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News anchor, Robin Roberts, discusses her challenges with breast cancer as well as her bone marrow transplant.

A father tells of his daughter, born with cystic fibrosis.

Presents the true story of Owen, known to his family as "Little B," and Haatchi, an Anatolian Shepherd dog left for dead on a railroad who lost part of his leg and tail. Explores how the friendship that developed between Owen and Haatchi helped heal both of them.

Actress Brooke Shields tells about her struggles with postpartum depression following the birth of her first child, discussing the difficulties she had trying to conceive, the pressures she felt as someone in the public eye, and how she was able to recover.

Meredith Norton recounts her battle with breast cancer, relying on humor and straightforwardness to share her experiences and reflect on the surprising impact cancer had on her life.

The author meditates upon the issue of appetite as it relates to the lives of women, thinking about why women feel the need to suppress their appetites whether for food, love, work, or pleasure.

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.

The author describes how her faith in God was challenged after a diving accident left her paralyzed at the age of seventeen.

Explores Woodrow Wilson's battle to gain popular and political support for the United States' position in the League of Nations at the end of World War I.