Catalog Search Results
821) Counting Thyme
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The award-winning children's book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter's illness in this frank, moving, and beautiful memoir. Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is "throw like a girl," so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe's midsection as she sits on his...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now in her thirties and, when Did I Ever Tell You? begins,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In Including Alice, fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life when her father gets married and her brother moves to his own apartment. In Alice on her way, Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her new boyfriend, and getting a driver's license. In Alice in the know, during the summer before junior year, Alice, while working at the local department store, must deal with a friend being...
828) The story of my tits
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they'd held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and death. And then they were gone. Now, their story has become a way of understanding her story: a journey from the innocence of youth to the chaos of adulthood, through her mother's mastectomy, her father's mistress, her husband's music, and...
Author
Pub. Date
p2007
Description
In Back on Blossom Street, the owner of Susannah's Garden and her new employee join Lydia's new knitting class. Several members of the knitting class have personal problems and the other members try to find a solution to each problem.In Twenty Wishes, Anne Marie, a childless widow, hopes to find happiness again. She and some friends each compile a list of twenty wishes. Anne Marie learns that wishes can come true, but not necessarily in the way...
831) In waves
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A tale of love, heartbreak and surfing from an important new voice in comics. In Waves is Craig Thompson's Blankets meets William Finnegan's Barbarian Days.In this visually arresting graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner, her battle with cancer, and their shared love of surfing that brought them strength throughout their time together. With his passion for surfing uniting many narratives, he intertwines his own...
832) Nutrition in crisis: flawed studies, misleading advice, and the real science of human metabolism
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Why Low Carb Should Be the Default Approach for Managing and Preventing Metabolic Syndrome and Other Chronic Diseases. Almost every day it seems a new study is published that shows you are at risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or all-cause mortality due to something you've just eaten for lunch. Many of us no longer know what to eat or who to believe. In the Nutrition Revolutiont; distinguished biochemist Richard Feinman, PhD, cuts through...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Appears on list
Description
"At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Appears on these lists
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
838) The liver cure
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The liver is the most overlooked and misunderstood of all our body's organs. Because of the sudden, potentially fatal consequences of heart attack and stroke, everyone's attention is always focused on the heart or the brain, but without a healthy liver, you ultimately cannot survive; of all your organs, none does more for you than the liver. Still, until something goes wrong with the liver, it's usually completely overlooked. Until now. The Liver...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
As a war correspondent in over 150 countries, Rod Nordland was no stranger to death. But after being diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, he found himself confined to a hospital bed and faced with more personal conflicts. This is his own story about persevering even in the most difficult of times.