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Reflecting back on her college graduation in 2011, Dawn thought her life was finally coming together, that all of the hard work she put in working full-time, attending college, and being a parent was finally going to pay off.
After all, she survived both physical and sexual child abuse by her father, was bullied by her peers throughout her early elementary and high school years, and, at age forty, was winning her battle with depression, so she could...
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When you find yourself in a world full of promises, hopes, dreams, and sometimes fantasies only to be caught up in a world of confusion, disappointments, and untruth, you often find yourself holding onto the edge, at times unable to relate, wondering if it's your last breath, chance, or unforeseen opportunity to make your messed up situation right. As life takes a turn for what we might think is the worst, a change soon comes that puts the pieces...
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Having suffered an accident in the dorms while a student at St. John's University, Bob became a quadriplegic. This fact, however, doesn't keep Bob from living his life fully. This book describes some of his adventures-and challenges-along the way. This book is for anyone who has faced, is facing, or will face a difficult time in their life. Meaning: it's for everyone. Equal parts humorous, inspirational, informative, and painfully honest. It provides...
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Life before and after Cerebral Palsy: We Are Their Voices is based on real life events. In this story, the author, Tammy, takes us on a whirlwind of events and one heck of a roller-coaster ride. She allows us in her life to show us what it was like being a young, teen mother of a child with a disability. She talks about the trials and tribulations of being a young mother and dealing with diversity and disappointment. She speaks about how what she...
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Volume 2 is a continuation of volume 1, where a young boy named Fritz was growing up in Germany during and after World War II. Volume 2 begins in 1962 with him stepping off of an ocean liner, the SS Bremen, as a young man of twenty-four in New York City Harbor, ready to experience the adventure of a lifetime! As you will see, as a greenhorn, he had to overcome some challenging hurdles in order to enjoy the sweet fruits of life.
After 2 years of working...
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Imagine everything that you thought you knew about life being challenged. You now question the best way to do things. You look at what makes things easy or difficult with a new perspective. Now imagine that the person responsible for this is your child.
Typically, that is not abnormal. We always look at things with a sense of wonder and magic when our children are small. Now consider what it would be like if this stage of life never stopped.
This...
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This memoir offers the reader an insight and understanding into what it can be like living with disability. What were my reactions in my early years when I realized that I was disabled and could not walk or talk? How did I cope in school and what did I enjoy and not enjoy? Imagine the joy when I finally received a communication aid that has made such a wonderful difference to my life, opening the way to new opportunities and adventures, and enabling...
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The Berlin Candy Bomber is the story of how two sticks of gum and one man's kindness to the children of a vanquished enemy grew into an epic of goodwill‚-spanning the globe and touching the hearts of millions in both Germany and America. In June 1948, Russia cut off the flow of food and supplies to Berlin. The Americans, joined by the English and French, began a massive airlift to bring sustenance to the city and thwart the Russian siege. Gail Halvorsen...
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Faye Whatley Thompson was born and raised in the Deep South during a time that racial integration and segregation issues were beginning to explode into more serious problems. The year that she graduated in 1954, the law had changed that gave black people the right to go to a school of their choice. Her family had hired "colored" maids since she was a small child so her parents could work outside the home. She and many others saw how the local colored...
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This is the authors autobiography from birth to when he started his professional career. As stated in the book, from the beginning, his chances were pretty slim. His chances increased with each gamble his mother made. His mother took a chance to move to the bushes of Smythfield to live in a hut built of tar drums by his father, gambling that the financial situation would get better. His mother taught herself to sew and took a chance to invest all...
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When life doesn't go as planned... Make new plans!
When a devastating event takes away the way of life you are accustomed to, you have two choices: Stop living or Start Planning!
In this memoir, Shawn Paulsen demonstrates how he has overcome his stumbling blocks and turned them into stepping stones on his journey through the misfortunes of life. Shawn's story inspires and motivates others to overcome. He describes how he has learned to face adversity...
92) Para-What?
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You feel more than just bumps in the road while riding public transportation in the city of Rockford, Illinois-a sidewalk-less, backwater city where you can find growing corn fields next to popular family restaurants. Secrets are exposed, character flaws are uncovered, and even romance and lust flourish from just a mere schedule of a ride on a paratransit bus.
Will you be able to figure out which driver is in the hot seat for each mini story?
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The inspirational first person story of a young dog sled racer who had to overcome incredible odds to compete: she is legally blind.
For more than eleven years, twenty-one-year-old Rachael Scdoris has been guiding teams of sled dogs across jagged mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, and desolate tundra at speeds exceeding twenty mph. Not only is Rachael the youngest athlete to ever complete a 500-mile sled dog race mile, but she is also...
94) Betrayal
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This book is about Kathy Garrett’s real life. It isn’t fiction. She tells all about her life from one to sixty-two. She tells about phony, lying friends that betrayed her all the time. She learned never to associate with them again. She also tells about her nerves and the mental sicknesses that she has had. She has healed from OCD, and when she feels it coming on, she knows how to control it. She has had depression all her life and used to have...
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The Hardest Course I've Ever Played is a true story of the author's life, using a theme of playing an extremely difficult golf course in a professional tournament to parallel with the challenges of living life, from birth, with a physical handicap. This journey takes the reader through all the many and different emotions experienced in each storyline while using scripture to provide hope and encouragement needed to overcome any challenges faced. From...
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I chose my title, I Am a Child, a Boy, and a Man: Stolen Innocence (A Search for Hope, the Need for Faith), due to my clear ability to see through the eyes of who I was at each stage of my life. It has been very, very tough to see through the eyes of that child and the boy that I was and not be able to save or help them. I have learned to heal because of those two; their pain, suffering, and loss have given me the need and hope to fight and never...
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Born 1935 in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania I lived with my two brothers, Al and Ron, and parents in one half of a duplex house on Horton Street. It was a basic house consisting of living/dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms and one bath. The kitchen stove and furnace were both coal fired. Dad was a plumber who worked for his father, owner of Martin L. Kaiser Company, Plumbing and Heating. Grandfather worked for his father, my great-grandfather, who emigrated...
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Edinburgh, 1994 I am crouching in an alleyway. They can t see me here, so for the moment I am safe. There must be hundreds of loudspeakers projecting secret messages at me, and umpteen video cameras tracking every move I make...They will tie me up, soak my feet in water and have goats lick my feet down to the bone... Melbourne, 2003 'Nowadays I say that I am recovered, not cured. I have a job, I have my band, I have my friends and my family. I...
99) My Hometown
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Born November 17, 1958, I grew up in Kansas City (north), in a middle-income family of six kids, four older brothers and one younger sister. The area was, called Northtown, and most were proud to be living there. Mostly I spent my childhood days in "the woods” "a large wooded area next to our house on Main Street. I went to the woods for the most part to have a great time with my friends, but it was also an escape from my home life. By the time...
100) Blind Luck
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A legally blind diabetic fighting ADHD, drugs, and alcoholism takes on a sighted world, learning how to overcome adversity while balancing the needs of raising a family, work, and dealing with a need to overcome the obstacles that prove to be ever challenging since the first loss of his eye functions. This is how he learned to survive and be successful.
This book is filled with laughs, tears, trials and errors, all while striving to move forward...
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