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". . . [A] memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery"--Amazon.com.

Author Amy Silverstein recounts her life with nine remarkable women, all of whom flew across the country to be with her in search of a new heart, and the memories of their girlhead that came flooding back upon their arrival.

Jules Mountain shares his story of climbing Mount Everest, and surviving an avalanche caused by an earthquake on the mountain.

Looks at how sixteen-year-old Kilee Brookbank's life was forever changed after an explosion in her house burning forty-five percent of her body.

"Before Madeline's bike accident left her with a traumatic brain injury, she and her twin sister were inseparable. So were her parents. But now, Madeline's parents are divorced and Becky has become rebellious, angry, and sneaky. Even worse, she doesn't seem to want Madeline around anymore. At least Madeline knows she can always rely on the miniature therapy horses she visits every week. Justin is a senior and the president of his school's Best Buddies club. Before his sister died, he used to take her to the barn to visit her beloved therapy horses. Now, with Madeline, he goes there to escape the gloom of his mother's grief at home and the pressures of his final year in high school"--Back cover.

As a young girl, Temple Grandin loved folding paper kites, making obstacle courses, and building lean-tos. But she really didn't like hugs. Temple wanted to be held---but to her, hugs felt like being stuffed inside the scratchiest sock in the world; like a tidal wave of dentist drills, sandpaper, and awful cologne, coming at her all at once. Would she ever get to enjoy the comfort of a hug?.

"Arthur Louis Pullman the Third . . . [has] been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle. It's there that Arthur discovers a journal written by his grandfather, the first Arthur Louis Pullman, an iconic Salinger-esque author who went missing the last week of his life and died hundreds of miles away from their family home. What happened in that week--and how much his actions were influenced by his Alzheimer's--remains a mystery. But now Arthur has his grandfather's journal--and a final sentence containing a train route and a destination. So Arthur embarks on a cross-country train ride to relive his grandfather's last week, guided only by the clues left behind in the dementia-fueled journal"--Provided by publisher.

"A nonfiction account of one of the most deadly outbreaks of disease in human history--the Spanish Flu"--.

Keggie Carew attempts to piece together the life of her unorthodox father, Tom Carew, who was a member of the Jedburghs--an elite special operations unit that was the first collaboration between the American and British intelligence agencies during World War II--as dementia begins to take hold of him and talks about how he influenced her own life.