I'm Not Dead, I'm Different

I'm Not Dead, I'm Different

Author: Hollister Rand

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-04-19

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0062087134

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Rand was initially puzzled as to why young spirits wanted to speak through her—she had no children of her own and the responsibility of talking with people who had lost theirs seemed too great to bear. But the compelling answers came with time and patience: No one finds death more inexplicable than a grieving parent, thus no spirits are more motivated to make sense of it all for those they’ve left behind than young ones. These spirits clearly want to heal broken hearts and deepen our understanding of life and death, and Rand has the unique ability to help deliver their messages. Through her, young spirits talk freely about how to make sense of murder, suicide, and accidental deaths. They also discuss the different ways relationships on both sides can be mended, how the intergenerational cycle of abuse and addiction can be stopped, and how “joy guides”—miscarried and aborted children—can actually help those they’ve left behind move forward. The insights they share in this uniquely comforting book will surprise, inform, and inspire. What’s more, their answers to our questions about death reveal many valuable tips for living a better life while on earth too.


Deaf Not Deaf

Deaf Not Deaf

Author: Christian Fusco

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780578948232

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Rian is starting her sixth grade year in a new home and at a new school in Northeast Philadelphia. On her first day, she is greeted by Shack, the class bully, who wastes no time breaking one of her cochlear implants. She's used to feeling like an outsider, but nothing could prepare her for life at John Hancock Elementary. Her teachers can't pronounce her name, the "normal" kids think she's Deaf and the Deaf kids think she's a joke. deaf not Deaf is a story about an unlikely friendship between Rian and Luis two twelve year old sixth graders who understand deafness in very different ways. Rian is a cochlear implant recipient and Luis is a member of the Deaf Community who communicates using American Sign Language. Despite their implicit bias toward one another, Rian and Luis eventually break down communication barriers and learn to see past their differences. Linked by their common enemy, Rian, Luis and their group of misfit friends hatch a plan to get revenge on Shack once and for all?but will their ghoulish idea be an epic success or will playing with the supernatural come back to haunt them in the end?


A Little Something Different

A Little Something Different

Author: Sandy Hall

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1250061458

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College students Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class and have the same interests, but it looks like things are never going to work out between them because Lea is a little aloof and Gabe is a little shy.


I Am Deaf

I Am Deaf

Author: Jennifer Moore-Mallinos

Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780764141799

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A young girl who is deaf describes her daily life and how she manages to be happy despite the challenges posed by her disability.


Only When I'm High

Only When I'm High

Author: Rosemary Hamilton

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-11-25

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1477201262

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From the runway of the southern beauty pageant to the runway of a commercial airlineRosemary travels the runways of her life in search of The Truth, her Truth. What she goes through to find it, well, trust me, youve never gone this far with a Southern Belle before. In the process of unloading her own baggage, familiar pieces of all our lives emerge: families that influence us, roles that define us, prejudice that divides us, divorces that haunt us, and our authentic selves that save us! Youll travel to places you recognize and others you really recognize but refuse to admit. She approaches the struggles and triumphs of the Southern Belle with humor but makes a u-turn each time she remembers how unfunny it was to be one. Ultimately, ironically, her gradual healing takes place because she was one.


None Other

None Other

Author: Krishna Baldev Vaid

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2017-03-29

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9386495023

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‘Vaid fluidly describes the violent turns of an emotional kaleidoscope’ India Today None Other conjures a vivid portrait of a man who is old, alone and dying. Trapped in his house, consumed with lust, shame and loathing, he scribbles his frenzied ramblings in his notebooks. But what begins as a bitter tirade transforms into an anguished meditation on loneliness and the quest for solace. In Here I Am if I Am, translated into English for the first time, a hunchback at a desolate roadside contemplates the precariousness of his own existence even as his tormented mind unravels. Hypnotic and unsettling, Vaid’s highly innovative novellas expertly explore some of our biggest anxieties: the fear of abandonment, the treachery of memory, the uncertainty of life and the imminence of death.


Isles of View

Isles of View

Author: C. F. Brunner

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0595362354

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Story of a union between a deaf man and a hearing woman which presents more than the expected challenge of communication; and offers an uncommon perspective on everyday events.