Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
I'll Carry the Fork!
This is the long-awaited 3rd Edition!! Long an industry standard, "I'll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury," has helped countless survivors, loved ones and professionals in the traumatic brain injury/stroke community. Kara Swanson's journey is one to learn from, to cheer and, even, to laugh with along the way. Her honesty and willingness to share her struggles and triumphs have been changing the lives of survivors and their loved ones for more than 20 years. This book has been named a suggested and must-read resource for survivors and professionals in every rehab and neurological field, and even in college TBI-related studies. It has been translated into Japanese and Kara h...
I'll Carry the Fork! the 20th Anniversary Chapter
Kara Swanson is the author of, "I'll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury." Her book, her keynote speeches and her on-line blog have helped TBI survivors, their support people and the medical community all over the globe. Now Kara returns for a 20th-anniversary encore to the original. Incorporating the struggles and the successful strategies of the countless thousands she has met and worked with these last twenty years, Kara has created a unique and extraordinary compliment to the original. Written in her easy-to-understand, humorous and thought-provoking style, Kara shares an insight and wisdom that will continue to assist survivors, their families and the medical community. This anniversary "chapter" is almost book-length and packed with the vital issues so many survivors and their families face: measuring loss, recovery challenges, intimacy and relationships, successfully returning to work, developing coping skills, eliminating diminishing labels and more. Her message is invigorating and powerful. Splashed with her well-known humor and conversational style, this 20th-anniversary return is a triumph!
Shadow
Peter Pan has crash-landed back on Neverland. But this is not the island he remembers. Desperate to rescue Claire and the fractured Lost Boys, Peter must unravel what truly tore his dreamland apart. But with each step, he is haunted by more of his own broken memories. Not even Pan himself is what he seems. Claire Kenton is chained to a pirate ship, watching the wreckage of Neverland rocked by tempests. When she finally finds her brother, Connor is every bit as shattered as the island. Claire may have pixie dust flowing in her veins--but the light of Neverland is flickering dangerously close to going out forever.
Over My Head
Hit by a car while bicycling Osborn, an internist at a Detroit hospital, suffered injuries. Recounts the struggles and frustrations of a gradually learning strategies to compensate for the lack of certain brain functions. An exceptionally well-written and engaging account. PW review.
Dust
The truth about Neverland is far more dangerous than a fairy tale... Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real--since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Now Claire's desperate search points to London...and a boy who shouldn't exist. Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to Neverland. Grounded in London and hunted by his own Lost Boys, Peter searches for the last hope of restoring his crumbling island: a lass with magic in her veins. The girl who fears her own destiny is on a collision course with the boy who never wanted to grow up. The truth behind this fairy tale is about to unravel everything Claire thought she knew about Peter Pan--and herself.
The Lupines Are Marching
Berit has spent more than twenty years of her adult life hiding the dark secret she shares with her father. Now, when his health is failing, Berit, ready or not, must summon the courage to face him and settle their past before it's too late. She embarks on a journey home to close the door on decades of anger, confusion and shame. As one door closes, she cannot imagine what waits behind the one that's cracking open. Ten days will change everything and everyone. .A little history, mystery, humor, romance, sex, and family drama. Great for the plane ride or the vacation read! Not suitable for children. Mature themes, adult language, smoking, sexual content.
Siren Spell
From Kirkus Award Winner Cidney Swanson, a dark tale of Sirens, Ballet, and Theatre. The loss of the role she was born to dance crushes Giselle, but when she fights to find purpose, deadly sirens offer her a watery immortality that may cost the life of the boy she’s falling for. A deft blending of the obsessive worlds of ballet and theatre that asks, when it comes to living your deepest passions, is there any price too high to pay?
The Girl Who Could See
A Novella All her life Fern has been told she is blind to reality-but, what if she is the only one who can truly see? Fern Johnson is crazy. At least, that's what the doctors have claimed since her childhood. Now nineteen, and one step away from a psych ward, Fern struggles to survive in bustling Los Angeles. Desperate to appear normal, she represses the young man flickering at the edge of her awareness-a blond warrior only she can see. Tristan was Fern's childhood imaginary hero, saving her from monsters under her bed and outside her walls. As she grew up and his secret world continued to bleed into hers, however, it only caused catastrophe. But, when the city is rocked by the unexplainable, Fern is forced to consider the possibility that this young man is not a hallucination after all-and that the creature who decimated his world may be coming for hers.
Banking on the Body
Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to “banks” that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to current websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange.
The Secret Keeper
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
