, Gary's Soto's acclaimed collection of poems about growing up Latino, now in paperback.
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152055646
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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A collection of poems brings to life themes of growing up, family, friendship, and first love.
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590445795
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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The author's twenty-one poems are about the themes of life and each is preceded by a personal anecdote.
Author: Rachel Clarke
Publisher: Metro Publishing
ISBN: 1786068192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim corridors wanting to sob with sheer exhaustion, forgotten to eat, forgotten to drink, drawn on every fibre of strength that I possess to keep my patients safe from harm.' How does it feel to be spat out of medical school into a world of pain, loss and trauma that you feel wholly ill-equipped to handle? To be a medical novice who makes decisions which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life? To toughen up the hard way, through repeated exposure to life-and-death situations, until you are finally a match for them? In this heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today's health service, former television journalist turned doctor, Rachel Clarke, captures the extraordinary realities of ordinary life on the NHS front line. From the historic junior doctor strikes of 2016 to the 'humanitarian crisis' declared by the Red Cross, the overstretched health service is on the precipice, calling for junior doctors to draw on extraordinary reserves of what compelled them into medicine in the first place - and the value the NHS can least afford to lose - kindness. Your Life in My Hands is at once a powerful polemic on the systematic degradation of Britain's most vital public institution, and a love letter of optimism and hope to that same health service and those who support it. This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary and the doctors' mess, telling powerful truths about today's NHS frontline, and capturing with tenderness and humanity the highs and lows of a new doctor's first steps onto the wards in the context of a health service at breaking point - and what it means to be entrusted with carrying another's life in your hands. 'Eloquent and moving' - Henry Marsh 'There have been many books written by young doctors... but none comes close to Clarke's' - Sunday Times 'From the very heart of the NHS comes this brilliant insight into the continuing crisis in the health service. Rachel Clarke writes as the accomplished journalist she once was and as the leading junior doctor she now is - writing with humanity and compassion that at times reduced me to tears.' - Jon Snow, Channel 4 News 'Dr Clarke has written a blockbuster, a page-turner, a tear-jerker. This is a "from-the-heart" front-line account of the human cost of the wanton erosion of a magnificent ideal - healthcare free at the point of need, funded through public taxation, available to all - made real in the UK for near 70 years. It is a love-song for the wonderful National Health Service that has embodied - to an extent equalled nowhere in the world - the principle that healthcare is not a commodity but a great duty of state.' - Prof. Neena Modi, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 'A powerful account of life on the NHS frontline. If only Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt could see the passion behind the people in the NHS, they might stop treating them as the enemy, and understand that without them we don't have an NHS worth the name.' - Alastair Campbell
Author: K Anis Ahmed
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184005261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Struggling newspaper-editor Hissam is finding it harder and harder to pretend that believing in your work is just as satisfying as landing a big promotion. His old college friend Kaiser has fared considerably better as one of the city’s wealthiest property developers, who also happens to be married to the woman of Hissam’s dreams. Hissam’s chance to strike it big presents itself in the form of a military-backed Emergency that upends the country’s social order. Choosing to back different sides, Hissam and Kaiser find themselves trading places in a way that changes their relationship, and their lives, forever. This richly satirical novel heralds a major new voice from Bangladesh.
Author: Asphyxia
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 1773215302
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Part coming of age, part call to action, this fast-paced #ownvoices novel about a Deaf teenager is a unique and inspiring exploration of what it means to belong. Smart, artistic, and independent, sixteen year old Piper is tired of trying to conform. Her mom wants her to be “normal,” to pass as hearing, to get a good job. But in a time of food scarcity, environmental collapse, and political corruption, Piper has other things on her mind—like survival. Piper has always been told that she needs to compensate for her Deafness in a world made for those who can hear. But when she meets Marley, a new world opens up—one where Deafness is something to celebrate, and where resilience means taking action, building a com-munity, and believing in something better. Published to rave reviews as Future Girl in Australia (Allen & Unwin, Sept. 2020), this empowering, unforgettable story is told through a visual extravaganza of text, paint, collage, and drawings. Set in an ominously prescient near future, The Words in My Hands is very much a novel for our turbulent times.
Author: Remzi Basha
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446713555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Basha is a distinguished poet and writer. He is the author of various books of poetry and a co-author of a novel. In this volume he is introduced with the sounds of poetry that are all about the powerful passion and patriotism for the homeland. In this aspect, his poetry converses in a specific literary and aesthetic condition, which flows and emerges from the times and cultural contexts where the subject takes place. Therefore it is turned into a mirror of his own experience and time, it is turned into a reflection of his country men's worry, introduces the creating subject which is challenging with poetry the waves of life, the eras and the worst things that could happen. NDUE UKAJ SUEDI NOVEMBER, 2010
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780606393706
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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For use in schools and libraries only. In this revised and expanded edition, this book presents a collection of poems by well-known children's writer Gary Soto that capture the essence of everyday life.
Author: Alison Lapper
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9781416511014
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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From the beginning, Alison was different to most children, yet through the strength of her personality and the nurturing of her artistic talents, she was determined to live as full a life as possible. A woman born without arms, she has gone on to be an artist, mother and inspiration to many. My Life in My Hands challenges our perceptions of disability by showing how Alison overcame pain, prejudice, violence and loneliness to reach a state of happy independence. My Life in My Hands is an extraordinary and compelling story like no other.
Author: Lesley Ann Eden
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1618973363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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A woman reveals some of the secrets she learned during her travels through Central America that enabled her to become a psychic.
