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Somebody somewhere: breaking free from the world of autism
By Donna Williams. 1994
Australian Williams continues the story of her battle with what she terms an information-processing problem. After giving up her alternate…
personalities, Williams once more confronts the Big Black Nothingness that they had shielded her from. While trying to remember to breathe and eat, she also has to deal with publishing her first book. Strong language. Sequel to "Nobody nowhere" (DC12339). 1994.Slow dance: a story of stroke, love, and disability
By Persimmon Blackbridge, Bonnie Sherr Klein. 1997
Bonnie Sherr Klein recounts her catastrophic stroke, the friends and family who rallied round, the health care system that both…
helped and hindered, and her road back to a full and active life. 1997.Something hidden: a biography of Wilder Penfield
By Jefferson Lewis. 1981
Six months in Sudan: a young doctor in a war-torn village
By James Maskalyk. 2009
In 2007 James Maskalyk, a doctor newly recruited by Médecins Sans Frontières, set out for the contested border town of…
Abyei, Sudan. He spent his days treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic and watching for war. Worn thin by the struggle to meet overwhelming needs with few resources, he returned home six months later more affected by the experience, the people, and the place than he had anticipated. Descriptions of sex, explicit strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Sisters: Extraordinary True-life Stories From Nurses In World War Two
By Barbara Mortimer. 2013
On September 3, 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Thousands of young women,…
many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses. 'Sisters' features over 150 previously unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. The vivid, poignant, and riveting stories capture these nurses' incredible bravery and touching friendships. 2013.Signor Marconi's magic box: how an amateur inventor defied scientists and began the radio revolution
By Gavin Weightman. 2003
On a winter's evening in the East End of London in 1896, an unassuming young Italian gave the first public…
demonstration of a device he had created in the attic of his family home near Bologna. It consisted of two wooden boxes, one of which could apparently transmit messages to the other. Many of those in the audience suspected that they were witnessing a mere conjuring trick. None can have guessed that Signor Marconi's magic box would be regarded as the most remarkable invention of the nineteenth century, and that he himself would become one of the most famous men in the world. 2003.Second sight: views from an eye doctor's odyssey
By David Paton. 2011
A memoir written by an ophthalmologist best known for creating ORBIS, the not-for-profit flying eye hospital staffed by volunteer eye…
surgeons, and designed for hands-on teaching of eye care that is applicable to the needs of the host country. Includes stories about everyone from the Shah of Iran and Madame Chiang Kai-chek to Adlai Stevenson and the author’s boss at Baylor, heart doctor Michael E. DeBakey. Paton asserts that no career rewards exceed the thrill of personally restoring sight through surgery. 2011.Sectioned: a life interrupted
By John O'Donohue. 2009
Saving Alex: when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began
By Joanna Brooks, Alex Cooper. 2016
Two days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they took their fifteen-year-old daughter to Utah, where…
they signed over their parental rights to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to "cure" Alex. For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed "residential treatment program," a virtual gulag where thousands of American teenagers have been sent by fundamentalist parents. Forbidden from attending school, Alex was beaten and verbally abused, and forced to stand facing a wall for up to eighteen hours a day wearing a heavy backpack full of rocks that literally broke her back. "God's plan does not apply to gay people," her captors told her, using faith as a cudgel to punish and terrorize her. With the help of a dedicated legal team in Salt Lake City, Alex would eventually escape and make legal history in Utah by winning the right to live under the law's protection as an openly gay teenager. 2016.Samuel MacLure, architect
By Janet Bingham. 1985
A biography of one of British Columbia's foremost architects. During his active career from 1890-1929, he designed and oversaw the…
building of many homes in Victoria and Vancouver, many of which are in use today. 1985.Sandford Fleming (The Canadians)
By Lorne Edmond Green. 1980
The Canadian Pacific Railway owes its existence to Fleming, an engineer, who promoted the idea of a transcontinental railway. He…
was also responsible for the 24-hour time-zone based on the Greenwich meridian. Grades 5-8. 1980. (The Canadians)Ruth Benedict, patterns of a life
By Judith Schachter Modell. 1983
The author, herself an anthropologist, depicts Benedict's life as a pattern of personal searching. A student of Franz Boaz and…
the teacher of Margaret Mead, anthropologist Benedict is known especially for two classics, "Patterns of Culture" and "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword." 1983.Rollercoaster: a cancer journey : re-inventing myself after diagnosis
By Wayne Tefs. 2002
When teacher and author Wayne Tefs was diagnosed with a relatively unknown form of cancer, he decided to chronicle his…
journey from the onset of the disease, his shock at the diagnosis, his spiritual struggle, and his eventual learning to live with it. Tefs also describes his encounters with a wide spectrum of people whose varied reactions gave him the necessary combination of hope and anger to carry on. Some strong language. 2002.Robert Fulton: a biography
By Cynthia Owen Philip. 1985
Robert Fulton emigrated from America to Europe in 1785 to embark upon a career of invention and controversy. His first…
inventions dealt with canals and lock designs. He returned to America 20 years later and founded a steamboat empire. 1985.Rita will: memoir of a literary rabble-rouser
By Rita Mae Brown. 1997
Autobiography of the openly lesbian novelist who has co-authored mysteries with her cat, Sneaky Pie. Describes her illegitimate birth, adoption…
by relatives, and southern childhood; how she became an advocate for women's rights; and her relationships with tennis star Martina Navratilova and author Fannie Flagg. Some strong language. c1997.Rex: a mother, her autistic child, and the music that transformed their lives
By Cathleen Lewis. 2008
How can an 11-year old boy hear a Mozart fantasy for the first time and play it back perfectly, but…
struggle to navigate the familiar surroundings of his own home? Lewis shares the mystery of her son Rex, blind and autistic, and the highs, lows, hopes, dreams, joy, sorrows, and faith she has journeyed through with him. 2008.Resilience: a story of courage and triumph in the face of recurrent cancer
By Susan Wener. 2014
Susan Wener survived cancer not once, but twice. The first time, she followed the traditional route of surgery and chemotherapy.…
The second time, she went renegade, stepping out into the field of alternative medicine. This book brings to life a journey of more than thirty years, years filled with joy as well as physical, psychological, and spiritual challenges. As an educator and therapist who helps individuals cope with life threatening illness, Wener brings a unique perspective to this story. c2014.Remembering John McCrae: soldier, doctor, poet
By Linda Granfield. 2009
"In Flanders Fields the poppies blow..."Every Canadian student, teacher and parent can recite these powerful words. But behind every poem…
is a poet, who lived, breathed, and in this case, led an extraordinary life. Despite John McCrae reaching Canadian icon status, his life has been largely unknown. This books is a beautiful tribute to this man. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2009.Relative stranger: a life after death
By Mary Loudon. 2006
The author's quest to find her sister Catherine, a schizophrenic, in Catherine's home, in her last hospital room, her paintings,…
her letters, her clothes. But in facing the truths about Catherine's life and death, she asks hard questions about sanity, family responsibility, love, and about what it means to say that a life is - or is not - worth living. 2006.Reluctant genius: the passionate life and inventive mind of Alexander Graham Bell
By Charlotte Gray. 2006
Biography of Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the telephone and champion of the deaf. Discusses his temperament; creativity; marriage…
to Mabel Hubbard, who was deaf; family life; and friendship with Helen Keller. Covers his many inventions, years living in Washington, D.C., and association with the National Geographic Society. 2006.