Author: Tionne Rogers
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1470982935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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What would have happened if Constantin Repin had seduced Guntram first? Could a naïve young man be happy with a Russian ganster? Could Konrad von Lintorff, the Head of a misterious secret organization allow his greatest enemy to live in bliss? A parallel universe to the novel "The Substitute". Reprint.NC 18
Author: Michele Harper
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525537392
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book “Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” —Ellen Pompeo As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn’t move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken—physically, emotionally, psychically. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process. The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper’s journey toward self-healing. Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky: How to tell the truth when it’s simpler to overlook it. How to understand that compassion isn’t the same as justice. As she shines a light on the systemic disenfranchisement of the patients she treats as they struggle to maintain their health and dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons that she has learned as a daughter, a woman, and a physician.
Author: Janice Jones
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781432777333
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Raising a child with ADHD is simply life times ten. I am ten times blessed. I am ten times loved. I am ten times alive. This is the true story of a mother raising a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It's the story of the challenges, the blessings, and the rewards of parenting these special children, and her book includes helpful suggestions for diagnosis, medication, schooling, and tips for successful day-to-day management. Life with a child who has ADHD can be exhausting. Parents are inundated with information, overwhelmed by decision-making, and often numb and fatigued from meeting everyday challenges. But there is hope and beauty in every day. There is progress and victory in every hour. And there is an abundance of laughter and love in every moment. As I journeyed through the years of my son's upbringing I often said, "Life is an adventure! And I am going to give it everything I have." What I have is what God gives to me, and God richly blessed me with a child who has ADHD.
Author: Tess Sharpe
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316303127
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Nina LaCour meets Jenny Han in this beautiful and charming story of six moments that lead to two girls, one kiss, and eventually, three little words that were maybe always true. After years of bickering, Penny and Tate have called a truce: they’ll play nice. They have to. Their mothers (life-long best friends) need them to be perfect, drama-free daughters when Penny’s mother becomes a living liver donor to Tate’s mom. Forced to live together as their moms recover, the girls’ truce is essential in keeping everything—their jobs, the house, the finances, the Moms’ healing—running smoothly. They’ve got to let this thing between them go. There’s one little hitch: Penny and Tate keep almost kissing. It’s just this confusing thing that keeps happening. You know, from time to time. For basically their entire teenaged existence. They’ve never talked about it. They’ve always ignored it in the aftermath. But now they’re living across the hall from each other. And some things—like their kisses—can’t be almosts forever. Told through the two girls’ present, and six moments from their past, this dynamic love story shows that sometimes the person you need the most has been there for you all along.
Author: Raul Salinas
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1413405894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Literature is the biographical window to the human experience. It has no geographical, political, cultural, or religious boundaries. Nothing can stop it from penetrating the most intimate crevices of life--no matter how insignificant. Literature allows the reader to listen in (eavesdrop) to the gossip of life: the frustrations, hopes and dreams, triumphs and defeats of the characters who attempt to uncover the meaning of the tragic sense of life.
Author: Adam Jon Hembd
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453528385
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Tiffany, Jordan Carter, and Brett Lee Young tell their two part tale of a Forbidden Family Dream. These many adventures continue from the Forbidden Love (The Jordan and Jon Carter Story). Many secrets are revealed as Tiffany tells her story of what it’s like to live with two fathers. Brett tells his tale of the dream that was so badly destroyed years before, of Jordan and Jon. This two part tale will captivate the LBGT Christian community, as well as many others. Will Brett fulfill the forbidden dream, and will Tiffany last in the Forbidden Family?
Author: Tionne Rogers
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105637638
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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"I understand this is all new to an inexperienced youth like yourself. I was half expecting your denial, but I'm willing to wait, within a reasonable time frame, that you become my lover. I will provide, take care and see that no harm falls upon you, as long as you respect me and behave according to your status. As I said, you are the most adorable thing that has caught my attention in years. You have to be mine and I have every intention to win you over." With these words, Konrad von Lintorff, a Swiss German banker declared his intentions to a 19 years old penniless student. Guntram was young, kind hearted and exactly looking as Konrad's former lover. Can a young sweet boy survive the High Finance World and the love of a possessive and violent man? Follow Guntram's diary through a story of intrigue, love, sex, betrayal, secret societies, deceptions and murder.
Author: Barbara Parker
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480499366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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“Suspense builds” as a tropical storm and a crazed killer bear down on Connor and Quintana in the Florida Keys, in the New York Times–bestselling series (Library Journal). Despite storm warnings, lawyers and lovers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana travel to a resort on a secluded island in the Florida Keys when a wealthy former client asks for their help with his troubled stepson, Billy, who has confessed to murder. Billy had a history with the victim—a resort employee with a promiscuous reputation and a penchant for causing trouble. But it soon becomes apparent that plenty of people may have wanted Sandra McCoy silenced for good . . . along with anyone who gets in the way. An Edgar Award finalist for the first book in the bestselling series, Suspicion of Innocence, as well as a former prosecutor herself, Barbara Parker once again gives readers a “lively legal romp” (Booklist). Suspicion of Madness is the 7th book in the Suspicion series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author: Saros Cowasjee
Publisher: Vision Books
ISBN: 8170949467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Goodbye to Elsa is a richly entertaining satirical novel. It is at the same time an acute study of the loneliness of the individual trying to relate himself to his fellow men. Tristan, who tells his own story, is an Assistant Professor of History. Having gone blind in one eye, he leaves his wife, Elsa, and his son, both of whom he detests, and hides in a deserted farm-house with the intention of killing himself. Here he recalls his life, particularly his love life in India, England and Canada — a series of disappointments and persecutions. While meticulously preparing to put an end to his sufferings he meets Marie, the daughter of a grocer, who offers him love and understanding and encourages him to face life. Tristan responds to the challenge, but his response, like much else of what he does, is distorted by his conviction that he has a Messianic role to play . . . and the outcome is very different from anything he had envisaged. REVIEWS "Funny, full of bite" — The Times (London) “Cowasjee knows how to tell a story and handles his language admirably.” — Khushwant Singh “Entirely original and elegantly written. Goodbye to Elsa is a deadly serious comedy... In many ways this brilliant novel is a hymn to women, in others a funny and sophisticated revelation of British Empire man.” — The Listener (London)
Author: Katinka Newman
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1786062259
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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While going through a divorce, documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman took an antidepressant. Not unusual – except that things didn't turn out quite as she expected. She went into a four-day toxic psychosis with violent hallucinations, imagining she had killed her children, and in fact attacking herself with a knife. Caught up in a real-life nightmare when doctors didn't realise she was suffering side effects of more pills, she went into a year-long decline. Soon she was wandering around in an old dressing gown, unable to care for herself, and dribbling. She nearly lost everything, but luck stepped in; treated at another hospital, she was taken off all the medication and made a miraculous recovery within weeks. By publicising her story, Katinka went on to make some startling discoveries. Could there really be thousands around the world who kill themselves and others from these drugs? What of the billions of dollars in settlements paid out by drug companies? Could they really be the cause of world mass killings, such as the Germanwings pilot who took an airliner down, killing 150, while on exactly the same medication as the author when she became psychotic? And how come so many people are taking these drugs when experts say they are no more effective than a sugarcoated pill for people like her, who are distressed rather than depressed? Moving, frightening and at times funny, this is the story of how a single mum in Harlesden, North-West London, juggles life and her quest for love in order to investigate Big Pharma. For more information visit www.thepillthatsteals.com
