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Cancer has its privileges Cancer has its privileges Christine Clifford Beckwith Cancer survivor and founder of The Cancer Club&reg, Christine Clifford has been sharing her inspiring, humorous outlook on living with cancer with thousands of cancer patients and their families. Now… OL12282135W
The barracks The barracks Georges-Michel Sarotte,John McGahern Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the… OL15841625W
It's probably nothing, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love my implants It's probably nothing, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love my implants Micki Myers WHAT TO DO WHEN CANCER STRIKES? As a vibrant woman in her late thirties, a mother of two, poet, artist, and teacher, Micki Myers decided to confront her diagnosis head on with the sharpest tools in h… OL17942604W
How Cancer Crossed the Color Line How Cancer Crossed the Color Line Keith Wailoo 251 pages : 24 cm OL21143698W
Ovarian cancer Ovarian cancer S. Smith A detailed booklet that describes causes, symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatments, stages of ovarian cancer, with information on getting help and coping. This booklet is also for family and friends th… OL24533509W
A walk with Jennifer A walk with Jennifer Mary Richardson "She was happily married, a mother of two, and a successful engineer working in the Motor City. Her life was perfect, or so it seemed. Then one morning she discovered a small lump. Jennifer Hayse was… OL28216888W
Wit Wit Margaret Edson This play is about a professor who finds out she has stage four ovarian cancer. She realizes through her ordeal that she has no friends to fall back on, no family to support her. Over time she befrie… OL51524W
Barefoot Barefoot Elin Hilderbrand It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, threewomen arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a localboy, home from college. Burdened with small children,unwieldy straw hats, and some… OL5738540W
Torch Torch Cheryl Strayed "Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice she strives to live by every day. She has fled a … OL5820647W