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  • Notes of a Love Song

    Day-to-Day with Parkinson's Disease

    by Claire Verney ...
    When Claire Verney agreed to ‘for better or for worse, in sickness and in health’ she never imagined the journey that lay ahead of her. Her husband Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of forty-six. Notes of a Love Song chronicles their lives as Claire becomes her husband’s full-time caregiver and medical advocate as he struggles with the ravages of end-stage Parkinson's. It ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • My Second Life

    Living with Parkinson's Disease

    At the age of 37, Bill Harshaw was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. The news changed his life forever,bringing forth a saga that will give hope to not only Parkinsonians, but to people with chronic disease everywhere. My Second Life is not a detailed road map or a set of instructions. Instead, it is an account of his changing state of mind over the two decades that he has had Parkinson’s ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girl Nobody Wants

    by Lily O'Brien ...
    "It's my 40th birthday today and I'm trying to smile, but as I look in the mirror all I can see is an empty shell, someone waiting to die... You could never tell that anything was wrong with me by just looking at me, as I dress clean and I keep myself tidy, and I have a smile on my face that hides my emotions and over the years I've become an expert at hiding behind it" This is the shocking true ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Circus: A Story from Circus

    The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • My Secret Mother

    Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secretWhen Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyllis grew up being told. But Phyllis never believed it was true. She prayed every night for God to take care of her birth mother, holding onto the hope that she was alive and out there, somewhere.Finally, after years of searching, Phyllis finds her ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Where Memories Go

    Why dementia changes everything - Now with a new chapter

    'A fine book' The Sunday Times'Powerful' Guardian'Wonderful' The Telegraph**'Moving, funny, warm'**Mail on Sunday'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro**'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had to hand. Words. Then, as the enormity of the social cr... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Confessions of a Trauma Junkie

    My Life as a Nurse Paramedic

    Series series Reflections of America
    Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Jones MayoShare the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encountertrauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Jones Mayo has beenan Emergency Medical Technician, Emergerncy Room Nurse, and an on-scene criticalincident debriefer for Hurricane Katrina. Most people who have observed orexperienced physical, mental or ... Read more

    $6.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slow Dancing with a Stranger

    Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's

    by Meryl Comer ...
    The Emmy Award–winning broadcaster shares a New York Times–bestselling, unvarnished personal account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease.When Meryl Comer's husband, Dr. Harvey Gralnick, chief of hematology and oncology at the National Institutes of Health, began forgetting routine things and demonstrating abrupt changes in behavior, doctors were confounded ass to what was going wrong. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the Tail End

    Adventures of a Vet in Practice

    by Emma Milne ...
    Misty was ecstatic to see her owner but to the nurse’s surprise her owner just stood there and said, ‘What have you done with my dog’s head?’ ‘I’m sorry,’ replied the nurse, ‘what do you mean? She’s just been in for spaying.’ ‘That isn’t my dog’s head. The rest of it is my dog but you’ve put a different head on it.’ On a crisp October morning in 1996, Emma Milne started her first job as a newly ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Prozac Diary

    by Lauren Slater ...
    The author of the acclaimed Welcome to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life."Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir, she describes what it's like to spend most of your life ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Living in the Labyrinth

    A Personal Journey Through the Maze of Alzheimer's

    Living In The Labyrinth is the story of how one woman found the strength and the courage to cope with a devastating disease that has afflicted five million Americans. Far from being an exercise in self-pity or a standard autobiography, this is an unflinching and ultimately uplifting look at a debilitating illness from the inside out.“Somewhere there is that ever-present reminder list of what I am ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • More Than Bipolar

    A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope

    A valuable book, fresh with insights.Pete Earley, author of Crazy: A Fathers Search Through Americas Mental Health MadnessUntil she experienced her first manic episode at the age of seventeen, author Lizabeth D. Schuch had little knowledge of mental illness. From that point on, her life would never be the same.In her memoir, More Than Bipolar, she discusses her twenty-five years of experience with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD