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.
a true story of how one CEO took on cancer and big business in the fight of his life
Murdock, Rick
2000
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.
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.
Claire Woods has always admired her mother Teresa's determination, strength, and compassion, and is devastated by Teresa's sudden death, as is Claire's brother Joshua, and as the two struggle to deal with their own grief, they must find a way to keep their mother's memory alive.
Twenty-three-year-old Jennifer, a writer and sometimes housecleaner, is swept up into an emotional wake, along with her two brothers, self-contained Ben and lovable Randy, when their beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor.
