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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
The Paralympic ski racer, YouTube star, and motivational speaker documents his coming of age as an amputee cancer survivor and his efforts to investigate past dates gone wrong to discover why he was still single.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A memoir by Benjamin Mee, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
261 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside, complete with over 200 exotic animals. It was his dream to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. There was much work to be done, and none of it easy. Tigers broke loose, money ran low, the staff grew skeptical, and family tensions ran high. Then tragedy struck. His wife had a recurrence of a brain tumor, forcing...
8) Love, Ish
Author
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.
10) Saving the Tasmanian devil: how science is helping the world's largest marsupial carnivore survive
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
"In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it's too late. Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even humans, as they learn more about how to prevent and hopefully...
11) After the end
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The breathtaking, emotional new novel from Clare Mackintosh. A story about impossible choices. A story about the strength and fragility of love"--
"Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, loversunshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a different future for their son. What if they could have...
Author
Publisher
Demos Health
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"No matter where you are in treatment, what side effects you may be experiencing, or your general fitness level, Pilates is a safe and effective way to help you regain flexibility, power, and endurance while relieving treatment side effects such as lymphedema, fatigue, depression, peripheral neuropathy, osteoporosis, and upper extremity impairment. Naomi Aaronson and Anne Marie Turo, occupational therapists and certified Pilates instructors, show...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. As the mother of 5 kids-6 if you include her husband-sat in the neurosurgery department in star-covered sweats too whimsical for the seriousness of the situation, all she could think was "Am I going to die?" Thankfully, Jeannie and her family were able to survive their time of crisis, and now she is sharing her deeply personal journey through...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma"--Provided by publisher.
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