Kalanithi, Paul

Summary: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. 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, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr....

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Kalanithi, Paul

Summary: 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,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KAL

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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KALANITHI, PAUL KAL

Suggs, Christine

Summary: "In this memoir, Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, as Christine embraces and rebels against their heritage and finds a sense of belonging"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 SUG

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SUG

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Ung, Loung.

Summary: "When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, LOUNG UNG