18 books like No such thing as a bad day

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Drug Repair That Works Jost Sauer · 2009 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A step-by-step guide to life beyond drugs.Drawing on his long-term expertise, Jost Sauer presents readers with a powerful, practical, step-by-step recovery regime and a wealth of case studies, which deal with a whole range of drug issues including: why drug experiences aren't wasted what's really going on in psychotic episodes how to handle the post drug emotional roller-coaster why raw foods… Shares: Rehabilitation, Treatment

Spirited Women Petrea King · 1995 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II—the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict. In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom, Spelman graduate, librarian and Francophile, joins the Women’s… Shares: Cancer, Psychological aspects

Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance after childhood surgery left her jaw disfigured. As a… Shares: Cancer, Patients, Biography & Memoir

The hands of the living god Marion Milner · 1969 · ★ 4.0 · 552p · ≈ 18h · Moderate At once autobiographical and psychoanalytic, The Hands of the Living God, first published in 1969, provides a detailed case study of Susan who, during a 20-year long treatment, spontaneously discovers the capacity to do doodle drawings.An important focus of the book is the drawings themselves, 150 of which are reproduced in the text, and their deep unconscious perception of the battle between… Shares: Therapy, Treatment, Biography & Memoir

Relampago Danielle Steel · 1995 · ★ 2.5 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A woman's idyllic life--child, career, successful husband--ends with breast cancer. The protagonist is Alexandra Parker, a New York lawyer who suddenly finds her husband doesn't want a woman who is sick. Fortunately others do, even if she has gone bald from treatment. Shares: Cancer, Patients

Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge · 1929 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and… Shares: Presidents, Biography & Memoir

Living in the Labyrinth/a Personal Journey Through the Maze of Alzheimers Diana Friel McGowin · 1992 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Living In The Labyrinth is the story of how one woman found the strength and the courage to cope with a devastating disease that has afflicted five million Americans. Far from being an exercise in self-pity or a standard autobiography, this is an unflinching and ultimately uplifting look at a debilitating illness from the inside out. -- From publisher description. Shares: Patients, Biography & Memoir

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 381p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her… Shares: Cancer, Patients, Biography & Memoir

Back on Blossom Street Debbie Macomber · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street--a flower store called Susannah's Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired an assistant named Colette Blake, a young widow who's obviously hiding a secret--or two.When Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz's new knitting class, they discover that Lydia and her sister, Margaret, have worries of their own.… Shares: Cancer, Patients

Terms of Endearment Larry McMurtry · 1975 · ★ 4.4 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma’s hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer. Shares: Cancer, Patients

The Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, working in a local bookstore - a far cry from the brilliant academic career he'd begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the charismatic Harry Brightman, whom fate has also brought to… Shares: Cancer, Patients, Biography & Memoir

Life, and how to survive it Robin Skynner · 1993 · ★ 4.1 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Life and How To Survive It is a self help psychology book written in a conversational form, with Cleese asking questions about relationships, and his therapist Skynner answering them. Shares: Therapy, Psychological aspects

Halfway to forever Karen Kingsbury · 2002 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate You wept with them as they were Waiting for MorningYou shared their Moment of WeaknessNow they face the greatest struggles of their lives.Matt and Hannah Bronzan have found a new life in the face of devastating loss.  Together with Hannah’s daughter, Jenny, they are finally moving forward—toward the adoption of a little girl. A younger sister for Jenny, a daughter for them to love and raise… Shares: Cancer, Patients

Stick Figure Lori Gottlieb · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate After happening upon the diary she kept when she was 11 years old, Gottlieb was moved to publish this chronicle of her struggle with anorexia nearly 20 years after she wrote it. In the late 1970s, she lived with her parents and brother in Beverly Hills, where Gottlieb's loneliness and concern about looking attractive to boys swiftly transformed into an obsession with dieting, although she had… Shares: Patients, Biography & Memoir

Ida B. ...and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World Katherine Hannigan · 2004 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school. Shares: Cancer, Patients

The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt · 1894 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas… Shares: Presidents, Biography & Memoir

Working with Autobiographical Memories in Therapy Arnold R. Bruhn · 2019 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares: Therapy, Biography & Memoir

The Miraculous Fever-tree Fiammetta Rocco · 2002 · ★ 3.9 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A rich and wonderful history of quinine -- the cure for malaria. In the summer of 1623, ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants, engaged in electing a new Pope, died from the 'mal'aria' or 'bad air' of the Roman marshes. Their choice, Pope Urban VIII, determined that a cure should be found for the fever that was the scourge of the Mediterranean, northern Europe and America, and in 1631 a… Shares: Treatment, Biography & Memoir

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