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“marga beukeboom”

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  • The Boy and His Death

    A True Story

    by Marga Beukeboom ...
    In the poignant memoir The Boy and His Death, a mother chronicles her three-year journey as her young son is diagnosed with and battles testicular cancer. Marga Beukeboom had never even heard of testicular cancer when her twenty-one-year-old son was diagnosed with the diseaseeven though testicular cancer is the most common cancer affecting young men between twenty and thirty-four years of age. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Brain on Fire

    My Month of Madness

    by Susannah Cahalan ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZA “captivating” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • When My World Was Very Small

    A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch

    by Ruth Rakoff ...
    In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast.And so begins the journey of biopsy, surgery, chemotherapy, all accompanied by tidal waves of anxiety and grief: how to tell the children? Should ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wasted

    A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

    by Marya Hornbacher ...
    A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued with an important and perhaps controversial new afterword by the author, Wasted is New York Times bestselling author Marya Hornbacher's highly acclaimed memoir that chronicles her battle with anorexia and bulimia.Vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching, Wasted is the story of how Marya Hornbacher willingly embraced hunger, drugs, sex, and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mountains Beyond Mountains

    The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Chocolate & Vicodin

    My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn't Go Away

    by Jennette Fulda ...
    The humorous and touching memoir of a woman who’s been seeking relief from a headache for more than two years.Jennette Fulda was riding high on the success of her first book, Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir, until one fateful day in February 2008, when she developed a headache—and it never went away. So she dealt with it the best way she knows how: by writing about it. And eating lots of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 12, 20 & 5

    A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

    by John A. Parrish ...
    The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man's agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Common Secret

    My Journey as an Abortion Doctor

    by Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim ...
    A brave account of the social and political forces that threaten a woman's right to choose, this emotionally affecting memoir from a doctor on the front lines of the abortion debate reveals what's really at stake in the Supreme CourtIn America the reproductive justice debate is reaching a new pitch, with the Supreme Court weighted against women's choice and state legislatures passing bills to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Diary of the African Veterinary Doctor

    I Love My Profession

    by Solomon Hailemariam ...
    The idea of writing my lifetime memory during my childhood time and adulthood period goes back to the last twenty years. Unfortunately, I did not have the courage and the willpower to embark on this task. I was always hindered by a silent feeling that I did not have the potential and capacity to write a book on my own life history. However, my other side of my conscience was also advising me that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • My Prostate Cancer Adventure, and the Lessons Learned

    by Craig Johnson ...
    An estimated 1 out of every 6 men will have to come to grips with prostate cancer, and while there is abundant clinical information about prostate cancer available, we dont hear much from the men who have actually been through prostatectomy surgery or what theyve experienced during recovery.In My Prostate Cancer Adventure and the Lessons Learned, I take the reader through my experiences from the ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Finding Mary

    One Family’S Journey on the Road to Autism Recovery

    by Randy Robertson ...
    This book tells the story of one family. Its a personal journey as all these journeys are, but it generously points out a path that others may choose to follow. Michael Compain, M.D., Rhinebeck Health Center When Randy and Deborah Robertsons young daughter, Mary, was diagnosed with autism in 2005, the initial shock momentarily immobilized them. But a determination to reclaim their daughters life ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Be The Best You Can Be (Polio My Constant Companion)

    by Michael B ...
    This book covers one person's story of life with this virus, and the effects it had on his life. There are many I am sure, stories from people living with this, or from people who know someone who has survived polio.This account is written in the victim's own words, as he lived it and viewed his life. It is a personal account. ... Read more

    $3.20 USD