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Breast Cancer Patients United States Biography Cancer Patients Cancer Patients United States Biography Colon (Anatomy) Cancer Patients United States Biography Computer scientists United States Biography Death Psychological aspects Pausch, Randy Philosophy Terminally ill United States Biography Two thousand twenty, A.D United StatesFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDBrown, Jenny
Summary: Traces how the author lost a leg to bone cancer in childhood before connecting with farm animals and questioning her Southern Baptist upbringing to expose what she has learned about slaughterhouse abuses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, JENNY BROHenigson, Jeff
Summary: "A memoir about Jeff Henigson's teen Starlight Children's Foundation wish after being diagnosed with brain cancer: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev and plea for nuclear disarmament and world peace"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HENSummary: Follows ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber as she travels the U.S. making the case for a link between environmental toxins and cancer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIVHagberg Fisher, Eva
Summary: A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost-and for anyone who has struggled to seek help or accept it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HAGBERG FISHER, EVA HAGBreslin, Susannah
Summary: "What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRESLIN, SUSANNAH BRESweeney, Julia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 SWEDern, Laura
Summary: "Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DERArmstrong, Lance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 921 ArmstrongArmstrong, Lance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.62 ARMYalom, Irvin D.
Summary: "A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confrontsthe loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YALD'Aguiar, Fred
Summary: Drawing from two cultural perspectives, an acclaimed British-Guyanese writer and award-winning poet combines personal reminiscence and philosophy to reflect on a year of personal and global crisis, as he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 D'AGUIAR, FRED D'AGRoberts, Robin
Summary: "'Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As Momma always said, Everybody's got something.' So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's new memoir in which she recounts the incredible journey that's been her life so far, and the lessons she's learned along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 ROBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBERTS, ROBIN ROBBiden, Joseph R.
Summary: The former vice-president of the United States chronicles the difficult final year of his son's battle with cancer, his efforts to balance his responsibilities to the country and his family, and the lessons he learned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIDEN, JOSEPH R. BIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BIDEN BIDBoyer, Anne
Summary: "A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Summary: "We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure out how to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: "A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant and vivacious wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fightduring the courageous final months of her mother's life, Townsend - a lifelong scientist - was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When Greg Holmes was diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of cancer, his wife, a physician, devoted her time to researching alternative and holistic forms of treatment, seeking not only to battle the disease, but the debilitating after effects of radiation and chemotherapy. This book relates his struggle, and the methods the couple used to help treat his cancer. In the words of the author, "I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradox 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLMES, GREG HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Alt HolmesNiemi, Lisa.
Summary: The wife of the late Patrick Swayze presents an account of grief, loss, caregiving and moving on while sharing stories about their final months together and discussing their teenage romance, dance careers, and thirty-four-year marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWAYZE, PATRICK SWANotaro, Tig
Summary: In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Days after her diagnosis, Tig took her grief onstage, opening an unvarnished set with, "Good evening. Hello. I have cancer." The set went viral instantly and was later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOTARO, TIG NOTYip-Williams, Julie
Summary: "Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kongand, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YIP-WILLIAMS, JULIE YIPPausch, Randy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Reflections of a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who lectured on "Really achieving your childhood dreams," shortly after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer. His advice concerned seizing the moment while living, rather than dying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books 2008
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Summary: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audiobooks 2008