Illness

Illness
Author: Patricia J. Murphy
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781403497772

Read Illness to learn about the feelings many people experience when a loved one is ill. This sensitive book explores the effects of various illnesses and provides reassurance to any reader who has a sick relative or friend. Book jacket.

Three Pete

Three Pete
Author: John Wayne and Michael Laughead
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480811815

Bill Potter, once a hardworking railroad engineer, has fallen on hard times. Despite being disabled from an accident that robbed him of a life free of pain, Bill never forgets to give thanks, even for his meager meals. Without any friends but Tim, a neighborhood boy with a big heart, the old man realizes he is growing tired of his challenges in life and contemplates suicide. But all of that is about to change the day Tim leads Bill to an injured stray dog lying in an alley, seemingly left for dead. After Bill summons help from a police officer, he and the officer take the dog to a vet, where it appears the prognosis is grim. But the dog's will to live is stronger than anyone ever imagined, despite losing one of his legs. As the dog slowly improves, Bill finds a place in his heart and his home for the furry animal he names Pete. Almost immediately Bill and Pete become family and share each day with love and dedication, eventually proving that total devotion transcends even life itself. Three Pete is the unique tale of a poignant relationship between an old disabled man and a three-legged dog as they prove to each other, and the world, that there is no better love than unconditional love.

When Pete's Dad Got Sick

When Pete's Dad Got Sick
Author: Kathleen Long Bostrom
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780310706557

Pete is both angry and sad when his father becomes sick and can no longer race and play with him, but his father explains that, while he will probably never have fast legs again, he can still teach Pete about running. Includes note to parents.

Arlynn and John

Arlynn and John
Author: John Curtis Knight
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2012-03-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781469784595

In her eighty-four years, Arlynn Swope endured many of lifes greatest challenges. She knew illness, poverty, a near-death pregnancy, mental illness in her immediate family, and the suicide of her husband. She lived through the Great Depression and dropped out of school in the ninth grade to help her family survive the 1930s. But through it all, she faced each of the many rocks in her road with love and grit. Hers is an uncommon tale from a most common Hoosier woman, the little woman who was never little but was always there for those she loved. A veteran of the US Navy with an eleventh-grade education, John Curtis Knight didnt know what he was in for when he fell crazy in love with Arlynn. A welder and factory worker by trade, he built a reputation as a top amateur golfer who became a real player on his native Indiana courses. His life was built around Arlynn and their family, and they shared a rich adventure togetheruntil despair and paranoia led to his suicide when he was seventy-eight. Theirs is a true love story, one in which these two common Hoosiers share a life of uncommon love. Together they walked, pushed, pulled, and loved their way through it all.

Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media

Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media
Author: Michael S. Jeffress
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000435075

Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions. It contains 13 newly written chapters drawing on representations of disability in popular culture from film, television, and print media in both the Global North and the Global South, including the United States, Canada, India, and Kenya. Although disability is often framed using a limited range of stereotypical tropes such as victims, supercrips, or suffering patients, this book shows how disability and neurodiversity are making their way into more mainstream media productions and publications with movies, television shows, and books featuring prominent and even lead characters with disabilities or neurodiversity. Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, and sociology more broadly.

Where Love Goes

Where Love Goes
Author: Joyce Maynard
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307787621

From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America.

For Pete's Sake

For Pete's Sake
Author: Wendy Dickinson
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Soccer managers
ISBN: 1848764472

Football fans know them as Clough and Taylor; to Peter’s journalist daughter Wendy Dickinson they were simply ‘Dad and Brian’. Together they won countless honours, including league titles and two European Cups in consecutive years, a feat only matched by one other British manager and club - Bob Paisley and Liverpool. After almost 30 years of friendship and spectacular success they split up, were never reconciled and never spoke again before their untimely deaths. Thousands of headlines, dozens of books and a major feature film have charted the story of the most famous partner, Brian Clough, but little is known of his partner. For Pete’s Sake, the first of two books about Peter Taylor, charts his rise from the poor back streets of Nottingham to the very top of his profession at Derby County. With contributions from many of the players Clough & Taylor signed, including Roy McFarland, Alan Hinton, John O’Hare and Archie Gemmill. For Pete’s Sake is set in a footballing era light years away from the one we know today. Peter and Brian’s team-mates in the Middlesbrough FC team of the Fifties bring to life a time when the maximum weekly wage was £20, players walked to ‘work’ together because no-one had a car and Peter worked as a brickie in the closed season to make ends meet. For Pete’s Sake also tells the story of Peter’s passion to be a top footballer manager, even when he was a very young man, how he cut his teeth as manager of Burton Albion and then joined forces with Brian at Hartlepools United and Derby County to set the football world alight.

Freak Unique: My Autobiography - Pete Burns

Freak Unique: My Autobiography - Pete Burns
Author: Pete Burns
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2007-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1786064103

Pete Burns sadly passed away aged 57 in 2016. He became a star with the band Dead Or Alive, who had a huge hit with "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" but there was much more to Pete than meets the eye - and with his extraordinary features and sense of fashion, that's really saying something. His amazing autobiography includes frank details of his affairs with major rock stars, his long-time marriage, how he had to sell his GBP 2m house to pay for the plastic surgery that went wrong and caused horrific injuries. Pete had an amazing career and commanded a huge global following. When it came to going into the Big Brother house, Pete declared he was not going to be a team player - and this sensational book about his life shows how he's always been a true individual and a born star.

Whispers from Yesterday

Whispers from Yesterday
Author: Robin Lee Hatcher
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0310416957

Society darling Karen Butler falls hard after the public discovery of her father's suicide and his empty bank accounts. With no friends, money, or faith, Karen goes to live with her grandmother Sophia, hoping to inherit her ranch. But the dilapidated ranch is not what Karen expects, and her uncanny resemblance to Sophia's dead sister, Esther, forces Sophia to confront the tragic mistakes of her own past by giving Esther's diaries to Karen. As the reluctant newest resident of her grandmother Sophia's Golden T ranch, pampered socialite Karen Butler wants nothing more than to return to L.A. But there's no going back to the past. Her father is dead. Her family home has been sold. Her finances and options are exhausted. And her hope is gone.

Scrap Yard Pete My Dad

Scrap Yard Pete My Dad
Author: Peter Doswell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1326783343

The author and Son of Southampton C and S Motors worker " Scrap Yard Pete " Pays special tribute as he writes about his father. The " Man in the caravan with the dog " The " Man who was mad about his motorbikes, fishing and boats " started out his life during the war in Shirley Warren. He was known by thousands as a familiar face at the Empress Road business where he worked for twenty eight years. His son dedicates this book to his father " Peter Doswell " and anyone who has known or does know him. Not only is he " an amazing friend to many " but also a " A Very special and treasured Dad " who will be loved by many for always.