Biography & Autobiography, Medical
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Brilliant Bob - My Husband with Alzheimer's Disease
Our Love Story by Sue Lehr
This book is about our life before and after Alzheimer's Disease invaded and how, over the subsequent ten years, we did our best to fight, learn, adjust and live with this heinous disease as it progressed. Using the Seven Stages of Alzheimer's...
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Donna's Story
A Journey Through Alzheimer's Disease by John Knapp
Donna is on a long journey through Alzheimer’s disease. It is like a mountain road with many twists and turns, heading steadily downhill. There are no places to make a U-turn; no rest stops. As Donna’s caregiver, I too am on this road, but I am...
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One Day at a Time
My journey through leukemia and a stem cell transplant by Marge Johnson
Marge was initially surprised when diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. However, her continued healthy wellbeing allowed Marge to put the news behind her and carry on with her everyday life. But then, five years later, her illness...
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The Psychopath Machine
A Story of Resistance and Survival by Steve Smith
When Steve Smith set out to hitchhike from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to Canada’s west coast back in 1968, he was just an eighteen-year-old hippie with an appetite for adventure. But a short way into his journey, a reckless decision to steal a car...
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And The Day Came
by Marion Perepolkin
This revealing and heartfelt memoir explores the lives of the early Russian Doukhobor women and men who worked and farmed in Canada, and saw their children forcibly removed and sent to residential schools in hopes of assimilating them. It also...
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Side Effects
A Nurse's Journey Through Secondary Traumatic Stress by D.B. Wright
Side Effects is a memoir of a nurse’s journey through Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) toward a renewed sense of physical, mental and spiritual well being. It provides an insider perspective on how STS can accumulate over time affecting both...
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The Cancer Olympics
by Robin McGee
National Indie Excellence Award Finalist (2016) for Cancer. Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner (2016) for Best Inspirational. Feathered Quill Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Inspirational (2016). International Book Award Finalist (2015) for...
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Cloud Messenger
Love and Loss in the Indian Himalayas by Karen Trollope-Kumar
As a Canadian medical student, Karen Trollope-Kumar went to India to study social and preventive medicine and met a young pediatrician named Pradeep. His dream of working in the Himalayan foothills captured her imagination, and the man captured...
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Turn the Other Cheek
by Dorothy Annette Grant
Years after having made a name for herself as a consumer reporter for CBC Television in Halifax, Dorothy Grant, now working for the Nova Scotia Medical Society, received an unexpected call. It was from an elderly woman named Charlotte, who hoped...
