Mark McEwen's stroke was anything but sudden. His symptoms led him to a hospital, where he was misdiagnosed with the flu. Two days later, on an airplane flight just hours before he finally collapsed, flight attendants and airport staff discounted his slurred speech and heavy sweating, passing him off as intoxicated. Misinformation not only delayed his treatment but nearly cost him his life. A candid, moving memoir, Change in the Weather traces one man's recovery in the aftermath o...

The intimate, life-affirming journey of recovery and rehabilitation from a major stroke, written by one of morning television's most beloved personalitiesMark McEwen was at the top of his game and enjoying life when he suffered a stroke. After fifteen years on The Early Show, he had moved to Orlando to anchor the local news and spend more time with his family. While traveling, he experienced symptoms that led him to a hospital, where he was misdiagnosed wi...

'A fine book' The Sunday Times'Powerful' Guardian'Wonderful' The Telegraph**'Moving, funny, warm'**Mail on Sunday'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro**'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had to hand. Words. Then, as the enormity of the social cr...

From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and “one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style” (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris—“If you loved The Devil Wears Prada, you’ll adore The Price of Illusion” (Elle).In a book as rich and dramatic as the li...

“I’m a glutton in a greyhound’s body, a walking contradiction, in the grip of the one thing I can’t have—food.”Food is not just sustenance. It is memories, a lobster roll on the beach in Maine; heritage, hot pastrami club with a half-sour pickle; guilty pleasures, a chocolate rum-soaked Bundt cake; identity, vegetarian or carnivore. Food is the sensuality of a ripe strawberry or a pork chop sizzling on the grill. But what if the very thing that keeps you a...

Julie Lyons was working as a crime reporter when she followed a hunch into the South Dallas ghetto. She wasn’t hunting drug dealers, but drug addicts who had been supernaturally healed of their addictions. Was there a church in the most violent part of the city that prayed for addicts and got results?At The Body of Christ Assembly, a rundown church on an out-of-the-way street, Lyons found the story she was looking for. The minister welcomed criminals, prostitutes, and street people...

A family's sweet legacy melts into a bitter tale of secrets, betrayal, and madness in Washington, D.C.'s iconic ice cream empire.For over 70 years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was a beloved institution. But behind the happy facade lay a dark truth: elaborate schemes, a crushing bankruptcy, millions missing, and a tragic suicide. Andrew Gifford, the last heir, unearths the byzantine betrayals that destroyed his family's legendary business.From its ...

This warm, articulate and entertaining autobiography by Bill Anderson CBE about his life and times as the editor of The Sunday Post is especially resonant as he was editor when The Sunday Post was at its height in sales. Helping to make the paper one of the UK's most successful newspapers, Anderson shows how he did that, and also chronicles a special view of Scotland and The Sunday Post itself, from the late 1930s to the 1980s. The book charts Anderson's life growing up in working-class Gl...

Meet Fred - a man who has had a stroke. Fred invites readers to learn about what it is like to have a stroke from his perspective, helping them to understand the challenges faced by someone who has had a stroke and the ways in which they might have to adapt their lifestyle. He also gives advice on how to offer support to someone who has had a stroke, from diagnosis through to rehabilitation.With illustrations throughout, this useful book will be ideal for anyone who knows someone w...

What you will discover in this book:• What your doctor never told you about Tietze's syndrome: no more complicated doctor talk. I break the symptoms, the disease, and what causes it down for you in layman's terms. I will explain to you exactly what Tietze's syndrome is and exactly what your body is going through right now. You will gain a complete understanding of what you is experiencing, and from now on, when you talk to your doctor...you will know exactly what he is talking abou...

Power tools revolutionized the building of your family home.Now they will revolutionize your health.Power Tools for Health will teach you to how to apply PEMFs to your life. Including:- How to treat new or chronic health conditions like pain, anxiety, insomnia, and diabetes- How you can avoid annoying or potentially harmful side effects from pharmaceuticals or other treatments- What PEMFs do to enhance and accelerate recovery from surgery.Researc...

It’s 1971 and rock and roll was at its height. Small-time Australian agent Wayne Zemmerman scored an unimaginable coup when he signs British supergroup Andromeda for a nationwide tour. Showbiz reporter Scottie McPherson smells a rat and starts his investigation. The Sound Mixers is a dramatic expose of the rock industry: fiction that reads like fact. A gripping story that moves at breathtaking pace to a devastating climax, Performers, promoters, manipulators, illusion creators - the charac...