Download or read book Against Long Odds written by Colin Wright, M.D. and published by BookCountry. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Long Odds is a story about the mystery of cancer, the unique relationship of doctors to their patients and patients to their physicians, the amazing complexity of biological systems and ultimately the surrender to all the unknowns. The laboratory discovery and isolation of a mutant gene that increases the chance of survival in patients with ovarian cancer leads a patient to travel to a major medical center to see the doctor who synthesized the antibody to the gene and demonstrated its role in the treatment of the disease. His interactions with his colleagues and the patient reveal a depth of purpose, sensitivity and humility in the face of unanswered questions. The patient is a young, married mother with most of her life ahead of her who deals with this misfortune in what the doctor considers a uniquely heroic way. She demonstrates a sense of self and her place in the world in some ways unfamiliar to the doctor. At the outset, they independently settle on a metaphor for the end of their journey. The reader only understands all of this at the end of the story. SUGGESTION! Save the last page for last!
Download or read book Long Odds written by Harold Bindloss and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long Odds written by H. Rider Haggard and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subjects and historical periods that British action-adventure writer H. Rider Haggard tackled in his vast body of work ranged considerably, but one element remains a constant thread that unites his entire oeuvre: heart-racing adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you're looking for an engaging and entertaining read, try Haggard's Long Odds.
Download or read book Against The Odds written by Elizabeth Moon and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Fleet is threatened by mutiny, class conflict, and power struggles, Esmay Suiza-Serrano finds herself unceremoniously dismissed from Fleet and hurtled into the midst of warfare that threatens all galactic civilization.
Download or read book Long Odds written by Gordon Weaver and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Long Odds, Gordon Weaver's latest collection, each male protagonist struggles for moral and emotional strength to cope with a universe gone awry. Each of the eleven stories centers around a circumstance that is both ordinary and shockingly unpredictable. A small-time flop of a con man in the "psychic" business becomes dependent on his inspirational talks with a dead hustler from a bygone era. An eccentric helplessly watches a crumbling society from a table in his favorite diner. A proper Bostonian buries his black-sheep brother in rural Mississippi. A group of newly divorced men takes up daily exercise, in search of solace, in an upscale mall. Some of Weaver's characters win in the end, some fail miserably, but all of their stories depict their confrontations with self and surroundings. Each story lures the reader forward despite the potential disappointment and self-destruction that often loom just ahead for the characters. The father of a blind girl builds an elaborate Christmas light display for her as his wife watches with bewildered disapproval. A part-time college English teacher travels the freeways from job to job, and from woman to woman, to avoid the paralysis of stasis. Written in the bold, sharp style that is Weaver's trademark, Long Odds includes stories that shift in mood and tone from the serious to the comically ironic, but which are unified by a common sense of isolation as each man labors to make sense of his place in the world. Lauded by Publishers Weekly as presenting "characters whose cries are so human, raw and mordant, the reader forgets the fiction and is delivered inside the experience," Weaver skillfully introduces a level of depth and intensity to situations that may appear commonplace at first glance. This inventive collection offers a gallery of men who, outwardly ordinary, are revealed as complex in their humanity, defined as much by their sensibilities as by their actions--or their failures to act.
Download or read book Long Odds written by H. Rider Haggard and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Long Odds" by H. Rider Haggard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Odds Against written by Dick Francis and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a jockey turned investigator tackles crime in the horse racing world (Newsday). Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. A hard fall took hotshot jockey Sid Halley out of the horse racing game, leaving him with a crippled hand, a broken heart, and the desperate need for a new job. Now he’s landed a position with a detective agency, only to catch a bullet from some common thug. And things are about to get even more hectic. The agency is giving him a case to handle on his own. The case brings him to the door of Zanna Martin, a woman who might be just what Sid needs to get him back up and running. But he’s up against a field of thoroughbred criminals, and the odds against him are making it a long shot that he’ll even survive . . . “Dick Francis is a wonder.” —The Plain Dealer “An imaginative craftsman of high order.” —The Sunday Times “Few things are more convincing than Dick Francis at a full gallop.” —Chicago Tribune “Few match Francis for dangerous flights of fancy and pure inventive menace.” —Boston Herald “[The] master of crime fiction and equine thrills.” —Newsday “[Francis] has the uncanny ability to turn out simply plotted yet charmingly addictive mysteries.” —The Wall Street Journal “Francis is a genius.” —Los Angeles Times “A rare and magical talent . . . who never writes the same story twice.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
Download or read book Against All Odds written by Paul Connolly and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had been years since I had seen any of the children with whom I had grown up. When I left the children's home, I promised myself that I would have nothing to do with them, I was sure that my only chance of living a good life would be to put the past behind me, even though that meant saying goodbye to some of the people I loved the most - as well as the ones I hated...it turned out that six of us had died, several by slow suicide in the form of heroin abuse, and at least two by faster means. When two police officers arrived out of the blue at Paul Connolly's door, he learned the shocking news that, out of the eight children with whom he shared a dormitory in care, only two were still alive. The revelation unearthed painful memories of a childhood that, until this point, Paul had tried desperately to put behind him. Abandoned at two weeks old, Paul came of age in the infamous St Leonards's Children's Home in East London. The children there were routinely abused, often over the course of many years. All were underfed and unloved and told that they would amount to nothing. Angry and frustrated, Paul channelled his rage into boxing - but when an accident shattered his ambition to turn professional, he found his true calling and became a successful trainer, even working as a consultant on the pilot of a top model's fitness video. Paul has finally found peace and fulfilment beyond anyhing he could have imagined all those years ago. He has found happiness with his wife and children and now helps to heal broken bodies, build confidence and transform lives - but he will never forget his past and the unnecessary victims of broken society...
Download or read book Odds Against Tomorrow written by Nathaniel Rich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working for a financial consulting firm that offers insurance against catastrophic events, a young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
Download or read book The Secret Language of Birthdays written by Alicia Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers astrological insights into birthday profiles, sharing quizzes and personality descriptions that reveal such qualities as a reader's most compatible pets, dates, and shopping styles.
Download or read book Odds On written by Matt Hall and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odds On: The Making of an Evidence-Based Investor isn't just another investment advice book. It's a memoir, a manifesto, and a guide to the way investing should be. Odds On describes author Matt Hall's role in an ongoing revolution in the investment world: the shift from a traditional sales-driven, active-management model to a model that draws on academic evidence to better serve the real interests of investors.
Download or read book Climb Against the Odds written by Mary Papenfuss and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Climb Against the Odds" documents the inspiring story of a group of women who joined The Breast Cancer Fund to raise awareness and money for the fight against breast cancer by endeavoring to climb some of the world's most daunting peaks, putting their post-cancer bodies and their indomitable spirits through a journey that changed them all. 100 photos.
Download or read book Against Long Odds written by James Merriner and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the unique vantage of credible citizen-candidates who ran against congressional incumbents from Massachusetts to Hawaii during the 1990s, Against Long Odds tackles the question of why incumbents nearly always win."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book Against Great Odds written by Josephine McCann Posey and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the first land-grant academic institution for African Americans.
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