Maggie by My Side
Maggie by My Side

Author: Beverly Butler

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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The author, who is blind, describes her experiences training with a new guide dog.

Reflexology
Reflexology

Author: Ann Gillanders

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781856750813

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This guide builds the principles of reflexology into practice, and allows the complete beginner to perform reflexology immediately for self-care or care of a partner. developed from ancient Chinese and Egyptian healing systems; step-by-step guidance to performing reflexology at home; easy-to-follow instructions for an immediate start; two complete reflexology sessions for hands and feet; relief of inflammation, congestion and tension-related ailments, such as asthma, arthritis, insomnia, angina and migraine; additional treatments for specific ailments, plus a quick reference chart; and detailed maps of the hands and feet illustrating the reflex points. wellbeing. Chapter two illustrates the connections between the feet, hands and the rest of the body. Chapter three describes the diagnostic guidelines and pressure techniques, and chapter four looks at the body systems. The sessions for feet and hands are presented in chapters five and six, with supplementary steps to treat many ailments in chapter seven.

By Your Side
By Your Side

Author: Colin Fry

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-04-29

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1407031171

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Colin Fry has an extraordinary ability to reach through the veil of death and get in touch with the Afterlife (as seen on hit TV shows 'Psychic Private Eyes' and '6ixth Sense'). He can pick up spine-tingling details about people who have passed over...things he could never have known...and can bring back words of comfort for relatives and friends who are still alive. But in this brilliant book he also reveals: How we each have a spirit network looking out for us How those who have passed over want to support you now How you can strengthen your connection with the spirit world The spirits really are by your side, all the time - and they will help you if you let them!

Strong on Music
Strong on Music

Author: Vera Brodsky Lawrence

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-02

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9780226470153

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In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. This third and final volume ranges across opera, orchestral and chamber music, blackface minstrels, military bands, church choirs, and even concert saloons. Among the many striking scenes vividly portrayed in Repercussions are the rapturous reception of Verdi's Ballo in maschera in 1861; the impact of the Civil War on New York's music scene, from theaters closing as their musicians enlisted to the performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at every possible occasion; and open-air concerts in the developing Central Park. Throughout, Lawrence mines a treasure trove of primary source materials including daily newspapers, memoirs, city directories, and architectural drawings. Indispensable for scholars, Repercussions will also fascinate music fans with its witty writing and detailed descriptions of the cultural life of America's first metropolis. Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."—Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."—Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly

Maggie & Me
Maggie & Me

Author: Damian Barr

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1408838087

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A unique, tender and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Margaret Thatcher years ________________________ 'Shocking and funny in equal measure, and will have you weeping with laughter and sorrow' Independent on Sunday 'A work of stealthy genius' Maggie O'Farrell 'Certain memoirs catch a moment and seem to define it, bottle it ... hugely entertaining' Sunday Times It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions and makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damian works hard and plans his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life and - in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS and Clause 28 - manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club. Maggie & Me is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the iron lady. Damian Barr's critically acclaimed debut novel, YOU WILL BE SAFE HERE, also available now.

Crossing My Rainbow Bridge
Crossing My Rainbow Bridge

Author: Carol Ann Arnim

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1452585504

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"Carol Ann will open your heart to all that is possible within yourself." --Linda Ann Hirsch, Stott Pilates Certified Instructor Join Carol Ann as she meets her true love while working as a cook on an oil rig in northern Alberta, Canada. Pregnancy results and the turning in of their son for adoption. Many years later she and Robert are blessed in marriage and reunite with their son while living in Arizona. Prior to their fourth wedding anniversary, her love succumbs to lung cancer. Serendipity guides her to raising five service dog puppies. Along with her own two labs, Saber and Spook, each dog in turn and together heal her heart as she navigates the maze of grief. Her husband's devotion from the other side comforts and restores her back to her truest self. Thanks to a dog, she is gifted a relationship with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, author of On Death and Dying. She gives voice to her dogs, working through the aid of animal communicators to ensure mutual understanding. Each dog, as well as herself, are always treated as spiritual beings, rather than as a dog or human having a spiritual experience. Savor the humor of her departed husband's mischievous spirit moving things about and whispering in her ear through an owl or through entering the body of her guide pup in training. Learn why her dog Treasure is afraid of balloons but loves to pop them. Follow her as she returns to her home of Canada to Vancouver Island. She is guided to cross the Canadian rainbow with her three labs to the shores of Prince Edward Island on the east coast. She emerges triumphant from her gift of trusting in her heart and the guidance of her dogs and divine spirit. Inspire yourself as you walk in her shoes and the paws of her beloved four-footed angels.