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Midnight sun

Eighteen-year-old Katie who has a rare disease in which she cannot leave her house during the day because even the smallest amount of sunlight can become deadly. She finds her world turned upside down when playing guitar one night she meets Charlie Reed.
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When we rise

my life in the movement
Presents the autobiography of notable LGBTQ figure Cleve Jones. Details events such as his time in San Francisco during 1970s, the impact the assassination of Harvey Milk had on the gay community, the AIDS epidemic that killed numerous friends, and the founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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Sometimes I lie

Amber Reynolds wakes up in a coma, unable to move, speak, or see. She has no idea what has happened, except for a suspicion that her husband has something to do with it.
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Die young with me

a memoir
Rob Rufus, an identical twin, reflects on growing up with his brother in a punk band, and how his plans were cut short when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
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Backbone

living with chronic pain without turning into one
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Unbecoming

2017
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.

Promise me, Dad

a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
2017
"The former vice-president of the United States chronicles the difficult final year of his son's battle with cancer, his efforts to balance his responsibilities to the country and his family, and the lessons he learned"--OCLC.

It's always something

2009
A biography of the comedienne describing her career, her time as part of the original cast of "Saturday Night Live," and her battle with cancer.

Nowhere near normal

a memoir of OCD
Traci Foust provides a memoir of her childhood, in which she outlines her struggles with OCD and the problems it caused. Foust details the "treatments" she thought would help until she finally managed find real help as an adult and return to the path of normalcy.

Elena Vanishing

a memoir
2016
"The story of [Elena Dunkle] a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia"--Publisher.

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