It Just Ain't Fair

It Just Ain't Fair
Author: Annette Dula
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1994-07-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Mainstream medical ethicists engaged in impartial ethics traditions often overlook the gross disparities in health care that divide our society along color lines. This collection challenges that oversight by bringing ethicists face to face with the plight of a particularly underserved population--African Americans. Health care professionals document disparities in health status and access to care, focusing on issues such as AIDS, homelessness, infant mortality, and distribution of doctors. They discuss distrust and suspicion of the medical community, lack of respect for cultural differences, and self-help approaches. Each chapter is followed by a commentary by a well-known medical ethicist. This anthology enhances traditional medical ethics discourse by presenting the ethical voices and perspectives of African Americans. It is an important guide to developing a culturally aware medical ethics for all ethnic groups ill-served by the nation's health care system.

Stumbling Through Grief

Stumbling Through Grief
Author: Laurie J Lagemann
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1483654044

I WROTE THESE PAGES of stories, poems, and journal entries over a two-and-a-half-year period after my son died from a pulmonary embolism, just hours prior to his release to home from the hospital. The different shifts of topics represent the different stages of my life experience, along with other poems and journal entries from his friends and family that are unedited to represent their own expressions of grief regarding my son.

Not a Sparrow Falls

Not a Sparrow Falls
Author: Linda Nichols
Publisher: Bethany House
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0764207474

Alasdair MacPherson, a widowed pastor, sees his life change when he hires Mary Bridget to be his housekeeper.

The Measures of a Bitta-Sweet Life!

The Measures of a Bitta-Sweet Life!
Author: Deneen Elise
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 864
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499062079

The Owens Family is controlled by their matriarch, a bully who unintentionally undermines her daughters role as a mother and wife. As the family experiences a series of challenges, struggles, and tragedies, they are also impacted by the mishaps of their neighbors and friends. Eventually, the Owens cloud of bitterness will be lifted by the glory of sweetness. A sweetness thats also a public shock and embarrassment!

Sea Room

Sea Room
Author: Norman G. Gautreau
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2003-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781931561389

As French Canadians living on a saltwater farm overlooking the Maine coast, the Dupuy men are hardworking fishermen and the women are resourceful wives and mothers. Jordi Dupuy is set to become a lobsterman when World War II erupts and his father heads to the battlefields. A BookSense 76 selected title.

Tennessee Rain

Tennessee Rain
Author: emylee bishop sturk
Publisher: BalboaPress
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452557594

When Charles and Ella Resenger escape the confines of their rural mountain homes, they feel that life has finally changed for the better. Following a difficult pregnancy, they return to the mountain and leave their new daughter, Stella, at the farm in Tennessee in the care of Mommie, Charless bitter mother. Tragedy falls and Stella is forced to become a part of her fathers new family in North Carolina. Quickly falling into situations that are considered an abomination to all, Charles is set into a rage that will last to his grave. His anger endures long after he takes control of the love Stellas sins create.

The Protected Will Never Know

The Protected Will Never Know
Author: Don Meyer
Publisher: Two Peas Publishing
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2011-08-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0983761051

Entering the Army in June of 1969 and ¿In Country¿ by November, there began the journey. Vietnam was more than just a war. Vietnam was also the oppressive heat of the jungle, the bugs and mosquitoes, the snakes, the swamps and rice paddies, the monsoon rains and the constant grind of ¿Humping the Boonies.¿ But surviving Vietnam was more than dodging a bullet, it was about surviving your Tour of Duty with your mind and body still intact.

Chisholm Trail Showdown

Chisholm Trail Showdown
Author: Jack Tregarth
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0719824281

For the young men in the Texas town of Indian Falls, riding the Chisholm Trail as cowboys is a rite of passage which no boy should miss out. Seventeen-year-old Dan Lewis is heartbroken when it looks as though he is to be cheated of his chance to ride the range. Determinedly, he manages to secure a place on the Trail, but Dan is unaware of more sinister powers at play, and his joy quickly fades as he finds himself accused of cattle rustling and nearly lynched as a consequence. Dan must fight to clear his name, no matter how arduous that might be. He finds himself up against a gang of the most ruthless men in the state, facing a fight more intense than he could have ever imagined. Can Dan overcome the most important battle of his life?

Texas Bloodshed

Texas Bloodshed
Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786030321

They may be gettin’ long in the tooth, but they’re still quick on the draw. The Sidewinders return in a rollicking Western from the bestselling authors. With his monumental Mountain Man and Eagles series, William W. Johnstone has become America’s most popular Western writer. Now, with J.A. Johnstone, he unleashes the Sidewinders, two honest Texas cowboys with an uncanny knack for lighting wildfires everywhere they go . . . Home Sweet Deadly Home If there’s anything better than coming home to Texas, it’s getting paid to do it. For Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, always on the hunt for funds, the job is taking three vicious criminals from Arkansas to Tyler, Texas, for trial. Little do they know that one of the criminals, the one that’s a beautiful woman, is the most dangerous of all. Soon the journey home turns into a race for buried treasure, a shoot-out, and another double cross—until Scratch and Bo are making one last mad, bullet-sprayed dash through the land of their birth . . . or the land of their death . . . Praise for the novels of William W. Johnstone “[A] rousing, two-fisted saga of the growing American frontier.”—Publishers Weekly on Eyes of Eagles “There’s plenty of gunplay and fast-paced action.”—Curled Up with a Good Book on Dead Before Sundown

Turning Stones

Turning Stones
Author: Marc Parent
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1998-01-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0449912353

“An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse—and what it does to a person’s soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing.”—The Los Angeles Times Featuring a new Afterword by the author Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother’s throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets—and his heart—for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.