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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

by Jerri Nielsen

During the winter of 1999, Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the United States, she was forced to perform a biopsy and treat herself with chemotherapy in order to ensure that she could survive until conditions permitted her rescue. She was eventually rescued by the Air National Guard. Dr. Jerri... (more)

Firefly Lane

by Kristin Hannah

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty,... (more)

Time Is a River

by Mary Alice Monroe

With a strong, warm voice that brings the South to life, New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe writes richly textured stories that intimately portray the complex and emotional relationships we share with families, friends, and the natural world. "Every book that Mary Alice Monroe has written has felt like a homecoming to me," writes Pat Conroy, bestselling author of The Prince of Tides . Time Is... (more)

Lightning

by Danielle Steel

As a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. But Alex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage--until lightning strikes her. Suddenly a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. Sam Parker is a star venture capitalist, a Wall... (more)

Garden of Angels

by Lurlene McDaniel

It is 1974 and the country is still struggling to come to terms with the Vietnam War. In the small town of Conners, Georgia, Darcy has just started high school, her older sister Adel goes to weekend dances at the local Army base, and their mother tends her beautiful garden–the biggest and best in town. But Darcy’s world is soon changed forever when her mother goes to Atlanta for tests. The diagnosis is not... (more)

Reconstructing Natalie

by Laura Jensen Walker

Natalie Moore is about to lose what little cleavage she had. She'll shave her head, leave her church, fall for a man in scrubs, learn to tap, and flash a roomful of women. Natalie needs to know with or without her breasts she is more than the sum of her parts.

Live a Little

by Kim Green

-What do you do if you have two bratty teenage kids who don't give you the time of day? -What do you do if your husband is more interested in his remote than you? -What do you do if you're forever being compared to your perfect sister--who just happened to marry your perfect boyfriend? -And what do you do if you're told you have stage 4 breast cancer? Well, if you're Raquel Rose, you tell your family your... (more)

I See You Everywhere

by Julia Glass, Julia Glass

From the author of the best-selling Three Junes comes an intimate new work of fiction: a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who years for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family. Clem, the archetypal youngest, is the rebel: uncontainable, iconoclastic,... (more)

Life on the Refrigerator Door: Notes Between a Mother and Daughter, a novel

Life on the Refrigerator Door: Notes Between a Mother and Daughter, a novel

by Alice Kuipers

Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. Not yet. Claire is wrapped up with the difficulties of her bourgeoning adulthood—boys, school, friends, identity; Claire's mother, a single mom, is rushed off her feet both at work and at home. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that the only thing they can count on are notes to each other on the... (more)

The Proposal

by Angela E. Hunt

While attending a writers' conference in Washington, D.C., Theodora Russell gets a call from an editor who wants to discuss her proposal. During their meeting, however, Theodora discovers that the editor actually wants Theodore Russell and his latest novel. Before she can correct the misunderstanding, Theodora becomes intrigued by the proposal tossed into her lap--a proposal that links breast cancer with... (more)

Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

by Jessica Queller

A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live? Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian... (more)

Our Bodies, Ourselves : A New Edition for a New Era

Our Bodies, Ourselves : A New Edition for a New Era

by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian

America's best-selling book on all aspects of women's health With more than four million copies sold, Our Bodies, Ourselves is the classic resource that women of all ages can turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being. Completely revised for the first time in a decade, these pages give women everything they need for making key decisions about their health -- from definitive information from... (more)

Reconstructing Natalie (Women of Faith Fiction) (2006 Novel of the Year)

Reconstructing Natalie (Women of Faith Fiction) (2006 Novel of the Year)

by Laura Jensen Walker

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life

by Dr. Bob Arnot

"From one of the most visible and highly respected figures in medical journalism comes a book that can literally save lives. During the past several years, doctors at leading institutions across the nation have been investigating the relationship between breast cancer and diet. The recent flood of medical studies confirm that what a woman eats can have a dramatic impact on whether or not she contracts the... (more)

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History

by James Stuart Olson

"Breast cancer may very well be history's oldest malaise, known as well to the ancients as it is to us. The women who have endured it share a unique sisterhood. Queen Atossa and Dr. Jerri Nielsen -- separated by era and geography, by culture, religion, politics, economics, and world view -- could hardly have been more different. Born 2,500 years apart, they stand as opposite bookends on the shelf of human history.... (more)

Grand Avenue

by Joy Fielding

Looking back, it seemed like paradise: livesfilled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends -- Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki -- shared everything and faced the challenges of life and love head-on. Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists of fate and circumstance. Now, she must sift through the past to discover exactly what went wrong, how dreams... (more)

Ask Again Later: A Novel

by Jill A. Davis

Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. When her mother dramatically announces, " They've found a lump ," Emily gladly leaves behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky, unanswerable questions about who she is and what she's doing with her life to be by her mother's side. But back in her childhood bedroom, Emily realizes that she hasn't run fast or far enough—especially when she opens the... (more)

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book:4th Edition 2005

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book:4th Edition 2005

by Susan M Love, Karen Lindsey

Now in a completely updated new edition-the most trusted, most authoritative guide to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment Recent research is rapidly changing the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of breast cancer. Just as women afflicted with or worried about breast cancer have turned to the earlier editions of Dr. Susan Love's guide for the soundest, most supportive advice, once again they will find all the... (more)

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Breast Cancer: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life (What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About...(Paperback))

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Breast Cancer: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life (What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About...(Paperback))

by Virginia Hopkins, John R. Lee

Breakthrough Strategies to Lower Your Risk...and Increase Your Chances of Recovery Breast cancer incidence has risen by 60 percent in the last fifty years. Conventional treatment protocols are simply not working-and they may even be harmful. In this book Dr. John Lee, an internationally renowned expert in natural hormones, teams up with breast cancer researcher Dr. David Zava to present a revolutionary hormone... (more)

Bodily Harm

by Margaret Atwood

A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is... (more)

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Tags: breast cancer

by Jerri Nielsen

by Kristin Hannah

by Mary Alice Monroe

by Danielle Steel

by Lurlene McDaniel

by Laura Jensen Walker

by Kim Green

by Julia Glass, Julia Glass

by Alice Kuipers

by Angela E. Hunt

by Jessica Queller

by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian

by Laura Jensen Walker

by Dr. Bob Arnot

by James Stuart Olson

by Joy Fielding

by Jill A. Davis

by Susan M Love, Karen Lindsey

by Virginia Hopkins, John R. Lee

by Margaret Atwood