
Silver Linings
Triumphs of the Chronically III and Physically Challenged
Shaena Engle(Editor)
Prometheus Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 1997
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-1-57392-171-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains seventeen inspiring and touching personal accounts of people who live daily with various chronic illnesses and/or physical conditions yet have learned to endure, move on with their lives, and have gone out of their way to help, employ, and motivate others. Contributors to this heart-warming volume include Roxanne Black, a lupus sufferer, who started the world-wide Friend's Health Connection support network and received the Daily Point of Light Award from George Bush; Michael Crisler, a 7-year-old who, despite suffering from a severe facial deformity, raised $40,000 for the Oklahoma City bombing victims; and Donna Williams, the best-selling author of "Nobody Nowhere", a book about her life with autism. Other contributors include Paige Barton (trisomy 18), Marcia Boehm (osteogenesis imperfecta), Laura Evans, (breast cancer), Daniella Fortuna (hemangioma), Evelyn Glennie, (deafness), Jean Griswald (multiple sclerosis), Larry Patton (cerebral palsy), Ron Price (cerebral palsy), Lisa and Michael Sherman (diabetes and blindness), Patrick Walsh (cerebral palsy), and others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
0 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57392-171-8 (9781573921718)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Edited by Shaena Engle