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4) About Alice
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
78 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
In a tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the author celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in his life.
Author
Publisher
Arcopress
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"In this her first book, Raquel Marugan tells us about her own personal experience after being diagnosed with throat cancer. This unexpected turn marks a turning point in her life. A way of living that trapped her forever. A chronicle that began in the country of uncertainty and ends in the world of hope. An exciting journey in which cancer led her to cross the border between the ordinary and the extraordinary. To play it all or nothing in order to...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 260 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Chronicles the year that the author and her family lived in Paris, describing her walking tours of the city, her school-age children's attempts to navigate foreign language schools, and her thoughts on the pleasures and eccentricities of French living.
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"At 36, Kelly had a good marriage, a couple of kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But she still saw herself as George Corrigan's daughter. A garrulous Irish-American charmer from Baltimore, George was the center of the ebullient, raucous Corrigan clan. Kelly's was a colorful childhood, just the sort a girl could get attached to. She lives deep within what she calls the Middle Place--'that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap'--but...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She?d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry?s death, she decided to make one small change in her life?she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist,...
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Not your ordinary cancer memoir, this is the debut of a masterful humorist. Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Irreverent and incredibly funny, Norton rails against self-pity and victimhood and rants about the innumerable copies of Lance Armstrong's cancer survival book pressed...
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"A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death--and be restored to life. After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma--a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer--journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock. She takes a once-in-a-lifetime chance and joins a clinical trial for immunotherapy, a revolutionary drug regimen that trains the body to vanquish malignant cells. Astonishingly,...
Author
Publisher
An Anthony Bourdain Book/ Ecco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In Stealing Green Mangoes, Dutta takes us from his family home in Rajasthan to America, to France, to the streets of southeastern Los Angeles, homing in on the questions that tore him and Raju apart: Can you outgrow the madness that made you? Can you make peace with the ghosts of your past? A memoir with sweeping, spiritual ambitions, Stealing Green Mangoes tells the story of a man who pushed back against the forces that captured his own brother...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
164 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From a bracingly beautiful new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother's image. Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned a breathtaking tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, returning to the family farmhouse and laboring over elaborate...
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xv, 191 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body- overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system- began shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
354 pages
Description
"An aspiring young chef explores food and adventure, illness and mortality, coming of age and coming out in an inspiring memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to New York City and beyond. Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the season fifteen "Fan Favorite" of Bravo's Top Chef. After the taping wrapped and before the shows aired, Fati was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, which eventually became terminal. Not one to ever slow...
16) American ramble
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (660 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6th insurrection. Covid lockdowns and a rancorous election had deepened America’s divides. Neil himself bore the imprints of a long battle with cancer. Determined to rediscover what matters in life and...
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