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Assistance Dog Providers in the United States: A Complete Guide to Finding a Guide, Hearing, or Service Dog
by Carla Stiverson Norm PritchettThis book offers excellent information of guide, service and hearing alert dogs and schools and organizations that train them in the United States. offers information on obtaining a working dog, what the different tasks that the dog do, and gives a list of addresses and contacts.
Girlfriends for Life
by Carmen Renee Berry Tamara TraederA woman's guide to keeping your girlfriends, based on fan mail and interviews with true blue friends.
The Taboo Scarf and Other Tales of Therapy
by George WeinbergA glimpse of the deep secrets behind the wondrous human psyche.
The Prison of My Mind
by Barbara Field BenzigerIn this memoir of psychiatric illness, the author describes two hospitalizations and her eventual restoration to mental health. In the first hospital she receives indifferent and even abusive treatment. In the second she has the good fortune to be assigned to a wise and compassionate psychiatrist who helps her explore her inner conflicts and find peace. Benziger writes eloquently of the terror of severe panic attacks when the world seems to be collapsing around her.
I Know How It Feels to Fight for Your Life
by Jill KrementzThis book presents first-person accounts by fourteen children (ages seven to sixteen) who live with chronic illnesses and/or disabilities. The conditions include leukemia, spina bifida, juvenile diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and kidney failure. The stories are very positive and pubeat. Most of the children emphasize the importance of the support they have received from family and friends.
Final Gifts: Understanding The Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
by Patricia Kelley Maggie CallananThe authors provide a compassionate and readable book to help both those who are dying and those who are providing care for them. The authors (hospice workers) gently address common stages experienced by those who are terminally ill. A highly useful book.
The Mixed Up Tooth Fairy
by Keith FaulknerA sweet, bedtime story to read to a child who has lost a tooth.
Extreme Spirituality: Radical Journeys for the Inward Bound
by Tolly BurkanBurkan doesn't just present an explanation of spiritual practices such as fasting, walking on hot coals, sweating, (sweat lodge) and others. He shares the principles which are used to accomplish these extreme spiritual practices and provides exercises to guide the reader into putting the principles to work to improve every aspect of daily life. Burkan is not dogmatic. He has experienced all of the spiritual practices which he writes about. He finds them useful and hopes that the reader will gain more control over and positivity in everyday encounters. Informative, easy to read, respectful of other peoples' beliefs and fascinating. A scan-quality braille copy should be quite readable.
Your Inner Physician And You: Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release, 2nd Ed.
by John E. UpledgerWe are given a step by step discovery and development of a holistic modality that can provide healing in many areas when other modalities fail. This is more of an explanation of the why and how it works than an actual textbook for the classroom.
At Home With Gladys Knight: Her Personal Recipe for Living Well, Eating Right, and Loving Life
by Gladys Knight Abe OgdenGladys Knight shares her life and gives practical advice for coping with diabetes. Recipes are included. There is a bit of text missing or garbled, but it should not take away from the enjoyment or usefulness of this book. Written with warmth. Scan-quality embossed braille copy should be quite readable.
Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out
by Phillip C. McgrawA guide to self exploration and greater personal growth
Self-Help Manual for Your Back
by H. Duane SaundersThis manual is written for patients with back disorders, for participants in a back injury prevention program or for anyone who wants to have a healthy back.
The Gifts of the Body
by Rebecca BrownA woman volunteer who cares for people with AIDS narrates a poignant account of the clients she comes to love in her role as a home-care aide, in a bittersweet novel about life, illness, death, and remembrance. By the author of The Children's Crusade.
The Day the Voices Stopped: A Schizophrenic's Journey from Madness to Hope
by Ken Steele Claire BermanAt fourteen Ken Steele suddenly began to hear voices which berated him and urged him to kill himself. For the next 34 years the voices were his constant companion as he drifted through the mental-health system and the homeless shelters of America's cities. Finally, with the help of a therapist who found the right combination of medications and helped him stay with his treatment regimen, Steele regained his mental health. The voices stopped. Steele spent the last years of his life as a mental patients' activist, working for the rights of the mentally ill.
A Woman's Journey to God: Finding the Feminine Path
by Joan Borysenko"Anger is the first step to healing," Borysenko writes. Then, she proves her point and shows the reader how to make the healing happen. The author is not only a healer; she knows what it is to be a woman and in need of healing. Her sensitivity to women's wounds, and her practicality in knowing what can be done to cure them, makes this an indispensable book for every spiritual woman's library. Women's unique spiritual needs are beautifully addressed. A woman who is searching for spirituality or a woman who desires to revive her own spirituality will find comfort and guidance in this book.
Vanishing
by Bruce BrooksAll Alice wants is a home where she feels home. Not easy to find, even when your family is a functioning unit. Which Alice's is not. Even so, the last thing she expects from her dad is a one-way ticket back to a miserable life with an alcoholic mother and a bully of a stepfather. When a serious case of Bronchitis lands her in the hospital, Alice takes a bold--and desperate--stab at taking charge of her life. A hunger strike, on the eve of her discharge. The only way she can think of to stay in the hospital. But even as hallucinations start to rule her world, Alice stumbles across a friendship with Rex, a boy who, unlike Alice, has no choice about dying. When Alice makes a promise to Rex that she'll no longer ignore doubts rising within her. Is life really worth dying for?
Penny-Pinching Main Dishes
by Joanna LundRecipes and useful information for diabetes and weight loss.
Psycho-Cybernetics
by Maxwell MaltzThis book provides step by step exercises on how to change our lives for the better and how to reprogram ourselves for success.
Living with Asthma
by Shirley Wimbish GrayPart of a series on health and disability called Living Well, this brief book gives basic information about asthma, its causes and treatment. It emphasizes that children with asthma can live full lives and suggests how their friends can help them.
Individual Differences: Theories and Applications
by Vivian Shackleton Clive FletcherHow people differ from one another in their behavior.
What You Can Do To Prevent Diabetes
by Annette Maggi Jackie BoucherThis is composed of eight parts, in them you will find among other things, a simple changes journal, and realistic examples of how the plan they outline can be applied to every-day life.