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Biography and Memoir September 2017
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My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir by Mark LukachA memoir of a young marriage that is defined by mental illness describes how the author's wife suffered mysterious psychotic breaks on either side of having a child, examining how the challenges of mental illness raise profound questions about love and responsibility.
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Rising star : the making of Barack Obama by David GarrowThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross presents a definitive account of Barack Obama's life before his presidency, sharing insights into his formative years in Honolulu and Jakarta, his influential associates and his community work in Chicago.
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Between them : remembering my parents by Richard FordPresents a memoir in two parts on the lives of the author's parents in the Depression-era South that explores their motivations and dreams, his traveling salesman father's early death, and the family's transient lives in a series of hotels.
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Charles Pachter : Canada's Artist
by Leonard Wise
Pachter is an artist with an astonishing range. His work is witty, thoughtful, moving, and personal. Many works, like Queen on Moose, The Painted Flag, and Hockey Knights in Canada, have achieved a remarkable level of recognition, becoming famous across the country — indeed, around the world.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood by the acclaimed author details the critical illness of her daughter, Quintana Roo, followed by the fatal coronary of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter's second bout with a life-threatening ailment, and her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief. 60,000 first printing.
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H is for hawk
by Helen Macdonald
Recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery
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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
At age 36, recently married neurosurgery resident Paul Kalanithi received the devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer. In this compelling memoir, Kalanithi relates how he had previously chosen to study medicine instead of literature and then traces the personal upheaval of his illness and its disruption to his family life. Exploring the question of life's meaning in the face of death, he offers his courageous, inspiring insights on love, parenthood, and mortality. Those who found Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture moving will find much to appreciate in When Breath Becomes Air.
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The end of your life book club
by Will Schwalbe
The author recounts his mother's life, recalling how they discussed books during the final stages of her last illness and describing how this activity furthered their appreciation for literature, and strengthened their bond.
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Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
From surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine--and lives. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, examines medicine's ultimate limitations and failures--in his own practices as well as others'--as life draws to a close. And he discovers how we can do better. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. He finds people who show us how to have the hard conversations and how to ensure we never sacrifice what people really care about.
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