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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- Author:Kehret, PegSummary:
- Author:KNIPFEL, JimSummary:
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...
- Author:Alvarez, JuliaSummary:
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,...
- Author:Armstrong, NickySummary:
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...
- Author:Byrd, Lee MerrillSummary:
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...
- Author:Reid, PatriciaSummary:
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...
- Author:Ackerman, DianeSummary:
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...
- Author:Vandal, Roland, Rummery, CarleneSummary:
Having been sexually abused by a boxing coach as a teen, and not knowing who to trust or tell, Roland Vandal found solace in drugs and alcohol. His battle with addiction, and his unwillingness to speak of his demons, led to failed...
- Author:Kear, Nicole C.Summary:
This funny and poignant memoir is written by a woman who, at the age of nineteen, is told she'll be blind by thirty and how she chooses to hide her blindness--until she no longer can.
- Author:Grover, Janice ZitaSummary:
- Author:SHEPHERD, JanineSummary:
Janine Shepherd’s story reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie. A champion cross-country skier in training for the Winter Olympics, her life was irrevocably altered during a bike ride to the Blue Mountains when she was hit...
- Author:Kirkpatrick, DavidSummary:
When Dr. David Kirkpatrick's wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007, their lives--and marriage--changed forever. In this clear and honest guide for those loving a partner with dementia, Dr. Kirkpatrick shares his double...
- Author:Miller, William R.Summary:
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Hannah, once a renowned journalist, suffers from a traumatic brain injury. At her sister’s in Canada, she befriends Hila, an Afghan woman also traumatized by war. When Hila disappears, enemies threaten Hannah and her young niece, Lily...
- Author:Brennert, AlanSummary:
Brennert tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka'i during the 1890s. Separated from her family and forced to grow up in the leper colony of...
- Author:Begley, LouisSummary:
Thomas Mistler, a New York advertising executive has only six months to live. He takes a solitary holiday in Venice, and encounters a young photographer and finally the love of his youth.
- Author:Krauss, NicoleSummary:
Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are grafted from one brain to...
- Author:Rivers, KarenSummary:
"Mischa "Ish" Love knows she'll be one of the first settlers on Mars. She's applied to - and been rejected from - the Mars Now project forty-seven times, but the mission won't leave for ten years, and Ish...
- Author:Peikoff, KiraSummary:
Performing illegal research in a near-future world where embryonic stem cell work is considered first-degree murder, brilliant doctor Arianna Drake draws the attention of an agent from the Department of Embryo Preservation.
- Author:Genova, LisaSummary:
Genova's novel revolves around Sarah Nickerson, a high-powered consultant whose fast-paced world comes to a screeching halt when a brain injury leaves her with a condition called Left Neglect. Now Sarah must pay attention to things...