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Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sick of being sick? Time to get well and thrive! Are you living your dreams--or has a chronic medical issue taken over your life? Amy Kurtz gets it. From her teens to her twenties, she has known as "the sick chick"--And lived with the shame, fear, and frustration that comes with the label. With the medical and personal support, she radically improved her health. Today, she's dedicated to helping you live well regardless of your health situation....
Author
Series
Brown sisters volume 1
Language
English
Description
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan and a list. After almost - but not quite - dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her 'Get a Life', and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out - Ride a motorcycle - Go camping - Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex - Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage - And......
Author
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Chronic illness creates many challenges, from career crises and relationship issues to struggles with self-blame, personal identity, and isolation. Toni Bernhard addresses these challenges and many more, using practical examples to illustrate how mindfulness, equanimity, and compassion can help readers make peace with a life turned upside down.
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Mickey Chambers is an adjunct instructor with a meager summer class schedule and too many medical bills, courtesy of her chronic illness. Picking up a bartending gig seems perfect. Sure, Mickey' never done this before, but the grumpy bar owner, Diego Acosta, might be the perfect man to teach the teacher... if he wasn't so stressed. Diego is worried he's running his late wife's bar into the ground. Add the pressures of returning to college part-time...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Parenting Children with Diabetes offers parents a 360-degree view of what is happening to their child living with diabetes, providing special tools, insight, and education to help parents and their children navigate diabetes management, communicate clearly and effectively, and live safely and healthfully in the world around them.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The funny, defiant memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head--but wasn't. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored. In her darkly funny and courageous memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug--from age fifteen to her death at the age of twenty-five. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three, Mallory Smith grew up to be a determined, talented young woman who inspired others even as she privately raged against her illness. Despite the daily challenges of endless medical treatments...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn't exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals. In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque...
11) Crying laughing
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv...
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