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Groopman, Jerome E. Headley, Maria Dahvana Kane, Jeff. Scalise, Mike Woolf, VirginiaGroopman, 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 GROScalise, 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 SCAWoolf, Virginia
Summary: In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being's experience, it has never been the subject of literature--like the more acceptable subjects of war and love. We cannot quote Shakespeare to describe a headache. We must, Woolf says, invent language to describe pain. And though illness enhances our perceptions, she observes that it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paris Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 WOOKane, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSan Francisco 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 KANHeadley, Maria Dahvana
Summary: Aza Ray Boyle's life has been defined by a unique lung disease and her evolving friendship with Jason, but just before her sixteenth birthday, she's swept up into the sky-bound world of Magonia and discovers her true identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015