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| Author | : Robert John Sand |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2005-08-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1411642708 |
A remote medical clinic in an abandoned Canadian meat plant specializes in restoring people's faces. The owner recuits a young disgraced ER doctor & together they expand the clinic's reputation by handling only the most difficult high profile cases, those other doctors refuse. Three horribly disfigured sisters are discovered in remote Montana. The doctors create 3 beauties, one of which closely resembles a deceased movie star. Two sisters are offered movie careers in Hollywood & eventually one dies of AIDS & the other commits suicide. The younger doctor unexpectedly finds & marries the 3rd sister. During an emergency procedure on the only survivor of a plane crash in Vail, he discovers through routine DNA testing that the boy is related to his wife. She hires a retired LA police detective to solve the mystery. Repercussion in the the form of letter bombs & attacks immediately follow & the Clinic hires a group of forgotten Vietnam era military snipers, now led by a self proclaimed Reverend to protect them.
| Author | : Andrew Bamji |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2022-03-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781915113023 |
This book examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War.
| Author | : Deborah Carr |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2016-07-10 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9780992786564 |
Four years. Four lives changed forever. November 1914 When Freddie Chevalier's best friend, Charles, joins the cavalry and sets off to fight in the Great War he can't help feeling he's missing out. Until the war he enjoyed his bucolic existence working on his parent's farm on the island of Jersey, but now he yearns for excitement. He's always harboured a secret passion for Charles' fiancee, Meri. She's 'The Girl'. The one he loves but can't have. Nothing compares to the guilt he feels when Meri comes to stay at his home on her way to France and he betrays Charles in the worst possible way. Can Freddie and Meri keep Charles from ever discovering what happened between them? Will Freddie ever notice Charles' younger sister, Lexi? And how will they all react when one of them is almost killed and has to cope with a life-changing injury? One thing is for certain, none of them knows the other as well as they thought. Each will be forced to take charge of their lives and find ways to live with the consequences of the choices that they and others have made. And by November 1918 everything they thought of as familiar will have vanished."
| Author | : Marjorie Gehrhardt |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9783034318693 |
This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. It illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war.
| Author | : Ruth Behar |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2017-04-11 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0399546464 |
Winner of the 2018 Pura Belpre Award! “A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds.”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative—based on the author’s childhood in the 1960s—a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Ruthie’s plight will intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time. Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro’s Cuba to New York City. Just when she’s finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English—and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood’s hopscotch queen—a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie’s world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.
| Author | : Lindsey Fitzharris |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2022-06-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0374719667 |
A New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian "Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world’s first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. The Facemaker places Gillies’s ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.
| Author | : Guy Winch |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2018-02-13 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1501120131 |
Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise, and witty advice for the broken-hearted. Real heartbreak is unmistakable. We think of nothing else. We feel nothing else. We care about nothing else. Yet while we wouldn’t expect someone to return to daily activities immediately after suffering a broken limb, heartbroken people are expected to function normally in their lives, despite the emotional pain they feel. Now psychologist Guy Winch imagines how different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotion—if only we can understand how heartbreak works, we can begin to fix it. Through compelling research and new scientific studies, Winch reveals how and why heartbreak impacts our brain and our behavior in dramatic and unexpected ways, regardless of our age. Emotional pain lowers our ability to reason, to think creatively, to problem solve, and to function at our best. In How to Fix a Broken Heart he focuses on two types of emotional pain—romantic heartbreak and the heartbreak that results from the loss of a cherished pet. These experiences are both accompanied by severe grief responses, yet they are not deemed as important as, for example, a formal divorce or the loss of a close relative. As a result, we are often deprived of the recognition, support, and compassion afforded to those whose heartbreak is considered more significant. Our heart might be broken, but we do not have to break with it. Winch reveals that recovering from heartbreak always starts with a decision, a determination to move on when our mind is fighting to keep us stuck. We can take control of our lives and our minds and put ourselves on the path to healing. Winch offers a toolkit on how to handle and cope with a broken heart and how to, eventually, move on.
| Author | : Zuzu Alexi Cupido |
| Publisher | : Partridge Africa |
| Total Pages | : 83 |
| Release | : 2015-01-12 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1482805464 |
Zuzu Alexi Cupidos introspective style resonates in this poignant tale of wrongful persecution. Broken Face tells the story of Sandra, a devoted employee of Corporate Z for 21 years during the transformation phase of the countrys Democracy. Up until the fateful day of 15 December 2009 she lived a quite an ordinary life. She worked hard to raise her two daughters as a single mother. She danced with friends on Saturdays went to church on Sundays. Her life was an archetype of normalcy and most of her days were as predictable as a song known off by heart all except for that day.That day everything briskly began to unravel her porcelain life. She was forced to go onto the battlefield to fight against the injustice to rescue her family and claim back her name. Sandra displays the indelible resilience of the human spirit. Its a universal tale of triumph against the odds and standing up against the might of oppression in order to prevail with ones dignity in tact. Her story teaches us the profound lesson that an injustice and turbulent world may be able to break ones fragile face but never the soul.
| Author | : Morton H. Goldberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2018-08-14 |
| Genre | : Face |
| ISBN | : 9780692158548 |
As a maxillofacial surgeon, Dr. Morton H. Goldberg coined "The Humpty Dumpty Syndrome" to describe patients whose eggshell-thin facial bones had been damaged by trauma, disease, or malformation. His memoir tells of surgical adventures as he did what all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't. He put people back together again.
| Author | : Steve Ross |
| Publisher | : Hachette Books |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2018-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0316513083 |
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers. Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for his brother had been killed. Ross learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year. Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.
