Kear, Nicole C.

Summary: "When [the author] was 19 years old, she walked into an eye doctor's office for what she thought was a routine appointment and was given a life-changing diagnosis. She was going blind, courtesy of a disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and she had a decade or so before lights-out. To cope, she decides to hide her disease and live like there's no tomorrow ... She tears through boyfriends, joins...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEAR, NICOLE C KEA

Stark, Lizzie.

Summary: "Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In Pandora's DNA, Stark uses her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 STA

Paddock, Bonner.

Summary: In this exhilarating and inspirational memoir, the first man with cerebral palsy to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and complete the brutal Ironman competition shares the exhilarating adventure that led to his achievements--redefining our ideas of normal and proving that life is never truly limited for any of us.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PADDOCK, BONNER PAD