Bøger af Elizabeth Lyon

Diana Kent is always trying to do the right thing but failing. She loves to know everything, even if it costs her her life. When she learns that a stranger needs help, she is there. With the help of her best friend, Bianca, they formulate a plan. But do they have all the information?When doing the right thing goes awry and leaves Diana with a superpowered body, her life is forever changed. Now she has to cope with the consequences at school for her senior year. Now for her senior year, she has to spend her time covering up her new secrets instead of who she's going to homecoming dance with. But maybe things aren't all that bad when she finally has a certain pair of eyes on her. A certain pair of scholarly eyes that all the female students drool over. Will this new love interest change her? Will she be able to hide who she really is? Will she make it through senior year?

Let Me Go When the Banter Stops tells the true love story of Seattle physician, Dr. Linda Gromko, who finds herself in a midlife romance, only to discover that her future holds joyful new beginnings, but also the pain and heartache of letting go. Dovetailing with her earlier memoir, Complications: A Doctor's Love Story, Dr. Gromko's new book revisits the early days and challenges of her burgeoning relationship with her future husband, Steve Williams, a self-made business executive and consummate networker living comfortably with his feisty nine-year-old daughter, Brita. As Complications chronicled, their obstacles included a whirlwind of family dynamics, the relative remoteness of Bainbridge Island to Seattle, and, most significantly, Steve's failing health due to adult onset diabetes, high blood pressure, and the attendant reality of end stage kidney failure. The ensuing story-painful at times, but always heartfelt and grounded in humor-takes unimaginable turns of good fortune, beleaguered frustration, and resilient perseverance, revealing the contemporary medical profession at its best and worst. Written from both a doctor's professional perspective and a caregiver's personal point of view, Let Me Go When the Banter Stops presents a firsthand testament to overcoming adversity and meeting new challenges. In the tumultuous course of Steve's medical issues and the family's personal trials, they face kidney dialysis and organ transplant, cardiac complications and setbacks, and surgery after surgery. As the story unfolds, Steve's treatment ultimately takes Linda back to the same university medical center where she trained as a nurse and as a physician, teaching her more than she ever thought she would need to know about kidney disease and its management. She also gains insight into the different "types" of health care providers - providing her a greater understanding of her own struggles with the health care system. Throughout its pages, Let Me Go When the Banter Stops remains at its heart the story of a scrappy little family making its way through medical uncertainties and life's unforeseen turns. This poignant memoir plumbs the depths of sadness and grief, yet ultimately resonates triumphant, as Dr. Gromko and her new daughter Brita discover a shared courage to prevail after a devastating loss. Let Me Go When the Banter Stops is a powerful story of the unthinkable realities of disease and the unfathomable capacity of human endurance, bearing witness to the sustaining lessons that love reveals in the most unexpected of ways.

Every parent wants a healthy baby, but what happens if you know your baby isn't healthy? Jacqueline West thought she was having a normal pregnancy till she was twenty weeks pregnant. The emotional turmoil she goes through is heart-wrenching. Her husband, Dean, is supportive and does all he can, but Jackie is the one who has to come to terms with everything.A series of health complications piles up and Jackie has to deal with it all. What if her baby girl doesn't go full term? What if her baby dies in utero? What if her baby survives but lives a life in pain? There are so many scenarios that can happen in Jackie's situation. Jackie wants to give her daughter a chance of life, but at what cost?

Lola Montgomery was born with a disability that has affected her, her whole life. Now as a college senior, her disability is still ruling her life. Her entire existence, she has played by the rules and not branched out. Lola stays in for a reason. She doesn't make plans for a reason. She barely has friends for a reason. Her only college friend, Clem, invites her for a night out that can change the course of her life; if she so chooses.Lola leaves her safe bubble and stumbles upon Theodore Prescott. Theo helps Lola come to terms with her self-esteem and Lola helps Theo in return. Theo is such a gentleman that Lola would never dream to lose him. Yet, her friend Clem seems to have it out for Lola. Does Theo have to choose between his girlfriend and friend? Lola would never dream to give him an ultimatum but Clem won't stop.How far will a friend go for a guy? Is it men over friends, or friends over men? Lola thought she only had to worry about her future when she had to worry about if a friend is truly a confidante.

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