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My brother Charlie: a sister's story of autism
Par Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete, Shane Evans. 2010
A girl tells what it is like living with her twin brother who has autism and sometimes finds it hard…
to communicate with words, but who, in most ways, is just like any other boy. Includes authors' note about autism. For preschool-grade 2Terrible typhoid Mary: a true story of the deadliest cook in America
Par Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2015
Mary Mallon, who became known as "Typhoid Mary," was hired as a cook for a wealthy family in 1906. A…
few weeks later an outbreak of typhoid fever swept through the household. Eventually it was determined that Mallon was a healthy carrier, spreading the disease but not suffering it herself. She was arrested and quarantined against her will. This biography explores the many violations of Mallon's human and civil rights, the culture of the period, how the public and health officials responded, and the sensationalism of "yellow journalism." For grades 5-8La porte du ciel: La traversée des temps, tome 2 (La Traversée des temps)
Par Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 2021
Le héros miraculeux d'Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt poursuit sa traversée sur le fleuve du temps. Après le Néolithique, le voici plongé dans…
une nouvelle enquête au cœur de l'Orient ancien... Noam cherche fougueusement celle qu'il aime, enlevée dans d'étranges conditions. Flanqué de son chien, il découvre un monde en pleine mutation, la Mésopotamie, autrement appelée le Pays des Eaux Douces, où les hommes viennent d'inventer les villes, l'écriture, l'astronomie. À Babel, cité bruyante et colorée, belle de jour comme de nuit, il affronte le tyran Nemrod. Celui-ci, en recourant à l'esclavage, construit la plus haute tour jamais conçue qui constituera la porte du ciel et donnera accès aux Dieux. Ruses, manigances, chausse-trapes. Dans un chassé-croisé d'intrigues, Noam le guérisseur s'introduit dans tous les milieux et fait d'étonnantes rencontres : Maël l'enfant poète, le mystérieux Gawan appelé le Magicien, la reine Kubaba, étourdissante d'intelligence et d'espièglerie, Abraham, chef des nomades hébreux, lui refuse la nouvelle civilisation. Que choisira Noam ? Sacrifiera-t-il ses inclinations profondes pour se consacrer à la lutte contre les injustices ? Dans ce deuxième tome de La Traversée des Temps, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt dépoussière, avec une érudition joyeuse, cette époque légendée par la Bible. Grâce à son style visionnaire et guidé par les derniers travaux des assyriologues, il restitue la complexe et brillante Mésopotamie que nous connaissons bien mal, à laquelle nous devons tantParadis perdus: La Traversée des temps, tome 1 (La Traversée des temps)
Par Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 2021
Cette Traversée des temps affronte un prodigieux défi : raconter l'histoire de l'humanité sous la forme d'un roman. Faire défiler…
les siècles, en embrasser les âges, en sentir les bouleversements, comme si Yuval Noah Harari avait croisé Alexandre Dumas. Depuis plus de trente ans, ce projet titanesque occupe Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. Accumulant connaissances scientifiques, médicales, religieuses, philosophiques, créant des personnages forts, touchants, vivants, il lui donne aujourd'hui naissance et nous propulse d'un monde à l'autre, de la préhistoire à nos jours, d'évolution en révolution, tandis que le passé éclaire le présent. Paradis perdus lance cette aventure unique. Noam en est le héros. Né il y a huit mille ans dans un village lacustre, au coeur d'une nature paradisiaque, il a affronté les drames de son clan le jour où il a rencontré Noura, une femme imprévisible et fascinante, qui le révèle à lui-même. Il s'est mesuré à une calamité célèbre : le Déluge. Non seulement le Déluge fit entrer Noam-Noé dans l'Histoire mais il détermina son destin. Serait-il le seul à parcourir les époques ? Dans ce premier tome d'une nouvelle saga d'envergure, véritable fresque majestueuse sur l'histoire de l'humanité, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt nous offre une interprétation pleine de maîtrise et de sensibilitéThaw
Par Monica Roe, Monica M Roe. 2008
Paralyzed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, eighteen-year-old champion skier Dane Rafferty is sent from New York State to a rehabilitation center in…
Florida. Dane's arrogance gradually fades as he contends with his physical limitations. Meanwhile, Carissa visits her comatose father across the hall. Strong language. For senior high readers. 2008Cherry Ames, veterans' nurse (Cherry Ames Nurse Stories Ser.)
Par Helen Wells. 2006
Army nurse Cherry Ames returns home to Illinois and begins a new assignment at a veteran rehabilitation hospital. While healing…
the bodies and spirits of wounded soldiers, Cherry meets Toby, a four-year-old boy with a life-threatening disease. Cherry wants to help but doesn't trust Toby's doctor. For grades 5-8. 1946Cherry Ames, senior nurse (Cherry Ames Nurse Stories Ser. #Bk. 2)
Par Helen Wells. 2005
Working in the children's ward during her senior year of nursing school, Cherry Ames meets Lex Upham, a young doctor…
with a questionable reputation. When someone steals a new drug that could help the war effort, everyone suspects Lex. Cherry sets out to prove he's innocent. For grades 5-8. 1944Cherry Ames, visiting nurse (Cherry Ames Nurse Stories Ser.)
Par Helen Wells. 2006
Cherry Ames lands a visiting nurse position in New York and moves into a Greenwich Village apartment with her girlfriends.…
Cherry treats the new patients in her district but becomes especially concerned with the welfare of a mysterious recluse who may need her help. For grades 5-8. 1947Imagine me on a sit-ski!: A Concept Book
Par George Moran, Christy Grant, Nadine Bernard Westcott. 1995
Billy uses a wheelchair and talks with a wordboard because he has cerebral palsy. He is both excited and scared…
when he learns that everyone in his class is going to be taught to ski. Some will use walkers or crutches fitted with little skis, but Billy gets to use a sit-ski! For grades 2-4A portrait of me: featuring Christine Kontos (The Kids on the Block Bks.)
Par Jeffrey Shulman, Barbara Aiello. 1989
Eleven-year-old Christine Kontos learns successfully to cope with her diabetes. But she finds it much harder to come to terms…
with the demands of her Greek-American heritage. Includes a section of questions and answers about diabetes and its treatment. For grades 3-6As my parents age: reflections on life, love, and change
Par Cynthia Ruchti. 2017
Tatouine: Captivating Accounts of Science in Everyday Life
Par Jean-Christophe Réhel, Dr Joe Schwarcz. 2021
It’s a long way from a basement apartment in a Montréal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet,…
but that’s the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey. Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment, he dreams of a new life on Tatouine, where he’ll play Super Mario Bros and make sand angels all day. But in the meantime, he’ll have to make do with daydreams of a better life. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.Journal d'une princesse à roulettes
Par Emmanuel Belluteau. 2009
« Comment voit-on la vie depuis un fauteuil roulant ? En levant la tête, simplement... Donnant paradoxalement la parole à…
sa fille Armelle, atteinte d'un polyhandicap qui ne lui permet ni l'usage des mots, ni celui de l'écriture, Emmanuel Belluteau exprime, sur le ton de l'humour, que la vie peut être riche et belle, même dans les épreuves et parfois la souffrance. Et qu'entre nos limites visibles et les combats au quotidien, il y a toujours place pour la joie et l'espérance, avec ou sans la foi. Parce que rien dans la vie n'a plus d'importance que l'amour, et que chacun est capable d'en donner et d'en recevoir, ceux qui sont plus fragiles en témoignent d'une façon toute particulière. » -- 4e de couvPredator (Kay Scarpetta Ser. #No. 14)
Par Patricia Cornwell. 2005
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, last seen in Trace (DB 59172, BR 15588), now freelances for Florida's National Forensic Academy. In this…
case she enlists the help of Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli to track a killer up and down the East Coast. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2005Requiem pour un paysan espagnol: roman
Par Ramón Sender. 1990
The sun will come out
Par Joanne Levy. 2021
"Twelve-year-old Bea Gelman and her best friend Frankie are planning the BEST SUMMER EVER at Camp Shalom-a sleep-away camp. But…
at the last minute, Frankie bows out, leaving painfully shy Bea on her own. Just talking to strangers causes Bea to break out into ugly, blotchy hives. As if the hives weren't bad enough, Bea gets pranked by a couple of girls in her cabin and is betrayed by someone she thought was a new friend. Bea has had enough! She decides to spend her summer in the infirmary far away from everything that's stressing her out. No more boys (including her crush, Jeremy), no more horrible mean girls, and no more fake friends! At the infirmary, Bea meets Harry, a boy facing challenges way more intense than stress breakouts. Inspired by Harry's strength and positive outlook, Bea decides to face her fears-in a big way." -- Provided by publisherShadow Man
Par Jeffrey Fleishman. 2012
Foreign correspondent James Ryan was there whenever the world changed: in the Middle East, in the Balkans, in the former…
Soviet bloc. But now he can't remember these events; he can't recall anything long-term, except the summer of his fifteenth year following his mother's death. It was the summer his father told him to call him Kurt. The summer the mysterious and enchanting Vera burst into their lonely, quiet lives. The summer his own world opened, then irrevocably changed.James, at fifty-two, suffers from a severe case of early onset Alzheimer's. The novel unravels James's predicament through the clear glimpses he retains of that long ago summer, and through the desperate attempts of his wife and his nurse to bring him back to the present, if only for stolen moments. Each has her motives: his wife trying not to lose the man with whom she shared so much - wars, death, love, loss of a child, history. And his nurse, the half sister he never knew he had, needing James's adolescent memory to understand the biological father and mother she never met. Told from the perspective of a man betrayed by his own mind, Shadow Man is a novel of identity and suspense that travels across continents and deep into the pasts that make us each who we are. It explores the power of memory to heal and to mask, and of the limits of unconditional love. Set in Philly and the eastern shore of yesteryear, in the Middle East, and throughout Eastern Europe, Fleishman's trademark descriptive but spare lyricism shines. Shadow Man is a touching and haunting novel perhaps most similar to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, though it is a work of fiction. From the Trade Paperback edition.The Sojourn
Par Andrew Krivak. 2011
The Sojourn, winner of the Chautauqua Prize and finalist for the National Book Award, is the story of Jozef Vinich,…
who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser's army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy.A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, that was inspired by the author's own family history, this novel evokes a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amidst the unfolding tragedy in Europe.The Sojourn is Andrew Krivak's first novel. Krivak is also the author of A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, a memoir about his eight years in the Jesuit Order, and editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912, which received the Louis L. Martz Prize. The grandson of Slovak immigrants, Krivak grew up in Pennsylvania, has lived in London, and now lives with his wife and three children in Massachusetts where he teaches in the Honors Program at Boston College.A Proper Knowledge
Par Michelle Latiolais. 2008
"Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, she'll be sorry when the…
book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais' astonishing, sparklingly intelligent new novel...The work strives, with bold zest, to arrive at the marrow of things...Latiolais triumphs, folding the work's clinical ruminations into the story's delicious batter. Powerfully recommended."--Antioch Review "The novel counts--in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose--the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption."--Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies "A ravishing intelligence is at work in these pages."--Elizabeth Tallent, author of Honey, on Even Now A gifted psychiatrist, haunted by the death of his young sister, seeks to penetrate the mysteries of childhood autism in this beautifully written, insightful investigation into the misunderstood pathways of the brain--and the heart.Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving
Par Carol Levine. 2014
Living in the Land of Limbo is the first anthology of short stories and poems about family caregivers. These men…
and women find themselves in "limbo," as they struggle to take care of a family member or friend in the uncertain world of chronic illness. The authors explore caregivers' experiences as they deal with family conflicts, the complexities of the health care system, and the impact of their choices on their lives and the lives of others. The book includes selections devoted to caregivers of aging parents; husbands and wives; ill children; and relatives, lovers, and friends. A final section is devoted to paid caregivers and their clients. Among the conditions that form the background of the selections are dementia, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, and pediatric cancer. Many of the authors are well-known poets and writers, but others have not been published in mainstream media. They represent a range of cultural backgrounds. Although their works approach caregiving in very different ways, the authors share a commitment to emotional truth, unvarnished by societal ideals of what caregivers should feel and do. These stories and poems paint profoundly moving and revealing portraits of family caregivers.