What do you do when your outspoken, passionate, and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother Midge -...
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Auteur:Baer, Richard K.Sommaire:A psychiatrist describes his work with Karen Overhill, a patient complaining of acute depression who turned out to have been a victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and had developed seventeen distinct and separate personalities....
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Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history aad bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her...
- Auteur:Thompson, Kelly S.Sommaire:
With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister, Meghan. Tested by addiction, abuse, and illness, the sisters’ relationship crumbles, only to be rebuilt into an...
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Auteur:Fielding, JoySommaire:When a car accident leaves Casey Marshall in a comatose state, unable to see or communicate, she discovers that her friends aren't the people she thought them to be and that her accident might not have been an accident after all....
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Auteur:LaRocca, MarissaSommaire:LaRocca reveals her struggle with eating disorders and her sexuality, showing how she emerged as an advocate for gay rights.
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Auteur:Kehret, PegSommaire:Peg Kehret shares the true story about when she was twelve and stricken with polio. At first paralyzed and terrified, she fought her way to recovery, aided by doctors and therapists, a loving family, supportive roommates fighting their...
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Auteur:KNIPFEL, JimSommaire:It wasn't until he was in his early twenties that doctors discovered that Jim Knipfel's nearsightedness was the result of an untreatable rare genetic eye disease known as retinitis pigmentosa, which, they said, would leave him...
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Auteur:McKercher, CatherineSommaire:An explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKercher was a child. She never knew how to answer it...
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Auteur:Alvarez, JuliaSommaire:A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon,...
- Auteur:Armstrong, NickySommaire:
Saving Jesse is based on a diary Nicky started when she was asked by physicians to record the frequency and duration of Jesse's seizures. It became much more than a simple log. Told at the pace of a well plotted novel, Saving Jesse is a...
- Auteur:Byrd, Lee MerrillSommaire:
The fire called Riley to his destiny, just like the spinning-wheel called Sleeping Beauty. Now, Riley has third-degree burns on 63% of his body. At the Shriners Burns Institute, he must endure countless skin grafts and searingly painful...
- Auteur:Agnew, MarionSommaire:
Most people think Alzheimer's disease is the same as memory loss or hope that if they ignore it hard enough, it will go away. That was certainly Marion Agnew's hope when her mother -- a Queen's and Harvard/Radcliffe-...
- Auteur:Farnsworth, VanessaSommaire:
Rain on a Distant Roof takes readers inside the frightening but fascinating world of Lyme disease in Canada. This is the story of one woman's struggle to understand the disease that’s destroying her body and mind. Armed with a...
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Auteur:Flaherty, Kate MarshallSommaire:Radiant is a poetic exploration of one hopeful person's healing journey through cancer-from missed appointment, to mammogram, to diagnosis, to surgery, chemo, and radiation, through hysterectomy, genetic testing through to...
- Auteur:Grey, JenniferSommaire:
A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the iconic film Dirty Dancing "Jennifer Grey peels back all the artifice, denial, obfuscation, and myriad assumptions and exposes a...
- Auteur:Huchu, T. L.Sommaire:
Opening up a world of magic and adventure, Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T.L. Huchu is the second audiobook in the Edinburgh Nights series. Ropa Moyo's ghostalking practice has tanked. Desperate for money to pay bills and look...
- Auteur:Reid, PatriciaSommaire:
Par le biais de l’ostéopathie, plusieurs problèmes de santé chez votre enfant pourraient être évités ou même, en complément à un suivi médical, guéris. L’auteure, ostéopathe et elle-même mère de deux enfants, a développé à partir de son...
- Auteur:Ackerman, DianeSommaire:
Author and naturalist Ackerman reflects on the time she spent caring for her husband, novelist Paul West, after a stroke took his ability to speak. With conventional therapy not working, Ackerman decided to step in and do everything she...
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