Amy Wilensky was 8 years old when she started to suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourettes Syndrome. Her fears and compulsions ranged from an irrational dread of odd numbers, to a love of multiples of six, from denying herself water to needing to touch wood.
Born with a rare genetic mutation, Rebecca Alexander has been losing her sight and hearing since childhood, a loss she was told would be complete by age 30. Then, at 18, a fall from a window left her body shattered. None of us knows how we would face such devastation. What Rebecca did was rise to every challenge. Rebecca's extraordinary story is by turns harrowing, funny, and inspiring -- and an exquisite reminder to live each day to its fullest.
"Mothers are the countries we come from: sometimes when I hold my daughter I try to apprehend this belonging for her, to feel myself as solid and fixed, to capture my smell and shape and atmosphere. I try to flesh out her native landscape. I try to imagine what it would be like to have me as a mother". The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, ted...
Dr. Oma: The Healing Wisdom of Countess Juliana Von Stolberg
by Ethel Herr
Primary Sources, Historical Collections (Primary Sources, Historical Collections)
by Jules Verne
Primary source material This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the Asian contine...
This biography of Natalie Wood (born Natasha Zakharenko), beautiful star of "West Side Story" and "Rebel Without a Cause", goes from a childhood dominated by her frustrated, alcoholic mother, through her love affairs and marriage (twice) to Robert Wagner, to an addiction to sleeping pills and her premature death by drowning at the age of 43. The author spent three years in researching Wood's life story, to reveal it tinged from the start with tragedy and drama. Wood grew up fast - a lonely misfi...
If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious, competitive, and courageous, Belinda Mulrooney was destined through her legendary pioneering in the wilds of the Yukon basin to found towns and many businesses. She built two fortunes, supported her family, was an ally to other working women, and triumphed in what was considered a man's world. In Stakin...