Mary Williams

"A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death--and be restored to life. After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma--a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer--journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock. She takes a once-in-a-lifetime chance and joins a clinical trial for immunotherapy, a revolutionary drug regimen that trains the body to vanquish malignant cells. Astonishingly,...

10 year old girl's Jo and Selma eek out an existence along the Shenandoah River, scrapping, fishing--surviving. But when Jo's junkie stepdad dies, she and Selma dump his body, steal his car and cross the country in search of Jo's real dad.

Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, then Kenya, and finally in the United States.

This book discusses speech disorders, such as articulation disorders, phonological disorders, stuttering, organic and functional voice disorders, apraxia, and dysarthria; controversies over therapies for speech disorders; and personal narratives of people who experience speech disorders.