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The Boy Who Became an Early-Childhood Educator
Reflections, Memories, and Future Thoughts About Our Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A male educator explores the joys of working with children in this inspirational account.
Manuel Kichi Wong shares his personal journal entries that consider the challenges and obstacles of being a male educator in a field dominated by women. Whether its cooking, cleaning, changing diapers,...
Almost a Princess
My Life as a Two-Time Cancer Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Its been said that cancer is a disease that steals away the feeling of perfection. Author Jane Loeb Rubin is all too familiar with this feeling. In Almost a Princess, she presents a collection of essays that document her twice-fought battle with cancer.
In this memoir, Rubin, a hospital administrator...
I Forgot to Cry
Breast Cancer and How One Woman Embraced Her Journey to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Although a diagnosis of breast cancer is certain to be frightening and life-changing, with faith and support of family, friends, and support groups, its possible to come through triumphant on the other side.
In her new memoir, I Forgot to Cry, Claudean Nia Robinson shares her personal breast...
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From Ferrying Warplanes Across Oceans to Bringing Heroic News from a Megaflood
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
You are there in these real-life stories: A necessary inflight armed mutiny...Evasion of enemy planes near Mount Everest storms...A jailhouse talk with the dynamiter of an airliner...Participation in a White House reception, activity in an Oval Office session. Here is a must-read, notably for the...
It’S Been a Good Life, Dad
My Son’S Struggle with Cystic Fibrosis
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Its Been a Good Life, Dad!My Sons Struggle with Cystic Fibrosis portrays a young manKevin Hendonwho lived his eighteen years with cystic fibrosis ever present. The author, Jerry E. Hendon, tells the story of his sons life in the first part of this biography. He presents the diseases harsh truths and...
A Journey of Love and Miracles
Traveling Through Cancer with the Patient and the Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Ken and Pat were in their sixties when they discovered each other on an online dating site. Each was looking for a friend to spend some time with; they could not imagine the events they would come to experience together as they began their relationship. In A Journey of Love and Miracles, they tell...
by Amnon Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
A masterful life story - You will read about him with abundant pleasure as he takes you on a winding journey, twisting your view of his lifes many quirky turns and counterpoints to truly live up to the books title Screwed: The Path of a Healer. An illuminating, forthright, and soul-searching insight...
Temporary Sanity
A Look Through a Teacher’S Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Growing up in a Roman Catholic household and working at a Protestant school can be incongruous. Youre working for the enemy, insisted author Fran Finns father. In this memoir, Finn recalls not only this dissonance, but provides the captivating story of many of his intriguing adventures.
From...
From Dawn to Dusk to Daylight
A Journey Through Depression’S Solitude
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Bruce Ross knew something was wrong. He felt displaced and isolated from friends, family, and society. He had no one to turn to, and so he tried to cope with it himself. The fact that he had a disease called depression never entered his mind. He, like so many people, thought that only other people...
Psychiatry, America's Holocaust: the Twelve Steps Curing Mental Illness, Developing the Nonviolent Adult Mind
From Sleeping on the Streets to Founding a Nonprofit Organization
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Collapsing from the grief of not being loved, twenty years old, Clover Greene was committed to psychiatry. Just as after any horror to horrible to be real, after four electric shocks, Greene developed hysterical amnesia, vaguely remembering being locked up by psychiatry.
Psychiatry, Americas...
Burt Russell Shurly
A Man of Conviction, a Life in Medicine and Education, 1871-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
In Burt Russell Shurly; A Man of Conviction, A Life in Medicine and Education, 18711950, Robert Vanderzee continues the story of the Shurly family, focusing on a physician and educator who, with the help of his mentor, chose medicine over the military life his father had planned for him.
Vanderzee,...
Breath of Life
The Life of a Volunteer Firefighter
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Breath of Lifetells the story of a volunteer ?re?ghters life as an EMT and a ?re?ghter. Author Daniel McVey chronicles the harrowing stories of saving lives and facing death on a daily basis; he also shares stories of the dedication and professionalism of his comrades. He describes the small village...
by David Moyle
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
This little book provides delightful, down-to-earth insights into what it's like to actually live with one of the grandest, most beautiful animals on our planet, the peacock. It gives loads of tips on what to feed these birds, sheltering tips, and whether or not to let them roam freely about your...
Beautiful Land of the Sky
John Muir’S Forgotten Eastern Counterpart, Harlan P. Kelsey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
John Muir is considered to be the supreme icon of western wilderness and preservation. His counterpart in the east is Harlan P. Kelsey, an often obscure and forgotten figure. In Beautiful Land of the Sky, author Loren M. Wood chronicles Kelseys journey from the humblest of beginnings to national prominence...