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A SONG IN THE NIGHT
A Memoir of Resilience
Pub Date: May 15, 2012
Born with hemophilia, Massie's childhood combined bouts of intense pain and disappointment with unabashed joy and lavish family affection. In this moving memoir, the author (Loosing the Bonds, 1997) recounts how this doubled-edged environment laid the foundation for a life filled with compassion and activism.
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BETRAYED BY NATURE
The War on Cancer
Pub Date: May 8, 2012
Informative, optimistic tour of the science of cancer.
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EXPERIMENT ELEVEN
Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug
Pub Date: May 8, 2012
Pringle (The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, 2008, etc.) tells a complex tale of scientific intrigue.
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PERFECT CHAOS
A Daughter's Journey to Survive Bipolar, a Mother's Struggle to Save Her
Pub Date: May 8, 2012
A no-holds-barred "biography of depression," based on the alternating journal entries of a mother and daughter.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF NORMAL
How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior
Pub Date: May 8, 2012
Smoller (Psychiatry and Epidemiology/Harvard Univ.; co-author: Psychiatric Genetics, 2008) suggests that "[l]ike the purloined letter of Poe's tale, many of the most fundamental features of the normal mind have been hidden in plain sight."
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THIS IS HOW
Proven to Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Pub Date: May 8, 2012
Acclaimed memoirist Burroughs (You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas, 2009, etc.) charts new territory, offering his readers advice on life.
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