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Phosphorescence : a memoir of finding joy when the world goes dark / by Baird, Julia(Julia Woodlands),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."After surviving a difficult heartbreak and battle with cancer, Julia Baird began to explore how she and others persevere through the most challenging circumstances life throws at us. She asks: when our world goes dark, when we are overwhelmed by illness or heartbreak, loss or pain, tragedy outside our control, how do we survive, stay alive and even bloom? She went in search of "the magic that will sustain us and fuel the light within - our own phosphorescence ". Phosphorescence can be found in nature - in glow worms, fireflies, flashlight fish, bioluminescent oceans; it is a phenomenon that allows creatures to give off light amidst darkness. Baird writes about the things that lit her way through the darkness: a connection to nature, friendships, her faith, experiencing awe, and other habits that changed her life. She also goes in search of how others nurture their inner light, interviewing the founder of the modern forest therapy movement in Tokyo, a jellyfish scientist in Tasmania, and a tattooed priest from Colorado, among others. Weaving together candid memoir with research and reflections on nature, Baird inspires readers to embrace new habits and adopt a phosphorescent outlook on life, to illuminate our days even in the darkest times"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Baird, Julia (Julia Woodlands); Hope.; Ovaries; Philosophy of nature.; Phosphorescence.;
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A mile at a time : a father and son's inspiring Alzheimer's journey of love, adventure, and hope / by Macy, Travis,author.; Macy, Mark,1949-author.; Regan, Patrick,author.;
"A father and son participate in "the World's Toughest Race," the Eco Challenge Fiji, as the father battles Alzheimer's Disease"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Macy, Mark, 1949-; Macy, Travis.; Alzheimer's disease; Endurance sports.; Fathers and sons;
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Chicken soup for the soul : believe in miracles : 101 stories of hope, answered prayers and divine intervention / by Newmark, Amy,compiler.;
Miracles are all around us - we just have to open our eyes and our hearts to them - and believe. They happen every day to people from all walks of life. These 101 stories, from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences, will amaze and inspire you to recognize the good in your own life.
Subjects: Miracles; Dreams; Prayers;
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Ilo ilo [videorecording] / by Ang, Hwee Sim.; Bayani, Angeli.; Chen, Anthony,1984-; Chen, Tianwen,1963-; Hadi, Wayuni A.; Koh, Jia Ler.; Yeo, Yann Yann,1977-; Film Movement (Firm); Fisheye Pictures.; Ngee Ann Polytechnic.School of Film & Media Studies.; Singapore Film Commission.;
Director of photography, Benoit Soler ; editors, Hoping Chen, Joanne Cheong ; screenplay, Anthony Chen.Yeo Yann Yann, Chen Tianwenn, Angeli Bayani, and introducing Koh Jialer.Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.PG.DVD; Dolby surround; region 1; Enhanced for widescreen TV (16x9).
Subjects: Families; Feature films.; Foreign films; Motion pictures, Chinese.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Women household employees;
© 2014., Film Movement,
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Mercies in disguise : a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them / by Kolata, Gina Bari,1948-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested-at least, not now. But she had to find out. If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if you'd inherited it, would you do it? Would you walk toward the problem, bravely accepting whatever answer came your way? Or would you avoid the potential bad news as long as possible? In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times science reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for a half a century along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys a resolution-not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemma-fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process. A work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of the The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Mercies in Disguise is the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when the medical world abandoned them. It's a story of a family that had to deal with unspeakable tragedy and yet did not allow it to tear them apart. And it is the story of a young woman-Amanda Baxley-who faced the future head on, determined to find a way to disrupt her family's destiny."--
Subjects: Medical genetics.; Genetic disorders.; Genetic screening;
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The gates of Gaza : a story of betrayal, survival, and hope in Israel's borderlands / by Tibon, Amir,1989-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.On the morning of October 7, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli community less than a mile from Gaza City. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family's reinforced safe room, urging them not to cry as gunfire echoed just outside the door. With his cell phone battery running low, Amir texted his father: "The girls are behaving really well, but I'm worried they'll lose patience soon and Hamas will hear us." Some 45 miles north, Amir's parents had just cut short an early morning swim along the shores of Tel Aviv. Now, they jumped in their Jeep and sped toward Nahal Oz, armed only with a pistol but intent on saving their family at all costs. In The Gates of Gaza, Amir Tibon tells this harrowing story in full for the first time. He describes his family's ordeal--and the bravery that ultimately led to their rescue--alongside the histories of the place they call home and the systems of power that have kept them and their neighbors in Gaza in harm's way for decades. Woven throughout is Tibon's own expertise as a longtime international correspondent, as well as more than thirty original interviews: with residents of his kibbutz, with the Israeli soldiers who helped to wrest it from the hands of Hamas, and with experts on Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the failed peace process. More than one family's odyssey, The Gates of Gaza is the intimate story of a tight-knit community and the broader saga of war, occupation, and hostility between two national movements--a conflict that has not yet extinguished the enduring hope for peace.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Arab-Israeli conflict.; Israeli-Palestinian conflict;
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Wherever you go / by Penfold, Alexandra.; Kaufman, Suzanne.;
In simple, rhyming text, an adult expresses their love, hopes, and dreams for a child.
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Picture books.; Love; Children and adults; Parent and child;
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A very Marley Christmas / by Grogan, John,1957-; Cowdrey, Richard.;
Marley the rambunctious puppy and his family prepare for Christmas, hoping very much for snow.
Subjects: Christmas; Dogs;
© 2008., HarperCollins Children's Books,
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Henry Heckelbeck dinosaur hunter / by Coven, Wanda.; Burris, Priscilla.;
On a class field trip, Henry hopes to dig up a dinosaur bone with his lucky shovel.Ages 5-9.LSC
Subjects: Heckelbeck, Henry (Fictitious character); Dinosaurs; Antiquities; School field trips;
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Like the moon loves the sky / by Khan, Hena.; Khan, Saffa.;
Illustrations and prose inspired by the Quran celebrate a mother's love and hopes for her child.LSC
Subjects: Mother and child; Wishes;
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