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Light Through the Cracks
Cancer disappearing without trace. A premature baby confounding the medical predictions about his prognosis. A teenager seeing her long-term debilitating illness vanish in an instant. A church receiving cash out of thin air, ensuring it survives the threat of closure. A man defying death, multiple times, following life-threatening injuries sustained in a head-on road collision. Light through the Cracks contains ten true stories, united by a common theme: All of them feature ordinary people encountering God, in extraordinary ways, in the toughest of life's circumstances. Starting with her own dramatic story of the car accident that could have left her dead or paralysed, Joanna Watson writes authentically and compellingly of how God breaks in when life turns tough. Each story raises faith, builds hope, and encourages readers to look for God's Light through the cracks in their own challenging situations.
General Register
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End of Life and People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability
This book on end of life examines how to include people with intellectual and developmental disability in the inevitability of dying and death. Comprising 17 chapters, it addresses challenging and under-researched topics including suicide, do-not-resuscitate, advance care planning, death doulas and accessible funerals. Topics reflect everyday community, palliative care, hospice and disability services. The book proposes that the rights of people with disabilities should be supported up to and after their death. Going beyond problem identification, the chapters offer positive, evidence-supported responses that translate research to practice, together with practice examples and resources grounded in lived experience. The book is applicable to readers from the disability field, and mainstream health professionals who assist people with disability in emergency care, palliative care or end-of-life planning
Ageing, Ageism and the Law
Europe is ageing. However, in many European countries, and in almost all fields of life, older persons experience discrimination, social exclusion, and negative stereotypes that portray them as different or a burden to society. This pivotal book is the first of its kind, providing a rich and diverse analysis of the inter-relationships between ageing, ageism and law within Europe.
Benedictine Maledictions
"'May they be cursed in town and cursed in the fields. May their barns be cursed and may their bones be cursed. May the fruit of their loins be cursed as well as the fruit of their lands.' French monks of the Middle Ages hurled curses like these at their enemies, seeking supernatural assistance when no secular judge could help them. In a long-awaited book written with elegance and erudition, Lester Little undertakes the first full-length study of these maledictions.... The book's focus is the way that religious communities—especially the monks who followed Benedict's Rule and hence were known by his name—used liturgical cursing to safeguard their integrity and their possessions, against both laymen and other ecclesiastics." —Journal of Social History
Charlie at Christmas
A compilation of 4 more stories from master storyteller Paul Robinson featuring his young detective Charlie Holmes. In this latest series of stories, Charlie and her friends stare danger and death in the face. Can even Charlie get them out of this one? The stories cover their adventures from Christmas to Easter and involve everything from horse-racing crime to kidnapping and murder. At the same time, Charlie finds her emotions running out of control now she is beginning to grow up, and she finds it hard to cope with them. She suffers bad temper, impatience and the throes of love. Can she control her emotions, catch the crooks and live to tell the tale?
Silent Heroes
My white friends who have read this book say it is about racism in Kansas in the 1950s. My black friends say it is the coming-of-age story of two young girls - one black, one white. Silent Heroes is both of these things and more, as two best-friends discover a truth that neither of them really wants to know.
