Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
Author: Thom Jones
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2009-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 031609305X

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.

The New Bedside Playboy

The New Bedside Playboy
Author: Hugh Hefner
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2011-12-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1435136012

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.

Insight into Acquired Brain Injury

Insight into Acquired Brain Injury
Author: Christine Durham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9811056668

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.

Where Soul Meets Fire

Where Soul Meets Fire
Author: Paula Whaley Griggs
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2015-02-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 150353426X

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.

The Atrocity Archives

The Atrocity Archives
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2006-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101208848

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 . . .

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
Author: Charlise Lyles
Publisher: Gray & Company, Publishers
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 159851041X

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.

Breaking Through

Breaking Through
Author: Francisco Jiménez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780618011735

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McCall's

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Total Pages: 892
Release: 1989-04
Genre: Dressmaking
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