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-- Twenty-nine giftsBy Walker, Cami2009., Da Capo Lifelong Call No: Realistic 179 Wal Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts how the author was advised to focus her attention on others as part of her therapy after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, describing the transformative benefits of giving gifts that inspired her to create the online "29-Day Giving Challenge" to help others to renew life energy.
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2010., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REA FIC SON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
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2009, c2008., Grand Central Pub Call No: HI-INT 616.8 PAT Edition: 1st trade ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows a family's struggle with their son's mysterious medical disorder that induced violent physical tics and prompted traumatic treatments, a situation that also pitted the family against a disheartening medical establishment.
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c2004., Juvenile, s.n.] Call No: LS E Sco Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: True story of a girl with cancer who organized lemonade stands across the country to raise money for doctors to find a cure for her disease.
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c2004., HBO Video Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions and brings his mother to New York.
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2003., Theatre Communications Group Call No: DRAMA Edition: 1st combined pbk. e Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)
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By Grealy, Lucy2003, c1994., Perennial Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Perennial ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A memoir in which award-winning poet Lucy Grealy recalls her experiences with a potentially terminal cancer that required she have a third of her jaw removed when she was nine years old, and discusses the suffering she endured as she was growing up from classmates, strangers, and other people because of her looks.
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By Grealy, Lucy2003, c1994., Perennial Call No: B Grealy Edition: 1st Perennial ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A memoir in which award-winning poet Lucy Grealy recalls her experiences with a potentially terminal cancer that required she have a third of her jaw removed when she was nine years old, and discusses the suffering she endured as she was growing up from classmates, strangers, and other people because of her looks.
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2007., Atria Books Call No: 813 .6 Edition: 1st Atria Books har Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Nathan Nelson awakens from a two-week coma and finds he has an extraordinary memory, but even with his new ability and a change of schools he cannot live up to his genius father's high expectations.
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By Taylor, C Lc2014., Sourcebooks Landmark Call No: Suspense FIC TAYLOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This secret is killing me. It's only one line from her fifteen-year-old daughter's diary, but Susan knows it means everything. Charlotte is smart, popular, and beautiful. She is also in a coma following what looks like a desperate suicide attempt. What's more, Susan has no idea what compelled her daughter to step out in front of a city bus. Did she really know her daughter at all? In her hunt for the truth, Susan begins to mistrust everyone close to Charlotte, and she's forced to look further, into the depths of her own past. The secrets hidden there may destroy them both. This fast, twisty psychological thriller has suspense on every page! Paula Daly, author of Just What Kind of Mother Are You? One of the best books I've read in ages...such a chilling read. Mel Sherratt, author of Taunting the Dead Gripping, memorable, and tense...a delight. Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls.
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-- Being me with obsessive-compulsive disorder[2014]., Free Spirit Pub Call No: 616.85 DOT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Part memoir, part self-help for teens, "Being Me with OCD" tells the story of how obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) dragged the author to rock bottom, and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life. Using anecdotes, self-reflection, guest essays, and thorough research, Dotson explains what OCD is and how readers with OCD can begin to get better.
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-- Being me with obsessive-compulsive disorder[2014]., Adolescent, Free Spirit Pub. Call No: Mental Issues NF DOT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Part memoir, part self-help for teens, "Being Me with OCD" tells the story of how obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) dragged the author to rock bottom, and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life. Using anecdotes, self-reflection, guest essays, and thorough research, Dotson explains what OCD is and how readers with OCD can begin to get better.
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-- Being me with obsessive-compulsive disorder[2014]., Adolescent, Free Spirit Publishing Call No: Guide 616.85 Dot Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Click here to view More... Summary Note: Examines the life of Alison Dotson and how she has coped with her obsessive-compulsive disorder in her teenage life. Discusses the experiences of several different teenagers who have reacted in different ways to OCD.
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2023., Penguin Press Call No: B LAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael and Jonathan both got into Yale, they seemed set to ascend to the heights of the American meritocratic elite. Leaving Jonathan behind, Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job for far more money than their parents had ever made. But all wasn't as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the fateful call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was institutionalized at a New York City psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He would stay there for nine months before transitioning to a halfway house. Facing the prospect of a life spent bagging groceries, Michael decided to play the one card left to him: just before his break, he had been accepted to Yale Law School, and now, against all odds, he planned to enroll. Still struggling mightily with schizophrenia, Michael made it through the top law school in the country. His extraordinary story soon made the front page of the New York Times; an agent sold his memoir to a major publisher for a large sum; Ron Howard swept in to acquire film rights, with Brad Pitt set to star. It was all a dream come true for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then, the unimaginable happened: in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, Michael stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife. To this day, Michael Laudor remains confined to a maximum-security forensic hospital in upstate New York. The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of what happened to Michael Laudor, and why. Exploring the dramatic transformation of American culture and of society's relationship to mental illness in the second half of the twentieth century, this is a story about the power and limits of the bonds of family, friendship, and community, the lure of the American dream and the promise of academic achievement. At times tender and hilarious, and at times harrowing and almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widely"--
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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FANTASY FIC PAS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness--even facing the Angel of Death himself. Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he suggests paying his debt by leading them to the fabled city of Luz, where no one ever dies--the one place Pesah will be safe. They just need to run faster than The Angel of Death can fly"--Provided by publisher.
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2004., Delacorte Press Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Psychologist Alan Gregory skirts a fine line between professional confidentiality and social duty when he enlists his detective friend Sam Purdy in the investigation of missing ex-client Sterling Storey who has been accused by his wife of killing his lovers.
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2008, c2007., Juvenile, Kingfisher Call No: MYSTERY F ROS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Traces Volume: 6Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Luke Harding and Malc, his robotic sidekick, are called in to investigate a hospital whose patients are dying and the prime suspect is Luke's father.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Jeter Children's, Aladdin Call No: 921 REEVES Edition: 1st Aladdin hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Jordan [Reeves] tell[s] her story about growing up in an able-bodied world and family, where she was treated like all of her siblings and classmates--and where she never felt limited. Whether it was changing people's minds about her capabilities, trying all kinds of sports, or mentoring other kids, Jordan has channeled any negativity into a positive, and is determined to create more innovations for people just like her. Her most famous invention, aptly called Project Unicorn, is a special prosthetic (that shoots glitter!) made with the help of a 3-D printer"--Provided by publisher.
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2007., Free Press Call No: B Edition: 1st Free Press ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Sample text More... Summary Note: A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today--guided by its owner. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn new languages from scratch, in a week. He has savant syndrome, a rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among autistic people in that he is capable of living an independent life. He is even able to explain what is happening inside his head. Starting from early childhood, when he was incapable of making friends and prone to tantrums, to young adulthood, when he learned how to control himself and to live independently, fell in love, experienced a religious conversion to Christianity, and most recently, emerged as a celebrity.--From publisher description.
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2012., Free Press Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Free Press hard Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view Summary Note: The author relates what she underwent during a month-long hospital stay during which she was diagnosed with encephalitis and discusses how the autoimmune disease affected her mental stability and her hospitalization influenced her life and family.