Each year thousands of children are diagnosed with autism, a devastating neurological disorder that profoundly affects a person's language and social development. "Saving Ben" is the story of one family coping with autism, told from the viewpoint of a father struggling to understand his son's strange behavior and rescue him from a downward spiral. 'Take him home, love him, and save your money for his institutionalization when he turns twenty-one'. That was the best advice his doctor could offer in 1990 when three-year-old Ben was diagnosed with autism. "Saving Ben" tells the story of Ben's...
Each year thousands of children are diagnosed with autism, a devastating neurological disorder that profoundly affects a person's language and social ...
"Birthing a Better Way: 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth"presents a fresh, proactive, and positive approach to why you may want to consider the safest and most satisfying kind of birth--natural childbirth--especially in these times of overused medical interventions. Kalena Cook, a mother who experienced natural childbirth, and Margaret Christensen, M.D., a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, have written this much-needed book for expectant mothers and their caregivers, imparting proven safe or "evidence-based" information with compelling narratives. Think of "What to Expect "in...
"Birthing a Better Way: 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth"presents a fresh, proactive, and positive approach to why you may want to consider the safes...
"Birthing a Better Way: 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth"presents a fresh, proactive, and positive approach to why you may want to consider the safest and most satisfying kind of birth--natural childbirth--especially in these times of overused medical interventions. Kalena Cook, a mother who experienced natural childbirth, and Margaret Christensen, M.D., a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, have written this much-needed book for expectant mothers and their caregivers, imparting proven safe or "evidence-based" information with compelling narratives. Think of "What to Expect "in...
"Birthing a Better Way: 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth"presents a fresh, proactive, and positive approach to why you may want to consider the sa...
A Main Selection of the Military/History Book Club. During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war. They faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, relentless anti-aircraft fire with no deviations from target, and thousands of miles of over-water flying with no alternative landing sites. "Finish Forty and Home," by Phil Scearce, is the true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South...
A Main Selection of the Military/History Book Club. During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young Am...
Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby--Michael --who is, in fact, very much alive and now twenty-two years old. He also has Down syndrome.When Kathryn Hulings adopted Michael as an infant, she could not have known that he would save her life when she became gravely ill and was left forever physically compromised. Her story delights in how Michael's life and hers, while both marked by...
Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had d...
Foreword Reviews 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner in Performing Arts & Music Anshel Brusilow started playing violin in 1933 at age five, in a Russian Jewish neighborhood of Philadelphia where practicing your instrument was as ordinary as hanging out the laundry. His playing wasn t ordinary, though. At sixteen, he was soloing with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was also studying conducting. Brusilow s tumultuous relationships with Pierre Monteux, George Szell, and Eugene Ormandy shaped his early career. Under Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland...
Foreword Reviews 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner in Performing Arts & Music Anshel Brusilow started playing violin in 1933 at age fiv...
In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state's 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLD. Two years later--after tense battles in the Federal District Court...
In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States ...
