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Beat Cancer's Butt

by Helen Page ...

Has cancer left you feeling powerless? You do have choices. Beat Cancer's Butt by Helen Page is an approachable, empowering guide to enhancing your health and well-being. If you knew simple lifestyle changes might significantly help improve your chances of beating cancer, would you make them?'I fell to pieces the day I was diagnosed with womb cancer at the age of 36. I cried. I wallowed. I prayed. ... Read more

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Has cancer left you feeling powerless? You do have choices. Beat Cancer's Butt by Helen Page is an approachable, empowering guide to enhancing your health and well-being. If you knew simple lifestyle changes might significantly help improve your chances of beating cancer, would you make them?'I fell to pieces the day I was diagnosed with womb cancer at the age of 36. I cried. I wallowed. I prayed.
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An Essential Guide to Caring for People With a Learning Disability and Autistic People

Enabling a Cross-Field Approach

Edited by Helen Jones, Andrea Page, Samantha Salmon ...

This essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with other key health and social care professions, regardless of field, need to know about caring for people with a learning disability and autism. It outlines some of the key challenges faced by people with a learning disability and autism, and ways in which good care can improve their quality of ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

This essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with other key health and social care professions, regardless of field, need to know about caring for people with a learning disability and autism. It outlines some of the key challenges faced by people with a learning disability and autism, and ways in which good care can improve their quality of
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In This Faulty Machine

A Memoir of Loss and Transformation

by Kathy Page ...

Narrated by Helen K. Taylor ...

Unabridged

8 hours 15 min

An exquisite memoir of the author’s life since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease—informative, funny, and moving all at once.Acclaimed novelist Kathy Page had just completed a promotional tour for her award-winning book Dear Evelyn when a fall during a hike injured her hand. That relatively minor accident seemed to set in motion a cascade of other seemingly unrelated physical issues. Many ... Read more

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An exquisite memoir of the author’s life since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease—informative, funny, and moving all at once.Acclaimed novelist Kathy Page had just completed a promotional tour for her award-winning book Dear Evelyn when a fall during a hike injured her hand. That relatively minor accident seemed to set in motion a cascade of other seemingly unrelated physical issues. Many
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Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World

Edited by Catherine Lejeune, Delphine Pagès-El Karoui, Camille Schmoll, Hélène Thiollet ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world. Drawing on a variety of cities in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, it ... Read more

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This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world. Drawing on a variety of cities in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, it
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Biting the Hand

Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

by Julia Lee ...

Narrated by Julia Lee ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

"Lee's narration of her brilliant memoir is penetrating with insight, raw with confessions, radiant with fury. Her meticulous writing is already stupendous, but the unguarded emotions that flow through her candid voice are a remarkable enhancement. Her tears of frustration and gratitude will surely prove contagious." - Booklist (starred review)"Lee's narration is powerful. She communicates all of ... Read more

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"Lee's narration of her brilliant memoir is penetrating with insight, raw with confessions, radiant with fury. Her meticulous writing is already stupendous, but the unguarded emotions that flow through her candid voice are a remarkable enhancement. Her tears of frustration and gratitude will surely prove contagious." - Booklist (starred review)"Lee's narration is powerful. She communicates all of
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Look Ma, No Hands

A Chronic Pain Memoir

by Gabrielle Drolet ...

Narrated by Gabrielle Drolet ...

Unabridged

6 hours 10 min

A humorous, profound debut memoir about chronic pain, accessibility, and young adulthood, by an acclaimed essayist and cartoonist.In 2021, Gabrielle Drolet developed a condition that made her unable to use her hands. It only worsened over time, and as a writer and artist, she had to learn new ways of creating and expressing herself. The experience completely changed her life and her outlook.Look ... Read more

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A humorous, profound debut memoir about chronic pain, accessibility, and young adulthood, by an acclaimed essayist and cartoonist.In 2021, Gabrielle Drolet developed a condition that made her unable to use her hands. It only worsened over time, and as a writer and artist, she had to learn new ways of creating and expressing herself. The experience completely changed her life and her outlook.Look
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Walking with Beth

Conversations with My Hundred-Year-Old Friend

by Merilyn Simonds ...

Narrated by Merilyn Simonds ...

Unabridged

8 hours 12 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERMerilyn Simonds's Walking with Beth allows us to eavesdrop on two women, one already a centenarian, talking frankly about what scares us all: growing old. It's a book with a unique take on longevity, full of wisdom, tenderness, joy and the passions that sustain a very long life.**In the spring of 2021, Merilyn Simonds asked her friend Beth Robinson if she’d like to go for a ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERMerilyn Simonds's Walking with Beth allows us to eavesdrop on two women, one already a centenarian, talking frankly about what scares us all: growing old. It's a book with a unique take on longevity, full of wisdom, tenderness, joy and the passions that sustain a very long life.**In the spring of 2021, Merilyn Simonds asked her friend Beth Robinson if she’d like to go for a
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Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop

by Emmeline Duncan ...

Narrated by Emily Durante ...

Series series Halloween Bookshop Mystery
Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

Normally, spooky season is Bailey Briggs's favorite time of year, and her Halloween-themed small town's time to shine. But between managing Lazy Bones Books, working on her graphic novel-in-progress, and running the Spooky Season Literary Festival, Bailey hardly has a moment to enjoy Elyan Hollow's spot-on seasonal vibes. Not to mention, at every turn she seems to be tripping over the contentious ... Read more

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Normally, spooky season is Bailey Briggs's favorite time of year, and her Halloween-themed small town's time to shine. But between managing Lazy Bones Books, working on her graphic novel-in-progress, and running the Spooky Season Literary Festival, Bailey hardly has a moment to enjoy Elyan Hollow's spot-on seasonal vibes. Not to mention, at every turn she seems to be tripping over the contentious
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Runaway Train

or, The Story of My Life So Far

by Eric Roberts ...

Narrated by Eric Roberts ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

**This program is read by the author, Golden Globe–winning actor Eric Roberts.In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia.**Eric Roberts grew up in Georgia, spending most of his teens away from his mother and sisters, Lisa and Julia. ... Read more

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**This program is read by the author, Golden Globe–winning actor Eric Roberts.In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia.**Eric Roberts grew up in Georgia, spending most of his teens away from his mother and sisters, Lisa and Julia.
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If You Were My Daughter

A Memoir of Healing an Unmothered Heart

by Marianne Richmond ...

Narrated by Marianne Richmond ...

Unabridged

9 hours 47 min

At nine years old, Marianne Richmond's life is upended when she collapses with full-body convulsions. "Pinched nerve," says the ER doctor. But when one episode becomes many, it's clear something is wrong. Afraid to be at school, in her body, and in her life, Marianne desperately hopes for help and healing. But her emotionally unavailable mother refuses medication on Marianne's behalf, preferring ... Read more

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At nine years old, Marianne Richmond's life is upended when she collapses with full-body convulsions. "Pinched nerve," says the ER doctor. But when one episode becomes many, it's clear something is wrong. Afraid to be at school, in her body, and in her life, Marianne desperately hopes for help and healing. But her emotionally unavailable mother refuses medication on Marianne's behalf, preferring
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The Chair and the Valley

A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors

by Banning Lyon ...

Narrated by Banning Lyon, Jonathan Eig, Maria Shriver ...

Unabridged

10 hours 41 min

**"Bracing, brilliant, and fury-inducing.... a survival story like no other. With positively outstanding storytelling, this is a book that cannot be put down." —Booklist, starred reviewAN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVEROne of Booklist’s Best Memoirs of 2024One of Booklist Editors' Choice Adult Books for Young Adults, 2024**Banning Lyon was an average 15-year-old, living in Dallas, TX. He ... Read more

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**"Bracing, brilliant, and fury-inducing.... a survival story like no other. With positively outstanding storytelling, this is a book that cannot be put down." —Booklist, starred reviewAN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVEROne of Booklist’s Best Memoirs of 2024One of Booklist Editors' Choice Adult Books for Young Adults, 2024**Banning Lyon was an average 15-year-old, living in Dallas, TX. He
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The Berlin Letters

A Cold War Novel

by Katherine Reay ...

Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Ann Marie Gideon, P. J. Ochlan ...

Unabridged

11 hours 48 min

"Fans of codebreakers, spies, and Cold War dramas will be entrapped by Reay's tale of courage, love, and honor set against the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall." - Booklist Starred ReviewBestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison.From the time she was a young girl, ... Read more

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"Fans of codebreakers, spies, and Cold War dramas will be entrapped by Reay's tale of courage, love, and honor set against the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall." - Booklist Starred ReviewBestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison.From the time she was a young girl,
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