PERFECTLY NORMAL addresses with unprecedented honesty a mother's experience raising a child with a disability-hydrocephalus. This condition causes spinal fluid to accumulate in the head, making it grow, sometimes causing brain damage. A surgical procedure developed only a few years prior to Daryl's birth has kept him alive; he is now thirty-six and lives a fully independent life.The author was nineteen when faced with this difficult life situation. She worked through years of denial, anger, resentment, and fear; she battled with the medical profession, the educational system, and the vast array of social service providers who invaded her life. Her journey radicalized her with regard to the way society treats people with disabilities; by the time Daryl reached adulthood she was involved with and writing about the Disability Rights Movement. She speaks with absolute candor about personal difficulties and social injustice. She tells her story with unflinching self-examination, with no attempts to be "inspirational." She shows what it's really like to raise a child with a disability in America, particularly in the uncaring social climate of thirty years ago, some aspects of which persist even today.

Perfectly Normal: A Mother's Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Sheiner, Marcy

Community & Culture

iUniverse

Sex for the Clueless: How to Enjoy a More Erotic and Exciting Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Reference

Citadel Pr

Dip into a melting-pot of sexual pleasure with the latest collection in the Herotica series. The exotic and the erotic meet in journeys of desire as diverse as the cultural backgrounds of the characters. Each short story is an example of the heated passion and the politics of arousal that erupt when people of different cultures come together. The authors explore their fantasies, their prejudices, and the ways in which cultural differences can be at once an attracting force and a seemingly impenetrable barrier. Twenty-six tales of complex relationships draw a multi-hued picture of race, religion, and culture's impact on passion and desire. In one a Chinese New Year's dragon dancer entrances an African-American woman. In another, Pakistani and U.S. virgins muddle through their assumptions about each other's sexual past and find their way to a feverish coupling. Embracing her Native American traditions more closely, a Metis shows her white lover the passionate inclusiveness of her spiritual world. And Indian and Puerto Rican pre-med students turn up the heat of first lust in the midst of a Chicago winter.

Herotica 7

Literature & Fiction

BRIGHT, Susie

Mohanraj, Mary Anne

United States

Down There Pr

<p>A treasure trove of millionaires, billionaires and well-connected individuals lies on the internet at the fingertips and just a mouse click away. However, nobody knows quite what to do once they find the treasure. In his latest book, Connecting with the In Crowd, Wade explains how to find and connect with millionaires, and how to maximize the potential of these relationships. Wade had always planned to make his first million by the age of thirty, but after many trials and failures, he reached his goal a mere six years later than planned, with the successful launch of the sugar daddy dating website SeekingArrangement.com, followed by the millionaire matchmaking personals SeekingMillionaire.com, and most recently, the online dating marketplace WhatsYourPrice.com. Out of his experience as an online dating entrepreneur and a millionaire dating expert comes a book that is filled with valuanble advice on how to save time and heartache in reaching one’s goals through the world of millionaires, whether it be to marry wealth, find employment, fund a business, seek out a mentor, build a network, or simply to enjoy a lavish lifestyle. “While a lot of advice peddlers purport to teach us how to marry money, there’s more to life than just digging for gold. Materialistic or superficial motivations can only take you so far in the relationships you form with millionaires,” says Brandon Wade, who hold a BS and an MBA degree from MIT. “In Connecting with the In Crowd, I will show you how to network, hang out and play with millionaires online and offline. In doing so, you will build real friendships, partnerships and even romance.”</p>

Connecting with the 'IN' Crowd: How to Network, Hang Out, and Play with Millionaires Online

Wade, Brandon

Parenting & Relationships

WeyHouse

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