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A Life of Triumph: How a Girl with Cerebral Palsy Beat the Odds to Achieve Success
ISBN: 9780989800990 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Life of Inspiration and Hope
Karen A. Gorr was born in 1937 and developed debilitating physical challenges shortly thereafter due to a prolonged illness. Her mother was a single parent with another disabled child and no familial support. When her mother became ill, she placed her children in an institution for the "feeble-minded" since no other facilities stepped up to help. Karen spent 10 years of her childhood there, and she constantly longed to escape the abuse, isolation, hunger, and neglect. A Life of Triumph is Ms. Gorr's story of how her own determination,... A Life of Inspiration and Hope
Karen A. Gorr was born in 1937 and developed debilitating physical challenges shortly thereafter due to a p... |
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51,68 |
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This Is What Perfect Looks Like
ISBN: 9780998096438 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the minute she first laid eyes on her baby girl, Heather House knew what the doctors would not immediately tell her: one of her newborn twins had Down syndrome. In this thoughtfully candid memoir, House takes an unflinching look at the sometimes painful, often joy-filled, always humbling experience of being the mother of a child who has special needs. Genuine, raw, funny and engaging, This Is What Perfect Looks is as endearing as it is unsentimental. Initially disoriented by the change in her identity from "Spectacularly Competent Mom" to "Mother of a Child Who Has Special Needs," it is...
From the minute she first laid eyes on her baby girl, Heather House knew what the doctors would not immediately tell her: one of her newborn twins had...
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71,84 |
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Coma: I Can't Remember
ISBN: 9781537741475 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1987, Rich Salisbury was in a terrible car accident and was thrown from his pickup truck. He suffered severe brain damage and was in a coma for 28 days. This memoir is the story of his life and his recovery, told by a man battling short term and long term memory loss.
In 1987, Rich Salisbury was in a terrible car accident and was thrown from his pickup truck. He suffered severe brain damage and was in a coma for 28 ...
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47,89 |
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I Am We: How Severe Childhood Abuse Fragments the Mind and Alters the Personality
ISBN: 9781539062967 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many people with Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID) have written their stories. And done a fine job. I admire and respect my fellow suffers of this disorder who have risked putting themselves "out there" as they have done. So, why read my story, just another among so many? I have attempted to answer two questions that I have been asked but which I have not read about. One is, how does it happen? What is the actual process that took place? I explain the extremes that a child has to suffer in order to split and then the process of splitting. The second question is: What is it like to live as a...
Many people with Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID) have written their stories. And done a fine job. I admire and respect my fellow suffers of this d...
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79,82 |
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Bruised, Battered and Bewildered: A true story of an Alcoholics life
ISBN: 9781539605515 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the life story of an Alcoholic analyzing the development of the characteristics of the illness from early years to the recovery process and covers the 63 years of the life of the individual. It is an auto biography and contains only honesty and self awareness. the story is inspired by the excerpts of a diary written by my great great grandfather in 1826 when he made the decision to give up drink.
This is the life story of an Alcoholic analyzing the development of the characteristics of the illness from early years to the recovery process and co...
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41,51 |
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Joseph: The Life, Times and Places of the Elephant Man
ISBN: 9781911273059 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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432,01 |
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God and Churchill: How The Great Leader’s Sense Of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World And Offers Hope For Ours
ISBN: 9780281075393 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first biography of Churchill to focus on the Christian motivation behind his style of leadership, his inspiring speeches and his eventual success in preventing the collapse of Christian civilization in Europe.
The first biography of Churchill to focus on the Christian motivation behind his style of leadership, his inspiring speeches and his eventual success ...
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61,31 |
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Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury
ISBN: 9781911600046 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Somebody to Love, biographers Mark Langthorne and Matt Richards skilfully weave both Freddie Mercury's incredible pursuit of musical greatness with Queen, his upbringing and his endless search for love with the story of a terrible disease that swept across the world in the 1980s.
In Somebody to Love, biographers Mark Langthorne and Matt Richards skilfully weave both Freddie Mercury's incredible pursuit of musical greatness with...
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55,31 |
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Peach: An Exceptional Teen's Inspiring Journey for Universal Acceptance
ISBN: 9781539367338 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PEACH - written in lyrical, soulful prose and poetry by Jenevieve 'Peach' Woods - is a heartfelt account of her life as the invisible girl, shunned because she is afflicted with a life-altering disease. Her book is part of her mission to 'celebrate our differences, and to treat each other with kindness and dignity'. Ms. Woods' book demonstrates wisdom, compassion, and insight into the human condition that is far beyond her eighteen years. She praises her mom for being her hero, her stepfather for being her rock, and her brothers for being her soul mates. She accepts the life granted her with...
PEACH - written in lyrical, soulful prose and poetry by Jenevieve 'Peach' Woods - is a heartfelt account of her life as the invisible girl, shunned be...
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51,84 |
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Outrunning the Night: A life journey of disability, determination and joy
ISBN: 9781539471066 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,87 |
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It Wasn't the Horse's Fault: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, Love & Healing
ISBN: 9780997896145 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,88 |
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The Silent Book: A Deaf Family and the Disappearing Australian-Irish Sign Language
ISBN: 9780646954943 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book tells the story of the author's mother and father as Deaf people in the context of their lives in Victoria, their schooling in New South Wales in the 1920s and their adult lives. She brings to the fore the rural environment that surrounded their lives as children and as adults in rural Australia. Australian-Irish Sign Language was introduced into Australia in the nineteenth century through Sister Gabriel Hogan, a Dominican religious sister who The book tells the story of the author's mother and father as Deaf people in the context of their lives in Victoria, their schooling in Ne... |
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152,04 |
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Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood
ISBN: 9781910263099 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,80 |
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Only a Shoebox to His Name: Crippled, Angst-Ridden, Foster Kid Forrest
ISBN: 9781542782593 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,86 |
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Farewell to Valparaiso
ISBN: 9781524658595 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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199,35 |
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By the Grace of God: My Journey on Hemodialysis for over 30 years
ISBN: 9781523685516 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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22,95 |
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Stairs for Breakfast: An inspiring memoir by a man with Cerebral Palsy who doesn't let anything stand in his way
ISBN: 9781504362962 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the kind of book you should read when you think you have had a bad day. Patrick Souiljaert was deprived of oxygen for the first 4 minutes of his life and consequently denied the gift of easy movement and speech for the remainder of it. It means that this brutally frank autobiography of someone with Cerebral Palsy who needs crutches for walking and eats stairs for breakfast when he falls, should be a depressing experience for the reader. It isn't. Patrick's sense of humour and love of his fellow human beings shines through. His recall is amazing, his perception... This is the kind of book you should read when you think you have had a bad day. Patrick Souiljaert was deprived of oxygen for the first 4 minutes o... |
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75,98 |
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Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship With A Remarkable Man
ISBN: 9781509811434 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Shatner's personal tribute to his long-time friend and Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy.
William Shatner's personal tribute to his long-time friend and Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy.
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50,28 |
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Mrs Simpson
ISBN: 9781509822515 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,27 |
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Pass The Salad Dressing: Living With PTSD
ISBN: 9781533387493 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an autobiographical look at one person's experience of living with PTSD. Told with at times wry humor, the book includes wartime experiences in Vietnam during the Vietnam War from the perspective of an Australian infantry soldier who then returns to Australia to face ostracism and rejection from his own country.
This is an autobiographical look at one person's experience of living with PTSD. Told with at times wry humor, the book includes wartime experiences i...
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25,95 |
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