Walking Free: The Life of Nellie Zimmerman By Rosezelle Boggs-Qualls and Dr. Daryl C. Greene In May of 1976, at the age of 71, the blind deaf Nellie Zimmerman was released from the Massillon State Hospital. After nineteen years of confinement, she took her first breath of freedom. Nellie went on to attend [...]
Books
The Black Heart Book
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
There were no secrets among the folk that lived in the Pine Mountain Region of Kentucky. Everyone knew that Alex Turner was an old man with “strange” powers. They also knew that his daughter Judy could shoot like a man and had the same powers.
But no one knew about the Black Heart Book …
Between courtroom cases, turkey shoots, the attacks of moonshiners and rabid dogs, Rosezelle Boggs-Qualls reveals with stunning insight the struggles of her great-grandfather and of her grandmother, a fiercely independent woman, who overcame the adversities of abandonment and divorce to carve a path to success for herself and her two young daughters.
Benjamin’s Dog Joseph
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
When the little tiny pup Joseph was born his mother discovered that he had a short stub leg. She worried, “Will he be able to walk and run on three legs instead of four? Will anyone want to adopt him?”
Addressed to both disabled and able-bodied children, Benjamin’s Dog Joseph is about a three-legged German Shepherd dog named Joseph, and his struggles growing up. He has to do “physical therapy” to be able to walk, while his brothers and sisters refuse to play with him. At the end of the story Joseph is strong enough and brave enough to jump into the river and save an eight year old boy, Benjamin, from drowning. Benjamin adopts Joseph and everyone recognizes Joseph as a hero.
This book is written for parents to read to first grade children and at a third to fifth grade reading level
With Heads Held High: The Legacy of My Southern Parents
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Look at the world through the eyes of a black girl growing up in Georgia during the depression. Share her experience of being a college student during the Post World War II era. Follow her journey to Cincinnati and her struggle to find work and raise her 5 children as a solo parent. Witness the impact that the had on her students as an award winning teacher. And through it all, see how Odessa Walker Hooker succeeded in life by building on the moral foundation of her parents: faith, hope, hard work and love.
Walking Free: The Nellie Zimmerman Story
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
In 1976, at the age of 71, the totally deaf and totally blind Nellie Zimmerman was released from the Massillon State Mental Hospital, where she had lived for 19 years. With the help of her companion Emily Street she went on to attend college. She became a well known lecturer and an award winning life skills instructor at a group home for deaf and deaf-blind boys.
Authors Rosezelle Boggs Qualls and Dr. Daryl Greene bring to public awareness this inspirational story of the victory of the human spirit over what most of us would consider insurmountable circumstances.
You Can Feel Better
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
This book is written for those whose doctors have told them that there is nothing more that they can do for them. Likewise, it is written for people of faith who have prayed for a healing miracle, and yet that miracle has not come.
It presents three spiritual steps to adopting a fighting spirit in the quest for healing. It offers four practical, drug-free things that anyone can do, which will help them to feel better, suffer less, have more energy, know peace of mind, and discern a new sense of meaning and purpose in their life.
Feeling Better: The Wisdom of the Doc
Saturday, June 14, 2008
If you are faced with health problems, suffer chronic pain or have a progressive disability, this book is for you!…
* It contains scientific and medical information about how to overcome pain and progressive disabilities.
* It focuses on practical things you can do to help yourself feel better.
* It offers wisdom and guidance to help you discover a new path to wholeness and spiritual growth.
If you would like to feel better, suffer less, have more energy, know peace of mind and discern a sense of meaning and purpose in your life, this book is for you!