The root mean square (eBook Edition)

The middle ground is one of those books that will stay with me for a very long time. I have identified a deep level, I had a larger than life father. I am a "Daddy's girl" was. My father had a long and lingering illness. During his last years we have had the opportunity to redefine our relationship again.

Kelly Corrigan intertwines three compelling stories: her childhood, her battle with breast cancer and her father's illness (cancer).

This is not a "disease of the month" memories. This isan important guide and honest family with all its divisions, loyalties and alliances. Throughout the book, you learn to enjoy and know the whole family: father, mother, brothers, husbands and children.

Kelly Corrigan is a graceful writer with a wonderful sense of the absurdity of life and family. For who else can be crazy, even as they rely?

Corrigan capture the joy of childhood and the angst of teen years. It expresses theThe frustration of seeing your parents are based on known and trusted, whether better medical care is available. The pain of being told to head off all the hard work of finding a new therapy, medication or a doctor. The rage for the "good husband" (mother), how to hide it, how bad things really are trying.

Her story highlights the importance of family, friends and laughter in the process of adoption and use.

Read this book! No matter if you're an EasternPhilly, a Californian or an Irish Catholic. Not come from a large family. Does not have cancer or someone in your family who has cancer. This is a story with universal themes of hope, healing and letting go.

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"The thing is what do you know about me that I am George Corrigan's daughter, his only daughter, I am." So begins this well-written memoir, in which Kelly Corrigan intertwines his story with that of hislarger-than-life shows, Irish-American born in the travel merchant father, and is an incredibly powerful and healing father / daughter relationship and the unbreakable bonds of family. Writing with candor and a surprising amount of humor pretty Kelly changes the story of growing up Corrigan with her life and her father today, as each of them, successfully, for now fight cancer. While she studied in the context of the disease and what it means when a person who has been your sourceThe force is in need of some himself. Uplifting without fear of the reality of life with cancer, this highly personal story ultimately examines the universal theme of family, both those who create and those who created us. The middle ground is the bittersweet moment between childhood and adulthood, when a devoted wife and mother are, but you'll always be Daddy's Girl. In fresh, insightful prose, Kelly explores and ends in "place in between," bring to light thewonderful opportunity to know who you are and where they really belong.

One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player

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He was the Jim Morrison of the casino, a legend before he was of legal age. Stuey Ungar, the son of a Jewish bookie on Manhattan's Lower East Side, dropped out of high school to become an underground card-table sensation, eventually taking out every top gin-rummy player on the East Coast. Bankrolled by the Genovese crime family, Stuey would soon travel around the country in search of new opponents and opportunities -- including poker. He would go on to win the World Series of Poker a record three times. And then his luck began to run out.

One of a Kind is the startling tale of a man who won at his game and lost control of his life. Whether tossing away his winnings at the racetrack or on a single roll of the dice, Stuey was notorious for gambling every single dollar in his pocket. Though he had won an estimated million in his lifetime, Stuey had no bank account, not even a home address. He was found dead in a Vegas motel -- with 0 in cash on his person, the only money he had left -- at the age of forty-five.

An intimate, authorized biography -- Nolan Dalla was commissioned by Stuey in 1998 to pen his story, resulting in hundreds of hours of taped interviews and conversations -- One of a Kind illuminates the dark genius of one of poker's most memorable figures.

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