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Stroke of Luck : a True Life Story

Stroke of Luck : a True Life Story
Author: David Luchuk
Publisher: [Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec] : Helegron Print.
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2001
Genre: Meningitis
ISBN: 9780968979006

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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
Author: Ann Beattie
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525557369

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A Good Housekeeping Best Book of the Year "Every sentence shines with wit, originality, and sharp observations." --The Boston Globe A razor-sharp, deeply felt novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an enigmatic, brilliant, yet perverse, teacher who instructs his students not only about how to reason, but how to prevaricate. As the years go by, LaVerdere's covert and overt instruction lingers in his students' lives as they seek some sense of purpose or meaning. When Ben feels the pace of his life accelerating and views his intimate relationships as less and less fulfilling, there seems to be a subtext he's not able to access. And what, really, did Bailey Academy teach him? While relationships with his stepmother and sister improve, and a move to upstate New York offers respite from his anxiety about love and work, LaVerdere's reappearance in his life disturbs his equilibrium. Everything he once thought he knew about his teacher--and himself--is called into question. Written by one of our most iconic writers, known for casting a cold eye on her generation's ambivalence and sometimes mistaken ambition, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is a keenly observed psychological study of a man who alternates between careful driving and hazardous risk taking, as he struggles to incorporate his past into the vertiginous present.


A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
Author: Janet R. Douglas
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480866024

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When an occupational therapist suffers a massive stroke while attending a wedding in her native England, she can’t believe it. Janet R. Douglas emerges from a coma weeks later at a Chicago hospital where she once worked. Her left side is totally paralyzed, her eyesight impaired, her memory and identity lost. Trapped in the present, she finds herself talking in German even though she has seldom spoken the language since high school. With no understanding of the severity of her problems, she resists therapy, thinking she doesn’t need it. Despite all odds, she returns to her high-powered job only to find herself cast adrift by a corporate reorganization. With time on her hands, she carries out her own research to find out how damage to one specific part of the brain affects behavior. From the perspective of both therapist and patient, Douglas explains the impact of stroke, how it makes the simplest tasks difficult, and how the visible disabilities it causes are just the tip of the iceberg. Join Douglas on a decade-long quest to recapture her identity so she can once again enjoy family, work, and travel in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck.


My Stroke of Luck

My Stroke of Luck
Author: Kirk Douglas
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2003-01-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0060014040

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My stroke taught me so much, and for all that it stole, it gave me even more. In the process of healing, my life has changed for the better. Now I want to share what I have learned. In this vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life as an actor, author, and legend in his own time, Kirk Douglas offers a candid and heartfelt memoir of where it all went right in his life -- even after suffering a debilitating stroke. Revealing not only the incredible physical and emotional toll of his stroke but how it has changed his life for the better, Douglas shares the lessons that saved him and helped him to heal. Alongside his heartfelt advice and insight, he also recalls warm memories of some of the most famous figures of our time -- including Burt Lancaster, Michael J. Fox, and Gary Cooper -- as well as others who have soared to greatness in the face of adversity. Charming, soulful, and filled with personal photographs, My Stroke of Luck is an intimate look at the real person behind the fabulous talent -- and at a life lived to its very fullest.


A Stroke of Luck

A Stroke of Luck
Author: Antoinette Tyrrell
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2021-02-27
Genre:
ISBN:

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Violet is 30 years old when her life is tragically turned upside down. Will she and her husband Matt find their way back? Would they want to? What does the future hold for their marriage. A Stroke of Luck is a tale of love, hope and finding joy in life's simple pleasures.


A Stroke of Luck

A Stroke of Luck
Author: Chris Bennett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1524663077

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There are many people who have a stroke every year. The event, whether they remember it or not, means they have to go through rehabilitation, coping with anxiety, feeling angry, depressed, and isolated, but there is help and support. Through this book, Chris hopes to motivate others, even professionals who deal with strokes, to look at the patient care before, during, and post stroke by sharing her story.


My Stroke of Insight

My Stroke of Insight
Author: Jill Bolte Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008-05-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101213973

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"Transformative...[Taylor's] experience...will shatter [your] own perception of the world."—ABC News The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover. For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation. It taught her that by "stepping to the right" of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by "brain chatter." Reaching wide audiences through her talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference and her appearance on Oprah's online Soul Series, Taylor provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.


A Stroke of Luck

A Stroke of Luck
Author: Juli K. Dixon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780989808804

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Presents the true story of Alex Dixon, who at the age of twelve had a stroke during brain surgery. The surgery was undertaken to correct a different illness causing pain and muscle spasms, and the stroke resulted when the spasms stopped. Chronicles Alex's life after the stroke and how she has coped with its consequences.


A Stroke of Luck

A Stroke of Luck
Author: Howard Rocket
Publisher: Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Cerebrovascular disease
ISBN: 9780969610649

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I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like

I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like
Author: Todd Snider
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 030682261X

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For years, Todd Snider has been one of the most beloved country-folk singers in the United States, compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Prine, and dozens of others. He's become not only a new-century Dylan but a modern-day Will Rogers, an everyman whose intelligence, self-deprecation, experience, and sense of humor make him a uniquely American character. In live performance, Snider's monologues are cheered as much as his songs. But never before has he told the whole story. Running the gamut from personal memoir to shaggy-dog comedy to rueful memories of his troubles and triumphs with drugs and alcohol to sharp-eyed observations from years on the road, I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like is for fans of Snider's music, but also for fans of America itself: the broad, wild country that has produced figures of folk wisdom like Will Rogers, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Tonya Harding, Garrison Keillor, and more. There are storytellers and there are performers and there are stand-up comedians. And then there's Todd Snider, who is all three in one, and something else entirely.