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Before he died, Josef Tock spoke an unusual and frightening prophecy that his grandson Jimmy, who was born the same night, would have to endure five dark days in his life beginning in his twentieth year and ending in his thirtieth.

The story of the friendship between football players Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo. Explores how these very different men, one white and the other black, came to know, fight, and ultimately help each other.

The author describes her life-changing experience working as a doctor in Antarctica in 1999, during which time she discovered she had breast cancer and had to treat herself with the aid of her own patients and U.S. doctors via the Internet.

Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong describes his triumph over cancer.

"Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. ... Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days until she, too, will end her life"--Back cover.

"'Heart Berries' is a . . . memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma"--Back cover.

"At thirty-two, Ady Barkan had everything he wanted: a fulfilling career in the progressive movement, a brilliant wife, and a beautiful newborn son. Then his luck ran out. What he thought might be carpal tunnel was in fact ALS, a neurological disease that would probably paralyze and kill him quickly"--Jacket flap.

"[A] funny, dark novel about one woman's post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her"--OCLC.

A memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.