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An Incredible Journey of Determination and Recovery
In 2005, Ted W. Baxter was at the top of his game. He was a successful, globe-trotting businessman with a resume that would impress the best of the best. In peak physical condition, Ted worked out nearly every day of the week. And then, on April 21, 2005, all that came to an end. He had a massive ischemic stroke. Doctors feared he wouldn't make it, or if he did make it, he would be in a vegetative...
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231 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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The Hollywood producer chronicles outrageous moments from his life as well as his recovery from a near-fatal series of strokes, tracing his experiences with such individuals as Jack Nicholson, Grace Kelly, and Pope John Paul II.
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262 pages ; 22 cm
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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Years Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the worldquite literallyupside down. By New Years Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months, Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. It is from these memories that she has constructed this frank and compelling...
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301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"A funny, moving memoir about a son's discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and love. Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes. The problem is, although he was raised to love food and wine he doesn't really know how to cook. So he embarks upon an often hilarious and always touching culinary...
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xix, 245 pages, 16 unnumberred pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future. Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave -- a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident -- had suffered a rare and...
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