Choice

Choice
A Journey out of Darkness
By Angela Michelle

Published: 10/21/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 254
ISBN: 978-1-49170-962-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Throughout all of her life’s experiences, author Angela Michelle has learned that both happiness and suffering are ubiquitous. In Choice, she shares a compilation of journal entries and narratives discussing some of her life’s most intense moments: being beaten nearly to death; having paranormal dreams and hearing voices validated by God; experiencing the brutal murder of her father; enduring flashbacks of childhood molestation; being raped in her own home; suffering through a frightening pregnancy and childbirth; and receiving visits from angels.

This memoir shares her thoughts and feelings as she moved through life, facing her fears and learning from all of her experiences. Choice narrates how she discovered there was a purpose for and a lesson learned from each event—a challenge to overcome and a new direction to follow.

Filled with emotion, Choice not only tells the story of Angela Michelle and how she faced her crazy life, but also serves to show that, through both the good and the bad, life has purpose.

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The Bill Murff Story

The Bill Murff Story
Bringing Beauty to the Landscape of Life
By J. M. Murff

Published: 1/6/2014
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 170
ISBN: 978-1-49171-510-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Once in a while someone comes along who raises the bar in some field of endeavor in his or her own unique way, displaying a drive to achieve the noblest aspects of the American Dream. Bill Murff is such a person.

In The Bill Murff Story, J. M. Murff tells the story of how his brother rose from poverty to become the largest landholder in Harris County, Texas, and founder of Murff Turf Farms, Inc. His in-depth study of his brother’s remarkable life and business philosophy reveals Bill’s five-stage, fifteen-step strategy for achieving the American dream. This biography shares the formula for success that Bill followed in becoming a noted ecclesiastical, business, and community leader, as well as a philanthropist. J. M. identifies twenty-three power principles Bill discovered and used to found a large, successful, and enduring sod farm near Crosby, Texas. So unique and successful are Bill’s dealings with people that J. M. coined a new word to describe it—“developmentship.”

The Bill Murff Story also shares how Bill exemplifies traditional American values, the most profitable business practices, and the most edifying human relationship principles that represent the fulfillment of the American dream. His life is a monument to the goodness and hard work that can lead to affluence and life success—and you can have it, too.

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Doing Time Eight Hours a Day

Doing Time Eight Hours a Day
Memoirs of a Correctional Officer
By James R. Palmer

Published: 11/4/2013
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Pages: 106
ISBN: 978-1-49171-198-9
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Correctional officers face danger every time they go to work, and the public rarely appreciates the job that they do. Author James R. Palmer worked many years at the Kentucky Department of Corrections, spending seven of them with the solitary confinement unit. In this memoir, he looks back at his career and shares what it’s really like working in prison.

For example, inmates aren’t afraid to use sharp objects to hurt officers, who—just like the inmates—often find themselves behind locked doors. Correctional officers also face constant exposure to diseases and infections, as well as constant stress that can upset family life and make sleep nearly impossible. While some people might say, “If it’s that bad, then quit,” correctional officers stay on the job for a variety of reasons, including a desire to serve and protect the public.

Doing Time Eight Hours a Day shares one man’s firsthand experiences of what it’s like to be a correctional officer and rub elbows with some of the most dangerous men and women alive.

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Watch Everything

Watch Everything
A Judicial Memoir with a Point of View
By Charles A. Shaw

Published: 11/4/2013
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Pages: 182
ISBN: 978-1-49171-150-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Charles A. Shaw grew up in a segregated African-American neighborhood in St. Louis. His tight-knit community supported him, and he was inspired to become first a teacher and then a lawyer. From there, he worked his way up to federal prosecutor and state judge before President Bill Clinton appointed him to the federal bench.

Shaw quickly became dismayed by the inequality and severity of mandatory U.S. sentencing guidelines and how they affected young African-American men. Prosecutors opposed him at every turn as he sought to impose fair sentences, but he never wavered in seeking to promote equality and curb the destruction of African-American families.

This insightful and at times humorous narrative demonstrates Shaw’s love for family, hard work, and God. Including an insider’s view of an often unjust legal system, tales of working alongside some of the best legal minds in the country, and challenges to prevailing concepts, Watch Everything offers a rare glimpse into the professional life of an unconventional federal judge.

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The Silent Hurt

The Silent Hurt
How a Flaw Metamorphosed into Peace, Joy, and Harmony
By Jo Ann Coleman

Published: 12/3/2013
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Pages: 348
ISBN: 978-1-49171-134-7
Print Type: B/W

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The Silent Hurt portrays a young poor country girl with a disability who was labeled harshly by society. Even so, through strong determination and a powerful inner spirit, she refused to accept those labels. Jo Ann Coleman was born in the forties and lived in a very small town in Louisiana. At age five, she started school and soon realized that she was not like the other boys and girls in her class. Struggling first in elementary school, where she was immediately labeled as retarded, she eventually lost sight in her right eye. She grew up among cousins, without her parents, and constantly felt depressed and alone, facing name-calling from her peers. She graduated from high school and received a scholarship to attend nursing school—only to lose the scholarship due to missing an important letter. Because of her silent depression as a child, she eventually attempted suicide. Her disability and low self-esteem made her feel that no one cared. When she finally let Jesus Christ direct her life, however, everything turned around. She turned adversity into triumph and now seeks to inspire those afflicted by physical, emotional, and mental handicaps and low self-esteem. Although she made many mistakes and had her flaws, those flaws would eventually become her joy, peace, and contentment. With the true peace that comes from knowing Jesus Christ, she discovered the life she had been dreaming of since childhood.

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I Remember Father Flanagan

I Remember Father Flanagan
By Clifford Stevens

Published: 6/28/2013
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Pages: 48
ISBN: 978-1-47599-084-3
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A young boy walks into a hotel to meet a great man and it changes his life forever. The man: Father Flanagan of Boys Town - and the boy, one of the 30,000 citizens of that "City of Little Men", tells is own story of Boys Town and Father Flanagan.

The Irish lad who stepped off the S.S. Celtic in June of 1904 was to leave an indelible mark on the American dream, a story told in the movie "Boys Town" in 1938. Butthe story is richer and more astonishing than a movie could dramatize and in this memoir the range and scope of Father Flannagan's achievement is seen against the background of the early years of the century, with massive social problems that accompanied an exploding national economy. Immigration was high and cities, like Omaha, were filled with crowded neighborhoods of immigrants, most of them not speaking English, living in small ethnic neighborhoods, where violence was frequent. Many of the children of these immigrants roamed the streets, unsupervised, most of them ending up in the courts, and sent immediately to the state reformatory.

This brought the young Father Flanagan into the courts, after he became aware of the army of youths roaming the city streets, most of them sons of immigrants. First, he had them paroled into his custody, meeting with them each week, and arranging sport events for them. But soon he asked that five of the boys in trouble be placed in his care.

He searched for an empty house to begin his work and opened "Father Flanagan's Boys Home", then moved them to the country where he established, not only a larger home, but a village for boys. In 1935, his "home" became an incorporated village called "Boys Town", and the rest is history. It is also part of the personal history of a young boy who met him in a hotel lobby and asked to go to Boys Town.

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Anthology of Innocence

Anthology of Innocence
Stories from My Childhood
By Barry Altman, MD

Published: 11/22/2013
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Pages: 150
ISBN: 978-1-49171-047-0
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For author Dr. Barry Altman, growing up in an urban atmosphere during World War II made for a frightening childhood. Children like him latched onto dreams of success but also sometimes failure as they gleaned attitudes from their parents and elders. Also, at that time, urban children, particularly those in New York grew up faster, gaining knowledge from their environment more quickly than their parents might imagine. In Anthology of Innocence, Altman presents a collection of autobiographical sketches from his childhood during that precarious time. In the first sketch, “Torture,” he tells how, as a young child, his fears and rage were propagated by a close aunt. The story “Loss” depicts what he saw and felt when a loved one died. “A Fish Story” explores Altman’s questionable relationship with his father, while “Thou Shalt Not” enters into his world of sexual questioning and indecision. Anthology of Innocence reveals the maturation process of a child during the war years with the constant questions and situations that he faced. It narrates the trials and challenges as well as the warmth and closeness of family life.

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Missing Murray

Missing Murray
By Maxine A. Goldblum

Published: 10/27/2013
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Pages: 184
ISBN: 978-1-49170-767-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

This book was primarily written as a history of my life with Murray for my family and friends. It begins with with first thing I can remember and goes through my growing up until I meet Murray at the beach over a game of Scrabble. It chronicles our lives through the tumultuous engagement ring purchase, tragic death of our first daughter, adventurous world travels, and Murray’s mysterious illness which lead to his untimely death at the age of seventy-four. The book ends with my experiences learning to live as a single woman.

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The Tears of War

The Tears of War
By Ingeborg E. Ryals

Published: 11/9/2012
Format: E-Book
Pages: 178
ISBN: 978-1-47593-275-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

The small village in Pomerania in northern Germany provided a peaceful haven for the childhood years of author Ingeborg E. Ryals. But in 1939 the beginning of World War II irrevocably changed her idyllic life.

In this memoir Ryals shares her first hand experiences as the war began to affect every aspect of her life. At the age of fifteen, she had to dig trenches behind the front lines and spent many days hiding in fear of the Soviet Army as it invaded and pillaged her village. Diphtheria and typhoid epidemics swept the country. She survived a bout of diphtheria but lingered near death for days on end with typhoid fever. There was little food to sustain them. At the age of eighteen, she was shipped to a labor camp operated by the Russian military on an island in the Baltic Sea. Ryals also recounts her escape and her eventual marriage to an American.

With photos included, The Tears of War narrates a very real story of the tragedy of war. It shows Ryals’ perseverance and her ability to overcome obstacles in an effort to survive.

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Among Hibiscus and Roses

Among Hibiscus and Roses
A Retired Nurse’s Memoir
By Sun-Hae Kim

Published: 10/10/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 308
ISBN: 978-1-49170-276-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

A few years ago, Sun-Hae Kim met a female student at a British museum who was studying medieval women’s social activities. She was unable to find information from women at that time because they didn’t leave much in written form. She then looked around for some nurses’ autobiographies and again found very little information available, even by Florence Nightingale. In response to this lack of personal writing from nurses, she presents Among Hibiscus and Roses, an account of her years as a nurse.

She tells of the challenges of being an army nurse and of the fun times with her fellow nurses. She approached each new challenge with expectation and the hope that she would be helping more people. When she immigrated to the United States, she faced new cultures, languages, and social life; she met many new and interesting people. Throughout her transition, she was filled with wonder and excitement for her new life.

Most importantly, she recounts the challenges and rewards of being a nurse for over thirty-seven years, in both South Korea and the United States. She lived proudly a life that was not old fashioned and yet still proved she could be happy and healthy without indulging in drugs, alcohol, sex, and gambling.

Sharing the too-often-unheard story of a nurse, Among Hibiscus and Roses describes a unique and out-of-the-ordinary life journey.

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In the Trough

In the Trough
Three Years on Ocean Station
By Thomas F. Jaras

Published: 10/27/2013
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Pages: 340
ISBN: 978-1-49170-654-1
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A few months out of college, followed by a sixteen-week course on how to be a naval officer, author Thomas F. Jaras found himself standing bridge watches on the USS Vance in the middle of nowhere, providing navigational aid for aircraft flying to the polar ice. Now, almost fifty years later, Jaras recalls the three years he spent aboard the Vance in the 1960s, on the ramparts of the Cold War.

In his memoir, In the Trough, Jaras attempts to understand his love-hate relationship with the USS Vance, an insignificant radar picket ship that supported Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic Ocean for a year and then spent two years on the Pacific Distant Early Warning Line. He describes life on an endurance ship afloat in midocean, battling eighty-foot walls of water crashing over the bridge.

In the Trough chronicles Jaras’s transition from a boy to man as he dreamed of life ashore during long weeks at sea that were punctuated by short, intense visits to terra firma. Young, inexperienced, and naïve, he feared the best years of his life were being wasted at sea. He searched desperately for women, love, and a normal existence while ashore for precious short stints in Tahiti, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii. Despite three stressful, unhappy, and difficult years at sea, Jaras acknowledges a tearful departure but promised himself to never go to sea again.

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The Book of Joel

The Book of Joel
Book II
By Joel Russell

Published: 4/17/2012
Format: E-Book
Pages: 1
ISBN: 978-1-46207-946-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

“The true life story of the adventures of Joel, from the frozn wasteland of Northern Ohio to the sweltering battlefields of South Vietnam, Joel takes you into the battles with him during the Tet Offensive. Read about the radical transformation of a dope smoking weirdo into a man of destiny. Excellent reading.”

-- Patrick Russell

“A great book of life, taking us on a roller coaster ride of the Spirit. Many laughs and many tears as you follow through the humor and pain. Very strong testimony that will win souls!”

-- Buster Curtsinger

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Corruption Made a School Principal into a Refugee

Corruption Made a School Principal into a Refugee
By Samson Kamara

Published: 12/9/2011
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Pages: 112
ISBN: 978-1-45029-528-4
Print Type: B/W

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Moses was the acting principal of a Catholic High School for many years and he went to England for further studies. He came back after his studies to take up his former post, but the man he entrusted the school to and imposed him on the school and the governing body refused to give up the chair. The man being an in-breed of the inner world of the Catholic Mission and his wife being the secretary general of the Catholic Women’s league has become a bone in Moses throat. The Catholic Mission is now firmly behind their own man against Moses a liberal catholic. Mr. Gabello has glued the mouth of every official with pregnant envelopes the cultural artifact and blood cancer in the country while Moses was away. Moses comes back and every door is now firmly closed before him, bribery has taken its toll. Moses returned to England to become a refugee but back in England, he is again overwhelmed by a succession of disappointments that never seem to come to an end.

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Beautiful Land of the Sky

Beautiful Land of the Sky
John MuirΓÇÖs Forgotten Eastern Counterpart, Harlan P. Kelsey
By Loren M. Wood

Published: 10/21/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 624
ISBN: 978-1-47599-447-6
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John Muir is considered to be the supreme icon of western wilderness and preservation. His counterpart in the east is Harlan P. Kelsey, an often obscure and forgotten figure. In Beautiful Land of the Sky, author Loren M. Wood chronicles KelseyΓÇÖs journey from the humblest of beginnings to national prominence in horticulture and the establishment of national parks in the eastern United States. In this biography, Wood tells how, a century ago, Kelsey was the first to pioneer native plants for the American landscape and a leader in that process; how he was a leading participant in bringing all of America to our native plants in their finest original setting; and how he helped make a reality of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a zenith of horticultural biomass and diversity in America. In addition, this biography explores the parallels in the odysseys of Muir and Kelsey. Though primarily a biography of Kelsey, Wood compares the similarities, differences, and accomplishments of the two men. Including details gathered from more than fifty thousand items in KelseyΓÇÖs personal files, Beautiful Land of the Sky narrates the inspiring and entertaining story of how the idea of national parks was implemented east of the Mississippi.

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Dragon Chaser

Dragon Chaser
A Memoir
By Mark Lloyd

Published: 6/18/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47599-454-4
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

When nineteen-year-old Mark Lloyd entered the US Army in Seattle, Washington, in 1968, he thought he was invulnerable. His induction that year marked the beginning of a long career in public service. In Dragon Chaser, he recounts his journey—entering the army, earning a green beret, serving in Vietnam, working as a police officer on the streets of south central Los Angeles, and joining the DEA.

In this memoir, Lloyd tells how he became an undercover narcotics agent and served in the world’s illegal drug hot spots—chasing the dragon of illicit heroin in Los Angeles, Guam, and Thailand. Dragon Chaser narrates how he led teams of DEA agents raiding jungle cocaine laboratories and ambushing clandestine airstrips in Peru, how he helped solve DEA’s worst case of corruption in Los Angeles, and how he managed some of DEA’s foreign operations while assigned to DEA headquarters. The stories include Lloyd’s deployment on a special mission to war-scarred Bosnia, and how he successfully handled a difficult narcotics case involving a DEA employee falsely imprisoned by the recalcitrant Pakistani government.

A remarkable memoir of a baby boomer’s adventures in public service, Dragon Chaser recounts Lloyd’s participation and observations in some of America’s actions, both major and minor, throughout the last four decades.

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The Journey

The Journey
By Stephen Rosenzweig

Published: 11/17/2009
Format: E-Book
Pages: 1
ISBN: 978-1-44016-158-2
Print Type: B/W

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Sometimes we live a life that inspires others. It’s not about whom we are and who we choose to be with, but how we spend that time together. Stephen Rosenzweig takes us on The Journey through the maze of his life; a unique life that few people will ever have the chance to experience. His is a life encompassing both the joy of love and the pain of loss.

He encourages us that to really live a full life, a part of us must die. We must let go of the past negativity; and find the positive in our new experiences. Only then can we truly begin to live. According to the author, to live is to love, really love. Love is hope crystallized into the dreams of tomorrows to come. There are moments of oneness between the greater power, the Great Spirit, and the oneness of the conscious energy of the universe. God by whatever name you choose lets us know when we are on the right path to reach our desired destination while we live.

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Let's Talk about Hair

Let's Talk about Hair
The Truth beyond the Looking Glass
By Lynn Gauthier

Published: 5/18/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 50
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47599-014-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Through the lens of her hair struggles, Lynn Gauthier takes us on her life’s journey: hair salons, hairstylists (some she'd rather forget), and unforgettable hair stories. Gauthier’s experiences not only shaped her hair but also brought her astounding insight into the nature of her personal struggle with vanity and the search for perfection. She begins her story with excerpts from her daily journal that led to her epiphany that she had self-image issues, marking the beginning of her recovery from the vanity that had strangled her for years. She recalls seasons of hair changes and relates them to the pathways of an evolving spiritual life, from her early school days through two marriages and finally motherhood. Most every woman alive has a hair story and will relate to Gauthier’s stories about hair and our emotional attachment to it.

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Chasing My Tail

Chasing My Tail
By Earl Russell

Published: 7/31/2013
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Pages: 214
ISBN: 978-1-47599-652-4
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At the age of fifteen, Earl Russell’s life was ripped out from under him. His uncle, the only father he ever knew, banished Earl from the only home the boy had ever known. Earl found himself a teen outcast in a state of despair that sent him spinning without direction or hope for years. His vision and dreams blurred by tears, he walked blindly through life.

Desperate, he turned to the military for salvation and structure. When he was eighteen, he earned the distinction of being one of the youngest platoon sergeants in the Korean War. During his service, he traveled to thirty-six countries. In this memoir, he now shares some of the highlights and heartbreaks of a young man thrown into war and travel, including his time served in a Libyan prison for the crime of holding a woman’s hand in public.

For Earl the world was a dazzling adventure. This collection of true tales of one man’s journeys is, at times, humorous, amorous, and poignant. Often, the world traveler and soldier felt like a dog chasing his own tail. In the end, his travels brought him back to the hills and mountains of his childhood home in Georgia. He left as an unsettled boy and returned a wiser man. These are his stories.

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Life Reclaimed

Life Reclaimed
Rural Transylvania, Nazi Camps, and the American Dream
By Paul N. Frenkel

Published: 4/30/2013
Format: E-Book
Pages: 184
ISBN: 978-1-47598-029-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In April of 1944, during the last year of World War II and two months before the D-day landings at Normandy, Paul N. Frenkel was a fourteen-year-old living happily with his family in the rural Transylvanian town of Hadad, Hungary. Suddenly, without explanation or justification, the family was rounded up with other Hungarian Jews, confined in a factory yard, and then herded into cattle cars and shipped off to Auschwitz.

In Life Reclaimed, Frenkel narrates the story of his life—his prewar idyllic childhood in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, his survival in four Nazi camps as a young teenager, the loss of his parents and most of his relatives in Nazi hell, his daring escape from the death march out of Berga-Elster Camp, and his ultimate success as an entrepreneurial business executive and devoted family man in America.

A story of endurance, courage, and hope, Life Reclaimed represents Frenkel’s determined ongoing efforts to come to grips with his Word War II experience—why his family and the other Hungarian Jews failed to realize their dire peril from the Nazis; why their Transylvanian neighbors and friends actively collaborated with the Nazis or passively abandoned their Jewish colleagues to arrest, enslavement, and death; and why this dark past continues to haunt his life and burden his thoughts.

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Finding My Voice with Aphasia

Finding My Voice with Aphasia
Walking through Aphasia
By Carol M. Maloney

Published: 5/31/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 84
ISBN: 978-1-47598-670-9
Print Type: B/W

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On June 9, 2009, Carol M. Maloney, a veteran teacher, experienced a transient ischemic attack in the left hemisphere of her brain. She helplessly observed her mind deteriorate to the point where she could not speak, walk, read, identify household objects, or recall her family. Maloney traveled between the worlds of the surreal and the logical. The stroke resulted in aphasia, the loss of communication and other functions of her left hemisphere.

After eighteen months of rehabilitation, she was finally able to communicate with others by using her hand as a metronome. The frustration of having the words and sentences formed in her mind but being unable to share them caused frustration and depression. Her verbal abilities suffered, along with her reading and comprehension skills. Even so, hard work, strong will, and persistence has allowed her to reach out to other teachers to offer new insight into the minds of her beloved special-education and reading-disabled students.

In this, her story, Maloney turns her experience into a unique opportunity to gain an understanding of her students’ difficulties and to share that knowledge with other teachers.

“Ms. Carol Maloney has written a compelling story that chronicles her amazing life before, during, and after her devastating stroke. She writes with frankness that touches one’s heart. Her story will lend encouragement to those who have suffered a stroke as well as offer strategies to those who have a loved one recovering from one. Carol Maloney developed aphasia after her stroke. I am happy to say that she has survived and conquered both the devastation of her stroke and her aphasia. I know this first hand: she conducts amazing PowerPoint presentations to my graduate class at Rivier University each semester. She is an inspiration to all who want to improve themselves. In this book, Carol clearly describes the strategies that she used to help her become the functioning writer and speaker that she is today.”

J. Diane Connell, Ed.D.

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