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Shrinkage: Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor That Tried to Kill Me
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Include books by the same authorI Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?
Suzy Becker · 256 pages
The author describes her battle with seizures, coping with medical procedures and tests, and her brain surgery, in an illustrated memoir that explores the themes of creativity, healing, love, commitment, family, and personality.
Lucky Man
Michael J. Fox · 304 pages
This memoir discusses Michael J. Fox’s life--growing up in Canada and then becoming a national television star in the U.S. at the age of 19. Fox reveals the excess and temptations he fell into as a young star, and how with the help of his wife, Tracy Pollan, he quit drinking and drowning in self-pity. He tells of noticing the first tremors of Parkinson’s disease, which he ignored; finding out at t
Awkward Bitch: My Life with MS
Marlo Donato Parmelee · 316 pages
Cancer Vixen
Marisa Acocella Marchetto · 224 pages
A New York City cartoonist recounts her eleven-month bout with breast cancer, from initial diagnosis to cure, chronicling her high-powered Manhattan lifestyle, the romance between the ultimate bachelorette and her surprising Prince Charming, and her fierce battle against disease.
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
A Journey Round My Skull
Frigyes Karinthy · 288 pages
The author's account of his own life when he was suffeing from a brain tumor.
Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy
Geralyn Lucas · 208 pages
Geralyn Lucas shares her feelings and experiences after being diagnosed at age twenty-eight with breast cancer, discussing some of the choices she made, the people she met, and the courage she gained from wearing bright red lipstick to her surgery.
Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour
Amy Robach · 247 pages
""I have breast cancer." When Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach revealed her shocking diagnosis on live television in November 2013, the seasoned news reporter embarked on the most difficult and illuminating journey of her life. In this intimate memoir, she retraces the twelve months following her brave announcement and speaks candidly, for the first time, about how her illness impacted her f
Happy
Alex Lemon · 292 pages
His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid who everyone called Happy, often without even knowing his real name. In the spring of 1997, he had his first stroke. For two years Lemon coped with his deteriorating health by sinking deeper into alcohol and drug abuse. His c
The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
Bruce Feiler · 240 pages
Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from a
Regine's Book: A Teen Girl's Last Words
Regine Stokke · 336 pages
True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life
Kevin Sorbo · 296 pages
The Infinite Wait and Other Stories
Julia Wertz · 226 pages
Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham
In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain.
Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You
Kate Gross · 246 pages
What are the things we live for? What matters most in life when your time is short? This brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it means to die before your time, and how to fill your life with wonder, hope and joy even in the face of tragedy. Ambitious and talented, Kate Gross worked at Number 10 Downing Street for two British Prime Ministers whilst only in her twenties. At thirty, she was
In the Body of the World
Eve Ensler · 221 pages
The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans.
Everybody's Got Something
Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers · 263 pages
The Test of My Life
Yuvraj Singh, Sharda urga, Nishant Jeet Arora · 189 pages
Autobiography of an Indian cricket player.
Beautiful Affliction
Lene Fogelberg · 352 pages
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
Selma Blair · 320 pages
Our Cancer Year
Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner
A graphic novel which depicts Harvey Pekar's struggle with cancer.
Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
Richard M. Cohen · 256 pages
Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. He was a young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, and his foreboding that his health was not quite right turned into the harsh reality that something was very wrong when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. For thirty years Cohen has done battle with MS, only to be ambushed by two bouts of col