Download or read book The Ballad of Jack and Rose written by Rebecca Miller and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning writer-director of Personal Velocity comes a startling drama about the nature of family and the meaning of ideals In his first role since Gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis plays Jack Slavin, an engineer who over thirty years ago walked away from the mainstream to live out a more deliberate life. But the island commune he began in hopes of a better future has long since imploded and he is now its final resident. Jack's only other companion is his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle), whom he has deliberately sheltered from the outside world. Now, beset by terminal illness, encroaching developers, and Rose's emerging womanhood, Jack faces troubling questions about the days ahead. In an attempt to provide his daughter with the kind of family she's never known, Jack invites Kathleen (Catherine Keener), the woman he's been secretly seeing on the mainland, and her sons to live with them. But rather than comforted, Rose feels betrayed and lashes out with a willful and deliberate retribution that places her innocence on the battlefield and Kathleen's safety in danger. His carefully constructed world flung out of control, Jack finds himself trapped between two headstrong women and forced to take action. With The Ballad of Jack and Rose, award-winning filmmaker Rebecca Miller has created a powerful and poetic third feature about a man who has cut himself off from a society that refuses to live up to his standards, and a young girl's sudden coming-of-age.

Download or read book Rebecca s Rose written by Jane Hennessy and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca's Rose is a dramatic memoir of three women's spiritual journey from the 1960's to the 2000's-a story about the power of love to persevere beyond human expectations. It's a true story about a family coping with the agony of a child with a severe mental disorder. Rebecca's challenging life, filled with the scream of ambulances and with courtroom drama, remains suspenseful because she fights her schizophrenia and does not surrender. In the end, the miracle is that, despite all the obstacles and all the pain, she and her family survive. Rebecca's Rose is primarily the story of a young woman's struggle with schizophrenia. But it is also about family relationships and, in particular, one sister's caregiving love for Rebecca, for her parents, and for her children. The close relationship between Jane and her mother only deepens with the approach of death, a death her mother almost welcomes. A year later, Jane's father is diagnosed with cancer and she must continue her painful journey. Jane's harrowing experiences are a cautionary tale for the baby boom generation, as sons and daughter deals with the aging, decline and impending death of their own parents.

Download or read book Rebecca s Rose written by Jennifer Beckstrand and published by Ellie Claire. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rebecca Miller's mother is confined to bed, so the nineteen year-old must run the household, manage the family farm, and care for her younger siblings. Although she feels trapped at times, she is determined to fulfill a promise she made to her best friend before the girl died. Then Rebecca meets a boy with uncommon good looks and a mischievous glint in his eye who just might help her keep her vow. Levi Cooper was born in Apple Lake and schooled in the Amish way of life until he was seven years old. After his father died in an accident, Levi's mother married an Englischer and was consequently shunned by her Amish relatives. Forced to leave the Plain community, Levi grows up as an Englischer, scarcely thinking about the life he used to live. Haunted by painful memories on the path to self-destruction, Levi meets an Amish girl who is looking for adventure. Rebecca's growing attachment to Levi could lead to the loss of everything she holds dear. Will the secret he keeps separate them forever?"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Orwell s Roses written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roses, pleasure and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. 'I loved this book... An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times' Margaret Atwood 'Expansive and thought-provoking' Independent Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening - George Orwell Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell is said to have planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca Solnit explores how his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature and power. Following his journey from the coal mines of England to taking up arms in the Spanish Civil War; from his prescient critique of Stalin to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism, Solnit finds a more hopeful Orwell, whose love of nature pulses through his work and actions. And in her dialogue with the author, she makes fascinating forays into colonial legacies in the flower garden, discovers photographer Tina Modotti's roses, reveals Stalin's obsession with growing lemons in impossibly cold conditions, and exposes the brutal rose industry in Colombia. A fresh reading of a towering figure of the 20th century which finds solace and solutions for the political and environmental challenges we face today, Orwell's Roses is a remarkable reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance. 'Luminous...It is efflorescent, a study that seeds and blooms, propagates thoughts, and tends to historical associations' New Statesman 'A genuinely extraordinary mind, whose curiosity, intelligence and willingness to learn seem unbounded' Irish Times

Download or read book Beauty s Rose written by Shonna Slayton and published by Amaretto Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy destined to become a beast... And a girl determined to save him. Margot's been invited to the medieval town of Chapais, France for a reunion of the town's descendants. She plans to stay with her aunt, who lives above the family bookshop inside the ancient walled city. Little does she know that three fairies have called her there to help a beastly teenage boy break the curse that has plagued his family for generations. Proud and arrogant, the boy pushes everyone away until Margot finds a way to reach him. But when they get close to breaking the curse, the romantic summer turns into a nightmare. Can they set the beast free before it's too late? Beauty's Rose is the latest installment in the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series of historical fairy tales. Set in the 1980s, it is inspired by the 1756 version of Beauty and the Beast by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and is a stand alone novel. The Fairy-tale Inheritance series of books can be read in any order. Aside from the Cinderella books, they are all stand-alone novels. But if you'd like a reading order, you can follow this one: Cinderella's Dress Cinderella's Shoes Cinderella's Legacy (novella) Snow White's Mirror Beauty's Rose

Download or read book Current Advances in Neonatal Care An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America written by Beena G. Sood and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-04-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In collaboration with Consulting Editor, Dr. Bonita Stanton, Drs. Beena Sood and Dara Brodsky have assembled expert authors to bring current information to pediatricians on the topic of Current Advances in Neonatal Care. The focus of the issue spans the full continuum of care, including articles on prenatal care, care in the delivery room, nursery, and post-discharge. Articles are specifically devoted to the following topics: Prenatal Genetic Testing Options; Current Intrauterine Surgery Options; Recent Changes in Neonatal Resuscitation (include LMA); Current Recommendations of Sepsis Evaluation in the Newborn; Hypoglycemia in the Newborn; Maternal Thyroid Disease and Impact on Newborn; Current Approach to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome; The Current State of State Newborn Screening; Late Preterm Infant: Known risks and monitoring recommendations; Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Postnatal Monitoring and Outcomes; Hearing Risks in Preterm Infants: Who is at risk and how to monitor?; Management Options for Hemangiomas in the Neonate; GERD in the Newborn: Who needs to be treated and what approach is beneficial?; Outpatient Management of NICU Graduate; and Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Premature Infants. Readers will come away with the most current information they need to improve patient outcomes with evidentiary support.

Download or read book Respiratory Support Strategies in the Prevention and Treatment of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia written by Huayan Zhang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infant chronic lung disease (CLD), or bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), one of the most common complications of prematurity, carries consequences of high mortality and morbidity. Lengthy hospitalizations, frequent readmissions, chronic cardiopulmonary impairment, poor growth, and long-term neurodevelopmental impairment are common in these patients. As a result, it is a disease with high social-economic impact, both to the health care system and society. Over the past few decades, advances in neonatal intensive care have led to improved survival of extremely premature infants world-wide, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This increased survival has also led to a larger number of infants with extremely immature lungs that are prone to abnormal lung development and lung injury. Consequently, the incidence of BPD has not decreased. Although respiratory support is a mainstay therapy for premature infants with acute or chronic respiratory insufficiency, there is currently a lack of strong evidence-based respiratory support strategies both in the prevention of BPD and treatment of infants with established BPD. Over the years, there has been a series of advancements in the respiratory management of premature infants, including but not limited to: less invasive methods of pulmonary surfactant delivery, multiple modalities of non-invasive respiratory support, neonatal-specific ventilators with better synchronization and monitoring capabilities, use of permissive hypercapnia to minimize the level of ventilation support, and international agreement on the oxygen saturation target. However, there have been controversies in the safety and efficacy of some of these treatments, and much more needs to be learned in how to best apply some of these therapies, especially in infants with evolving BPD and established BPD, as well as in resource-limited settings. This Research Topic will focus on respiratory support strategies in the prevention and treatment of BPD. We welcome both experimental and clinical research articles exploring the impacts of respiratory support on pulmonary mechanics, lung injury, lung growth and overall health in premature infants both during their early postnatal days and after they are diagnosed with BPD. This article collection will explore, but is not limited to, the following thematic areas: 1. Delivery room respiratory management in the prevention of BPD 2. Use of non-invasive respiratory support in premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), evolving BPD or established BPD 3. Mechanical ventilation strategies in intubated premature infants with RDS, evolving BPD or established BPD 4. Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) use in the prevention or treatment of BPD 5. Cardio-pulmonary interaction during respiratory support in preterm infants 6. Effects of different respiratory support modalities on pulmonary mechanics, lung injury and BPD-associated pulmonary hypertension 7. Impact of respiratory support on the growth and development of premature infants 8. Nursing care of premature infants on invasive or non-invasive respiratory support 9. Tracheostomy and long-term ventilation for infants with BPD 10. Post-discharge respiratory support management and respiratory follow up for infants with BPD 11. Impact of infection (bacterial or viral: including but not limited to gram negative oranisms, RSV, influenza, COVID-19, and others) on respiratory function in infants with BPD 12. Adjunctive therapies in addition to respiratory support in BPD prevention or in the treatment of BPD 13. Utility of bedside imaging (e.g. lung ultrasound, bronchoscopy, electric impedance tomography, etc.) in the selection and adjustment of respiratory support 14. Respiratory support-related quality improvement in the prevention or management of BPD 15. Family and staff education to care for premature infants with respiratory support.

Download or read book When You Were Mine written by Rebecca Serle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first novel, Serle presents an intensely romantic, modern recounting of the greatest love story ever toldNnarrated by Rosaline, the girl Romeo was "supposedO to love.

Download or read book Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia written by Steven H. Abman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the dramatic number of children diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in recent years, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia provides pulmonologists, critical care specialists, and pediatricians with up-to-date diagnostic and treatment techniques and therapies to effectively manage all BPD cases.Key benefits include: groundbreaking resear

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Download or read book In Five Years written by Rebecca Serle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick “In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists ​Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Where do you see yourself in five years? Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend—the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content. But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. Dannie spends one hour exactly five years in the future before she wakes again in her own home on the brink of midnight—but it is one hour she cannot shake. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting.

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Download or read book The Midnight Rose written by Lucinda Riley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today"--