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Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer
by Barbara Delinsky
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by Ruth Fitzmaurice
Published Mar 2019
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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 Lucy Grealy
Published Mar 2003
Read Reviews'Despite its unblinking stare at an excruciatingly painful subject, this is not a dour book. Autobiography of a Face is a book about image, about the tyranny of the image of a beautiful - or even pleasingly average - face. In the end, this tyranny is not so much overthrown as shrugged off.'
by Nancy H. Dahm
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsIf you or someone you love has cancer, this book is for you. It is a thought provoking, inspirational, and powerful paradigm on how to live with the many challenges confronted by cancer patients and their families.
by Anne Lamott
Published Feb 2000
Read ReviewsA chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise and very funny.
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