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My Mom Inez
Our Alzheimer's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Alzheimers hijacked their plans, required their full attention, and forced them to change their daily habitstheir very livesin order to accommodate its merciless, unrelenting demands. In My Mom Inez, author Bob Miller shares the story of his familys life against the backdrop of Alzheimers disease.
In...
Feet First
Riding the Elder Care Rollercoaster with My Father
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
A cross between Archie Bunker and Ralph Kramden, Ellie is an old-school New Yorker who has outlived his wife, his money, and his body. Angered and frustrated by his situation, he rejects all outside help (other than that of his youngest son) and sets out to prove he can still do it all by himself.
In...
by Michael J. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Im hoping my life story will give insight to people who live and suffer from mental illness and help them receive a clearer form of understanding of their similar diseases in an effort for them to better cope with their everyday lives armed with new knowledge to avoid certain emotional situations...
A Twentieth-Century Argonaut
One Man’S Quest for an American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Ernest Baldini started out as a bullied kid in Detroit, and he could have easily slipped into a life of mediocrity. Instead, he chose a different pathmaking careful decisions and working hard to eventually become a rocket scientist. Along the way, he survived World War II and learned that money is...
Sojourning in a University Academic Vineyard
A Reflection on Teaching, Research, Service and Collegiality
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book chronicles my 15-year sojourning at one of Americas historic institutions Shaw University, founded in 1865 and located in North Carolina, United States of America. It focuses attention in two major areas academic advising and multicultural education because of the influence these two areas...
As It Was … but Not Now
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
In 1923 in Andalusia, Alabama, twenty-odd miles north of the Florida line, a physician was born. Its a place deep in the piney woods that was an area of sand beds, sand roads, and sandspurs. In As It Was But Not Now, Dr. Joseph Merrill tells his story that began in that little town more than ninety...
A Dialogue with Depression
Heart/Mind Disconnect
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
She couldnt stop it. She watched and she begged, and she got frustrated and angry; she demanded and sought support, but she couldnt stop it. She was a witness to the downward spiral, but she was helpless. But if she couldnt stop it, would it be enough to understand it? In A Dialogue with Depression,...
Living with Multiple Sclerosis
The Ripple Effect
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Living with Multiple Sclerosis: The Ripple Effect follows the author on her journey toward accepting the diagnosis of MS and into her middle-aged years. Nancy Wasson Wayland tells it like it is to fellow patients and family members alike, proving to herself and others that there is always something...
Oriana
Memoirs of a Patagonian
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
It is November 6, 1920, in Chilean Patagonia when Oriana Josseau is born into a lively family with two grandparents, two parents, and sixteen young aunts and uncles, most within easy reach of her robust cries. And so begins the life of an independent-minded girl from the bottom of the world who somehow...
Tbi: Shaken but Not Stirred
One Woman's Successful Struggle for Credibility and Justice While Coping with Traumatic Brain Injury
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
This is a remarkable story of an everyday person who overcame a debilitating injury, reclaiming her life and dignity in the process. Joyce's life was disrupted by an auto accident, causing traumatic brain injury (TBI). When attempting to recover medical expenses she confronted a legal system taht...
Pregnancy Centers; Why I Serve
A Birth Mom’S Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Since her childhood, author Georgia Barnes questioned her self-worth and assumed her life was disposable. She struggled to find completeness. Knowing something was missing among the jigsaw pieces of her life, she didnt realize she was hiding from herself. Shocked that she was living in denial, Barnes...
by Dr. N Y Misconi
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin commended the author citing his proposal to transform the Space Shuttle fleet, before retiring it, into a space tourism fleet, which would generate profits for NASA. Dr. Donald Brownlee Director of NASAs STARDUST Mission that flew to comet Wild 2 said this about the author:...
Teaching Baby Gangsters
Reform School or Education Reform?
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Large city school districts and their personnel have been under scrutiny because of poor academic performance by their students. In TEACHING BABY GANGSTERS, author Marilyn K. Gifford communicates the realities and obstacles teachers face in todays inner-city classrooms.
Using her personal experiences...
Radar Man
A Personal History of Stealth
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. Americas hope for national security relied solely upon aerial reconnaissance. Radar Man is the fascinating memoir of a physicist who, with his colleagues, developed the stealth technology that eventually...