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Author:Wooten, James T.Summary: -
Author:ALBOM, MitchSummary:Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make...
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Author:Berger, JohnSummary:In To the Wedding John Berger offers us a sharply modern situation set in the traditionally pastoral and idyllic background of rural Europe. Beautiful, vibrant Ninon falls in love and becomes engaged to a young Italian, Gino, but soon...
- Author:Woolley, BryanSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Kevin Adams' best friend is the first polio victim of Fort Appleby. In just a few short months, Kevin's adolescence is stripped away and he must confront decisions he is not prepared to make.
- Author:Wong, LindsaySummary:
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up...
- Author:Price, JillSummary:
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'...
- 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:Skuy, DavidSummary:
Cody is no longer the kid with cancer, or the soccer player always sitting on the bench as a substitute. But just when he is getting used to being the striker on the Lions soccer team, as well as being friends with his teammates and a...
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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...
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- 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: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...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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Author:Leavitt, SarahSummary:"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...
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Author:Baer, Richard K.Summary: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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Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:Fifteen years ago, Alice Hoffman received a diagnosis that changed everything about the life she'd been living. Most significant, aside from the grueling physical ordeal she underwent, was the way it changed how she felt inside....
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Author:Fielding, JoySummary: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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