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Presents Cherry Boone O'Neill's battle with anorexia nervosa, a compulsion to be perfect, including "perfectly" slim.

First person accounts of four people living with AIDS in America--an eight-year-old girl, a young married woman, a divorced heterosexual man, and a gay man.

Sister John, A Carmelite nun, experiences painful headaches that create beautiful visions. When a tumor is discovered, she struggles with whether or not to have it removed and live without her inspiration.

Presents the autobiography of Josh Sundquist who lost his left leg after contracting Ewings sarcoma, a strong cancer strain, at the age of nine and going on to become a world-famous Paralympics skier and motivational speaker. Includes black-and-white photos.

Four women, friends for seven years, are forced to reexamine their lives and relationships when one of them, Grace, is diagnosed with cancer.

Presents the private journal of Jennifer Hendricks, who lost her battle against anorexia at age twenty-five and illustrates her emotional struggles and the destructive conflicts within herself that ravaged her body.

A memoir in which the author, a former "cutter, " discusses the reasons why she began cutting herself as an adolescent, and shares the story of how she was finally able to overcome the affliction.

Four women share their personal battles with breast cancer, reflecting on how their diagnosis has impacted theircareers, marriages, friendships, and personal lives.

Brian Holbrook, having overcome the addiction to prescription painkillers that robbed him of his license to practice medicine, is offered an opportunity to join in the testing of a new medicine which supposedly has the power to reverse heart disease, but his comeback hits a snag when he begins to realize something is very wrong with the drug.

Sixteen young people, fifteen of them cancer patients, describe their experiences with the disease and how they deal with family, friends, and school while coping with their illness.