epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Mcgill, Jerry [McGill, Jerry]

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM—DAY JEROME sits up in his wheelchair in front of a canvas. He is painting. He wears a splint on his right wrist and a paintbrush has been ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Charlotte Moore [Moore, Charlotte]

13. Education, Education, Education When George was diagnosed by Dr Gilly Baird, she told us that the right education was the only effective ‘treatment’. Chapter 7, on interventions, makes it ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brink, Evelyne

CHAPTER 11 All change! Wards, tubes and moods (6 MONTHS) My American sister, Rhonda, (I spent seven months in the States with a host family when I was 16) has ...

epub |eng, eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Joanne Weber

At supper, I am wary of Anna. Should I just accept her perfunctory apology, although Murray urges me not to? But I remember the stricken look in her eyes, and ...

epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Robert Kurson

Now that Carson and Wyndham had shown May every object inside the house, they set out to show him the rest of the world outside. They suggested a walk through ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brandi Rarus [Rarus, Brandi and Harris, Gail]

Chapter Seven LOVE’S SACRIFICE EVEN THOUGH BJ’s parents said that they would support him if he decided to raise the baby, given the circumstances, his father strongly believed that placing ...

mobi |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:James Patterson

Chapter 39 A WEEK LATER, the football team is called together to meet a new coach. I’m not really sure what happened, whether it was school politics or not. The ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-11 | Author:Rebecca Alexander & Sascha Alper [Alexander, Rebecca]

30 When I first saw Alan’s profile on JDate, in the winter of my last year of graduate school, I remember thinking to myself, I’m going to marry this guy. ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-02 | Author:Diane Lierow & Bernie Lierow & Kay West [Lierow, Diane & Lierow, Bernie & West, Kay]

Bernie got back on the phone. “Diane wants to know if she can stay for the week. . . . Yes, we’re sure. . . . Oh, really? That’s funny. ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-22 | Author:Ameisen M.D., Olivier [Ameisen M.D., Olivier]

It was time to let Philippe Coumel know what I had been exploring. When I went to visit him in August, he was in the hospital and his appearance shocked ...

epub |eng, eng | | Author:Jean-Dominique Bauby & Jean-Dominique Bauby

Through a Glass, Darkly Hunched in my wheelchair, I watch my children surreptitiously as their mother pushes me down the hospital corridor. While I have become something of a zombie ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-08 | Author:Ashley Fiolek & Caroline Ryder

* * * First Love I met fellow racer Trey Canard in January of 2006. What can I say…he was definitely a cute boy, a cute boy who would become ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Doyle, Paddy [Doyle, Paddy]

CHAPTER NINE My nightly terror continued as the weeks dragged on in Kilkenny. Each night out of a deep fear of dying, I begged God’s forgiveness for any sins I ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Martin Pistorius

31 THE SPEECH I can hardly believe I’m here. It’s November 2003 and I’m sitting on a low stage in a huge lecture room with my colleague Munyane, who has ...

epub |eng | 1983-07-14 | Author:Torey Hayden [Hayden,Torey]

There was a window in the room, down at the far end. The view was panoramic, looking down from the rocky aerie where the hospital sat. The city stretched into ...