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The Life of Riley Living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – Through A Mother's Eyes
About one out of every 5,000 boys has Duchenne, and about 20,000 babies worldwide are born with it each year. Duchenne mainly affects boys and affects all races and cultures. Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) estimates that about 15,000 young men, as well as a few young women, live with Duchenne today in the United States.
We were told Riley may need a wheelchair by the time he's 10 years old and be dead by 17. We needed to focus on accepting this reality.
It became abundantly clear that our family became stronger because of the hardships we encountered, but in the end, we indeed found grace because we participated in Riley's life.
The Life of Riley: Living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Through A Mother's Eyes, encapsulates the extraordinary life of someone who has faced immense challenges at a young age. Riley never gave up or lost hope that a way would be found to keep him going. It has been 31 years in the making because it took this long for Riley to allow his story to be written.
It's a narrative of the family's journey as they grew alongside Riley and learned to understand his disease. It is nothing short of a miracle for one family with two brothers with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) who are still thriving. Greg is 62, and Dave is 59 years old, while their nephew, Riley, turned 31 on April 11, 2023, battling Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).
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In The Furtherance of Justice
Path of The Devil, 3rd Edition
In The Furtherance of Justice - Path of the Devil, 3rd Edition – Based on True Events of a DEA Agent and Two Private Investigators by Dianne DeMille PhD, Larry Hardin, Jeff Pearce, Randy Torgerson
Read about how the two cases that brought them together. They were determined to bring down a crime organization along the Southwestern border of Arizona and Mexico. For five years, the three men spearheaded two separate and simultaneous investigations in different locations that eventually merged. Click the image to order
Camino del Diablo – Historia basada en hechos reales de un agente de la DEA y dos investigadores privados
Life’s a Journey between Heaven & Hell
Life’s a Journey between Heaven & Hell: The Road to Heaven Leads Through Hell by DEA Agent, Larry H. Hardin, Author and Dianne DeMille PhD, Writer.
“The way to reach God’s will is to go through life's trials & struggles. It means that to achieve any sort of heavenly state we must be tested. We are guaranteed to fail some of those tests. That's ok as long as we learn from them and find the strength to continue traveling the road. We become stronger by overcoming our failures and ultimately find the strength to reach our destination.” Timothy Snodgrass is a retired DEA IT Specialist Click image to order
Home is Never the Same,
A Family’s Strong Spiritual Connection with the Place Where They Grew Up
This book is a true account about my parents, brothers, sisters, relatives, and friends growing up on Big Plum Creek Road surrounded by the rural farming areas of Kentucky.
As a young boy, I searched for the spirit of God while wandering in the woods and walking along the edges of the creeks. I was at peace with nature. But one day, I had to leave Big Plum Creek Road and follow a different path.
Fighting My Greatest Enemy
Fighting My Greatest Enemy: Myself - An Inspired True Story by a DEA Agent, Larry H. Hardin, Author and Dianne DeMille PhD, Writer.
This book is my story about growing up in Kentucky and my experience with law enforcement. After serving over thirty years, I retired from the Federal government, United States Department of Justice, as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
As a reader of these inspiring stories, you can be assured you are not getting just another theory or opinion; but the truth of "Why there is no war on drugs." You will find the answers right here in these pages, but some of you will continue to ask the questions in search for the answers. Click image to order
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Instructional support for teacher leaders and teachers of mathematics. Included is the work of John Hattie, Robert Marzano, Rick DuFour, Tim Kanold, Jo Boaler, David Foster, Cathy Seeley, William McCallum, NCTM, NCSM, CCSS, and other notable experts in mathematics education.
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