Download or read book Blink Twice for Yes written by Laura Klehr Barnett and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 31, 1980, Laura Klehr Barnett, age 23, was planting flowers when she was suddenly seized by debilitating dizziness and later by convulsions. At the hospital, she slipped into a coma, the result of a severe brain stem stroke. Crying and blinking were her only activities for five weeks. One day she started laughing at something her husband did; from this, her improvement began. Over the next three months, she relearned to walk and eat again but could not speak. After four months in the hospital, Laura returned home. Recovering her speech was the challenge she faced at home. With a special retainer and effort, she was able to make herself understood. Many possibilities opened up to her, and she went about pursuing endeavors to fill a void in her life. Yet, despite her busyness, inside she felt empty. Driving past a small neighborhood church, she decided that attending would be good for her foster children. Ultimately, that decision was good for her! God filled the vacuum in her life!

Download or read book Blink Twice for Murder written by Johann Britz and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ira Hamilton, principle heir to a respectable family concern, is on a killing spree. Unable to process his mothers death in a car accident that left his father suffering from Locked-In Syndrome, he becomes a psychopathic avenging angel. His prey are people he identifies as those guilty of The Seven Deadly Sins mostly suspects who had escaped justice through mistrials and law enforcement blunders. The Hamilton House sugar mill comes under siege by an international drug syndicate involving Iras younger brother. Their father Bert appears to be in a coma, but is fully conscious and can only move his eyes, signalling once or twice for No or Yes. He is also the target of Iras wrath. In his state of helplessness, he has to endure his sons verbal torture before and after every killing Two independent forensic psychiatrists are contracted to investigate the serial killings, which include that of an international football player.

Download or read book Blink Twice for Yes written by Laura Klehr Barnett and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 31, 1980, Laura Klehr Barnett, age 23, was planting flowers when she was suddenly seized by debilitating dizziness and later by convulsions. At the hospital, she slipped into a coma, the result of a severe brain stem stroke. Crying and blinking were her only activities for five weeks. One day she started laughing at something her husband did; from this, her improvement began. Over the next three months, she relearned to walk and eat again but could not speak. After four months in the hospital, Laura returned home. Recovering her speech was the challenge she faced at home. With a special retainer and effort, she was able to make herself understood. Many possibilities opened up to her, and she went about pursuing endeavors to fill a void in her life. Yet, despite her busyness, inside she felt empty. Driving past a small neighborhood church, she decided that attending would be good for her foster children. Ultimately, that decision was good for her! God filled the vacuum in her life!

Download or read book Damaged Natalie s Story written by Talia Jager and published by Talia Jager. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie Jarrett is a seventeen-year-old girl who falls in love with the wrong boy. When she finds herself in the hospital after one of his violent attacks, she can no longer turn a blind eye. Suffering from severe injuries, her doctor tells her she will never be the same again. Although injured and feeling guilty, alone, scared and most of all, damaged, everyone seems to expect her to return quickly to her normal life – but how can she bounce back when she blames herself for all that’s gone wrong?

Download or read book Running Free written by Kate Allatt and published by Accent Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Just amazing and inspirational' Jeremy Vine Can you imagine being trapped inside your own body? Able to see and hear everything going on around you but unable to move or speak - the blink of an eye your only way of communicating. Fell-runner and fun-loving mother-of-three Kate Allatt's life was torn apart when what appeared to be a stress-related headache exploded into a massive brainstem stroke leading to locked-in syndrome. Totally paralysed, she became a prisoner inside her own body. Doctors warned her family she would never walk, talk or swallow or lead a normal life again. But they didn't know Kate. The words no and never were not in her vocabulary. With the help of her best friends and family she drew on every ounce of her runner's stamina and determination to make a recovery that amazed medical experts. Using a letter chart, Kate blinked the words "I will walk again". Soon she was moving her thumb and communicating with the world via Facebook. Eight months after her stroke, Kate said goodbye to nurses, walked out of hospital and returned home to learn how to run again. This is the story of her incredible journey.

Download or read book Just Another Goodbye written by Dr. Sharon Zaffarese-Dippold and published by ZeeT Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Snow and her little brother Curtis are on the move again, to yet another foster family. After the abuse she’s suffered, she doesn’t think it could get any worse, but it can. Curtis is ripped from her arms, sent to a different family. This is more than just another goodbye. This is losing the only person who’s been her constant companion, the one person she loves. Powerless, all she can do is hold the teddy bear he dropped and cry as he’s dragged out of her life. Anna is now truly alone. What will she do without her brother? It isn’t long before she’s moved again, and then again, from family to family, each time stuffing everything in her life into a garbage bag, feeling rejected, as if she herself is trash that nobody wants. Anna’s journey continues in this third book of the series, a riveting story of loss, pain, and sorrow as she navigates her garbage bag life as a child in the foster care system.

Download or read book Searching Dragon written by Trudi Jaye and published by Star Media . This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turns out my enemies were right. I am the last dragon shifter, the destroyer of worlds, with the potential to break the peace between humans and supernaturals. Except unlike the dragons of old, I haven’t been trained to be a dragon shifter since birth, and I don’t have anyone else to show me what to do. I’m all alone in this battle for my life, as I attempt to control my new powers. All I want to do is hide away so I don’t hurt anyone else. But now my enemies are forcing me out of my lair. They’ve kidnapped my father. He’s not perfect, but he’s the only dad I have, and I’m determined to get him back. If only I could figure out how to fly. Or even walk with my new dragon legs…. If you love Patricia Briggs's outcast shifter Mercy Thompson or Shannon Mayer's tracker Rylee Adamson... you'll want to check out Trudi Jaye's kick-butt dragon shifter, Mei Walker. Don't miss this action-packed series: click the buy now button to join the adventure.

Download or read book 21 Black Roses written by Val Ciardullo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dakota and her three brothers all grew up in beautiful small town Durango, Colorado. She is the youngest of the four siblings. Since the loss of their parents her brothers have become over protective of their baby sister, but sometimes it is just not enough. She reconnects with an old friend and it turns out to be the biggest mistake of her life. As threats on her life begin, her brothers must find out who is tormenting her and why before its too late.

Download or read book Pitch Dark written by Courtney Alameda and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Courtney Alameda, the author of Shutter, this thrilling, sci-fi horror and space adventure will be sure to stay with readers long after the last pages. Lost to time, Tuck Morgan and his crew have slept in stasis aboard the USS John Muir for centuries. Their ship harbors a chunk of Earth, which unbeknownst to them, is the last hope for the failing human race. Laura Cruz is a shipraider searching the galaxy for the history that was scattered to the stars. Once her family locates the John Muir and its precious cargo, they are certain human civilization is saved. When Tuck's and Laura’s worlds collide—literally—the two teens must outwit their enemies, evade brutal monsters that kill with sound, and work together to save the John Muir . . . and the whole human race.

Download or read book Primer written by Ty Patterson and published by Three Aces Publishing Ltd. This book was released on with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping new Cutter Grogan thriller from USA Today Bestselling Author Ty Patterson Cutter Grogan had an uneasy relationship with law enforcement. The police had rules. He had none. And so he was surprised when NYPD Detective Gina Difiore and FBI SAC Peyton Quindica came to him for help. He couldn't refuse. They were his closest friends even though they wouldn't hesitate to nail his ass if they had proof of his law-breaking. The case led him to the underbelly of the country, where national and international politics, killers and technology conspired. To a choice he had to make. His friends or his moral code. If he chose to live by his values, he would have to kill Difiore and Quindica. From USA Today Bestselling Author Ty Patterson, Primer is a turbocharged, high-octane thriller in his trademark style of humor and action.

Download or read book Life on Side B written by Mike Haszto and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life On Side B is the next adventure for co-owner Mickey Miller and V103, following their initial challenge of staving off a corporation wanting to buy radio station WVVV FM in "Radio Free Mickey". Approximately six months has gone by, and the station finds itself no longer atop the Arbitron Ratings in northeast Ohio, beset by recent staff issues and market changes. A tragedy hits the station, and obstacles present themselves as Mickey attempts to bring the station back to its old perch by sticking by what got V103 there in the first placeold time radio values and strong character. Put yourself once again on the staff of V103 as an intern, and feel involved with every detail of this second installment starring Mickey Miller as co-owner, Jimmy as his best friend and head of his own 'Pirate Radio' empire based in Marathon Florida, Stacey as Marketing and Promotions Director, and the entire staff of air personalities.

Download or read book Kill for Me written by Karen Rose and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five teenage girls have been viciously attacked. One survived. Only she can reveal the secrets of a disturbing ring of people who kidnap and sell teenage girls on the black market. But those responsible for the crimes will do whatever it takes to maintain her silence. Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos have both sworn to stop the murderers for their own personal reasons. The investigation leads them to the shady realm of Internet chat rooms, where anyone can mask his or her identity. They soon discover a chain of deception so intricate they don't know whom to trust. Finding comfort in each other's arms, they begin to unravel the intricately knotted threads, but the killers are ruthless and determined, and won't hesitate to take extreme measures to insure their anonymity and keep their business intact. When Susannah proves to be inexplicably linked to the crimes, her life is soon in danger, and Luke will do everything he can to save the woman he loves.

Download or read book Ethical Practice in Grief Counseling written by Louis A. Gamino, PhD, ABPP, FT and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gamino and Ritter do an excellent job of providing cogent advice and helpful suggestions for how professionals can manage ethical dilemmas that arise from the practice of grief counseling." -J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP Clinical Psychologist Laguna Niguel, California Author, Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, 4th Edition (From the Foreword) Essential reading for grief counselors, mental health clinicians, death educators, hospice workers, clergy, funeral directors, and social workers. Grief counselors are confronted daily with a host of serious ethical dilemmas, some so critical that they can drastically change the course of a counselor's practice and career. This practical and authoritative guide serves as a comprehensive handbook for navigating the difficult ethical issues grief counselors confront daily with clients. These include confidentiality, end-of-life issues, intimacies with clients, challenges posed by unnatural deaths, spiritual and cultural considerations, and many more. To tackle these issues head on, Gamino and Ritter present the Five P Model, a customized process for ethical decision-making that will help counselors outline a specific, step-by-step course of action to respond to the ethical dilemma at hand. The book is also rich with case examples, both hypothetical and real-life, to demonstrate how to implement the Five P Model in practice, and apply it to various ethical dilemmas. Among the key topics discussed: How to address ethical problems posed by Internet counseling, such as authenticating identity, securing confidentiality, and intervening in a crisis Death competence on the part of the counselor and how the counselor's own experience of grieving can inform counseling practice Guidance on how to report a colleague or face a complaint How to meet ethical obligations towards clients when moving or closing a practice

Download or read book Chasing Shadows written by Phyllis Eickelberg and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather Samuelson is moving through the supermarket checkout line when she encounters her Aunt Myrtle, worrying that her friend, Anna, has not returned from a jaunt across the store for free coffee. Moments later, Heather sets out on a search for Anna that takes her straight into a pitch-black storeroomand a gruesome murder scene. With one man dead and her aunts friend on her way to the hospital, Heather is once again plunged into circumstances beyond her control, as she tries to discover who killed Michael Santiam and wonders whether the murderer plans to return to finish off her aunts friend. Determined to solve the puzzle before her upcoming wedding, Heather partners with the police department and her fianc detective, Jazz, to search for the identity of Anna, whose memory only goes back two years. Just when she is getting somewhere, Anna suddenly disappears from her hospital bed. Now Heather must determine if Anna is being held captive or if someone is protecting herand if or how the recent turn of events ties into a murder committed twenty years earlier. In this brain teaser mystery, an amateur sleuth immersed in a complex investigation to solve a murder must find the link between the past and present before a killer strikes again.

Download or read book The Devil s Deep written by Michael Wallace and published by Balsalom Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chad Lett is a mute witness to an attempted murder. He suffers from total paralysis, locked within a prison of his own mind. After years of silence, he establishes contact with a young nurse's aid through a single blinking eye, but then she is abducted and a staff member begins to administer dropperfuls of cleaning solution into his communicating eye. A heart-pounding thriller that will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned, the Devil's Deep is a top rated suspense that travels from the hell of a long-term care facility to the rain forest of Costa Rica. And a crime committed under tropical waters, the dive known as El Bajo del Diablo--the Devil's Deep. Keywords: conspiracy, murder, dark, amateur, disturbing, scary, locked-in syndrome, suspense, thriller, diving, locked-in syndrome

Download or read book God s Handmaiden written by Gilbert Morris and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and romantic adventure woven around the story of Florence Nightingale.Gervase Howard is in her mid-teens when her working-class mother dies and she must go to live with relatives in service to a wealthy, noble family, outside of London. While learning various jobs, she is drawn to the eldest son, Davis. Her fascination with him grows deeper, but more hopeless, since the two are separated not just by class, but also by Davis’s love for Roberta.When Davis announces his engagement, he asks Gervase to join them as Roberta’s maid. But instead Gervase becomes a companion to Florence Nightingale and accompanies her when the Crimean War breaks out and she is asked to create a corps of nurses. On the field, Gervase crosses paths with Davis, who has become disillusioned in his marriage and is drawn to her warmth and care. Both know, however, there is nothing more for them than friendship.Upon her return to England, Gervase receives word that Davis has been seriously injured in a fall and is asked to nurse him back to health. As he regains consciousness, he reveals shocking news that plunges them both into danger.

Download or read book Trial by Fire written by J.A. Jance and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having taken on a media relations position with the Yavapai County Police Department, Ali Reynolds' first time out on the job is trial by fire. When a brand new housing estate goes up in flames, everyone hopes that the unfinished, unoccupied homes will yield no victims. But one woman is found barely alive and beyond recognition. For months she lies in a medically-induced coma, unclaimed and unidentified. When she finally awakes, badly disfigured and with no clue as to who she is or where she came from, she faces a bleak future. The victim faces even worse news when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, and her quest to discover her identity takes on even greater urgency. In her new role, Ali Reynolds is called upon to grant the dying woman's final wishes: to find the people who saved her life - and the people who tried to kill her.