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61) I will dance
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Eva's cerebral palsy makes it difficult for her to do many things, but she longs to dance and, finally, her dream is realized. Includes author's note and information about Young Dance Company.
62) Happy again
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"An easy-to-read story about Lucas the lion who learns how to live life with a physical disability with help from his friends and family"--
63) How lucky
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"Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He's got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy-despite the fact that he's suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable to speak or to move without a wheelchair. Largely confined...
64) Air keep
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Marcus and Kyja continue to search for the Elementals they need to unite to open a drift between Earth and Farworld, but the Air Elementals have a strange sense of humor and with Farworld in the grip of a terrible drought and daily earthquakes, the two friends face untold challenges.
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This book was written in the hopes of reaching and uplifting its audience. You will learn how Honey Kasper survived every type of abuse, and her journey of self-discovery. Take the journey with her and discover how she turned her life around. Learn how to end abuse in a family line, and how you can still lead a remarkable and successful life.
68) A Saving Grace
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A Saving Grace unmasks the personal, sporting and the inspirational life behind the cycling world champion and Paralympic medalist.
Written off as lacking concentration, a dreamer and too slow as a school kid, the young Rik at the age of just 14 became hooked on cycling after watching a stage of the Tour de France during a lesson at school. Rik soon found that his day-to-day mobility obstacles would instantly disappear each time he climbed onto a...
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In search of the promised land, I headed to rural Brazil. I figured I could just put big tires on my scooter/wheelchair and plant new roots in the Amazon rain forest, a place not adaptive to mobility vehicles.
After thirty-four years in Hawaiian paradise, what began as a quest to make a new home in a foreign land, ended up as a lesson in survival techniques. I applied creative solutions to the continual bombardment of toxic irritants that plagued...
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Life with a degenerative disease that sends you on a downward spiral must be a miserable existence. How could it not be? In this short and powerful book, one man's journey from healthy child to profoundly disabled adult demonstrates that this need not necessarily be the case. In sharing Fraser's story, the authors invite you to take a step back and consider why we do what we do in life. His stories and insights will have you laughing, wincing with...
71) Acepte a mi nina
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Este libro esta basado en hechos personales reales que he ido superando en el transcurso de los anos. ?Has pasado por algo similar?, abuso sexual, maltrato familiar, depresion, aborto, ataques de panico o miedo de salir a la calle,!deshazte de esas cadenas, tu eres una hija(o) de Dios vales mucho! Entregale todo a Dios,!y se feliz!
72) Sydney Noir and New Age: A Memoir of My Spiritual Journey Before My Brother Shot at Prince Charles
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This memoir is an exploration of past lives, rebirthing, astrology, numerology, of experiencing God, and of visiting South Korea and Japan before my brother shot at Prince Charles.
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J O Moshopeh Pratt, in his book, From the Valley to the Mountain, encourages and motivates his young friends who might be labeled as drop-outs to prove that they are not drop-outs. Probably, they might be slow or late developers; or most probably, they might not have had people who were capable to discern that they had potentials in them that needs to be developed. Parents who have children who are slow in their development process are also encouraged...
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A short story written after a series of near death encounter during the Christmas 2013 period. My editor asked me to change my name in the story, as she thought it was to close to the truth, and could worry my friends. So, I became Paul Smart. The encounters included one when I stopped breathing in my sleep.
75) Mikey Speaks Out
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On the day of my birth, my mother had already decided that she wanted to give me away. She had made this decision even though she had not yet known the extent of the problems that would confront me. As it turned out, there were many, including the fact that I was not born a beautiful baby.Actually, I was considered to be quite ugly, disfigured by a cleft lip and palate that left a gaping hole in the middle of my face. In addition, I was born deaf,...
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On a warm, moonlit night in mid-June 1865, three days prior to Beau and Carlotta Wells's scheduled departure, an unsigned note was attached to a door at the main entrance to the vigilance committees' headquarters in a small community called Quiet Creek, located about fifteen miles west of Pine Grove City, Kentucky.
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Spanning the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, "Midge's Irish" delves into the life of Warren Le Blanc, a state hospital patient who resisted institutionalization for years. His life takes an unexpected turn when he falls in love with Midge McSorley, a fellow patient on a different unit. What follows is a tumultuous 14-year relationship characterized by ups and downs. Warren eventually finds his way out of the hospital, changes his first name, and begins...
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University on Watch is a story about youthful hope, yearning for more, triumph over failures, and mistakes beyond our own control and doing. The book is a native story to New York, but couldn't be more otherworldly, at times supernatural, and grippingly suspenseful as the book unfolds. The crisis in the academy, or New London University, is one that goes to the very epicenter of higher learning and education. This crisis also is imagined, created...
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I decided to write this book because I wanted people to know that having a baby with Down syndrome is not the end of the world.
Paul's start in life was very scary, my pregnancy was difficult, and he was born premature. We weren't given much hope for his survival, or that he would have any kind of life if he did, but we wanted him to be with us for however long that would be.
He ended up having a very productive life. He worked, learned to use public...
80) Life Goes On
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This is to give hope to people who are in a coma. Close-head injury and a spinal cord injury. Where they think there is none. You can come out of it. Maybe not the same way as you were before, but there's hope where your brain is active. You can make it no matter what the doctors tell you. Just because you have a handicap doesn't mean you can't do things. Maybe not the way other people do them, but in your own way. It takes patience and people around...
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