Author: Harriet McBryde Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312425715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
With a voice as disarmingly bold, funny, and unsentimental as its author, this is a thoroughly unconventional memoir that shatters the myth of the tragic disabled life.
Too Late to Die Young
Author: Harriet McBryde Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312425715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
With a voice as disarmingly bold, funny, and unsentimental as its author, this is a thoroughly unconventional memoir that shatters the myth of the tragic disabled life.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312425715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
With a voice as disarmingly bold, funny, and unsentimental as its author, this is a thoroughly unconventional memoir that shatters the myth of the tragic disabled life.
It's Too Late to Die Young Now
Author: Andrew Mueller
Publisher: Picador Australia
ISBN: 1743289235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
It's Too Late to Die Young Now answers the question: what became of the rock writer the day the music died? There is no field of journalism more mythologised or more derided than rock journalism - with good reason, according to Andrew Mueller. And he'd know. Starting out writing for the Sydney music street press in his teens, by his early twenties, Mueller was working for the legendary UK music weekly Melody Maker, earning a living by listening to records, going to gigs, hanging out in seedy pubs and travelling the world with his favourite rock groups. In barely two years, he went from a childhood bedroom with a poster of Robert Smith to The Cure's tour bus. Though it didn't seem like it at the time, the years Mueller was living the dream - the late-eighties to the mid-nineties - were actually the last hurrah for the music scene as we knew it. The era of flourishing live pub venues and record stores, and rock journalists as cultural arbiters and agitators, is now long gone. Featuring cameo appearances from luminaries of the Seattle grunge boom and the Britpop response to it, and encounters with the likes of U2, The Cure, Pearl Jam, The Fall and Elvis Costello, It's Too Late to Die Young Now is an Almost Famous for Generation X, and a hilarious and heartfelt eulogy to a life that seems even less probable now than it did at the time.
Publisher: Picador Australia
ISBN: 1743289235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
It's Too Late to Die Young Now answers the question: what became of the rock writer the day the music died? There is no field of journalism more mythologised or more derided than rock journalism - with good reason, according to Andrew Mueller. And he'd know. Starting out writing for the Sydney music street press in his teens, by his early twenties, Mueller was working for the legendary UK music weekly Melody Maker, earning a living by listening to records, going to gigs, hanging out in seedy pubs and travelling the world with his favourite rock groups. In barely two years, he went from a childhood bedroom with a poster of Robert Smith to The Cure's tour bus. Though it didn't seem like it at the time, the years Mueller was living the dream - the late-eighties to the mid-nineties - were actually the last hurrah for the music scene as we knew it. The era of flourishing live pub venues and record stores, and rock journalists as cultural arbiters and agitators, is now long gone. Featuring cameo appearances from luminaries of the Seattle grunge boom and the Britpop response to it, and encounters with the likes of U2, The Cure, Pearl Jam, The Fall and Elvis Costello, It's Too Late to Die Young Now is an Almost Famous for Generation X, and a hilarious and heartfelt eulogy to a life that seems even less probable now than it did at the time.
Too Late to Die
Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Everyone knew her. A lot of them like her. One of them killed her. Jeanne Clinton was a pretty and well-liked woman—though in her younger days she'd been known to be a bit wild. But she married an older man and settled down to a quiet, respectable life. Now she is dead, brutally murdered in her home. Dan Rhodes, the thoughtful, hard-working sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas, has enough to worry about already: a rash of burglaries in town and an election coming up against a hot-shot opponent. Now he's got to find a killer among the residents of his little town—a wily killer, bound and determined not to be caught. The deeper Rhodes digs into the hearts and minds of his neighbors, the more secrets he turned up...and the more violence he encounters. But Rhodes doesn't give up easily. And neither does the killer.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Everyone knew her. A lot of them like her. One of them killed her. Jeanne Clinton was a pretty and well-liked woman—though in her younger days she'd been known to be a bit wild. But she married an older man and settled down to a quiet, respectable life. Now she is dead, brutally murdered in her home. Dan Rhodes, the thoughtful, hard-working sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas, has enough to worry about already: a rash of burglaries in town and an election coming up against a hot-shot opponent. Now he's got to find a killer among the residents of his little town—a wily killer, bound and determined not to be caught. The deeper Rhodes digs into the hearts and minds of his neighbors, the more secrets he turned up...and the more violence he encounters. But Rhodes doesn't give up easily. And neither does the killer.
Accidents of Nature
Author: Harriet McBryde Johnson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466833068
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
I'm in the middle of a full-blown spaz-attack, and I don't care. I don't care at all. At home I always try to act normal, and spaz-attacks definitely aren't normal. Here, people understand. They know a spaz-attack signals that I'm excited. They're excited too, so they squeal with me; some even spaz on purpose, if you can call that spazzing . . . An unforgettable coming-of-age novel about what it's like to live with a physical disability It's the summer of 1970. Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light. The camp session is only ten days long, but that may be all it takes to change a life forever. Henry Holt published Harriet McBryde Johnson's adult memoir, Too Late to Die Young, in April 2005. Ms. Johnson has been featured in The New York Times Magazine and has been an activist for disability rights for many years.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466833068
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
I'm in the middle of a full-blown spaz-attack, and I don't care. I don't care at all. At home I always try to act normal, and spaz-attacks definitely aren't normal. Here, people understand. They know a spaz-attack signals that I'm excited. They're excited too, so they squeal with me; some even spaz on purpose, if you can call that spazzing . . . An unforgettable coming-of-age novel about what it's like to live with a physical disability It's the summer of 1970. Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. She's never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light. The camp session is only ten days long, but that may be all it takes to change a life forever. Henry Holt published Harriet McBryde Johnson's adult memoir, Too Late to Die Young, in April 2005. Ms. Johnson has been featured in The New York Times Magazine and has been an activist for disability rights for many years.
Never Too Late to Die
Author: James M. DiClerico
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524684422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
When a squad of combat engineers blows up a decrepit building in the waning days of the Vietnam War, they set off an obsession in a CIA agent, which leaves a decades-long trail of blood coast to coast across the United States. Private investigator Harley Napoleon, hired by the widow of one of the engineers, gets snared in a web of lies and threats as he tries to solve the puzzle of what happened back then and winds up at odds with a present-day mobster, congressman, and general.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524684422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
When a squad of combat engineers blows up a decrepit building in the waning days of the Vietnam War, they set off an obsession in a CIA agent, which leaves a decades-long trail of blood coast to coast across the United States. Private investigator Harley Napoleon, hired by the widow of one of the engineers, gets snared in a web of lies and threats as he tries to solve the puzzle of what happened back then and winds up at odds with a present-day mobster, congressman, and general.
You're Too Old to Die Young
Author: Dan Zeman
Publisher: Aging Mbb LLC
ISBN: 9780960061914
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The legacy of the male baby boomer will be defined by how they choose to handle the physical, emotional, and financial burden they leave to the next generation. Author Dan Zeman is passionate about educating and motivating his fellow male baby boomers about the aging process. Today, these men are living much longer than they expected and will be forced to come to terms being gifted an increased life expectancy, both good and bad. As an exercise physiologist for over 35 years, Zeman has been in the trenches of the health, fitness, and sports medicine fields. He's had a ringside seat as medical advancements have increased life-spans, technological developments have decreased physical activity, and learned why society has struggled to address the resulting problems. Zeman lays the groundwork to help the male baby boomer plan ahead for living longer than any generation in history.
Publisher: Aging Mbb LLC
ISBN: 9780960061914
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The legacy of the male baby boomer will be defined by how they choose to handle the physical, emotional, and financial burden they leave to the next generation. Author Dan Zeman is passionate about educating and motivating his fellow male baby boomers about the aging process. Today, these men are living much longer than they expected and will be forced to come to terms being gifted an increased life expectancy, both good and bad. As an exercise physiologist for over 35 years, Zeman has been in the trenches of the health, fitness, and sports medicine fields. He's had a ringside seat as medical advancements have increased life-spans, technological developments have decreased physical activity, and learned why society has struggled to address the resulting problems. Zeman lays the groundwork to help the male baby boomer plan ahead for living longer than any generation in history.
Never Too Old to Live
Author: Jerry Rhoads
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469157764
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Calculate your emotional and mental age. See the Profiles of the 100 oldest people in the world. If you are emotionally old the sun is setting on your future. However, you're never too old to change. Many will just accept unhappiness as happenstance that one must endure, while in waiting for happenstance to change. This state of affairs can and must be reversed for you to age naturally and happy and healthy, and prosperous. Guess what, it does not happen if your stance is on blaming others or just good ole circumstance. Good luck on making that work. The cure is, as always, in your head you either think young or feel old why not feel young and forget thinkin' old. Thinking is the essence of life. Think and act young so you are Never Too Old to Live Well. It is Universal Law. Sounds good but what can I do to get there? GET RID OF THE STRESS USING THIS SELF-HEALTH BOOK!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469157764
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Calculate your emotional and mental age. See the Profiles of the 100 oldest people in the world. If you are emotionally old the sun is setting on your future. However, you're never too old to change. Many will just accept unhappiness as happenstance that one must endure, while in waiting for happenstance to change. This state of affairs can and must be reversed for you to age naturally and happy and healthy, and prosperous. Guess what, it does not happen if your stance is on blaming others or just good ole circumstance. Good luck on making that work. The cure is, as always, in your head you either think young or feel old why not feel young and forget thinkin' old. Thinking is the essence of life. Think and act young so you are Never Too Old to Live Well. It is Universal Law. Sounds good but what can I do to get there? GET RID OF THE STRESS USING THIS SELF-HEALTH BOOK!
Too Young to Die
Author: Patricia Fox-Sheinwold
Publisher: Allan Pub
ISBN: 9780824100063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: Allan Pub
ISBN: 9780824100063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Play Hard Die Young
Author: Bennet Omalu
Publisher: Neo Forenxis Books
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, MD, explains the science of brain trauma, offers practical solutions, and recounts the moving stories of the lives, and tragic deaths, of NFL stars cut down by gridiron dementia."-- Cover.
Publisher: Neo Forenxis Books
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, MD, explains the science of brain trauma, offers practical solutions, and recounts the moving stories of the lives, and tragic deaths, of NFL stars cut down by gridiron dementia."-- Cover.
Die Young with Me
Author: Rob Rufus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501142631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In the tradition of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, this incredibly moving and harrowing true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer is “a resounding affirmation of how music can lift one’s spirits beyond gray skies and bad news (Kirkus Reviews).” Punk’s not dead in rural West Virginia. In fact, it blares constantly from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus—identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia. To them, school (and pretty much everything else) sucks. But what can you expect when you’re the only punks in town? When the brothers start their own band, their lives begin to change: they meet friends, they attract girls, and they finally get invited to join a national tour and get out of their rat box little town. But their plans are cut short when Rob is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that has already progressed to Stage Four. Not only are his dreams of punk rock stardom completely shredded, there is a very real threat that this is one battle that can’t be won. While Rob suffers through nightmarish treatments and debilitating surgery, Nat continues on their band’s road to success alone. But as Rob’s life diverges from his brother’s, he learns to find strength within himself and through his music. Die Young with Me is a “raw, honest picture of the weirdness of growing up” (Marky Ramone) and the story of a brave teen’s battle with cancer and the many ways music helped him cope through his recovery.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501142631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In the tradition of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, this incredibly moving and harrowing true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer is “a resounding affirmation of how music can lift one’s spirits beyond gray skies and bad news (Kirkus Reviews).” Punk’s not dead in rural West Virginia. In fact, it blares constantly from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus—identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia. To them, school (and pretty much everything else) sucks. But what can you expect when you’re the only punks in town? When the brothers start their own band, their lives begin to change: they meet friends, they attract girls, and they finally get invited to join a national tour and get out of their rat box little town. But their plans are cut short when Rob is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that has already progressed to Stage Four. Not only are his dreams of punk rock stardom completely shredded, there is a very real threat that this is one battle that can’t be won. While Rob suffers through nightmarish treatments and debilitating surgery, Nat continues on their band’s road to success alone. But as Rob’s life diverges from his brother’s, he learns to find strength within himself and through his music. Die Young with Me is a “raw, honest picture of the weirdness of growing up” (Marky Ramone) and the story of a brave teen’s battle with cancer and the many ways music helped him cope through his recovery.