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  • My Journey with Dad

    A Caregiver’S Perspective in Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer’S Disease

    by JoAnn Devine ...
    This is a true story about a daughter and her fathers journey through the stages of his Alzheimers disease. Caregivers are the main focus of this story. The author shares techniques and strategies in handling certain behaviors and situations. The goal is to make the caregiving process more manageable so that both you and your family can enjoy those special moments and days ahead with your loved ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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  • Monkey Mind

    A Memoir of Anxiety

    by Daniel Smith ...
    Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence. Aaron Beck, the most influential doctor in modern psychotherapy, says that “Monkey Mind does for anxiety what William ... Read more

    $19.50 CAD

  • The Drug Hunters

    The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

    The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Mama, I'm Not Gone

    Losing a Child to Cancer – A Mother’s Compelling Journey through Grief, Spiritual Enlightenment and Healing Messages from the Other Side

    by Dana L. Wood ...
    “We went about our daily lives as normally as possible but when it came down to the fighting, we maintained our quiet yet tenacious determination.” And so begins the tragic but inspiring saga of 12-year-old Darah Joseph, a top-flight competitive athlete who developed Ewing Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that afflicts children and young adults. Her brave and positive outlook carried her ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Freud

    The Making of an Illusion

    From the master of Freud debunkers, a critical biography that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator.Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Beauty of Love

    A Memoir of Miracles, Hope, and Healing

    JORGE and LAURA POSADA were accustomed to being on top of the world. After a romantic courtship, the lives of these newlyweds were filled with unimaginable success and joy. But all of that changed when their first-born son was diagnosed with craniosynostosis, a birth defect that causes an abnormally shaped skull. Their priorities swiftly changed, as Jorge and Laura navigated their way through the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Adrift on an Ice Pan

    On Easter Sunday, 1908, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell was summoned to treat a boy with osteomyelitis who had been operated on two weeks earlier. The young man needed immediate attention to save not only his leg but his life, so the doctor set out from St. Anthony, Newfoundland, with his komatik and his eight best dogs. To save a few miles, Dr. Grenfell took a shortcut across a bay, but the ice broke up ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • From Thomas to Train Conductor

    The Story of a Special Boy

    In 2010 Kirin Jacobsen walks across the auditorium stage to receive his Bachelor’s Degree. For his parents, Suzanne and John Jacobsen, this moment is more than a milestone – it is a celebration of Kirin’s courage to overcome enormous obstacles. Follow the Jacobsen family as Kirin grows from a boy who passionately loves Thomas the Tank Engine into a wise and wonderful young man who becomes a train ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Memoirs of a Caregiver

    A Caregiver’S Story of Assisting Four Family Members with Alzheimer’S Disease

    by Cynthia Young ...
    Alzheimers is a memory-robbing, debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. For most families, having just one member afflicted with Alzheimers disease can be devastating. In her poignant memoir, Cynthia Young shares her story of love and devotion as she learns how to care for four family members stricken with Alzheimers disease over a ten-year period.Young narrates a journey filled ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Eloquent Body

    by Dawn Garisch ...
    Eloquent Body explores the juxtaposition of healing and creativity both from a personal as well as medical point of view. Dawn Garisch works as a medical doctor and a writer in equal measure and advocates dialogue between our bodies and our creative selves. Her novel Trespass was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa. ... Read more

    $171.49 CAD

  • How Your Surgeon Feels

    Lifetime Essays in the Art and Science of Surgery

    In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard . It is mostly the clamor of patients you hear or the rancor of politicians . This compendium of lifetime essays will restitute an imbalance that is long overdue .The collection speaks to how a practicing surgeon really feels about the vital ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Wait Time

    A Memoir of Cancer

    Series Book 56 - Life Writing
    When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks. His narrative voice is personal but not confessional, practical but not cold, thoughtful and searching but not self-pitying or ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD