Download or read book The Merck Manual of Geriatrics written by Mark H. Beers and published by Merck. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 1507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique interdisciplinary guide that addresses the challenges of geriatric care, now with a two-color design, all-new illustrations, and many redesigned tables.

Download or read book Care of the Professional Voice written by D Garfield Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singer and actors are a unique group of performers, relying almost entirely on their voice for the professional livelihood. Jet lag, amplification, allergens, stress, pollution, and vocal strain all affect vocal performance. Written for the performer, the teacher, and the vocal coach, Care of the Professional Voice offers clear explanations and medical advice on vocal problems and vocal health. Care of the Professional Voice is written by experts in laryngology in the United States and Great Britain. This second edition includes a singer's guide to self-diagnosis.

Download or read book An American Family Myth written by Norine G. Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like the widows of other American tragedies, Verna must discover the strength to survive and provide for her family. An American family myth begins in 1916 ... Psychologist Norine Johnson brings her knowledge of post-traumatic stress and family to this novel ..."--Jacket back.

Download or read book A Life Misspent written by Suryakant Tripathi Nirala and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', the first modern Hindi poet of India, is all of sixteen and not conversant with the Khari Boli Hindi of the litterateurs yet when his father gets him married and sends him off to his in-laws' in Dalmau to fetch his bride. There he meets a strange man called Kulli Bhaat who claims descent from a family of bards and, despite his mother-in-law's reservations about Kulli's sexuality, Nirala finds himself drawn to Kulli. Then an influenza epidemic breaks out, claiming numerous lives, and Nirala's bereavement leaves him without mooring. Adrift on the boat of time, he seeks employment in various places but finds himself unable to stay away from Dalmau for long. Kulli, in the meanwhile, has taken a Muslim wife and become a champion of the untouchables. Set in pre-Independence India, A Life Misspent is as much the account of an unlikely friendship as it is a coming-of-age story. A memoir on the making of one of the greatest poets of all time.

Download or read book The Sailmaker s Daughter written by Stephanie Johnson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1918 and Spanish Flu is epidemic in Suva, the capital of Fiji. Twelve year old Olive is sent with her brothers and grandmother to Taveuni to stay with her childless aunt and uncle on their sugar plantation to escape the disease as her mother lies dying of the flu in their family home. The months that follow hold magic and sorrow for Olive, as she uncovers well kept family secrets and grieves for her dying mother. The Sailmaker's Daughter is dedicated to the memory of Stephanie Johnson's grandmother, who was born in Fiji in 1905. Like Olive in the book, her grandmother was one of a large family; her father was the sailmaker in Suva and her mother died of the Spanish Flu at the end of the Great War. The Sailmaker's Daughter is both a tribute to Stephanie Johnson's grandmother and a powerful evocation of a mystical paradise lived and lost.

Download or read book The Wings of Morning written by Murray Pura and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers of Amish fiction will quickly sign on as fans of award-winning author Murray Pura as they keep turning the pages of this exciting new historical romance set in 1917 during America's participation in World War I. Jude Whetstone and Lyyndaya Kurtz, whose families are converts to the Amish faith, are slowly falling in love. Jude has also fallen in love with flying that new-fangled invention, the aeroplane. The Amish communities have rejected the telephone and have forbidden motorcar ownership but not yet electricity or aeroplanes. Though exempt from military service on religious grounds, Jude is manipulated by unscrupulous army officers into enlisting in order to protect several Amish men. No one in the community understands Jude's sudden enlistment and so he is shunned. Lyyndaya's despair deepens at the reports that Jude has been shot down in France. In her grief, she turns to nursing Spanish flu victims in Philadelphia. After many months of caring for stricken soldiers, Lyyndaya is stunned when an emaciated Jude turns up in her ward. Lyyndaya's joy at receiving Jude back from the dead is quickly diminished when the Amish leadership insist the shunning remain in force. How then can they marry without the blessing of their families? Will happiness elude them forever? Welcome a powerful new voice to the world of Amish fiction!

Download or read book The Trouble with Jeremy Chance written by George Harrar and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, following a disagreement with his father and his first whipping by a belt, twelve-year-old Jeremy hops a train to Boston to meet his older brother, a soldier returning from World War I.

Download or read book Ambitious Love written by Rosie Harris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fern Jenkins' life is changed for ever when her brother is killed in action and her father dies in a mining explosion. Turned out of their home by the ruthless pit owner, Fern and her mother Wynne are forced to seek a new life in Cardiff. Whilst Wynne finds work in a factory, Fern attends the local school. But here she is bullied and is soon selling flowers outside Cardiff Central station to help make ends meet. When her mother is taken from her in an influenza epidemic, Fern has no one to protect her from her violent and possessive uncle. She longs to escape from the brutality and squalor around her and make something of herself. But with no money and her only friend away at sea, there seems little hope of her ever leaving her life of poverty behind, let alone finding the love she so yearns for...

Download or read book Yesterday s Dead written by Pat Bourke and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the end of the First World War, and thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher. But she must leave school to help support her family, moving to the city to work as a maid in a wealthy doctor's home. As the deadly Spanish Flu sweeps across the city, members of the household fall ill one by one. With the doctor working night and day at the hospital, only Meredith and the doctor's children, Maggie and Jack, are left to care for them. Every day the newspapers' lists of "Yesterday's Dead" add to Meredith's growing fears. When Jack becomes gravely ill, Meredith must stop fighting with Maggie so they can work together to save him. As Meredith wrestles with questions of duty and responsibility, she opens the door to a future that she thought had been closed forever.

Download or read book A Time of Angels written by Karen Hesse and published by . This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family.

Download or read book This Time of Dying written by Reina James and published by Granta. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love story set in London in the closing weeks of the First World War, as the flu pandemic sweeps across the globe.

Download or read book The Name of the Child written by Marilynn Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy is sent to the country to escape the flu epidemic of 1918. There he must overcome his fears to rescue a baby from illness and starvation. For Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2002.

Download or read book Hellie Jondoe written by Randall Platt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, as the Great War ends and the Spanish influenza pandemic begins, thirteen-year-old Hellie Jondoe survives on the streets of New York as a beggar and pickpocket until she boards the orphan train to Oregon, where she learns about loyalty, honesty,a

Download or read book Loving and Losing written by Pamela Oldfield and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War is nearly over, but a virulent form of influenza is sweeping through the world. Eve waits for her husband Harvey, a scientist, to return to England from the U.S, where he's struggling to save lives. Will Harvey make it home safely or will Eve's life, like so many others, be changed forever?

Download or read book Pandemic written by Sally Stone and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I is finally drawing to an end, and 11-year old Freda Stone is looking forward to the return of her brother Bobby from the Western Front. However, as a lethal flu epidemic spreads, Freda's joy turns to fear and sorror. First person recount, in diary format. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

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Download or read book When the War Came Home written by Sarah Ell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While an influenza epidemic is sweeping through Auckland at the end of the First World War, Jimmy Kavanagh is left alone with his Uncle Rory when his mother takes his younger brothers and sisters away to the country. Jimmy is caught up in Uncle Rory's mysterious mission to right a wrong which occurred while he was fighting in the trenches of France. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.