Over My Head

Author : Claudia L. Osborn
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740705984
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over My Head written by Claudia L. Osborn and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit by a car while bicycling Osborn, an internist at a Detroit hospital, suffered injuries. Recounts the struggles and frustrations of a gradually learning strategies to compensate for the lack of certain brain functions. An exceptionally well-written and engaging account. PW review.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0385334567
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Above My Head written by James Baldwin and published by Delta. This book was released on 2000-06-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Baldwin’s final novel is “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” (The New York Times Book Review). “Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.” The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the forbidden passion of Giovanni’s Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses—and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.

Author : Jenny B. Jones
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418552038
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Over My Head written by Jenny B. Jones and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly single, stalked by a killer, and in desperate need of some chic clown shoes--Bella is one skinny mocha frapp away from total meltdown. When the Fritz Family Carnival makes its annual appearance in Truman, Bella's keen reporter instincts tell her the bright lights hide more than they reveal. Her suspicions are confirmed when one of the stars is murdered. Though the police make an immediate arrest, Bella doubts this case is quite that simple. She needs her crime-solving boyfriend, Luke, more than ever. Problem is, his ex-girlfriend has moved back to town, giving Bella some murderous thoughts of her own. Then again, there's no time for a relationship crisis when Bella's doing her best to derail her father's wedding and stay one step ahead of a killer. Is God sending her a message in all of this madness? With a murderer on the loose and her boyfriend's ex on the prowl, this undercover clown has never had more to juggle--or more to risk.

Author : Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780525450832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Water Closes Over My Head written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his family goes on vacation to visit his grandparents in Iowa, nine-year-old Mikey is continually faced with his fear of drowning.

Author : Geovani Martins
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374719748
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sun on My Head written by Geovani Martins and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de Janeiro In The Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing on his childhood and adolescence, Martins uses the rhythms and slang of his neighborhood dialect to capture the texture of life in the slums, where every day is shadowed by a ubiquitous drug culture, the constant threat of the police, and the confines of poverty, violence, and racial oppression. And yet these are also stories of friendship, romance, and momentary relief, as in “Rolézim,” where a group of teenagers head to the beach. Other stories, all uncompromising in their realism and yet diverse in narrative form, explore the changes that occur when militarized police occupy the favelas in the lead-up to the World Cup, the cycles of violence in the narcotics trade, and the feelings of invisibility that define the realities of so many in Rio’s underclass. The Sun on My Head is a work of great talent and sensitivity, a daring evocation of life in the favelas by a rising star rooted in the community he portrays.

Author : Jim Carrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408802716
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside My Head written by Jim Carrington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cleverly constructed narrative that reveals three points of view- those of Gary, constantly victimised by the school bully in a nasty, name-calling and vindictive way, the bully's friend David, and a new girl to the school, Zoe. Gary reveals the painful and often unsuccessful attempts by a young man to control his anger under great provocation - and his inability to communicate. David reveals someone who is uncomfortable with the bullying but doesn't dare to do anything about it - until the end. Zoe reveals a young woman who can see Gary through different eyes and is independent, freethinking and brave.

Author : Debi Wagner
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426954662
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over My Head written by Debi Wagner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a terrifying experience, I became involved in a fight against a local airport expansion. What I learned about jet emissions caused me great alarm and pushed me deep into a battle with nearly every agency in my state. These local issues turned into national and international aviation watch organizations working to unravel what appears to me to be a cover-up by the industry. The outcome of many of these battles, some of which turned into major discovery processes is disturbing.

Author : Margaret Winslow
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475954333
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over My Head written by Margaret Winslow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a pioneering female geologist explores the topography of South America and the shifting landscape of women in the sciencesA satisfying journey through 1970s sexual politics and the lands of the southernmost part of the Earth. Kirkus Reviews Somewhere near the bottom edge of the earth, a young woman attempts to balance on a slippery rock ledge. With her back pressed against an overhanging cliff face, her arms too weak to climb, and the tide rising at an alarming rate, there is nowhere to go. So how did she come to be alone on a sinking knife edge in Tierra del Fuego, halfway between the Beagle Channel and Cape Horn, seven thousand miles from New York? In her fascinating travel memoir, Margaret Winslow offers a compelling glimpse into her misadventures as an inexperienced geologist as she begins pioneering field research in southern South America. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Winslow details her unforgettable experiences that include clinging to a ledge alone as the tide rises over her boot tops, facing near-death experiences with killer whales, and encountering an antediluvian creature with a cavernous mouth and yellow teethall while tracing her evolution from an ill-prepared beginner to a competent leader. Over My Head captures one womans historic journeys into uncharted fjords and trackless forests as she attempts to navigate through the almost exclusively male world of field geology and discovers she must learn to rely on her own inner compass in order to survive.

Author : Juanita Tischendorf
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1928613330
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over My Head written by Juanita Tischendorf and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Calterone Williams
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607326159
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Roof Over My Head, Second Edition written by Jean Calterone Williams and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon extensive ethnographic data, “A Roof Over My Head” examines the lives of homeless women who cope with domestic violence, low-income housing shortages, and poverty. The author draws upon interviews with homeless women, interviews with housed people, and, finally, evaluations of shelter services, philosophies, and policies to get at the causes and social constructions of homelessness. “A Roof Over My Head” is a groundbreaking study that unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women’s lives and outlines ways in which societal responses can and should be more effective. The second edition explores recent attempts to integrate homeless and battered women’s shelters and recent research on domestic violence as a cause of homelessness. It contains a new introduction that analyzes the most recent homeless policy developments and paints a picture of the homeless population today. With updated statistics and policy information throughout, the second edition of “A Roof Over My Head” illustrates why ending homelessness in the United States continues to present a thorny and complex challenge.