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by Shirley Alarie
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Delve into the breast cancer journey and beyond in Losing the Girls, a unique memoir differentiated by the author’s cutting-edge nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM)―a little-known breast cancer surgery technique that leaves the breast completely whole. Shirley Alarie shares her story to boost awareness...
Sailing on Broken Pieces
Essential Survival Skills for Recovery from Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Sailing on Broken Pieces is told from the triple perspective of a sibling, caregiver and emergency room doctor who treats people with mental illness in the emergency room and copes with the same concerns at home. It is told through vignettes from the emergency room intertwined with common symptoms...
by Natalie Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A powerful memoir from Natalie Golderg--the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country--sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen.
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home begins at the grave of Katagiri Roshi, Natalie's Zen teacher, in...
by YoonOk Kim
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Do you know what people do when they are very depressed and have NO hope?
This narrative nonfiction tells a story of my near-death from the subarachnoid brain hemorrhage and my despair after experiencing critical setbacks.
This story is to tell how I regain HOPE from the depression during healing!
What Did You Say?
An Unexpected Journey into the World of Hearing Loss, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
What Did You Say? is the book author Monique Hammond wishes she had when she was coping with and trying to understand her own sudden hearing loss. Weaving together her story with a wealth of information—causes of and types of hearing loss, audiology tests, hearing instruments and listening devices,...
That is Not Me
A Journey of Perception
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
That is Not Me: A Journey of Perception is based on a poem the author wrote during her early twenties. Growing up in the 1960s and ‘70s, L.J. Nelson struggled to understand who she was as a Little Person diagnosed with Achondroplasia. During that time, very little scientific or medical research...
by Michael Antcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
You don’t know Michael, but he’d like you to owe him 10 bucks.
Imagine you were told that your life was ending.
Would you run off for a last hurrah, or spend every moment with your friends and family. One incredible man decided that the last 16 months of his life would be dedicated...
Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do
2013 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
This definitive guide, revised and updated with over 25% new material, empowers cancer patients and their loved ones to move beyond their disease. Greg Anderson, a cancer survivor, has designed this book for the recently diagnosed, those with recurring symptoms, and those who are well but have a lingering...
by One Step Beyond Physical Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
You are in pain. Carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, golfers elbow, arm tedonitis, shoulder pain or upper back/shoulder blade pain. And most likely you have tried it all, just like 80-90% of those diagnosed with this problem. Exercises, ultra-sound, electro stimulation, braces, splints, cremes, painkillers,...
The Language of Cells
A Doctor and His Patients
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding.
Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the...
by Julie Silver
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This new book, edited by a breast cancer survivor, succinctly relates the experiences, both practical and sensitive, of hundreds of cancer survivors-including celebrities such as Lance Armstrong, Carly Simon, and Scott Hamilton-who candidly relate what helped get them through every aspect of the cancer...
But Hope is Longer: Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer
Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
When Tamara Levine received her breast cancer diagnosis, in a state of shock, she decided to inform her friends and colleagues by writing to them. That letter was the first of thirteen communications she calls her healing journey. As well as sharing the letters, Tamara tells us what she learned maneuvering...
by Manjusha Pawagi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you'd live forever. She describes how even...
Mama, I'm Not Gone
Losing a Child to Cancer – A Mother’s Compelling Journey through Grief, Spiritual Enlightenment and Healing Messages from the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
“We went about our daily lives as normally as possible but when it came down to the fighting, we maintained our quiet yet tenacious determination.” And so begins the tragic but inspiring saga of 12-year-old Darah Joseph, a top-flight competitive athlete who developed Ewing Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive...