Family's Guide to Tourette Syndrome
Overview Providing authoritative and up-to-date medical and scientific information about Tourette syndrome, A Family's Guide to Tourette Syndrome speaks to patients, families, care providers, academic institutions, and medical centers in easy-to-understand language about this neurodevelopmental disorder that affects children, adolescents, and adults worldwide. Each chapter is authored by leading neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, scientists, and others […]
Stop Living In This Land : Go to the Everlasting World of Happiness : Live There Forever
Overview: At last, the way to become complete is here. Now we can live in the everlasting world of happiness. By discarding the fake within one s mind, one can live as the infinite, never changing universe, which is the true self. This book unveils the mystery of the human mind and teaches the ultimate […]
A Train In Winter : an Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance In Occupied France
Library Journal The winter of 1942–43 encompassed some of the darkest days of World War II, not least for the French Resistance. Moorehead (Gellhorn) uses as her lens the lesser-known January 1943 transport of 230 women of the Resistance to the Auschwitz death camp. She conducted interviews with several of the 49 surviving women or […]
The Dog Lived (and So Will I)
"This encouraging tale of finding love and hope in unexpected places is full of small yet valuable life lessons that any animal-lover would appreciate." – Publishers Weekly
A Different Time, a Different Man : the Story of John L. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury For FDR and Truman's Secretary of the Navy
In World War I John L. served as an ordinary apprentice seaman. Years later, as assistant secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940 to 1944, he participated in developing, and was the principal envoy to congress on significant tax legislation and was an important voice in the effort to sell war […]
The White Mountains : Alps of New England
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Anne and Sigmund Hudson.
The Lucky Ones : My Passionate Fight For Farm Animals
Library Journal: Having been comforted by her cat when she lost a leg to bone cancer at age ten, Brown grew up enamored of animals and eventually became concerned about those on farms. She quit her job as a film and TV producer to document awful animal abuses in the Texas stockyards, then founded the […]
Assignment to Hell
Kirkus Reviews A sprightly synthesis of literature and history follows five newspapermen who cut their journalistic teeth during World War II. Gay (Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson, 2010, etc.) ambitiously reconstructs the events of WWII through the eyes of the reporters who were on the ground […]
Beyond the Blue Horizon : How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Publishers Weekly The Vikings coined a word—æfintyr—to describe humanity’s restless need for exploration, but the urge itself has been felt on every shore throughout history. Drawing on a lifetime of sailing, Fagan (Elixir), U.C.–Santa Barbara emeritus professor of anthropology, does more than reconstruct the sea routes and watercraft used by ancient mariners. He recreates their […]
Polar Wives
Library Journal In polar history, much has been written about the explorers, men like Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, and John Franklin. In contrast, little is known about the women who married and supported them. In this work, Herbert (founding director, Polarworld; The Explorer's Daughter) delves into the lives of seven women to bring this […]