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English
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Life Interrupted was the monologue that Spalding Gray was working on when he died in the early winter of 2004. Famous for his often manic and always humorous monologues, Gray was, by the late 1990's, in a happy marriage living in Long Island, doing yoga every day. But his life became unhinged after a devastating car accident in Ireland in 2001, which fractured his skull and crushed his hip. It sent Gray into a deep and unremitting depression. But...
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Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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It was a horrific car crash. On the way home from swim practice, eighteen-year old Brian Boyle's future changed in an instant when a dump truck plowed into his Camaro. He was airlifted to a shock-trauma hospital. He had lost sixty percent of his blood, his heart had moved across his chest, and his organs and pelvis were pulverized. He was placed in a medically-induced coma. When Brian finally emerged from the coma two months later, he had no memory...
8) The long run: a New York City firefighter's triumphant comeback from crash victim to elite athlete
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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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English
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Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone, without support and completely human powered. Yet, Colin O'Brady was determined to do just that, even if, ten years earlier, there was doubt that he'd ever walk again normally. From the depths of a tragic accident, he...
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Publisher
skirt!
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After 25 years of caring for children, first as a nurse, then as a pediatrician, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein finds herself on the other side of the stretcher when her 17-year-old son Neil is hit by a teenage drunk driver while walking his girlfriend Trista home after a study date. Trista did not survive her injuries. Neil carries his with him to this day. Gratitude for her son's survival ultimately gives way to grief. While initially told Neil's only injury...
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Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Allan Lokos shares the story of his long and painful recovery process after miraculously surviving a plane crash in Myanmar. As the founder of the Community Meditation Center in New York City, Lokos has spent decades cultivating detachment from the human suffering that his Buddhist faith teaches is unavoidable in life. Lokos use his experience as a window to examine human suffering and humanity's ability to survive, and even thrive, in the midst...
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Publisher
B & H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What if that thing you really feared happened? Would the joy you hold pop? Or would you experience love and joy deeper than you can imagine? They met in college and fell in love. They talked about getting married, and he started looking for a ring. They dreamed about life together, a life of beauty and joy, raising babies and laughing with friends and growing old. They did not imagine a car accident. They did not imagine his brain injury. They did...