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The author describes her battle with polio at age thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.

Having had osteosarcoma at the age of fifteen and having had her leg amputated as a result, the author relates her determination to overcome a potentially fatal disease and her later experiences as a therapist to cancer patients in a children's hospital.

The author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.

Kristina Morgan shows us what life is like inside a person diagnosed with schizophrenia, what it's like to hear inner voices; to have the inability to distinguish between inner nightmares and everyday realities; the chaotic, fragmented thinking; and the startling creativity. The voices began in her teens. As an adult she abused alcohol to drown them out. And also as an adult she began to pursue an education and a career. Eventually her journey takes her to a place of relative peace and stability where she finds the inner resources and outer support system to manage her chronic illness and live a fulfilling life.

Gets inside the mind of a person who cuts themselves to relieve their internal pain. The author has fought her way back to emotional health and has rebuilt her life.

After the grief of losing her mother to cancer as a teenager, Sarah Gabriel had learned to appreciate "the charms of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist, a home in Oxford, England, a husband, and two young daughters, she was content. But then at age forty-four, she was diagnosed with breast cancer---the result of M18T, an inherited mutation on the BRCA1 gene that had taken the lives of her mother and countless female ancestors. Eating Pomegranates is Gabriel's candid and incredibly intimate story of being forced to acknowledge that while you can try to overcome the loss of a parent, you can never escape your genetic legacy. When she was diagnosed with the same disease that killed her mother, Gabriel began her treatments and wrote her story.

Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, or HED, is an inherited condition (from a damaged chromosome) that brings sparse hair, peg- or cone-shaped teeth, and the inability to sweat. This is because the defective chromosome damages the ecoderm, the embryonic layer that becomes skin, hair, and teeth. Mothers have only X chromosomes to give. Fathers can give an X for a girl (who then has two XX's and will use the undamaged one to build her ecoderm) and a Y for a boy, who has no choice but to use the damaged X since he has only one. So the women in Bonnie Rough's family lived with guilt each time they had a son.

Stephanie Klein was an eighth grader with a weight problem. Teased by her classmates, reminded by her father that no one likes fat girls, and a witness to her thin mother's compulsive dissatisfaction with her own body, Stephanie's problem was not solved by being sent to "fat camp". She shares her thoughts and feelings of that time in her life with her readers, just as she reveals her mind-set now as a physically fit, and thin, wife and mother.

Profiles the life and work of physician Jonas Salk, the creator of the first successful polio vaccine, focusing on his contributions to the medical field and his lasting influence on the ways scientists collaborate and conduct research.

A graphic memoir in which Marisa Acocella Marchetto chronicles her eleven-month battle with breast cancer, from diagnosis to cure.