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Language
English
Description
"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ways we define and maintain our sense of individuality, freedom, and personal integrity are so important. And it's why the principles described in Boundaries in Marriage are essential if you want your marriage to flourish.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
239 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes his struggles to overcome a life-changing football injury which left him a quadriplegic at the age of eighteen and how, with a grueling four-year therapy regime and the support of his future wife, he was able regain his ability to walk short distances.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When "it could never happen to me" does happen to you? These are the questions facing Jen Waite when she begins to realize that her loving husband the father of her infant daughter, her best friend, the love of her life fits the textbook definition of psychopath. In a raw, first-person account, Waite recounts each heartbreaking discovery, every life-destroying...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 273 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The popular comedic couple trace the story of their relationship, sharing anecdotes, family photos, and secrets that reveal how they overcame considerable social differences through their shared values and mutual love of music and laughter.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.