Ofri, Danielle.
Summary: Ofri has finished her training as a physician and is learning through practice to become a more rounded healer. The book opens with the tables turned: Ofri has to enter her own hospital as a patient. She experiences the very real sense of invasion and panic that routinely visits her patients. These fifteen intertwined tales include that of a man who has lost the will to live, and she too comes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.696 OFRSekeres, Mikkael A
Summary: "When Blood Breaks Down explores the lives and emotions of three leukemia patients, their caregivers, the doctor-patient relationship, and the history of the incredible discoveries that led to their treatment. Three people receive a diagnosis of leukemiawithin hours of each other. As is true of any person diagnosed with cancer, they must make decisions about how their cancer will be treated -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 SEKKalick, Rosanne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Books Publisher 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 KALGroopman, Jerome E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.001 GROGroopman, Jerome E.
Summary: While scientists look for a scienticfic basis for hope, many have learned that seeking hope is essential to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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Logsdon, Gene.
Summary: A cancer survivor and farmer writes about the struggles of his childhood and life as a parent, the resilience of nature, and nature's cycles of life and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub Co 2014
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Summary: "Jenny Lisk had no idea what was coming. At forty-three, she had a lot going on. A full-time job. Two young kids. A home to manage. And suddenly--a husband with inoperable brain cancer. How could this be her life? In between surgeries, ER visits, thousands of pills, and ultimately, hospice at home, Jenny kept her corner of the world updated through a CaringBridge online journal, and found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bluhen Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LISK, JENNY LISScalise, Mike
Summary: "Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize Mike Scalise hits his stride in this page-turner of a memoir featuring a sudden and strange sequence of medical disasters. From its gripping ruptured-brain-tumor emergency room opening, through a series of medical procedures and oddball doctors, Scalise creates a sharply observed, uproariously funny, and deeply moving account of acromegaly, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCALISE, MIKE SCAJacobs, Hollye.
Summary: Hollye Jacobs describes with humor and wisdom her personal experience with breast cancer and gives details about diagnosis, treatment, side effects and recovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 JACBeattie, Melody.
Summary: With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises and self-help tests, this guide has helped countless readers change their codependent behaviors and understand that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging Gros-DaillonEpstein, Ronald
Summary: "The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most--safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care--from the foremost expert in the field,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 EPSSummary: "FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARSummary: Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEINakazawa, Donna Jackson
Summary: "Anyone on the front lines of caring for girls today-parents, school nurses, guidance counselors-knows that girls are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. New science confirms this a biologically-rooted phenomenon, set in motion by the earlier onset of puberty, the evolutionary predisposition of the female brain to react to perceived threats, and the many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23082 NAKSt. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCDavidson, Jordan
Summary: "A new kind of family planning book for the millennial and Gen Z generations, offering inclusive guidance on the realities of parenthood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 DAVRegan, Lisa
Summary: This accessible value education title explores the story of an impatient child named Tilly who does not like waiting or letting others have their turn. She wants to play the video game her brother is playing. She wants to go on the seesaw her friends are on. She wants to tell her parents about her swimming lesson in the middle of their conversation. Tilly chooses one out of three behaviors for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 179 REGPressman, David
Summary: "Provides an introduction to the patenting process, with everything you need to know about patent law basics, including the latest implications of the America Invents Act, the most important change to American patent law in two centuries. Includes patent and invention resources and a glossary of patent terms" --Adapted from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.04 PREJaffe, Adi
Summary: "Breaking free of outdated explanations and rigid "rules" for recovery, The Abstinence Myth offers a hopeful, research-based framework for transformation by an addiction expert and renowned TEDx speaker who overcame his own addiction and has guided hundreds of clients into lives of joy and purpose"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: IGNTD Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.86 JAFFoster, Vivian
Summary: Getting frustrated is in many ways a natural part of being human, but you can navigate through the chaos of raising a child without letting it get you all worked up inside. You just need to better understand your own emotions and your own anger. When you can recognize your triggers before they happen (and develop the right techniques to navigate through your emotional storms), this explosion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Star Spark Press 2022
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Summary: "A guide for white parents of transracially or transnationally adopted children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021