Kika & Me

Author: Amit Patel
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529021219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
From the challenges of travelling when blind to becoming a parent for the first time, Kika & Me is the moving, heart-warming and inspirational story of Dr Amit Patel’s sight-loss journey and how one guide dog changed his world. 'Inspiring and compelling . . . rekindles one's faith in human nature' - Andrew Marr Amit Patel is working as a trauma doctor when a rare condition causes him to lose his sight within thirty-six hours. Totally dependent on others and terrified of stepping outside with a white cane after he's assaulted, he hits rock bottom. He refuses to leave home on his own for three months. With the support of his wife Seema he slowly adapts to his new situation, but how could life ever be the way it was? Then his guide dog Kika comes along . . . But Kika’s stubbornness almost puts her guide dog training in jeopardy – could her quirky personality be a perfect match for someone? Meanwhile Amit has reservations – can he trust a dog with his safety? Paired together in 2015, they start on a journey, learning to trust each other before taking to the streets of London and beyond. The partnership not only gives Amit a renewed lease of life but a new best friend. Then, after a video of an irate commuter rudely asking Amit to step aside on an escalator goes viral, he sets out with Kika by his side to spread a message of positivity and inclusivity, showing that nothing will hold them back. 'An incredible story of courage, perseverance and, ultimately love' - Sun 'The most moving book of the year' - The Lady

Her Best Potential: The Performance Improvement Plan for Kika Klarakova

Author: Vince Montague
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557020891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
Her Best Potential: The Performance Improvement Plan for Kika Klarakova is the management memo of a bureaucratic stalker. A life-long civil servant, Rose Chan thrives on the mundane rituals of cubicle life and government forms. However, her world transforms when she attempts to write a "performance review" of her enigmatic employee, Kika Klarakova, a woman who scorns convention and the bureaucratic world of social work. As her obsession grows, Rose Chan surreptitiously documents the personal life of her employee, wondering how the one person who might truly understand her is the same person who wants nothing to do with her.Who is Kika Klarakova? And why is Rose Chan drawn so close to her? In her lonely world of Sudoku puzzles and empty parking lots, Rose faces metaphysical questions about herself and her report. Is the act of imagination a gesture of freedom, or rather, as she fears, a symptom of self-inflicted folly?

The Annihilation of Allison Station

Author: D.L. Mac McDonald
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543483429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
This work is dedicated to all United States veteranspast, present, and future. From the mind of retired Air Force veteran D. L. Mac McDonald comes a table of intrigue, deceit, death, and destruction. Fourteen years after the Brinari Conflict and just ten years after Sarasota Catastrophe that bought the former enemies together as lifelong friends, Don Wallace and TaKira are once again fighting against time to avoid a renewed conflict. A highly classified test facility built on asteroids GC954 has been all but completely destroyed. Without a single survivor, Don Wallace and his crew must find the answer to what happened by bringing life to the devastated stations core computer. However, the core isnt giving up its secrets without a fight, and they need to know what led to the destruction of the Allison Houstons synchronized hyperinduction terminal to squelch the tensions of renewed conflict and to keep it from happening again.

Walkers

Author: Kyra Gates
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456899643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Lasette I love you said the voice in my head. I burned from the torture those words meant. I had done the unspeakable. I knew he loved me and I loved him. How could I go back? How could Tyler a mere human have this much a hold on me? The love I have for Anthony is trying to pull me back but the mistakes Ive made are fueling the fire to stay here with Tyler. Do I love him.is thats whats holding me here? Anthony hurt me; tore my heart right from my very chest but what I had done was unspeakable.

A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me

Author: Youssef Fadel
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617979368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
A powerful and poetic masterpiece where ordinary people’s dreams play out in a city plagued by government exploitation and crime Shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation As his wife delivers their child in the next room, a man wakes from the nightmare of a teenage girl’s body lying beneath his bed. In this twilight before birth, Fadel’s epic novel catches us in the confusion between exaltation and despair. The girl, Farah, once dreamed of being a singer in Casablanca, a city standing in the shadow of the tallest minaret in the world. Illuminating the aspirations of those just struggling to make a living, A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me is a tour-de-force, a novel of power plays and petty jealousies, deceit and corruption, love and loss, written with Fadel’s masterful, narrative control and searing, historical insight.

A Ceremony Unveiling the Portrait of the Honorable E (Kika) de la Garza

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description

Barrios and Borderlands

Author: Denis Lynn Daly Heyck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317796128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508

Book Description
This unique anthology highlights the diversity of Latino cultural expressions and points out the distinctive features of the three major Latino populations: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban. It is organized around six central cultural issues: family, religion, community, the arts, (im)migration and exile, and cultural identity. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme by presenting readings from a variety of genres, including short stories, poems, essays, excerpts from novels, a play, photographs, even a few songs and recipes.

Beyond Computopia

Author: Morris-Suzuki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136147780
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
First published in 1988. The author’s purpose in writing this book is neither to offer any specific lessons from Japan's experience, nor to add to the warnings of the 'Japanese menace' to western technological hegemony. The aim and perspective of this book is to use the study of Japan as a means of outlining a theory of information society which will be radically different, from the ideas put forward by most Japanese theorists of the subject.

The Long Shadows

Author: Andrew Erlich
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 0977408981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
The Long Shadows: A True-Life Novel The Long Shadows is a fascinating true-life novel about Jacob Reuben Erlich, who, at 8 foot 6, was among the tallest men in the world. Best known by his stage name, Jack Earle, he would overcome crippling shyness, depression, temporary blindness and the physical challenges of a giant's frame to earn widespread acclaim during his career as a silent film star, circus performer, artist, poet and vaudevillian. Drawing on ten years of research culled from family lore, newspaper archives, historical documents and the recorded recollections of Earle's contemporaries, author Andrew Erlich weaves a fascinating bio-fictional account of a remarkable man and the cast of colorful characters who knew him. Along the way, we learn a great deal about courage, character, and one man's unique perspective on a broad sweep of history that encompassed the Great Depression, the immigrant experience in turn-of-the-century Texas, silent films, life in the circus, the modern art movement and the domestic anti-Semitism that accompanied the run-up to World War II.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Author: Patti Larsen
Publisher: Patti Larsen Books
ISBN: 1989925243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

Book Description
(A Paranormal Cozy Murder Mystery with Dogs and Witches) A Model’s Life “I would die, just die, for these cheekbones, darling.” The stylist’s enthusiasm gushed through his aura as much as it emerged from his mouth, his perfect set of veneered white teeth as flawless as his own makeup, hair and carefully selected hipster casual button up, vest and dark wash jeans, the single gold earring in his right ear flashing with a well-sized diamond accent. “Honestly, and these eyelashes.” He’d already finished applying a thin layer of mascara, discarding the false set someone else had handed to him while I fought my amusement, observing my transformation in the brightly lit interior of the white tent where a collection of other locals—all of us recruited for this interesting activity of what amounted to being background props for the “real” models—chattered in their own excitement while trying on items from the racks of clothing assembled behind me. “Girl, how old did you say you were? Twenty-four?” I allowed myself a grin at last, knowing Valiant Oslo was only being sweet—much as his heavily dosed cologne. He batted his own false lashes at me, the liner he wore so flawless I had to imagine it was somehow applied without a human hand behind it. “Forty, and thank you for the compliment.” When Georgia agreed to join her young neighbor, Holly Henry, as background for a pro photo shoot, she wasn’t expecting to have to trade her glamorous dress for a pair of gloves when one of the crew on the set dies during the session. With the victim’s nasty personality creating multiple suspects, Georgia discovers beautiful photos can hide ugly secrets. Welcome back to the Whitewitch Island Paranormal Cozies! KEYWORDS: paranormal cozy murder mystery book, paranormal cozy murder mystery series, paranormal cozy mystery book, paranormal cozy mystery series, paranormal cozy book, paranormal cozy series, cozy murder mystery book, cozy murder mystery series, cozy mystery book, cozy mystery series, cozy mystery, cozy mystery with dogs, dog cozy mystery book, dog cozy mystery series, cozy mystery with witches, witch cozy mystery, small town cozy mystery