NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2013
"A poetic tale of a personal medical crisis."
Memoirist, essayist and novelist Gallagher (
The Sacred Meal, 2009, etc.) explores the series of events set into motion by the startling diagnosis that she suffered from a condition causing blindness.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A daughter's tender tribute to a remarkable mother."
Philanthropist and environmental activist Daly writes about her spiritual search as she shared her mother's courageous 4-year battle with the ravages of pancreatic cancer.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"An absorbing, complex medical detective story."
Science writer Wapner uses the development of a successful cure for a once-fatal form of leukemia to illustrate the application of genetic engineering to the frontiers of current medical practice.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A page-turner in which each of the stories is different but compelling."
Freelance journalist Richards chronicles how five single women attempted to take charge of their own fertility.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A motivational, inspirational addition to the ever-expanding library of total-health guidebooks."
The co-host of MSNBC's
Morning Joe parlays her lifelong preoccupation with food into re-educating an increasingly corpulent nation about smarter eating practices.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 2, 2013
"A clever, affable story of one Mormon, his family, his vocation and his implacable ailment."
A jaunty memoir covering both the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the torments of Tourette's syndrome.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 2, 2013
"Bright, humorous and seriously thoroughgoing, Greenberg takes all the DSMs for a spin as revealing as the emperor's new clothes."
A loose-limbed, skeptically informed critique of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, with particular interest in its forthcoming, fifth incarnation.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"A graphic but inspiring depiction of the ravages of the disease, their bravery and the sustaining love of their families."
A moving but also hair-raising story of Tourette's syndrome and a risky surgical procedure.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"Readers familiar with Brazelton's books and articles on babies and children may relish this close-up look at the man who guided them through the vicissitudes of parenthood; others, not so much."
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"Unflinching and inspirational, a parent's powerful tale of finding love and understanding beyond the senses."
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"A thin, mostly secondhand portrait of a misguided doctor and the harm he caused his famous clientele."
NONFICTION
Released: April 30, 2013
"Fierce, frank, raw and profoundly moving."
A feminist playwright and activist's riveting account of how uterine cancer helped her "find [her] way back to [her] body, and to the Earth."
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