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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
In the land of invisible women	Qanta Ahmed	The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones. Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in mot…	OL11902918W
Something for the pain	Paul Austin	In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself.	OL11952639W
The making of mind	Alexander Luria	Luria looks back on his life and career in psychology, drawing attention to the Soviet scientific establishment and his struggle to formulate a new psychological theory concerning memory, language, a…	OL1407023W
The Eden express	Mark Vonnegut	"The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s - a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, …	OL143234W
Through the glass wall	Howard Buten	A clinical psychologist and researcher journeys into the minds of the autistic, going beyond traditional methodology to breach the walls that close off autistics from the rest of the world and releas…	OL15154286W
Divided minds	Pamela Spiro Wagner	Relates the stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the other's eme…	OL15835821W
Drinking	Caroline Knapp	Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor…	OL15854467W
On call in hell	Cdr. Richard Jadick,Richard Jadick,Thomas Hayden	Chronicles the experiences of a thirty-eight-year-old Navy doctor during the Battle of Fallujah, when he and his medical team worked around the clock under fire to save the lives of troops involved i…	OL15858192W
I am not myself these days	Josh Kilmer-Purcell	An advertising executive describes how he moonlighted as a drag queen performing in nighclubs, detailing a surreal odyssey into Manhattan's dark underbelly as it chronicles his relationship with his …	OL15859512W
Breathing for a living	Laura Rothenberg	A twenty-one-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis shares her decision to accept a lung transplant and muses on the challenges of her disease, the surgery, her recovery period, and the ongoing confront…	OL15860029W
My story of the war	Mary Ashton Rice Livermore	When secessionist chaos turned to bloodshed in 1861, Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905), editor, lecturer, and abolitionist, left her family and volunteered for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, becoming one …	OL15876619W
House on fire	William H. Foege	"A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular…	OL15976259W
Live strong	Lance Armstrong Foundation	A compilation of candid stories, anecdotes, and essays by cancer survivors who discuss the impact of the disease on their lives covers relationships, employment discrimination, coping with medical bi…	OL16026303W
Food and loathing	Betsy Lerner	The author traces her lifetime struggle with an eating disorder and depression, describing how her size and self-esteen were intertwined, her experiences with support groups and therapy, her educatio…	OL16029181W
Let's pretend this never happened (a mostly true memoir)	Jennie Goodrich	When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opport…	OL16416065W
The Poetry of Healing	Rafael Campo	A stunning prose debut combining the intimate lyricism of a Richard Rodriguez, the compassionate expertise of an Abraham Verghese. The healing powers of speech, of touch, of empathy and the erotic, o…	OL16478929W
God's hotel	Victoria Sweet	"San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicia…	OL16486417W
Are you my mother?	Alison Bechdel	From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s …	OL16558612W
Knocking on heaven's door	Katy Butler	"An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magaz…	OL18168823W
The woman warrior	Maxine Hong Kingston	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the…	OL1822441W