Author: Samrudhi Dash
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1684666260
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This anthology is a compendium of scholarly articles from some renowned doctors about medical ailments, personal and learning experiences, life lessons from M.B.B.S students, caregivers’ experiences in dealing with the maladies their dear ones have been afflicted with, patients talking about their own battles with destiny and stories and poems of hope, renewal and revival by a number of prolific literary writers and poets. On our part, let us believe that the doctor has chosen this profession for the main purpose of alleviating the sufferings of mankind. Nevertheless, he too is a human being with normal desires and aims to lead a comfortable life like all his school mates in other professions. On the other hand, a patient never comes to a doctor out of choice.; he never comes in to chat and say, "how are you". He comes there with great expectations. These are most often achieved, no doubting that. Patients too have doctors as part of the family. If we can empathize with them for their work style, bedtime hours, and strange feeding habits; why not with the doctors struggling with our health. treat them too like our own children. And make them never regret their choice of this profession. This might not be a substitute to medical consultation, but certainly sends out a message of hope and empathy that though we are all fighting our own battles, help is always at hand and certainly no one ever fights alone.
No One Fights Alone
Author: Samrudhi Dash
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1684666260
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This anthology is a compendium of scholarly articles from some renowned doctors about medical ailments, personal and learning experiences, life lessons from M.B.B.S students, caregivers’ experiences in dealing with the maladies their dear ones have been afflicted with, patients talking about their own battles with destiny and stories and poems of hope, renewal and revival by a number of prolific literary writers and poets. On our part, let us believe that the doctor has chosen this profession for the main purpose of alleviating the sufferings of mankind. Nevertheless, he too is a human being with normal desires and aims to lead a comfortable life like all his school mates in other professions. On the other hand, a patient never comes to a doctor out of choice.; he never comes in to chat and say, "how are you". He comes there with great expectations. These are most often achieved, no doubting that. Patients too have doctors as part of the family. If we can empathize with them for their work style, bedtime hours, and strange feeding habits; why not with the doctors struggling with our health. treat them too like our own children. And make them never regret their choice of this profession. This might not be a substitute to medical consultation, but certainly sends out a message of hope and empathy that though we are all fighting our own battles, help is always at hand and certainly no one ever fights alone.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1684666260
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This anthology is a compendium of scholarly articles from some renowned doctors about medical ailments, personal and learning experiences, life lessons from M.B.B.S students, caregivers’ experiences in dealing with the maladies their dear ones have been afflicted with, patients talking about their own battles with destiny and stories and poems of hope, renewal and revival by a number of prolific literary writers and poets. On our part, let us believe that the doctor has chosen this profession for the main purpose of alleviating the sufferings of mankind. Nevertheless, he too is a human being with normal desires and aims to lead a comfortable life like all his school mates in other professions. On the other hand, a patient never comes to a doctor out of choice.; he never comes in to chat and say, "how are you". He comes there with great expectations. These are most often achieved, no doubting that. Patients too have doctors as part of the family. If we can empathize with them for their work style, bedtime hours, and strange feeding habits; why not with the doctors struggling with our health. treat them too like our own children. And make them never regret their choice of this profession. This might not be a substitute to medical consultation, but certainly sends out a message of hope and empathy that though we are all fighting our own battles, help is always at hand and certainly no one ever fights alone.
No One Fights Alone
Author: Suckerhug Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781072181187
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This travel-size First Responder Flag Gift Notebook is perfect for Christmas, Father's Day, Mother's Day, or to show appreciation as a thank you to that special First Responder in your life. Featuring a grunge thin line flag journal design. Perfect for note taking, meetings, journaling, brainstorming, jotting down lists, or writing in as a diary. This book is perfect if you are looking for stocking stuffers or as a thank you gift. FEATURES: Matte Black Soft Cover Paperback Printed on Bright White Paper 6" x 9", 120 Lined Pages (60 pages front/back) Thin Gray Line for Correction Officers Thin Yellow Line for Dispatchers Thin White Line for EMT and Nurse Thin Red Line For Firefighters Thin Blue Line for Police and Law Enforcement Thin Camo Line for Military
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781072181187
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This travel-size First Responder Flag Gift Notebook is perfect for Christmas, Father's Day, Mother's Day, or to show appreciation as a thank you to that special First Responder in your life. Featuring a grunge thin line flag journal design. Perfect for note taking, meetings, journaling, brainstorming, jotting down lists, or writing in as a diary. This book is perfect if you are looking for stocking stuffers or as a thank you gift. FEATURES: Matte Black Soft Cover Paperback Printed on Bright White Paper 6" x 9", 120 Lined Pages (60 pages front/back) Thin Gray Line for Correction Officers Thin Yellow Line for Dispatchers Thin White Line for EMT and Nurse Thin Red Line For Firefighters Thin Blue Line for Police and Law Enforcement Thin Camo Line for Military
Addiction Recovery Awareness In This Family No One Fights Alone
Author: Marcy Mobley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781700242280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Great gift idea for those in addiction recovery and their family members. This book represents the teal awareness color with the awareness ribbon in Hearts which signifies the love and support surrounding addicts during their time of healing and recovery. Addiction recovery is one of the hardest to overcome but with recovery comes great things. The courage to see just how strong you are, Where you have been and just how far you can go. Great Gift idea for anyone in addiction recovery and their family or support groups and sponsers to keep track of appointments- to us to write down notes in treatments and recovery classes. Writing is a great way to relieve stress and help with recovering addicts and their families . BENEFITS OF WRITING WRITING HELPS TO CLEAR YOUR MIND- Write down thoughts, feelings, fears, doubts, hopes & dreams- It helps to clear your mind from these thoughts during the day so you can concentrate on your daily tasks and enjoy your life. WRITING HELPS TO RECOVER MEMORIES- some memories won't be pleasant but you will be able to see your life from a different perspective and think about what you have learned from your past experiences. KEEP A DAILY JOURNAL & WRITE DAILY- Writing is a good mental exercise that unleashes your creativity by activating your cognitive processes . Whether you just journal about your daily life activities to keep track of where you have been, and what you are doing and what your future plans may be. WRITING HELPS DURING RECOVERY- Writing is the art of expression- writing will give you the oportunity to have a new hobby or creative outlet to express yourself. Write down your deepest thoughs and feelings- write yourself a letter of forgiveness- True forgiveness begins with you.. how can you expect others to forgive you.. unless you truly can learn to forgive yourself. Learn to love yourself, learn to forgive yourself.. then you can learn to love and forgive others. But ultimately it begins with you. Writing will help you get there.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781700242280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Great gift idea for those in addiction recovery and their family members. This book represents the teal awareness color with the awareness ribbon in Hearts which signifies the love and support surrounding addicts during their time of healing and recovery. Addiction recovery is one of the hardest to overcome but with recovery comes great things. The courage to see just how strong you are, Where you have been and just how far you can go. Great Gift idea for anyone in addiction recovery and their family or support groups and sponsers to keep track of appointments- to us to write down notes in treatments and recovery classes. Writing is a great way to relieve stress and help with recovering addicts and their families . BENEFITS OF WRITING WRITING HELPS TO CLEAR YOUR MIND- Write down thoughts, feelings, fears, doubts, hopes & dreams- It helps to clear your mind from these thoughts during the day so you can concentrate on your daily tasks and enjoy your life. WRITING HELPS TO RECOVER MEMORIES- some memories won't be pleasant but you will be able to see your life from a different perspective and think about what you have learned from your past experiences. KEEP A DAILY JOURNAL & WRITE DAILY- Writing is a good mental exercise that unleashes your creativity by activating your cognitive processes . Whether you just journal about your daily life activities to keep track of where you have been, and what you are doing and what your future plans may be. WRITING HELPS DURING RECOVERY- Writing is the art of expression- writing will give you the oportunity to have a new hobby or creative outlet to express yourself. Write down your deepest thoughs and feelings- write yourself a letter of forgiveness- True forgiveness begins with you.. how can you expect others to forgive you.. unless you truly can learn to forgive yourself. Learn to love yourself, learn to forgive yourself.. then you can learn to love and forgive others. But ultimately it begins with you. Writing will help you get there.
No One Succeeds Alone
Author: Robert Reffkin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358454611
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The inspirational story of Compass CEO Robert Reffkin--born black and raised Jewish--and the vital lessons he learned to help him overcome life's daunting obstacles.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358454611
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The inspirational story of Compass CEO Robert Reffkin--born black and raised Jewish--and the vital lessons he learned to help him overcome life's daunting obstacles.
Everybody Fights
Author: Kim Holderness
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0785235744
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller! Learn how to fight better and end your arguments with your partner feeling closer, more loved, and better understood. We take our cars in for oil changes. We mow our lawns and pull weeds. Why don't we do maintenance on our marriages? This relationship is the most important one we will ever have, so why not get better at it? For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness of The Holderness Family have done the hard maintenance and the research to learn how to fight better. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight or a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom? With their trademark sense of humor and complete vulnerability, Penn and Kim share their 10 most common Fight Fails and how to combat them. Throughout the book, they offer scripts for how to start, continue, and successfully close hard conversations. Couples will emerge equipped to engage and understand, not do battle—and maybe laugh a little more along the way. In Everybody Fights, couples will learn how to: Use "magic words" for healthy conflict resolution Address unspoken and unrealistic expectations Banish the three Ds of unhealthy communication—distraction, denial, and delay Carry individual baggage while helping your partner deal with theirs Penn and Kim want you to know you're not alone. Everybody fights. Marriage is messy. Marriage is work. But marriage is worth it. Fight for it!
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0785235744
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller! Learn how to fight better and end your arguments with your partner feeling closer, more loved, and better understood. We take our cars in for oil changes. We mow our lawns and pull weeds. Why don't we do maintenance on our marriages? This relationship is the most important one we will ever have, so why not get better at it? For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness of The Holderness Family have done the hard maintenance and the research to learn how to fight better. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight or a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom? With their trademark sense of humor and complete vulnerability, Penn and Kim share their 10 most common Fight Fails and how to combat them. Throughout the book, they offer scripts for how to start, continue, and successfully close hard conversations. Couples will emerge equipped to engage and understand, not do battle—and maybe laugh a little more along the way. In Everybody Fights, couples will learn how to: Use "magic words" for healthy conflict resolution Address unspoken and unrealistic expectations Banish the three Ds of unhealthy communication—distraction, denial, and delay Carry individual baggage while helping your partner deal with theirs Penn and Kim want you to know you're not alone. Everybody fights. Marriage is messy. Marriage is work. But marriage is worth it. Fight for it!
Nobody's Victim
Author: Carrie Goldberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525533796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don’t know exists—one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off—and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. “We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our destruction.” That grim reality—gleaned from personal experience and twenty years of trauma work—is a fundamental principle of Carrie Goldberg’s cutting-edge victims’ rights law firm. Riveting and an essential timely conversation-starter, Nobody's Victim invites readers to join Carrie on the front lines of the war against sexual violence and privacy violations as she fights for revenge porn and sextortion laws, uncovers major Title IX violations, and sues the hell out of tech companies, schools, and powerful sexual predators. Her battleground is the courtroom; her crusade is to transform clients from victims into warriors. In gripping detail, Carrie shares the diabolical ways her clients are attacked and how she, through her unique combination of advocacy, badass relentlessness, risk-taking, and client-empowerment, pursues justice for them all. There are stories about a woman whose ex-boyfriend made fake bomb threats in her name and caused a national panic; a fifteen-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted on school grounds and then suspended when she reported the attack; and a man whose ex-boyfriend used a dating app to send more than 1,200 men to ex's home and work for sex. With breathtaking honesty, Carrie also shares her own shattering story about why she began her work and the uphill battle of building a business. While her clients are a diverse group—from every gender, sexual orientation, age, class, race, religion, occupation, and background—the offenders are not. They are highly predictable. In this book, Carrie offers a taxonomy of the four types of offenders she encounters most often at her firm: assholes, psychos, pervs, and trolls. “If we recognize the patterns of these perpetrators,” she explains, “we know how to fight back.” Deeply personal yet achingly universal, Nobody's Victim is a bold and much-needed analysis of victim protection in the era of the Internet. This book is an urgent warning of a coming crisis, a predictor of imminent danger, and a weapon to take back control and protect ourselves—both online and off.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525533796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don’t know exists—one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off—and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. “We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our destruction.” That grim reality—gleaned from personal experience and twenty years of trauma work—is a fundamental principle of Carrie Goldberg’s cutting-edge victims’ rights law firm. Riveting and an essential timely conversation-starter, Nobody's Victim invites readers to join Carrie on the front lines of the war against sexual violence and privacy violations as she fights for revenge porn and sextortion laws, uncovers major Title IX violations, and sues the hell out of tech companies, schools, and powerful sexual predators. Her battleground is the courtroom; her crusade is to transform clients from victims into warriors. In gripping detail, Carrie shares the diabolical ways her clients are attacked and how she, through her unique combination of advocacy, badass relentlessness, risk-taking, and client-empowerment, pursues justice for them all. There are stories about a woman whose ex-boyfriend made fake bomb threats in her name and caused a national panic; a fifteen-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted on school grounds and then suspended when she reported the attack; and a man whose ex-boyfriend used a dating app to send more than 1,200 men to ex's home and work for sex. With breathtaking honesty, Carrie also shares her own shattering story about why she began her work and the uphill battle of building a business. While her clients are a diverse group—from every gender, sexual orientation, age, class, race, religion, occupation, and background—the offenders are not. They are highly predictable. In this book, Carrie offers a taxonomy of the four types of offenders she encounters most often at her firm: assholes, psychos, pervs, and trolls. “If we recognize the patterns of these perpetrators,” she explains, “we know how to fight back.” Deeply personal yet achingly universal, Nobody's Victim is a bold and much-needed analysis of victim protection in the era of the Internet. This book is an urgent warning of a coming crisis, a predictor of imminent danger, and a weapon to take back control and protect ourselves—both online and off.
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Vol. 1
Author: Tom Taylor
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302515047
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Collects Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2019) #1-5. Spider-Man is the worst neighbor ever! There are always crazy villains and property damage and drama and…and he catches those villains. And he tries to fix the damage. And he helps carry your groceries. And actually that property damage keeps the rents down. You know what? Spider-Man is the best neighbor ever, and this book will give you a closer look at Spider-Man’s (and Peter Parker’s) neighborhood than any before it! But it wouldn’t be a Spider-Man adventure without a threat that could destroy not only Spider-Man, but also all his friendly neighbors — and it’s going to take him far from home, to a part of the Marvel Universe you’ve never seen before! Plus: Aunt May has a shocking secret that could change everything for Peter and his family!
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302515047
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Collects Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2019) #1-5. Spider-Man is the worst neighbor ever! There are always crazy villains and property damage and drama and…and he catches those villains. And he tries to fix the damage. And he helps carry your groceries. And actually that property damage keeps the rents down. You know what? Spider-Man is the best neighbor ever, and this book will give you a closer look at Spider-Man’s (and Peter Parker’s) neighborhood than any before it! But it wouldn’t be a Spider-Man adventure without a threat that could destroy not only Spider-Man, but also all his friendly neighbors — and it’s going to take him far from home, to a part of the Marvel Universe you’ve never seen before! Plus: Aunt May has a shocking secret that could change everything for Peter and his family!
On War
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
I Know This Much Is True
Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780060391621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780060391621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
When a Kid Like Me Fights Cancer
Author: Catherine Stier
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807563927
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Ben has cancer, but he also has a loving family and friends, a community fighting for him—and hope. When Ben finds out he has cancer, he learns a lot right away. He learns that cancer is something you fight, and that cancer isn't anyone's fault—especially not his. He discovers that many things change with cancer, but some of the most important things stay the same, and everyone around him wants to help him fight.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807563927
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Ben has cancer, but he also has a loving family and friends, a community fighting for him—and hope. When Ben finds out he has cancer, he learns a lot right away. He learns that cancer is something you fight, and that cancer isn't anyone's fault—especially not his. He discovers that many things change with cancer, but some of the most important things stay the same, and everyone around him wants to help him fight.