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Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she suffers from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she teaches the people in her town how to accept people for who they are, not what they appear to be.

Now a major motion picture starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, "The Vow" tells the true story of a couple that defied the odds and fell in love with each other again after Krickitt suffered brain damage and memory loss following a car accident.

This witty inspirational book gives life lessons on how to get through the cancer experience from the perspective of a cancer survivor.

After a car accident puts Shauna McAllister in a coma and wipes out six months of her memory, she returns to her childhood home to recover, but her arrival is fraught with confusion.

Tells the story of Sam Lightner, an Oregon boy born with a rare growth on one side of his face, describing the risky surgery he underwent at the age of fourteen to shrink the mass, and one neurosurgeon's refusal to give up on him when other doctors believed he would die.

Patricia Van Tighem chronicles her recovery after she was attacked by a grizzly bear in 1983 and discusses how she healed both her physical and emotional wounds in the years after the attack.

Illustrations and simple text help children understand what cerebral palsy is and how it can be dealt with.

Presents the histories of neurological patients whose departure from normalcy brings a new perspective to their individual worlds.

In graphic art format, describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show "Real World, " one of whom died of AIDS.

The authors chronicle the last months of their six-year-old daughter Elena's life after a cancerous tumor was found lodged in her brain stem, covering their attempts at experimental treatment and struggle with grief and anger while trying to remain positive.