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A Guide To Living With Cancer
by Nancy H. Dahm
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by Paul Kalanithi
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2016 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
by Helen Garner
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsA powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two womenone dying, the other called to care for herfrom an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author.
by Lisa Genova
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsStill Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
by Joan Didion
Published Feb 2007
Read Reviews'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
by Cheryl Strayed
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsA family founders after a mother's death in this beautifully observed debut. Cheryl Strayed has a deep appreciation for the shifting rhythms between siblings and parents and for the beautiful terrors of learning how to keep living. The wonderful characters in Torch come alive and ...
by Barbara Delinsky
Published May 2003
Read ReviewsPractical, warm, funny, reassuring, supportive, personal... the contributors reveal how they faced the fear of breast cancer and came through their ordeal ready to get on with life and love, career and family -- and how you can too.
by Elizabeth Berg
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsWith effortless warmth, and loving respect for characters that defies easy sentiment, Never Change melds the emotional depth and gentle intensity of poetry with the rich satisfactions of finely wrought fiction.
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