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Penguin (Non-Classics), May 2008. Trade Paperback. A "gleaming, humane" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and a first-year medical student Medical student Christine Montross felt nervous standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class. Entering a room with.....
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Knopf, September 1995. Hardcover. No Dust Jacket. No Dust Jacket. As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual.....
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Rodale Books, June 2006. Hardcover. Matthew Sanford's inspirational story about the car accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down is a superbly written memoir of healing and journey--from near death to triumphant life. Matt Sanford's life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 on a snowy Iowa.....
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Zondervan, December 1996. Mass Market Paperback. Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he's one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.....
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University of California Press, October 2011. Trade Paperback. Featured in the Netflix series The Surgeon's Cut and told here in his own words: the inspiring story of Dr. Q and his journey from migrant farmworker to premier neurosurgeon. Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and.....
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Perennial, September 2011. Trade Paperback. An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick. "Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis.....
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Howard University Press, January 2005. Hardcover.
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Createspace, February 2012. Paperback.
Penguin Group, September 1980. Trade Paperback.
Reader's Digest Press / Random House. Mass Market Paperback.
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Plume Books, October 1997. Trade Paperback. In this groundbreaking and far-reaching collection, writers such as Andre Dubus, Stanley Elkin, and Adrienne Rich, confront what it means to be disabled in our society. Through the vehicles of nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and drama, Staring Back is the first anthology to open the.....
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S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, October 2021. Hardcover. * A People Best Book of the Year * Time and The Washington Post's Most Anticipated List * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence * From the MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and playwright, this "captivating, insightful memoir" (Kirkus Reviews.....
Bantam Books, May 1981. Paperback.
Disability Today Publishing, January 1996. Trade Paperback.
HarperCollins Publishers, May 1988. Paperback.
Syracuse University Press, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Inscription reads 'Johnny- :) John Robinson'. Inscription reads 'Johnny- :) John Robinson'.
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Inkshares, October 2016. Paperback. People often say, "I feel like I've been run over by a truck." Katie actually was. On a sunny morning bike ride in Brooklyn, twenty-four-year-old Katie McKenna was forever changed when she was run over by an eighteen-wheeler. Being crushed under a massive semi wasn't something.....
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Scribner, March 2002. Hardcover. She never tired of the miracle. Each time she knelt to "catch" another baby, beloved California mid-wife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy, one person becomes two, woman turns to goddess, and the world moves aside to make room for.....
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Brown Paper Press, September 2022. Trade Paperback. A self-described crybaby who sees the end of the world lurking around every corner, Cheryl E. Klein has relied on planning and hard work to reach her goals and avoid catastrophe. But when she finds her wish for a baby dashed over and.....
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Dutton Adult, May 1998. Hardcover. Hip, funny, and humane, a distinctive memoir of life with Tourette's Syndrome "Wonderful, compassionate, funny, instructive, inspiring and flat-out brilliant", said The New York Daily News about the award-winning 1995 documentary film, "Twitch and Shout". Narrator, associate producer, and photographer for that project, Lowell Handler.....
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University of Wisconsin Press, October 2012. Paperback.
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Harper Paperbacks, March 2014. Trade Paperback. Susan Spencer-Wendel's Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy is a moving and inspirational memoir by a woman who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After Spencer-Wendel, a celebrated journalist at the.....
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Broadway Books, March 2014. Trade Paperback. The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad's relationship with his equally offbeat son--complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble John Robison was not your typical dad. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the.....
George Braziller, August 1973. Hardcover.
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Plume, July 1999. Trade Paperback. In this revealing memoir Handler tells of how Tourette's has shaped his life and provides insight into the strange symptoms that are often debilitating and alienating. As the title suggests, Twitch and Shout is no plea for pity; it is a heartfelt and often humorous.....
