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The author meditates upon the issue of appetite as it relates to the lives of women, thinking about why women feel the need to suppress their appetites whether for food, love, work, or pleasure.

Molly Birnbaum provides a detailed account of her experiences after her culinary dreams are dashed by a tragic accident strips her of her sense of smell and describes her efforts to gain back what she lost.

A collection of personal accounts in which cancer survivors share how their diagnosis impacted the lives, their battles with chemo and radiation, and their eventual recovery.

An autobiography in which the author, diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder at the age of fifteen, recalls her experiences as a mental hospital patient, and discusses the failure of doctors and other adults to consider her real problems of depression and abuse in their attempts to discover why she refused to act more feminine.

Anna's life is turned upside-down when her estranged daughter's husband and daughter show up on her doorstep seeking shelter.

Rick Murdock chronicles his battle against a deadly cancer and explains how he used technology developed by his own company to attempt to cure his untreatable disease.

A first-person account of the adjustment and struggle for understanding as one family confronts Alzheimer's disease.

The author tells the story of his son's long struggle with schizophrenia, which began in childhood and left him severly psychotic by the age of twenty-one, describing his illness, search for a solution, unsuccessful medical treatments, and the new drug Olanzapine which has been the safest, most effective treatment to date.

Tells the story of Jenifer Estess's battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and her creation of Project A.L.S. with her two sisters, which raises money for and has helped changed the approach to medical research on ALS, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.

A little boy with AIDS turns to God to help him cope with the pain, fear, and loneliness that surround him.