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Book Doc Susie

Download or read book Doc Susie written by Virginia Cornell and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling true story of a woman doctor at the turn of the century and her triumph over prejudice, poverty, and even her own illness. When she arrived in Colorado in 1907, Dr. Susan Anderson had a broken heart and a bad case of tuberculosis. But she stayed to heal the sick, tend to the dying, fight the exploitative railway management, and live a colorful, rewarding life.

Book Susan Anderson

Download or read book Susan Anderson written by Lydia Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Susan Anderson: Colorado's Doc Susie tells the interesting true story of a strong woman doctor in the Colorado Rockies. Lydia Griffin has written a great tribute to the cherished physician of Fraser, Colorado, which will engage all students of Colorado history"--P. [4] of cover.

Book Doc Susie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Penny Cunningham
  • Publisher : Filter Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780865411135
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Doc Susie written by Penny Cunningham and published by Filter Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Anderson was born in 1870 in Indiana and graduated from medical school in 1897 at the University of Michigan. Returning to her family in Cripple Creek, Colorado, she set up a medical practice before moving on to Denver and then Greeley, Colorado. In 1907, seeking a dry and cold climate to improve her tuberculosis condition, she moved to the mountain town of Fraser in Grand County. As her health improved, she began to treat the local people¿and their animals. "Doc Susie," as she came to be known, was the best, and only, doctor in the area for many years. She served as Grand County Coroner during construction of the six-mile long Moffat Tunnel, which replaced the treacherous Moffat Road rail line. At times, she had to go into the tunnel to care for the injured or to retrieve bodies. Doc Susie continued her medical practice until 1956 and died in Denver on April 16, 1960. The "Great Lives in Colorado History" biography series is for grades 3-5. Each book contains full text in both English and Spanish.

Book Doc Susie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Owen Briggs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780865412545
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Doc Susie written by Owen Briggs and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Let It Be Easy

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  • Author : Susie Moore
  • Publisher : New World Library
  • Release : 2021-11-09
  • ISBN : 1608687570
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Let It Be Easy written by Susie Moore and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Moore knows that all too often stress is self-created and bogs us down, and she knows that we can just as easily create peace and power. Susie doesn’t deny the reality of suffering but instead shows how to pivot toward a life-changing way of processing pain, grief, loss, and anxiety. Her poignant stories and wise and witty words deliver nuggets of real-life wisdom to help you defuse reactive triggers and recast failures into successes with simple-yet-powerful changes.

Book Doctor Who  The Target Storybook

Download or read book Doctor Who The Target Storybook written by Terrance Dicks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’re all stories in the end... In this exciting collection you’ll find all-new stories spinning off from some of your favourite Doctor Who moments across the history of the series. Learn what happened next, what went on before, and what occurred off-screen in an inventive selection of sequels, side-trips, foreshadowings and first-hand accounts – and look forward too, with a brand new adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor. Each story expands in thrilling ways upon aspects of Doctor Who’s enduring legend. With contributions from show luminaries past and present – including Colin Baker, Matthew Waterhouse, Vinay Patel, Joy Wilkinson and Terrance Dicks – The Target Storybook is a once-in-a-lifetime tour around the wonders of the Whoniverse.

Book Doc Susie

Download or read book Doc Susie written by Virginia Cornell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts how Dr. Anderson overcame tuberculosis and initial reluctance among her patients to establish a long and respected career

Book The Magnificent Mountain Women

Download or read book The Magnificent Mountain Women written by Janet Robertson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition.

Book The Energy Codes

Download or read book The Energy Codes written by Sue Morter and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For those ready and willing to build a new life, here are the tools. Powerful, incisive, extraordinary writing.” —Neale Donald Walsch, New York Times bestselling author of Conversations with God Transform your life with this bestselling, revolutionary, and accessible seven-step guide—grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics—to awaken your true health and potential through energy healing. Eighteen years ago, health pioneer and “extraordinary enlightened visionary” (Anita Moorjani, New York Times bestselling author) Dr. Sue Morter had a remarkable and profound awakening. While meditating, she spontaneously accessed an energy field—a level of consciousness—beyond anything she had ever imagined. This dramatic experience changed her life and set her on a mission to discover how to create such radical transformation for her patients. Through years of advanced study and research in energy healing and medicine, she developed the Energy Codes. This life-altering program has now enabled thousands of people around the world to overcome pain, disease, fatigue, anxiety, and depression, and to awaken their innate creativity, intuition, and inner power. Bridging ancient healing practices with cutting-edge science, The Energy Codes offers a detailed road map to help you experience deep healing in your life. Grounded in practical, accessible exercises, including yoga, breathwork, meditations, and Dr. Morter’s proprietary Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (BEST) protocol, The Energy Codes “offers deep insights…that brilliantly merge the ever-blending worlds of science and spirituality to help reveal the truth of our being and the depths of our greatness,” (Jack Canfield, coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series).

Book The Last Leaf

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  • Author : William Glennon
  • Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
  • Release : 1996-07
  • ISBN : 9780871296917
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book The Last Leaf written by William Glennon and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Impossibility of Sex

Download or read book The Impossibility of Sex written by Susie Orbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book I have struggled with certain words without a satisfactory conclusion. I am unhappy about all the words used to describe the person who visits the therapist's consulting room. Is she or he a patient? Well, sometimes yes. Certain individuals like that word because it captures for them the sense that there is something wrong, an emotional illness. Is she or he a client? Again, sometimes yes. Certain individuals like that word because it connotes a kind of consultative process. Is she or he an analysand? Certain individuals like this word because it conveys something about the process of a therapy and it has a symmetry: analyst–analysand. I myself find that all these words capture something about the therapy and the therapy process but are considerably less than perfect. In what follows I have chosen to use the words interchangeably, as well as the words psychotherapist, therapist and analyst. In the text, in the musings in italics, I have usually referred to the primary carer in the person's early life as mother. I realize that this is not always the case. There are fathers who have primary responsibility for their children from birth and there are relatives and nannies who fulfil this role. Rarely in my clinical experience of seeing adults has this role been an enterprise between two people in the way that it is becoming for some couples with children today. We have yet to see the effects of joint child-rearing on adult psychologies so I have retained the notion of the mother or mother substitute, a notion which will have to be expanded as the generations now raising children make new arrangements between them. I have also chosen for simplicity's sake to use the word 'she' throughout for the personal pronoun rather than 'she or he'.

Book Sweet Thursday

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Steinbeck
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008-07-29
  • ISBN : 1440635498
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Sweet Thursday written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Penguin Classic In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row—the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears—from Doc, based on Steinbeck’s lifelong friend Ed Ricketts, to Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by Robert DeMott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book The Balance Project

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susie Orman Schnall
  • Publisher : SparkPress
  • Release : 2015-04-28
  • ISBN : 1940716667
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Balance Project written by Susie Orman Schnall and published by SparkPress. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured in: BuzzFeed: Ultimate Spring Book Guide, Bustle: Books That Will Help You Balance Your Life, Huffington Post Books, POPSUGAR: Books You Should Read on Your Summer Road Trip, Jenny McCarthy’s SiriusXM show, New York Parenting: Summer Reads, Self magazine: Mother’s Day Gift Guide, Working Mother: Mother’s Day Gift Guide, San Francisco Book Review: Unforgettable Memorial Day Weekend Reads, Culturalist: Best Stories of Moms Balancing It All The Balance Project is a story of loyalty, choices, and balance that will resonate deeply with all women who struggle with this hot-button issue. Loyal assistant Lucy Cooper works for Katherine Whitney, who seems to have it all: a high-powered job at a multibillion-dollar health and wellness lifestyle company, a successful husband, and two adorable daughters. Now, with the release of her book on work-life balance, Katherine has become a media darling and a hero to working women everywhere. In reality, though, Katherine’s life is starting to fall apart, and Lucy is the one holding it all together, causing her own life—and relationship with her boyfriend Nick—to suffer. When Katherine does something unthinkable to Lucy, Lucy must decide whether to change Katherine’s life forever or continue being her main champion. Her choice will affect the trajectory of both of their lives and lead to opportunities neither one could have imagined.

Book The Innocent Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Grisham
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2010-03-16
  • ISBN : 0307576019
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book The Innocent Man written by John Grisham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, The Innocent Man reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book no American can afford to miss. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Book Root Magic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eden Royce
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2021-01-05
  • ISBN : 0062899600
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Root Magic written by Eden Royce and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A poignant, necessary entry into the children’s literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Add in a fun, magical adventure and you get everything I want in a book!”—Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation Debut author Eden Royce arrives with a wondrous story of love, bravery, friendship, and family, filled to the brim with magic great and small. It’s 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won’t stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven— and their uncle, Doc, tells them he’s going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always been fascinated by the African American folk magic that has been the legacy of their family for generations—especially the curious potions and powders Doc and Gran would make for the people on their island. But Jez soon finds out that her family’s true power goes far beyond small charms and elixirs…and not a moment too soon. Because when evil both natural and supernatural comes to show itself in town, it’s going to take every bit of the magic she has inside her to see her through. Walter Dean Myers Honor Award for Outstanding Children's Literature!

Book The Extraordinary Mark Twain  according to Susy

Download or read book The Extraordinary Mark Twain according to Susy written by Barbara Kerley and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.

Book Two Brides Too Many

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  • Author : Mona Gansberg Hodgson
  • Publisher : WaterBrook
  • Release : 2010-05
  • ISBN : 0307458903
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Two Brides Too Many written by Mona Gansberg Hodgson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisters Kat and Nell Sinclair board a train westward to a Colorado mining town as mail-order brides, but when neither of their fiancés are there to pick them up from the station, Kat and Nell find themselves on their own in rugged, frontier town.