Jill Price cannot forget anything. Ask her what she had for breakfast on any given day in 1970, and she'll tell you. She'll even tell you the major news events for that day. In this astonishing memoir, she shares what it's like to...
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- Author:Price, JillSummary:
- Author:Stratton, AllanSummary:
When her parents want to put Granny in a home, Zoe decides now is the time to break free. She smuggles Granny out and together they hit the tracks on a cross-country trip to find Zoe's long-lost uncle.
- Author:Yip-Williams, JulieSummary:
Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie...
- Author:Otsuka, JulieSummary:
From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool...
- Author:Davis, Ronald W., White, TracieSummary:
For six years, Whitney Dafoe was confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, to eat, to speak. This book tells the story of one father's desperate hunt for the insidious illness that stole his son away.
- Author:Macdonald, Betty BardSummary:
Thanks to vaccines, tuberculosis is rare in North America today and, thanks to antibiotics, relatively treatable. This wasn't the case in 1938, when Betty MacDonald was diagnosed. It was more common and often deadly. The only hope...
- Author:Magary, DrewSummary:
A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fatal traumatic brain injury--from the acclaimed author of The Hike"Drew Magary has produced a remarkable account of his journey, one...
- Author:Kavanagh, PeterSummary:
CBC journalist Peter Kavanagh was just an infant when he was diagnosed with paralytic polio and suffered permanent paralysis in the lower part of his left leg. As a child, Kavanagh endured painful medical procedures to even out the...
- Author:Engel, HowardSummary:
- Author:Nakazawa, Donna JacksonSummary:
In this book the author, a science journalist explores the autoimmune disorders that plagued her for a decade, curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her, including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture.
- Author:Wilde, LoriSummary:
After being reunited with her identical twin, Anna wants to believe that life with her new-found sister will be perfect. Then Amelia reveals the true reason for their reunion: her kidneys are failing.
- Author:Ogawa, YōkoSummary:
Yoko Ogawa presents an original, beautifully written story about a brilliant man who must live with only eighty minutes of short-term memory and the astute young housekeeper who cares for him.
- Author:Kerangal, Maylis deSummary:
Driving back home from an early-morning surfing trip with two friends, Simon Limbres is involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted country road. Framed within the twenty-four hours following the crash, this novel describes the...
- Author:Weber, CarlSummary:
"The first lady" is the tale of a preacher's wife who learns she's dying and vows to find her husband another woman. There is no shortage of ladies who want her man, but will she be able to find a suitable replacement among the...
- Author:Douthat, Ross GregorySummary:
In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn't exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly...
- Author:Malarchuk, ClintSummary:
No job in the world of sports is as intimidating, exhilarating and as stress-ridden as that of a hockey goaltender. Standing in the crease facing one-hundred-mile-an-hour slapshots, the entire game riding on your glove hand, standing on...
- Author:Doidge, NormanSummary:
- Author:Skuy, DavidSummary:
Even though Cody's health is better and he's won a spot on the Lions soccer team, life is still complicated when plans to build a factory nearby means that his soccer team is divided between those who want the factory because of the...
- Author:Boggs, BelleSummary:
Belle Boggs recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her--the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual...
- Author:Kong, Herbert Ho Ping, Posner, MichaelSummary:
A fascinating and instructive journey into the heart of modern medical practice
In The Art of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital’s legendary internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of...