Pompey Elliott
Author: Ross McMullin
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Limited
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13:
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Dear People
Author: Denice Stephenson
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781597140027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDenice Stephenson describes the heartbreaking tragedy of Jonestown---the idealistic community movement that preceded it--presented in text and photos from the Peoples Temple Archive.
Washington's Farewell Address
Author: George Washington
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDear People, with Love and Care, Your Doctors
Author: Debraj Shome
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-08-10
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9387146952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom time immemorial, medicine has remained one of the most respected professions. Trust formed the unshakeable foundation of the doctor-patient relationship and, for long, doctors were treated next to God. In recent times, though, this sacred relationship is suffering from an erosion of faith. We often hear discouraging stories of doctors being abused and hospitals vandalised. The narrative is gradually turning negative-a dismal reality for both doctors and patients. We tend to forget that there are many great things happening in the medical world. Today, we are living much longer, we have managed to eradicate many diseases, we have vaccines that prevent our children from dying, life-saving surgeries are being performed while the baby is still in the womb, and we can give the gift of life to someone by transplanting vital organs. Medical miracles are happening every day in hospitals worldwide. This book is a collection of heartfelt stories by doctors and patients from across the globe. These are stories of triumph, empathy, positivity, loss and, sometimes, failure. It goes one step ahead and captures the experience of people who surround a doctor-the mother of a doctor, a surgeon's husband and an acid attack survivor-stories that underline that a doctor too is a human being after all. Human resilience can often break barriers, and these stories serve as inspiration to both patients and doctors alike. Riveting and absolutely unputdownable, Dear People gives an inside view of the world of medicine and hopes to inspire millions to retain faith in this beautiful relationship.
Wandering Time
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780816518661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car several years ago and headed west. Driving cross-country with a cat named Rest Stop, Urrea wandered the West from one year's Spring through the next. Hiking into aspen forests where leaves "shiver and tinkle like bells" and poking alongside creeks in the Rockies, he sought solace and wisdom. In the forested mountains he learned not only the names of trees—he learned how to live. As nature opened Urrea's eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, Urrea ruminates on music, poetry, and the landscape. With wonder and spontaneity, he relates tales of marmots, geese, bears, and fellow travelers. He makes readers feel mountain air "so crisp you feel you could crunch it in your mouth" and reminds us all to experience the magic and healing of small gestures, ordinary people, and common creatures. Urrea has been heralded as one of the most talented writers of his generation. In poems, novels, and nonfiction, he has explored issues of family, race, language, and poverty with candor, compassion, and often astonishing power. Wandering Time offers his most intimate work to date, a luminous account of his own search for healing and redemption.
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780340978504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
A Farewell to Legs
Author: Jeffrey Cohen
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1890862894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life of Aaron Tucker - freelance writer and stay-at-home dad - is anything but boring. In fact, Aaron manages to find himself in way more danger than your typical mild-mannered Jewish guy. He lands in a murder investigation when a leading conservative politician is found dead in his DC hotel room, discovered by his mistress after her long post-coital shower. She (a former object of Aaron's affection) asks Aaron to find the killer. Aaron doesn't see himself as an investigating genius but he takes the assignment, which doesn't sit well with his family.
Goodbye to All That (Revised Edition)
Author: Sari Botton
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1541619889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, thirty brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic—and occasional misery—of living in the Big Apple, in a new edition of the classic anthology. In the revised edition of this classic collection, thirty writers share their own stories of loving and leaving New York, capturing the mesmerizing allure the city has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered: the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the sudden, unblinking certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be. They also share the grief that comes like a gut-punch, when the grand metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York's frenetic life wear thin for even the most dedicated dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love—still—remains just out of reach, each writer's goodbye is singular and universal, just like New York itself.
Farewell, Mama Odessa
Author: Emil Draitser
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2020-01-15
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0810141094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in the summer of 1979 at the height of the movement to free Soviet Jewry, Farewell, Mama Odessa is an autobiographical novel whose intertwined storylines follow a variety of people—dissidents, victims of ethnic discrimination, and black marketeers among them—as they bid farewell to their beloved hometown of Odessa, Ukraine, and make their way to the West. At the book’s center is Boris, a young writer thwarted by state censorship and antisemitism. With an Angora kitten for his companion and together with other émigrés, he puts the old country in his rear-view mirror and sets out on a journey that will take him to Bratislava, Vienna, Rome, and New York on his way to Los Angeles. Will Boris be able to rekindle his creative passion and inspiration in the West? Will other Jewish émigrés fit into the new society, so much different than the one they left behind? With humor and compassion, Farewell, Mama Odessa describes the émigrés’ attempts at adjustment to the free world.
Farewell, Dear People
Author: Ross McMullin
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1921844663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the individuals making up the lost generation of WWI. They involve a range of backgrounds and experiences, all states and classes, and come from a variety of military units, not just the infantry.
