Lemonick, Michael D.

Summary: "In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has uncovered. Lonni Sue Johnson was a renowned artist...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B JOHNSON LEM

Cahalan, Susannah.

Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.832 CAH

Cahalan, Susannah.

Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records--chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all--showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Cahalan tells the astonishing true...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CAHALAN, SUSANNAH CAH