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A memoir about caregiving, mourning, and love, this is also about the joy of reading and how that joy is multiplied when shared with others.

The story of an elite warrior medic who advances into combat with life-saving equipment in one hand and life-taking weapons in the other.

Kate Whouley is a smart, single woman who faces life head-on while Anne is a strong minded accidental feminist. They also happen to be daughter and mother. Always complicated, their relationship isn't simplified when Anne develops Alzheimer's. Kate's memoir to her mother involves healing, acceptance, and love.

Describes the lives of five young people facing cancer.

In her late teens, Victoria Leatham began cutting herself. The wounds on the outside help with the wounds inside, which manifest themseves as eating disorders, sexual promiscuity, substance abuse, and bipolar disorder.

Gets inside the mind of a person who cuts themselves to relieve their internal pain. The author has fought her way back to emotional health and has rebuilt her life.

Rae had constant panic attacks growing up. By the time she reached ninth grade she became convinced that everyone was mocking her, judging her, and picking her apart, bit by little bit. She knew she needed help with her fear, anxiety, and social phobia.

Hannah's life has been an emotional roller coaster. In her girlhood her mother was in and out of mental hospitals. When Hannah attempted suicide the summer after eighth grade, she found herself in the same situation. Over the next five years she engaged in dangerous behaviors: pill popping, excessive dieting, and cutting herself. She was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and now, with tools for coping, she lives her life one day at a time.

A twenty-nine-year-old accountant, wife, and mother, Rachel Reiland discovered she had borderline personality disorder after her discharge from a psychiatric ward. Her honesty in facing her mental illness prompted her to write a book so others would know what it feels like.