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Lovestrong: a woman doctor's true story of marriage and medicine
By Dorothy Greenbaum, Deidre S Laiken. 1984
A high school English teacher with a small child decided to become a doctor. She highlights the support of her…
husband and family during the arduous ten years of medical training. Some strong language. 1984.Love and laughter in the time of chemotherapy
By Carolyn Jackson, Manjusha Pawagi, Wendy Thomas. 2017
April 28, 2014: 'I won't be coming in today, I have leukemia.' That's the message Manjusha Pawagi, a family court…
judge in Brampton, Ontario relayed to her office one morning after a routine blood test showed a deadly result. She did not return to work for two and a half years. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you'd live forever. It describes how even the darkest moments of life can be made worse by roommates; details how much determination it takes to ignore the statistics; and answers the age-old question: what does it take to get a banana Popsicle when you need one? 2017.Love, life, and elephants: an African love story
By Daphne Jenkins Sheldrick. 2012
Conservationist details her family's history in Kenya and her first marriage, divorce, and subsequent marriage to David Sheldrick, founding warden…
of Tsavo East National Park. Reminisces about orphaned animals she cared for over the years, especially the elephants of the park, and recounts her activities since David's 1977 death. 2012.Leonardo da Vinci: Giants Of Science (Giants of science.)
By Kathleen Krull. 2008
For more than thirty years - half his life - he was obsessively devoted to investigating everything in the natural…
world. Nothing escaped his interest - how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and - most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Grades 4-7. 2008.Leonardo: the first scientist
By Michael White. 2002
Laugh, I thought I'd die: my life with ALS
By Dennis Kaye. 1993
When Dennis Kaye was 30 years old, he noticed he had some difficulties controlling his fingers. He was soon diagnosed…
with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a fatal and untreatable condition. With candour and humour, he describes his frustrations with the disease and the medical community, and his eventual adaptations to his disability. He also talks about the disease itself, what its effects are, and current research into it. Finally, he delves into more controversial aspects of ALS, including assisted suicide. 1993.Ladies of the field: early women archaeologists and their search for adventure
By Amanda Adams. 2010
Pays tribute to the women who defied societal norms and expectations in order to pursue their passion for archaeology. They…
include Amelia Edwards, affectionately known as "the godmother of Egyptology"; Jane Dieulafoy, a cross-dressing genius who enjoyed an equal partnership with her archaeologist husband Marcel; and even Dame Agatha Christie, the mystery novelist whose digs provided plenty of background for her popular novels. 2010.Labrador doctor: my life with the Grenfell Mission
By W. A Paddon. 2002
Driving dog teams through the icy heart of a northern winter, bracing against the flimsy bulkhead of a frail ship…
battered by storms, removing an appendix on a heaving vessel while bluebottle flies buzz overhead - hard training for a future Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tony Paddon here recounts his life, from his Labrador childhood to his time in the RCN during World War II, to his service as a Grenfell doctor operating out of St. Anthony, Newfoundland and North West River, Labrador. 1989.Labyrinths: Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis
By Catrine Clay. 2016
Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. Engaged to the son…
of one of her father's wealthy business colleagues, Emma's conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung. The son of a penniless pastor working as an assistant physician in an insane asylum, Jung dazzled Emma with his intelligence, confidence, and good looks. More important, he offered her freedom from the confines of a traditional haute-bourgeois life. But Emma did not know that Jung's charisma masked a dark interior--fostered by a strange, isolated childhood and the sexual abuse he'd suffered as a boy--as well as a compulsive philandering that would threaten their marriage. Using letters, family interviews, and rich, never-before-published archival material, the author illuminates the Jungs' unorthodox marriage and explores how it shaped--and was shaped by--the scandalous new movement of psychoanalysis. Also reveals how Carl Jung could never have achieved what he did without Emma supporting him through his private torments. 2016.Galaxy girls: 50 amazing stories of women in space
By Libby Jackson. 2018
Libby Jackson, a leading British expert in human space flight, tells the true stories of fifty remarkable women who conquered…
the impossible and forever changed the world of space exploration. 2018.Don't shoot from the saddle: chronicles of a frontier surgeon
By D. A Holley. 2000
Chronicles of an outspoken frontier surgeon whose surgical ability extended to animals as well as people. Among other things, Dr.…
Holley was a Justice of the Peace in the North West Territories, a cowboy, an author, and a stagecoach driver and actor in Barkerville. He was also a hunter, an explorer, a dogmusher, a train robber, RCA Medical Corp Lieutenant, father and grandfather. 2000.Il dottore: the double life of a Mafia doctor
By Ron Felber. 2005
IL Dottore is the true story of a "nerdy Jewish kid" from the Bronx, who, through a series of circumstances,…
became physician to top Mafia Dons including John Gotti, Carlos Gambino and Joe Bonanno. At the same time, his reputation as a medical genius was spreading, and he was fast becoming one of the nation's leading cardiac surgeons. Ron Felber paints a vivid portrait of this doctor's unlikely life in the fast lane as he becomes a top confidante of New York's most notorious criminals. Eventually he is forced to make a choice between his loyalty to the mafia and his medical career. 2005.Einstein: his life and universe
By Walter Isaacson. 2008
Einstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science.…
In this narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered. 2008.Korolev: how one man masterminded the Soviet drive to beat America to the moon
By James J Harford. 1997
A portrait of the genius and driving force behind the Soviet space program who developed that nation's first ballistic missile,…
Sputnik satellite, and manned space shot. Traces his startling ascent from prisoner in a Siberian gulag in the 1930s to mastermind of the Soviet space effort. 1997.Just Jen: thriving through multiple sclerosis
By Jen Powley. 2017
Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and…
legs. This memoir tells the story of Powley's life at the time of her diagnosis, and the infinite, irrevocable ways it has changed since. Winner of the 2018 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Non-Fiction). 2017.Professor's portrait of German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), considered "the father of celestial mechanics." Examines Kepler's tribulations and triumphs as…
a protestant scientist during the Thirty Years' War, the Reformation, and the Counter-Reformation. Describes events such as his mother's witchcraft trial. Includes Kepler's letters and journal entries. 2004.Amazing Grace: enjoying Alzheimer's
By Ray Smith, Andrew Crofts. 2004
When Ray Smith's much-loved wife Grace developed the first symptoms of Alzheimer's, they decided on a radical approach. Instead of…
succumbing to despair, the decided to treat the illness as simply the latest adventure in their long and loving marriage. His guidance will be a revelation to anyone trying to help a victim of this illness. 2004.Jim: a life with AIDS
By June Callwood. 1988
In 1984, Jim St. James was diagnosed with AIDS. Since then, his life has been a physical, spiritual and emotional…
roller coaster. As Canada's longest-surviving AIDS patient, Jim's story is one of strength and encouragement. 1988.Fallen: a trauma, a marriage, and the transformative power of music
By Kara Stanley. 2015
The author combines the heart-wrenching narrative of a catastrophic brain and spinal cord injury her husband suffered after a fall…
with the latest research on the brain. She also describes the transformative role of music both before and during his continuing rehabilitation and his battle to return to work as a professional musician. At the heart of the story is the relationship between Stanley and her husband, as she explores what allows a marriage to grow and thrive amid pain, chaos, and uncertainty. 2015.Into the volcano: A Volcano Researcher At Work
By Donna Donovan-O'Meara. 2005
In a helicopter with no doors, she hovers over a lava lake the size of two football fields - then…
lands! She runs through clouds of scalding steam, dodging lava bombs, to photograph glowing hot lava as it pours into the sea. She sets up camp on the edge of a volcano's cone, only to be hit with hurricane-force winds, poisonous gases and acidic ash. This is a typical day in the life of Donna O'Meara, volcano researcher, writer and photographer. Grades 4-7. 2005.