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Silver Linings: Triumphs of the Chronically Ill and Physically Challenged

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Topic : Personal Growth / General, People with Disabilities, General, Diseases
gtin13 : 9781573921718
Publisher : Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication Name : Not Available
Author : Shaena Engle
Item Width : 6.3 in
Type : Standard
Item Height : 0.9 in
Language : English
Features : Used Book in Good Condition
Genre : Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Format : Hardcover
Book Title : Silver Linings : Triumphs of the Chronically III and Physically Challenged
ISBN : 9781573921718
Illustrator : Yes
Publication Year : 1997
Item Length : 9.3 in
Number of Pages : 270 Pages
Item Weight : 0 Oz

<< The item is a Size >> Silver Linings 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 heartwarming 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 bestselling author of Nobody Nowhere, a book about her life with autism. Other contributors Silver Linings 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 heartwarming 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 bestselling 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. Used Book in Good Condition

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