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  • Hemingway’s Primitivism

    A Quest for Primal Authenticity

    by Peter Rooney ...
    Series Book 76 - Modern American Literature
    In this timely book, the author explores new ways of reading Hemingway’s work, considering nature, gender and American identity. Through forensic analysis of Hemingway’s fiction, the author traces his early experiences of post-frontier America and the decline of the American primitive. He shows how, based on actual experience, Hemingway’s unique brand of primitivism later influences his travels in ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Immunopatient

    The New Frontier of Curing Cancer

    by Peter Rooney ...
    When an X-ray of a sore arm quickly leads to a diagnosis of Stage IV kidney cancer—one which would soon affect his bones, his lungs, lymph nodes, and brain—Peter Rooney’s life will never be the same. Faced with the prognosis of an incurable disease and armed only with the will to fight back, Immunopatient chronicles Peter’s desperate quest for hope and healing, and the experimental treatment that ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    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

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  • Lucky Dog

    How Being a Veterinarian Saved My Life

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    Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets.What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s term: cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the ... Read more

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  • Love Your Sister

    by Samuel Johnson, Connie Johnson ...
    Shortlisted for the ABIA Award (Biography of the Year) 2015A searingly honest memoir of family, cancer, love ... and unicycles by the founders of the Love your Sister charity, Connie and Samuel Johnson, that will inspire and they hope get people talking about boobs!Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel Johnson have always been close. Faced with the devastating news that they would soon be separated ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Everything Happens for a Reason

    And Other Lies I've Loved

    by Kate Bowler ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy KalanithiNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE**Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy

    by Manjusha Pawagi ...
    Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you'd live forever. She describes how even the darkest moments of life can be made worse with roommates; details how much determination it ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • My Mummy Wears a Wig

    Does Yours?

    by Michelle Williams-Huw ...
    A true and heart warming account of a journey through breast cancer.A diagnosis of breast cancer made Michelle Williams-Huw, mother of two small boys, re-evaluate her life as she battled her demons to come to terms with the illness. My Mummy Wears A Wig is poignant, sad, revelatory and deliciously funny. Readers will be riveted by her honesty and enchanted as, having hit bottom, she falls in love ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mama, I'm Not Gone

    Losing a Child to Cancer – A Mother’s Compelling Journey through Grief, Spiritual Enlightenment and Healing Messages from the Other Side

    by Dana L. Wood ...
    “We went about our daily lives as normally as possible but when it came down to the fighting, we maintained our quiet yet tenacious determination.” And so begins the tragic but inspiring saga of 12-year-old Darah Joseph, a top-flight competitive athlete who developed Ewing Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that afflicts children and young adults. Her brave and positive outlook carried her ... Read more

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  • Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery

    A Step-by-Step MBSR Approach to Help You Cope with Treatment and Reclaim Your Life

    by Linda Carlson, PhD, RPsych, Michael Speca, PsyD RPsych ...
    A Mind-Body Approach to HealingIf you have received a cancer diagnosis, you know that the hundreds of questions and concerns you have about what's to come can be as stressful as the cancer treatment itself. But research shows that if you mentally prepare yourself to handle cancer treatment by getting stress and anxiety under control, you can improve your quality of life and become an active ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do

    2013 Edition

    by Greg Anderson ...
    This definitive guide, revised with over 25% new material, empowers cancer patients and their loved ones to move beyond their disease.Greg Anderson, a cancer survivor, has designed this book for the recently diagnosed, those with recurring symptoms, and those who are well but have a lingering fear that the disease may strike again. Informative and inspiring, Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do goes ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • But Hope is Longer: Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer

    Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer

    by Tamara Levine ...
    When Tamara Levine received her breast cancer diagnosis, in a state of shock, she decided to inform her friends and colleagues by writing to them. That letter was the first of thirteen communications she calls her healing journey. As well as sharing the letters, Tamara tells us what she learned maneuvering through the black hole of cancer treatment. Tamara discusses vulnerabilities and fears, the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD