The Doctor and the Diva

Author: Adrienne McDonnell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101190272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
A breathtaking novel of romantic obsession, longing and one woman's choice between motherhood and her operatic calling It is 1903. Dr. Ravell is a young Harvard-educated obstetrician with a growing reputation for helping couples conceive. He has treated women from all walks of Boston society, but when Ravell meets Erika-an opera singer whose beauty is surpassed only by her spellbinding voice-he knows their doctor-patient relationship will be like none he has ever had. After struggling for years to become pregnant, Erika believes there is no hope. Her mind is made up: she will leave her prominent Bostonian husband to pursue her career in Italy, a plan both unconventional and risky. But becoming Ravell's patient will change her life in ways she never could have imagined. Lush and stunningly realized, The Doctor and the Diva moves from snowy Boston to the jungles of Trinidad to the gilded balconies of Florence. This magnificent debut is a tale of passionate love affairs, dangerous decisions, and a woman's irreconcilable desires as she is forced to choose between the child she has always longed for and the opera career she cannot live without. Inspired by the author's family history, the novel is sensual, sexy, and heart-stopping in its bittersweet beauty. Watch a Video

The Diva and Doctor God

Author: Caroline De Costa
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453583149
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description

From Doctor to Patient: Healing Cancer Through Mind, Body and Spirit

Author: Diva Nagula
Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing
ISBN: 9781544503738
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
When you're first diagnosed with cancer--or you have a loved one who is--you can't help but feel lost and afraid. Your waking hours are met with confusion, anxiety, and a slew of questions for which you can't find a suitable answer. You have qualified doctors on your side, but every visit with them just leads to a greater sense of uncertainty. What you need is a confidante, someone who knows what you're going through, because they've been there and can answer the tough questions you have. Dr. Diva Nagula wants to be that source of clarity and strength for you. A physician who was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2014, Dr. Nagula integrated a holistic approach to his traditional treatment regimen that ultimately led him to remission. In From Doctor to Patient, Dr. Nagula takes you inside his journey and discusses the importance of balancing the mind, body, and spirit for optimal health. His story paints a picture of hope that'll empower you to take back the control of your life that you've lost since your diagnosis.

Diva

Author: Rafael Campo
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822324171
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
A new collection of poems examining issues of the poet's Cuban identity, his work as a physician, and his life as a gay man.

The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit

Author: Krista Davis
Publisher: Kensington
ISBN: 149673274X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
She’s a young Martha Stewart…in Old Town Virginia! New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis delights with the 14th in her enormously popular and completely charming Domestic Diva Mystery series, as entertaining maven Sophie Winston must cut to the core of another murder investigation when members of an international tour group begin dropping like flies all over Old Town, Virginia… With Old Town’s DIY Home Decorating Festival in full swing, Sophie’s swamped, juggling a bumper crop of artisans, antique dealers, and decorators for the busy street fair. Still, when her best friend Nina suddenly needs a ride from the airport, Sophie is happy to help…until she sees Nina disembarking in a state of disarray. It’s obvious the trip to Portugal soured somewhere along the way. But after one of Nina’s traveling companions turns up murdered the following day, Sophie knows something is truly rotten… Though the crime scene is staged to look like an accident, Sophie isn’t fooled and peels off to conduct her own investigation. Her only clue is a strange image the victim scratched into the soil before dying. Could it point to a cryptic killer in Old Town? A bitter travel adversary? Or a cursed artifact smuggled back from the trip? As the mystery grows, so does the body count, and if Sophie doesn’t pluck the murderer soon, her best friend may be the next to fall…

The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint

Author: Edward Swift
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480470430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413

Book Description
DIVDIVThe magical saga of a remarkable family undone by madness, fate, and politics, and a dutiful daughter’s lifelong pursuit of righteous retribution/divDIV Josefina Esperon’s parents came to Latin America together, but with separate missions. Her father, Dr. Alejandro Esperon, sought to better humankind by harnessing the curative powers of tropical plants. His wife, the beautiful, pious, and quite mad Eufemia, came seeking sainthood. Josefina enjoyed a privileged childhood of plenty in a forty-three-room former convent, never lacking for companionship in a home filled with her father’s mistresses, including Josefina’s favorite, the great actress Carlota Montejo. But her idyll was undone when the vicious Serrano family seized power in paradise, and almost overnight, everything and everyone Josefina loved was ruthlessly destroyed. Now, at age eighty-two, having become wealthy and famous, Josefina is finally ready to enjoy what she has worked her entire life to achieve: revenge./divDIV A masterwork of magical realism from the acclaimed author of Splendora, Edward Swift’s The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint is a novel infused with color, mystery, and wonder. It is a tale brimming with tragic incident and triumphant resolution that stands proudly alongside the touchstone works of the genre./divDIV/div/div

The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage

Author: Pamela Allen Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192638084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
The Diva's Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male stage. When Shakespeare entered the scene, women had been acting in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling in Italy and beyond and performing in all genres, including tragedy. The ambitious actress reinvented the innamorata, making her more charismatic and autonomous, thrilling audiences with her skills. Despite fervent attacks, some actresses became the first international stars, winning royal and noble patrons and literary admirers in France and Spain. After Elizabeth and her court caught wind of their success in Paris, Italian troupes with actresses crossed the Channel to perform. The Italians' repeat visits and growing fame posed a radical challenge to English professionals just as they were building their first paying theaters. Some writers treated the actress as a whorish threat to their stage, which had long minimized female roles. Others saw a vital new model full of promise. Lyly, Marlowe, and Kyd endowed innamorata parts with hot-blooded, racialized passions, but made them self-aware agents, not counters traded between men. Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster and others followed, ringing changes on the new type in comedy, tragedy, and romance. Like the comici they recycled actress-linked theatergrams and star scenes, such as cross-dressing, the mad scene, and the sung lament. In this way, the diva's prodigious virtuosity and stardom altered the horizons of playmaking even on the womanless stage. Capitalizing on the talents of boy players, the best playwrights created bold new roles endowed with her alien glamour, such as Lyly's Sapho and Pandora, Marlowe's Dido, Kyd's Bel-Imperia, Webster's Vittoria, and Shakespeare's Beatrice, Viola, Portia, Juliet, and Ophelia. Cleopatra is not alone in her superb theatricality and dazzling strangeness. As this book demonstrates, the diva's gifts mark them all.

Parkinson's Diva

Author: Maria De Leon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941251492
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Parkinson's disease affects all sides of you: your inside, your outside, and your "right" side-that is, the side where you feel positive, balanced, and beautiful. How do you find that edge when you're not feeling very sharp at all? Parkinson's Diva is a personal and professional accounting of a young Parkinson's doctor's experience with the disease in all realms of her life . . . from doctor, caregiver, and ultimately as a young Parkinson's patient herself. Not only does Dr. Maria De Leon cover important basics of PD and research-based data, she also shares the personal concerns and gender-specific battles that young women who live with the disease must face. She encourages all of us to be empowered through education, self-awareness, and faith. This book is about embracing your own style and grace in your journey with PD . . . as Maria says "summoning your inner diva.""

Plant-based Wellness Cookbook

Author: Jami Dulaney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733967709
Category : Cooking (Natural foods)
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
A family with a love for cooking and helping others reach optimal health and wellness through plant-based nutrition- that is what the Dulaney ladies are all about! Step into the kitchen with three generations as they put a plant strong twist on tradition with these doctor and dietitian approved meals. You will find step-by-step recipes with a variety of themes and flavors to take your health to the next level. Showcasing their own favorite recipes for breakfast all the way through dessert- this truly is a cookbook the whole family can enjoy! And rest assured, everything is salt-sugar-oil free as well as whole food plant based. Whether you are focused on disease prevention or reversal or want healthy recipes for the entire family, you cannot go wrong with dining with the Dulaney's!.............. Dr. Jaimela Dulaney has been a cardiologist for 26 years. It was not until she began teaching a plant-based nutrition course in her office that she was actually able to help her patients reverse their lifestyle diseases. The nutrition classes grew and now there are three classes a week. Many of the recipes demonstrated in the class are family recipes that were made plant strong in order to demonstrate a healthy plant strong plate using familiar foods. These recipes have allowed many people to reverse their lifestyle diseases and gain confidence cooking plant-based. What a great thing as a physician to trade a heart catheter for a spatula! Because of the success of the nutrition classes, Dr. Dulaney changed her practice model to include a full-time registered dietitian. Her plant strong daughter, Addie Dulaney Majnaric, RDN, was the perfect addition. As a team, Dr. Dulaney and staff take time to understand the patient's health and wellness needs, then utilize general medical care, cardiac care, nutritional education, and coaching, along with social support, to achieve the best state of wellbeing possible. The Doctor and the Dietitian would not have achieved success without the Diva, mother, and grandmother, Alfreda Dulaney. She has been an example of the power of plant-based nutrition to maintain health at any age. She is the creative collaborator behind many of the recipes and is the plant strong assistant in all of the nutrition classes. Her positivity has given many the courage to step back into the kitchen and enjoy cooking plant strong. Since day one, the motto of Dr. Dulaney's practice has been to treat patients as she would want her family to be treated. Plant-based nutrition has brought incredible health improvements for her family. Now as a mother-daughter as well as a doctor-dietitian team, Dr. Dulaney and Addie wish to give you and your family insight in to the endless benefits of plant-based nutrition with their family cookbook.

What the World is Reading 2012 Sampler

Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101647604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.