Ketchup On The Baseboard

Author : Carolyn Rocchio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Brain damage
ISBN : 193111725X

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Ketchup on the Baseboard by Carolyn Rocchio Pdf

This is the personal story of her family's journey after her son, Tim, sustained a traumatic brain injury. Chronicling his progress over more than 20 years, Carolyn Rocchio describes his recovery along with the complex emotions, changing dynamics and expectations of her family. This is more than a personal story. It contains a collection of articles on over 35 topics ranging from health and medical care to rehabilitation, community resources, helping children, planning for the future and mental health. Carolyn's list of achievements, honors and publications is length - but what you will find in this book is the voice of a mother who knows first hand about the compassion, hope and determination needed in life after brain injury.

Author : Christine Durham,Paul Ramcharan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811056666

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Insight into Acquired Brain Injury by Christine Durham,Paul Ramcharan Pdf

This book offers an empowering approach to working with people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) based upon the views and perspectives of people with ABI themselves. Drawing upon Christine Durham's own ABI experience and Paul Ramcharan’s engagement in disability research over a quarter of a century, this volume gives voice to 36 participants with ABI, as well as carers and other professionals from both urban and rural areas. This unique perspective provides a long-needed, empathic alternative to the deficit-based model of ABI that dominates medical literature and existing rehabilitation models. In Insight into Acquired Brain Injury, the authors use educational and learning principles together with Durham’s extensive archive of experiential data to offer a reframing of the nature and experience of ABI and relevant a set of practical, real-world tools for practitioners. These ready-to-adopt-and-adapt scripts, guided interviews, research checklists, thinking tools and other innovative techniques are designed to engage with people and colleagues about brain injury as a means of supporting them to feel and fare better. With compassion and first-hand awareness, Insight into Acquired Brain Injury provides a much-needed perspective that deepens current understanding and translates the complicated life-worlds of people living with ABI in order to motivate, empower and increase their participation.

Author : Paula Whaley Griggs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781503534261

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Where Soul Meets Fire by Paula Whaley Griggs Pdf

When a car accident shatters dreams for a family and ER doctors give little hope, where do you turn? Told from a mothers point of view, Where Soul Meets Fire is a story of one familys experience with traumatic brain injury. Read the actual e-mails sent each night chronicling her daughters condition. It would be a long month before Jessica would truly awaken from her coma. Share their experiences and discover what they learned. Along their journey, Paulas mom is diagnosed with dementia, and Paula herself with breast cancer. Supported by family and friends, they find their faith strengthened as they overcome the odds. Follow three generations as time after time, one more miracle is graciously granted. Told with humor and encouragement, their story will be an inspiration for all.

Author : Thom Jones
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316093057

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Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones Pdf

The author's world encompasses dilapidated fight arenas, state mental hospitals & chaotic emergency rooms. The inhabitants are his brilliantly etched characters, who battle desperately against fate in a game of life they cannot win but dare not lose. As we approach the end of the century & the millennium, no one writes better or more vividly than Jones does about the personal, private apocalypses we all face in our darkest moments. In one story, a Vietnam vet, a Recon Marine, swims alone across the English Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar, & the Bosporus to maintain "the edge" that kept him alive in wartime - & that is all he now has left. In another, a brilliant doctor verges on a breakdown. In the title story, a young amateur fighter stoically endures repetitive beatings because he knows the world of boxing shields & protects him from the even crueler world outside of the ring. A number of these stories have appeared in different forms in the New Yorker, Playboy, & Esquire.

Author : Hugh Hefner
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435136014

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The New Bedside Playboy by Hugh Hefner Pdf

Over the course of its illustrious and often controversial history, Playboy magazine has published the works of some of the world’s greatest writers, from Beat poets to Nobel laureates. In 1979, Hugh M. Hefner addressed a reunion of Playmates in Los Angeles. “Without you,” he said. “I’d have a literary magazine.” This anthology presents an amazingly diverse selection of a half century’s worth of entertaining stories, journalism, humor, and cartoons. Featuring articles and interviews drawn from more than five decades; fiction from the likes of Woody Allen, Saul Bellow, Michael Chabon, Robert Coover, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Mamet, Jay McInerney, Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Smiley, Scott Turow; and cartoons from the likes of Gahan Wilson, Shel Silverstein, and Jules Feiffer, this volume will serve as a perfect bedside companion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043202

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charlise Lyles
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781598510416

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Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? by Charlise Lyles Pdf

Describes the author's childhood education in the Cleveland projects in the 1960s and 1970s, where she learned to appreciate literature at a young age despite growing up amid race riots and murder.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : NYPL:33433060470014

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Canadian Homes and Gardens by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101208848

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The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross Pdf

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Author : Hannah Holborn
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993881

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Fierce by Hannah Holborn Pdf

Fresh, tough, and thoroughly addictive, this sparkling debut collection calls to mind the beloved and bestselling works of Lisa Moore, Camilla Gibb, and Mark Haddon. With an irresistible combination of playfulness and empathy, these effervescent, sometimes heartbreaking tales of underachieving adults, unfairly burdened children, and the unaccountably hopeful of all ages explore the moments of grace in lives that are too often defined by loss. A punky young woman comes to terms with the accident that took away all of her family except the grandmother who believes she is a bird, and an aging prospector — a woman — discovers that a physical “curse” might have been something of a blessing all along. “The Indian Act” is a compact coming-of-age story, charting the journey of a boy who, though bounced through many foster homes, holds on to the dream of love and unconditional acceptance; and in the novella “River Rising,” three generations in a small town struggle toward joy despite the accidents of fate and the foolish mistakes that almost, but not quite, derail their lives. Fierce introduces Hannah Holborn as a shining new light in Canadian fiction. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Regi Carpenter
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781944822231

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Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner by Regi Carpenter Pdf

“A candid story of desperate measures, explosive humor, and, ultimately, the sanity behind seeming madness. It teaches a new understanding of family love.” —Jo Radner, reviewer for the National Storytelling Network’s magazine Family: comfort food or a recipe for disaster? Award-winning storyteller and performer Regi Carpenter brings her humor and honesty to print in Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner. Regi is the youngest daughter in a family that pulsates with contradictions: religious and raucous, tender but terrible, unfortunate yet irrepressible. These honest tales—some hilarious, some heartbreaking—celebrate the glorious and gut-wrenching lives of four generations of Carpenters raised on the Saint Lawrence River in Clayton, New York. From teenagers struggling to find their identity to disabled veterans grappling with the aftermath of war and change to the complications and sweetness of love between family members, this collection of linked short stories holds the universal message that life’s difficulties are softened by love and fortitude . . . and family. “Inventive, insightful, emotionally nuanced in the midst of deadpan humor; but more than that, here is a great, big-hearted embrace of the world.” —Loren Niemi, producer, Two Chairs Telling “This book brings us to a place where we discover the eventual and abiding power of love over death. It is so very loving and affirming of total recovery from childhood and of the power of forgiveness that heals in two directions.” —Donald Davis, author of Tales from a Free-Range Childhood

Author : Erin Benzakein
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781452173054

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Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers by Erin Benzakein Pdf

Learn how to buy, style, and present seasonal flower arrangements for every occasion. With sections on tools, flower care, and design techniques, Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers presents all the secrets to arranging garden-fresh bouquets. Featuring expert advice from Erin Benzakein, world-renowned flower farmer, floral designer, and bestselling author of Floret Farm: Cut Flower Garden, this book is a gorgeous and comprehensive guide to everything you need to make your own incredible arrangements all year long, whether harvesting flowers from the backyard or shopping for blooms at the market. • Includes an A–Z flower guide with photos and care tips for more than 200 varieties. • Simple-to-follow advice on flower care, material selection, and essential design techniques • More than 25 how-to projects, including magnificent centerpieces, infinitely giftable posies, festive wreaths, and breathtaking bridal bouquets Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers offers advice on every phase of working with cut flowers—including gardening, buying, caring for, and arranging fresh flowers. Brimming with indispensable tips and hundreds of vibrant photographs, this book is an invitation to live a flower-filled life and perfect for anyone who loves flowers. • The definitive guide to flower arranging from the biggest star in the farm-to-centerpiece movement • Perfect for flower lovers, avid and novice gardeners, floral designers, wedding planners, florists, small farmers, stylists, designers, crafters, and those passionate about the local floral movement • For those who loved Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein, The Flower Recipe Book by Alethea Harampolis, Seasonal Flower Arranging by Ariella Chezar, and The Flower Chef by Carly Cylinder

Author : Jennifer Fischetto
Publisher : Gemma Halliday Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Diamonds, Pies & Dead Guys by Jennifer Fischetto Pdf

From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Fischetto comes a hauntingly clever Gianna Mancini Mystery you don't want to miss! Ghost whisperer and sandwich connoisseur, Gianna Mancini, is living a drama-free life in a rent-reduced apartment above the family deli, working as a receptionist for her hot P.I. “taking it slow” boyfriend, and about to become an aunt for the second time. Nothing can sour her mood—not even a chance encounter with her high school frenemy that is less than friendly. That is until her frenemy's ghost suddenly appears in her living room. Hilary Burton is dead, and the number one suspect in her murder is her husband and Gianna’s arch nemesis, Kevin. He says he’s innocent, but Hilary has a very different story. It doesn’t matter though. Gianna has no intention of involving herself in this murder. Nope, she’s totally staying out of it. However when an anonymous tip leads the police to question if Gianna's altercation with Hilary was tense enough to lead to murder, she's suddenly right in the thick of it! And the more Gianna looks into it, the more she wonders who is lying—the ghost with a shady past or the man who has been a perpetual thorn in Gianna's side? With her freedom on the line, Gianna has to figure out the truth before she’s fitted for an orange jumpsuit. Unfortunately the killer intends to stop at nothing to get away with murder, even if it means Gianna becomes the next victim. Gianna Mancini Mysteries: Lipstick, Lies & Dead Guys (book #1) Miniskirts, Mai Tais & Dead Guys (book #2) Cupcakes, Butterflies & Dead Guys (book #3) Stilettos, Bow Ties & Dead Guys (book #4) Diamonds, Pies & Dead Guys (book #5) Christmas, Spies & Dead Guys (short story in the "Cozy Christmas Shorts" collection) What critics are saying about the Gianna Mancini Mysteries: "Quirky but oh so fun cozy mystery. If you like your cozy mysteries on the humorous side, then look no further!" —Fresh Fiction "Jennifer Fishetto serves up a delicious cozy mystery with this fun ghost story. If you are a fan of the genre this is a fun read that will leave you with a smile." —Night Owl Reviews

Author : Alton Brown
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781647001148

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Good Eats (Text-Only Edition) by Alton Brown Pdf

This quintessential food-science-and-cooking-technique title is now available in ebook! Alton Brown is a great cook, a very funny guy, and—underneath it all—a science geek who's as interested in the chemistry of cooking as he is in eating. (Well, almost.) At long last, the book that Brown's legions of fans have cooked from and celebrated and spilled stuff on for years is available as an ebook, providing a brighter, shinier record of his long-running, award-winning Food Network TV series, Good Eats. From "Pork Fiction" (on baby back ribs), to "Citizen Cane" (on caramel sauce), to "Oat Cuisine" (on oatmeal), every hilarious episode is represented. The book contains more than 140 recipes and some helpful illustrations, along with explanations of techniques, lots of food-science information (of course!), and more food puns, food jokes, and food trivia than you can shake a wooden spoon at.

Author : Amy Hempel
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616200237

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New Stories from the South 2010 by Amy Hempel Pdf

Over the past twenty-five years, New Stories from the South has published the work of now well-known writers, including James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus, Barbara Kingsolver, John Sayles, Joshua Ferris, and Abraham Verghese and nurtured the talents of many others, including Larry Brown, Jill McCorkle, Brock Clarke, Lee Smith, and Daniel Wallace. This twenty-fifth volume reachs out beyond the South to one of the most acclaimed short story writers of our day. Guest editor Amy Hempel admits, “I’ve always had an affinity for writers from the South,” and in her choices, she’s identified the most inventive, heartbreaking, and chilling stories being written by Southerners all across the country. From the famous (Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Spencer, Wells Tower, Padgett Powell, Dorothy Allison, Brad Watson) to the finest new talents, Amy Hempel has selected twenty-five of the best, most arresting stories of the past year. The 2010 collection is proof of the enduring vitality of the short form and the vigor of this ever-changing yet time-honored series.