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"Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't life threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life. Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative partnership. Beautiful, talented Terpsichore will help Dolores win back her ex-best friend, Shae. And Dolores will convince Terpsichore's mom that her daughter has the social skills to survive public school. It seems like a foolproof plan, but Dolores isn't always a reliable narrator, and her choices may put her in danger of committing an unforgivable betrayal"--Provided by publisher.

"Daniel has to visit the doctor, and he's a little nervous. But with a little help from Mom and Dr. Anna, suddenly the trip isn't so scary anymore!"--Back cover.

Thirteen-year-old Dan blames himself when his best friend Nate is hit in the head by a baseball during practice--desperate to help, Dan seizes on the suggestion that even in a coma Nate may be able to hear him, and sets out to read to Nate from the superhero comic books that both boys love.

Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly's account of the shocking conditions she experienced as an undercover reporter in the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in 1887.

A biography of Sadako Sasaki, who contacted leukemia after the dropping of the atomic bomb and how she gave herself the goal of folding one thousand paper cranes.

Thirteen-year-old Dan blames himself when his best friend Nate is hit in the head by a baseball during practice--desperate to help, Dan seizes on the suggestion that even in a coma Nate may be able to hear him, and sets out to read to Nate from the superhero comic books that both boys love.

The author shares her experience of dying and coming back in a coma with blinking her only body function she controlled. Explores her account of relearning all the basic life skills and how to live again.

Dr. Rana Awdish, a physician who suddenly became a dying patient, explores a new paradigm and rationale for cultivating emotional bonds with their patients.

Follows the experiences of author and therapist Lori Gottlieb, who one day foudn herself in the midst of a crisis an needing a therapist of her own. Offers Lori's reflections on her own patients' lives--some which include a self-absorbed Hollywood producer and a senior citizen threatening suicide on her birthday--and what she learned about herself, and the nature of love, desire, mortality, guilt, redemption, meaning, terror, courage, and hope and change under the guidance of her own therapist, Wendell.