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"From journalist Robert Timberg, a memoir of the struggle to reclaim his life after being severely burned as a Marine lieutenant in Vietnam. In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until his combat tour ended. He had thirteen days to go when his vehicle struck a Viet Cong land mine, resulting in third-degree burns of his face and much of his body"--Provided by publisher.

"What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? So begins the last hundred days of Lucio's life, as he attempts to care for his family, win back his wife (the love of his life and afterlife), and spend the next three months enjoying every moment with a zest he hasn't felt in years. From helping his hopelessly romantic, widowed father-in-law find love, discovering comfort in enduring friendships, and finding new ones, Lucio becomes, at last, the man he's always meant to be"--OCLC.

Drawing on her own experiences, the author provides guidance and encouragement for teenage girls entering middle school, with advice on dealing with the first days of school, class work, the special problems of fitting in, and a number of other emotional or social challenges they might face.

Author James Tobin reveals how FDR's fight against polio transformed him from a callow aristocrat into the energetic, determined statesman who would rally the nation in the Great Depression and lead it through World War II.

Gerda Hartwich Robinson narrates her story as a German survivor of World War II. She tells how her life's journey included hunger, fear, neglect, and physical and emotional abuse, and how she carried these injustices in her mind and body for many years, leading to debilitating back pain, headaches, panic attacks, depression, and feelings of inadequacy. Robinson shows that the tragedies of war don't end when the last bomb is dropped or the last prisoner freed; they continue in subtle but devastating ways. Like many German citizens during and after the war, Robinson was simply trying to survive a terrifying situation.

At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kear's biggest concern was choosing a major--until she walked into a doctor's office in midtown Manhattan and got a life-changing diagnosis. She was going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before it happens. Kear decides to carpe diem (seize the day) and make the most of the vision she has left. She joins circus school, tears through boyfriends, travels the world, and keeps her vision loss a secret. When Kear becomes a mother, just a few years shy of her vision's expiration date, she amends her strategy, giving up recklessness in order to relish every moment with her kids. Her secret, though, is harder to surrender - and as her vision deteriorates one thing becomes clear: no matter how hard she fights, she won't win the battle against blindness. But if she comes clean with her secret, and comes to terms with the loss, she can still win her happy ending.

Once Anna Lyndsey had an ordinary life. She was young and ambitious and worked hard. She had just bought an apartment and she was falling in love. Then, what began as a mild intolerance to certain types of artificial light, developed into a sensitivity of all light. During the worst times, Anna must spend months in a blacked-out room where she loses herself in audio books and elaborate word games in an attempt to stave off despair. In periods of relative remission, she can venture out cautiously at dawn or dusk. Eventually, Anna's unthinkable fate becomes a love story from which we can see light and the world anew.

Although Ally Hilfiger contracted Lyme Disease at the age of seven, it was not diagnosed until she was eighteen and a patient in a psych ward. Her physical symptoms had been unexplainable for years: joint pain, night sweats, memory loss, nausea, and brain fog. Although she lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, many doctors had failed to find the connection between her symptoms and her environment. The forward to her book is written by her father, Tommy Hilfiger.

Judith and Joyce Scott were fraternal twins. From birth they lived as though they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what the other wanted and felt, despite the fact that Judy had Down Syndrome, profound deafness, and never learned to speak or sign. But this connection ended abruptly when, at age seven, Judy was taken from their shared bed to be institutionalized while Joyce slept. For the next thirty years, Joyce grieved her unexpected loss while navigating her relationship with an emotionally distant mother. In college, Joyce became pregnant and she, too, was sent away to give birth and relinquish to adoption the secret daughter she bore in hiding. Decades later Joyce resolves to reunite with her sister and hopefully fill their remaining years with joy. After becoming Judy's legal guardian, she enrolls her in an art center for adults with disabilities. Eventually Judy connects with fiber art and works relentlessly for the next eighteen years producing fiber sculptures. Unaware of her growing fame, she remains immersed in her artistic vision until her death in 2005. Today Judith Scott's contemporary fiber art work is displayed in museums and galleries around the world.

Clay Marzo is a professional surfer, regarded as one of the best in the world. He has won numerous surfing competitions and was the subject of the award-winning documentary, Just Add Water. He has also been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.