Her friends and family call her positive, quiet, humble, and soft-spoken. Her business associates refer to her as a strong leader. She is best known for her personal integrity, steadfastness, determination, and adventurous spirit. In short, Dr. Jean Wright is someone you would want as a valued friend, business partner, confidante, and trusted companion.In Diary of a Rebellious School Teacher, Vol. I, Ms. Willard uses "unconventional methods" to achieve her goals. Her students, cowo...

At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer.As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally whacked him in the guts, after all. But what he didn't expect was how being a patient, and a young one at that, would make him feel. Why hadn't he been better prepared for the embarrass...

The Will To Live: A young woman's valiant effort to regain her life after a hit-and-run driver almost took it from her

One Woman's Journey of Advocacy, Faith, and Positivity"You only have three to five years to live."On the day she was diagnosed with HIV and thrust from the confines of her suburban mom bubble into the scary and unpredictable world of AIDS, Julie promptly found herself fighting for her life and rights amidst a disease she never imagined would hijack her future.With three young children, her family began making every effort to create lasting memories whi...

Clay Dillon is neuroqueer, and he needs to make peace with it. After thirty years, he finally knows the truth: that he is and always has been autistic, and that most of his problems getting along came from a lack of awareness of himself a lack that came not from being autistic, but from having no knowledge of the gap between what he knew of his own needs and what others expected them to be. This is changing, though, and the change brings a freedom that is at once great and terrible. It gra...

Robert J. Sykes, Jr (Bob) was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia in December 2003 at the age of 47. This rare form of Dementia is a brain disease that slowly erodes cognitive abilities and causes personality changes. He endured the disease for more than three years before succumbing on April 7, 2006. This book paints a picture of a unique individual, a generous and giving man, who selflessly devoted himself to family life. It is a story of loss, but it is also a story of love and devot...

The life and love between twins is a journey that only few experience. Twins connect on a level far exceeding what science and research can describe... In her book "A Me Without We", Eva Jo Sombathy, takes us on a journey of her beautiful life with twin, Neva. This memoir of Eva and Neva's life together is a beautifully written love story coupled with the raw experience of twin loss. Eva's book includes stories of twin life, twin loss, and support offered to others who, like Eva, weren't p...

Brutally dragged 780 metres beneath a taxi, a young woman's inspiring story of survival, courage, and the will to live. 13 September 2011. The story would shock thousands and be remembered by many for years to come. It would be plastered all over the papers and continue to attract interest well after the shock factor of what happened had passed. Reports and articles would be written, and "facts", as given to reporters by some of those involved and willing to be interviewed, would be recoun...

"I started off by giving alcohol a job... to help me with anxiety at social events. Then I started promoting it and giving it more responsibilities, and it just started weaving its way into my world."As a teenager in high school and college, Karla Adkins suffered from anxiety and debilitating panic attacks. Alcohol made her feel normal; it was the answer to her need to fit in and feel calm. Besides, everyone drank, so what was the harm? She counted on it to help her relax ...

Akasha demystifies the alternative healing modalities that will help you recover from a traumatic brain injury and move out of the space of PTSD, into a calmer more peaceful existence. The extraordinary journey the book takes you on; through the chaotic experience of post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, will touch your heart and inspire you to believe in yourself, and what you are capable of. It is put in terms easy to understand how the modalities work, and what they...

After suffering the early loss of her father and subsequent family upheaval, she gravitated toward a life of helping others. From small Maine towns to the plains of Colorado, from San Diego to Northern California, for forty-two years she worked with a variety of people. Linda Converse has worked with adoptive parents, military families, dialysis patients, parents of children with various disabilities and clients with mental health problems. Anyone interested in learning more about social w...

Denise Lance’s parents were told that their daughter would never walk, never talk, never write her name. Calvin and Jean Lance never believed their bright-eyed little girl had severe cognitive disabilities, though her physical and speech impairments from cerebral palsy were obvious. They enabled Denise to live a typical, happy childhood, learning and playing alongside her peers without disabilities.Not only did Denise walk, she danced in the school talent show. Not only did she talk...