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An acclaimed editorial cartoonist traces his success back to his chaotic boyhood home and his complicated father, who, like the author, suffers from Tourette's syndrome, in book with thirty drawings by the author.

Tells the true story of how a young girl named Victoria has coped with surviving cancer, which destroyed the nerves in her face.

Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another.

A memoir in which the author discusses the triumphs and frustrations of raising her son, Jonah, a child with severe autism.

A brain scientist discusses suffering a stroke at the age of thirty-seven, describing her discovery of differences in the left and right side of the brain and the steps she took over a period of eight years to recover her health.

The true story of Phineas Gage, whose brain had been pierced by an iron rod in 1848, and who survived and became a case study in how the brain functions.

Consulting firm vice president and mother of three Sarah Nickerson is forced to give up some control over her life when she is in a car accident and suffers a traumatic brain injury, and, as she tries to regain her independence, she also realizes that happiness and success may not be about having the perfect career and a lot of money.