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The Witch's Daughter: My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness That Bound Us

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Report copyright infringementby Orenda Fink (Author)Acclaimed indie musician and songwriter Orenda Fink's lyrical and moving memoir about growing up with a mother who battled mental illness and addiction and her journey to reclaim her voice through art and self-discovery is a "master text on surviving trauma as a child and adult" (Phoebe Bridgers). Each night, Orenda Fink's darkly charismatic mother perches on a kitchen stool and insists that she and Orenda are magic. Orenda's mother claims t...

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Report copyright infringementby Jo Ann Chernushek (Author)I miss my beautiful mother each and every day since October 27, 2007. I remember all the lessons she taught me: to live, to laugh every day, that "it's not how long you live but how well." She lost her childhood sweetheart to cancer then remarried and did well financially but still had some family issues. Instead of living comfortably into her old age she came down with Alzheimer's disease, deteriorated rapidly and died of a heart atta...

Rise: Living Life Over Cancer: Inspiring Hope & Defying Limits

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Report copyright infringementby Betty Jean Aucoin (Author), Toni Maggio (Editor)RISE: Living Life Over Cancer is a blend of memoir and practical guidance for those living with cancer, survivors, caregivers, and anyone seeking to live well in the face of uncertainty. Drawing from lived experience with recurrent stage IV breast cancer, Betty Jean Aucoin shares an integrative approach that supports mind, body, heart, and spirit while living alongside ongoing treatment.Am I going to die?This is t...

No Woman Left Behind: A Journey of Hope to Heal Every Woman Injured in Childbirth

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Grant (Author), Abraham Verghese (Foreword by)NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER INSPIRATION FOR HOW TO CREATE A LIFE OF PURPOSE, NO WOMAN LEFT BEHIND IS THE UNLIKELY STORY OF HOW ONE WOMAN LEAVES MADISON AVENUE AND TACKLES THE GLOBAL MATERNAL HEALTH CRISIS HEAD ON--PREFACED BY A POWERFUL FOREWORD BY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ABRAHAM VERGHESE. 2025 International Book Award Winner in Autobiography/Memoir "In this rousing debut, Grant demonstrates how the faith and acti...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Pope (Author)Welcome to Get Your Zen On!In this book, Zen Enthusiast Kathleen Pope invites you to travel with her on a journey of overcoming struggles, discovering inner strength, and ultimately finding Zen. Kathleen never seemed to have it easy. When she was only five months old, she had her first heart surgery and seemed to be in and out of the hospital throughout her entire childhood. However, through the support of her mother, she learned not to le...

Remission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Adams O'Connell (Author)As a medical sociologist, Virginia Adams O'Connell long studied the healthcare system and people navigating illness. Then, in 2019, she confronted her own reality of being diagnosed with primary bone lymphoma. "Since my diagnosis, I joined a club of current and past patients that I never wanted or intended to join," she writes with both candor and poignancy, adding, "But we can collectively work to make it the best club it can b...

Inside the AIDS Fight: Memoir of an Epidemiologist at the Pandemic Front Lines

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Report copyright infringementby Harry W. Haverkos (Author) Dr. Harry W. Haverkos had his first encounter with an AIDS patient in 1980. Three years later, he challenged the widely accepted belief that the sole cause of AIDS was HIV, proposing that factors like nitrite inhalants and cytomegalovirus also played a role in AIDS progression. In his investigations of the disease with the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, the US Public Health Service, and the US Department of Health and Human Serv...

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Report copyright infringementby Teddy Morrison (Author)What if you had only one hand? How would you survive? As such a person, I detail many examples of coping in this book, such as when someone asks me if I need a hand-I have a perfect answer to open a conversation with that person. It is always interesting to watch as people misjudge the ability of a person with one hand. I have on many occasions shocked a person with my ability. Also coming with one hand is the desire to do as much or more...

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Report copyright infringementby Leah Crump (Author)What if wellness was never the end goal but the beginning?In Be Well, Do Well, Leah Crump - luxury hospitality advisor, wellness strategist, and soulful business mentor invites readers into a field guide for modern flourishing. This isn't just a book about balance, boundaries, or breathwork (though you'll find those, too). These pages unlock the secrets of becoming the kind of woman who can hold it all: power and play, softness and structure,...

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Report copyright infringementby Ritchie (Author)From injury and doubt to finish lines and triumph, Headwind is a raw and uplifting story of grit, endurance, and transformation. In this powerful memoir, Daniel Ritchie takes readers inside the mental and physical battles of training for his first Ironman Triathlon-from the early days of uncertainty and pain to the defining moment of crossing the finish line. Along the way, he unpacks the emotional toll of setbacks, the discipline of daily train...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Terrill Heath (Author)Michelle Terrill Heath has lived an unconventional life, partly by choice and partly by circumstance. As a teenager, she met the love of her life, Andy, and they have been married for forty-seven years. They are a happy, healthy, and adventurous couple who have discovered how to continue this lifestyle, even through the onslaught of Andy's Parkinson's disease. In Your Wildest Dreams, the Heaths experiences translate directly into ...

Take Heart: Hopeful & Humorous Lessons From A Two-Time Transplant Recipient

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Report copyright infringementby David Craig (Author)2025 Goody Business Book Award Winner in Self-Help - InspirationHow do you stay positive when life delivers the unthinkable? For David Craig, this isn't a hypothetical question. At just twenty years old, his life took an unexpected turn when what he dismissed as bronchitis turned out to be heart failure.Thirty-five years, two heart transplants, and countless medical procedures later, David shares how he's navigated life's unpredictable twist...

In The Presence Of Cheng Man-Ch'ing: My Life And Lessons With The Master Of Five Excellences

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Report copyright infringementby William C. Phillips (Author)Sifu William C. Phillips, a devoted student and master teacher of tai chi with over fifty years experience, takes us on a journey into his lifetime in the martial arts and in particular, his lessons and experiences with the Master Of Five Excellences, the incomparable Cheng Man-Ch'ing, the expert who brought tai chi to the West in the 1960s.SIFU WILLIAM C. PHILLIPS, commenced training in tai chi in 1967 and was a student of Professor...

Dementia Denied: One Woman's True Story of Surviving a Terminal Diagnosis & Reclaiming Her Life

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Report copyright infringementby S. R. Hatton (Author), Ginger Smith (Author)A True Medical Mystery Memoir That Dares to Ask: What if the mind wasn't lost-just waiting to be heard?Diagnosed with terminal dementia. Bedbound. Hallucinating. Given just weeks to live. Everyone believed Ginger Smith's story was over. They were wrong. At 83, after years of trauma, polypharmacy, and steady cognitive decline, Ginger began to reawaken-piece by piece. Now 88 and living independently, she's sharing her a...

Waltzing With Alzheimer's: Caring When Your Partner is Out of Step

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Tyler (Author), Lauren Zurcher (Cover Design by)This is one of many stories that could be written about the heartache of Alzheimer's Disease. It is told by a life partner who journeyed through the stages of caregiving from not understanding what was happening to the point of extreme grief. You will find that caregiving and dementia have a tenuous relationship; that most logical and productive suggestions fail to succeed; that Alzheimer's care resembles a...

Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use Guide to Looking Your Best

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Report copyright infringementby Nadine Haobsh (Author)Renowned beauty expert Nadine Haobsh has the answers to the world's really BIG questions: How much should I tip my hair stylist (and the shampoo girl and the colorist)? How red can I go before my lips make me look too vampy? What's the best perfume for my lifestyle? What's the proper method for using that most important beauty accessory, the eyelash curler? Is it ever too early to get Botox? Forget celebrity trends and complicated ho...

Rescue at the Reef: The Miraculous True Story of a Little Boy with Big Faith

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Report copyright infringementby Jameson Reeder (Author), Mary Catherine Reeder (Author)In the vein of #1 New York Times bestseller Soul Surfer, this inspiring story of loss and resilience follows the Reeder family after a horrific shark attack. A two-week vacation to the Florida Keys meant Mary and Jameson Sr. could share the beauty of their favorite turquoise-blue waters with their four children. On that serene day at Looe Key Reef, their oldest, ten-year-old Jameson Jr., was swimming among...

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Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing: An African American Woman Biblical Scholar's Stroke Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Mitzi J. Smith (Author), J. Alfred Smith (Foreword by)Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing is the first stroke memoir written by a Black woman biblical scholar. Smith's story is her mother's story, and it is not. It is the story of other stroke survivors, and it is not. It is a unique telling of the civil war that erupts in her body. It is a journey of not knowing, awareness, survival, fragmentation, discovery, and recovery. Smith's story is inspiring, amazing, ...

The Youngest Bee: A Louisiana Story of Sisterhood, Strength, and Alzheimer's

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Evans (Author)Coming of age in the late 1970s/early 1980s in Louisiana, Virginia Evans describes an idyllic childhood filled with summer camps, shopping trips, LSU football games, and her parents' annual elaborate Christmas parties. The youngest of six siblings, whose ages span over 22 years, Virginia had her parents to herself for most of her young life.Virginia's world is shattered when her beloved father, Red, becomes seriously ill and passes away w...

And I Was Delivered from the Lion's Mouth

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Worley (Author)At just 17 years old, Lauren Worley's life should have ended in that curve on a country road-trapped in a mangled car, struck head-on by a drunk driver, her body broken, her brain severely injured. Left with a 1% chance of survival. First responders weren't sure if she would make it to hospital. But God had a different plan.In a moment that changed everything, a community dropped to its knees in prayer-and heaven responded. Lauren's fight f...

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Report copyright infringementby David Sears (Author), Lou Sears (Author)Living with Hope A True Story of Love, Courage, and Resilience in the Face of Incurable Cancer When life changes in an instant, how do you hold on to hope? Living with Hope is the moving true story of one couple's journey after an incurable cancer diagnosis. From the initial shock of diagnosis to navigating treatments, clinical trials, and the unpredictability of remission and relapse, this intimate memoir offers an hones...

A Reason to Live: HIV and Animal Companions

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Report copyright infringementby Vicki Hutton (Author)A Reason to Live explores the human-animal relationship through the narratives of eleven people living with HIV and their animal companions. The narratives, based on a series of interviews with HIV-positive individuals and their animal companions in Australia, span the entirety of the HIV epidemic, from public awareness and discrimination in the 1980s and 1990s to survival and hope in the twenty-first century. Each narrative is explored wit...

The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction--And a Search for Relief

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Zeller Jr (Author)"Required reading for anyone with a head."--Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz"[The Headache] weaves together history, biology, a survey of current research, testimony from patients, and an agonizing account of Zeller's own suffering. . . If there's a lesson here, it's that pain resists mastery, but understanding, however incomplete, can offer its own form of relief."--New YorkerFrom blinding migraines to sever...

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Sontag (Author)Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper tr...

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Report copyright infringementby Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (Author)The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life and a Place in the Age of Anxiety is a memoir on journeying through a rare and deadly eye cancer in the middle of trying to save a fifth-generation Kansas farm. In this tender, humorous, poetic, wry, and courageous story, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg writes what author Harriet Lerner called "....a luminous, poetic meditation on survival, community, and resilience. With tenderness and humor, her me...

Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back from the Brink

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Report copyright infringementby Ariane Beeston (Author)A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recovery'I do not know who I am anymore or where I have gone ...'Ariane Beeston is a child protection worker and newly registered psychologist when she gives birth to her first child - and very quickly begins to experience scary breaks with reality. Out of fear and shame, she keeps her delusions and hallucinations secret, but as the months pass Ariane gets worse. Much wo...

Two Ordinary Women: Adventures, Awe & Adversities

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia L. Headley (Author)The life stories of Ruthanne and Pat continue, with a focus on what their life looked like through the adversities of Ruthanne's multiple sclerosis diagnosis, multiple cancers, and myriad health issues that arose from her illnesses and treatments.This book is the second in a series-a continuation of stories from Ruthanne and Pat's 30 years together as partners. Through Pat's writing, readers get an inside look at how the daily lives ...

Seven Wonders of Menopause: The Mother of All Wake-Up Calls

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Report copyright infringementby Shavita Kotak (Author)What if menopause was not the end but the beginning of your most powerful chapter? The Seven Wonders of Menopause: The Mother of All Wake-Up Calls by Shavita redefines menopause as a journey of spiritual awakening and self-discovery-a stage of life that invites women to break free from the "cage of aging" and embrace their true purpose, strength, and wisdom.For too long, society has painted menopause in shades of doom and gloom, leading wo...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony T. Varesio (Author)Unlikely Duo Navigate Dementia with Humor, Compassion, and Faith: A Journal-Based Tale Offering Insight into Holistic Care & Deep Friendship Amidst Trials.Losing Yesterdays is an inspiring tale of friendship and resilience that defies the usual narrative around dementia. Steve, a successful entrepreneur, adventurer, and now a dementia patient, forges an unlikely friendship with Anthony, a man who has wrestled with severe depressio...

Just Add Salt: A Single Mother's Quest to Save Her Daughter's Life and Feed Her Soul

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Report copyright infringementby Leah Milana Bauer (Author)Just Add Salt offers a raw and inspiring look at a single mother's fight to save her daughter while finding strength through creativity, family, and food.Grace Rose was born with Cystic Fibrosis, a progressive disease that affects the lungs, pancreas, and other vital organs. Her battle with the condition shapes a story of perseverance, as her mother, Leah, navigates the daily challenges of raising a child with a life-threatening illnes...

Never Let Them See You Sweat: How Science Can Help Us Harness Stress for Success

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Report copyright infringementby Leigh Vinocur (Author)2025 American Bookfest Best Book Awards Finalist, Women's HealthGet ready to learn how to harness stress for success with insight, personal stories, and laughs from a medical doctor who shows the science behind the advice and methods. In her new book, part-memoir, part self-help, Never Let Them See You Sweat, Dr. Leigh empowers women by relating to stresses as a single mother, career-minded woman in a male-dominated field, and experienced...