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Pete, a young Aboriginal gang member, is sent to jail for killing his mother's boyfriend during a fight. While there, he realizes that he has become a negative influence on his younger brother and decides to turn his life around with the help of traditional Aboriginal healing circles and ceremonies.

After falling into a dangerous world of drugs, Abby tries to take control of her life once more.

Tessa gets caught tagging and ends up in an alternative school where boxing is a big part of the program.

"M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, absurdly funny, inspiring, and totally unique debut memoir from a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the birthplace of physical therapy and the world leader in prosthetic rehabilitation for injured war veterans"--.

A life-saving guide that answers all the questions and concerns of recovering alcoholics and addicts.

The text focuses on educational perspectives, psychosocial precepts, communication modes, vocational opportunities, support services, and recent technological advances. Further, it provides the reader with insights into one of the fastest growing populations today - the deafened adult. Throughout its chapters, myths surrounding deafness are dispelled and are replaced with contemporary ideas. The broad scope of subject matter presented allows for flexibility and provides fresh material for new approaches to basic courses within the field of education.

Just weeks before her wedding, four of Rachelle Friedman's friends threw her a bachelorette party. At the end of a perfect evening of dancing and celebration, they decided to take a moonlight swim. One of her friends playfully pushed her into the water two feet too far from the deep end. That chilling moment changed their lives forever. Rachelle broke her neck and was paralyzed from the chest down. She would never walk again. On the night of the accident, the five girls made an unspoken agreement to never reveal the name of the friend who had pushed Rachelle into the pool--and their bond has remained unbroken. As Rachelle undergoes a physical battle for her life, her friend struggles emotionally to prevent one moment in time from defining her forever. The Promise chronicles Rachelle's relationship with her fiancee and their struggle with her paralysis and rehab, the physical challenges of intimacy, and ultimately, their fairy-tale wedding.

Twelve year old Deborah Jiang Stein always felt like an outsider. Her racial mix made her feel apart from her well-intentioned adoptive Jewish parents. When she found out that she had been born in prison to a heroin-addicted mother, she spiraled into an emotional lockdown and deeper trauma. For years she turned to drugs, violence, and crime to cope with her grief until she realized she could not go on as she had in the past. She fought to heal herself and has become a national speaker, writer, and is the founder of the nonprofit unPrison Project that serves to build public awareness about girls and women in prison.

Kristine Barnett's son, Jake, has an incredibly high IQ. He's working on an original theory in astrophysics that may someday put him in line for a Nobel prize. Jake's story is remarkable not just because of his achievements but because he was diagnosed with Autism at age two. Against the experts' advice, Kristine pulled her son out of special education classes and began preparing him for mainstream kindergarten on her own. She focused on what he could do, not on what he couldn't, and the results were transformative.