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1) Brain tumors
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Presents general information about brain tumors, including what they are, the different types of brain tumors, how they are diagnosed, how they are treated, and the types of rehabilitation done by people who have suffered from them.
2) Love, Ish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma.
4) The patient
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
7) The iceberg
Author
Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize and shortlisted for both the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award,The Iceberg is a rare story about belonging, and an adventure of being and dying”, and a celebration of friendship, family, art, love, and language. In 2008, Tom Lubbach, the chief art critic for The Independent was diagnosed with a brain tumor.The Iceberg is his wife, artist and writer Marion Coutts’, fierce, exquisite memoir of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
"For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he reported...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Aaron Berkowitz had just finished his neurology training when he was sent to Haiti on his first assignment with Partners In Health. There, he meets Janel, a 23-year-old man with the largest brain tumor Berkowitz or any of his neurosurgeon colleagues at Harvard Medical School have ever seen. Determined to live up to Partners In Health's mission statement "to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need," Berkowitz tries to...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a book that is The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat, Jeannie Gaffigan, writer/director/producer/accused supermom and wife of bestselling author/comedian Jim Gaffigan, writes with humor and heart about the pear-sized brain tumor she had removed, the toll it took on her enormous family, and the priceless lessons she learned along the way. In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. As the mother...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
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Description
"I ask myself: how am I living still? And how I ask it depends on the day. All her life, Emily has felt different from other kids. Between therapist visits, sudden uncontrollable bursts of anger, and unexplained episodes of dizziness and loss of coordination, things have always felt not right. For years, her only escape was through the stories she'd craft about herself and the world around her. But it isn't until a near-fatal accident when she's...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the true story. Maddie is a normal twelve-year-old, but when a CT scan reveals she has a brain tumor, it will take all her imagination, courage, and support from her friends and family to meet this new challenge"--
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize Mike Scalise hits his stride in this page-turner of a memoir featuring a sudden and strange sequence of medical disasters. From its gripping ruptured-brain-tumor emergency room opening, through a series of medical procedures and oddball doctors, Scalise creates a sharply observed, uproariously funny, and deeply moving account of acromegaly, the hormone disorder best known for causing gigantism. Scalise...
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