Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes
10 best books like Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes (Andie Dominick): An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962, Planet of the Blind, Gabriel's Story, What Girls Learn, Sick Girl, Donorboy, A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West, The Rover, The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up: A True Story, A Change of Heart: A Memoir
| Author | William Doyle |
| ISBN | 0385499701 |
In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called “the gravest conflict between...
| Author | Stephen Kuusisto |
| ISBN | 0571196969 |
A haunting, brilliantly imagined memoir about coming to terms with near-blindness, this is the story of a 'lost man with a speck of something like seeing.' Born prematurely, Stephen Kuusisto has been fractionally sighted since a post-natal operation severely damaged his retinas. Yet he grew up pretending...
| Author | David Anthony Durham |
| ISBN | 0385720335 |
When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with...
| Author | Karin Cook |
| ISBN | 0679769447 |
In the most moving and emotionally stirring fictional debut since Anna Quidlen's One True Thing or Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here, Karin Cook gives us a novel about girls and their mothers, about sibling rivalry and kinship, about the mysterious tug between love and antagonism that lies at the heart...
| Author | Amy Silverstein |
| ISBN | 0802118542 |
At twenty-four, Amy was a typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive until her heart began to fail. Amy chronicles her harrowing medical journey from the first misdiagnosis to her astonishing recovery after her heart transplant, which is made all the more dramatic by the romantic...
| Author | Brendan Halpin |
| ISBN | 1400062772 |
Rosalind had two mommies. Now, thanks to a tragic accident involving foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm donor responsible for half her DNA (and nothing else), is taking custody. Rosalind finds herself adjusting to a new life that seems both hateful and surreal–she’s an orphan with a...
| Author | R.D. Rosen |
| ISBN | 1595581650 |
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species...
| Author | Mel Odom |
| ISBN | 0765341948 |
Edgewick Lamplighter (Wick to his friends) is a humble librarian in the isolated halls of Greydawn Moors until dreams of wanderlust and a bit of dereliction in his duties result in his being shanghaied to a far-off land.
Captured by pirates, sold into slavery, and adopted by a gang of thieves,...
The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up: A True Story
| Author | Rich Blake |
| ISBN | 0307383164 |
Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, a neighborhood fixture who was always willing to lend a helping...
| Author | Claire Sylvia |
| ISBN | 0316821497 |
After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor -- a teenaged...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0544986830 |
From one of the finest scientist/writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Heinrich finds himself at...
Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
| Author | Mary Tyler Moore |
| ISBN | 0312376316 |
With generosity of spirit, ebullience, and sly humor, Mary Tyler Moore presents the intensely private, often funny, and sometimes startling story of her life with diabetes.
Growing Up Again is a delightfully candid read for her legion of fans, the more than 20 million Americans with diabetes, and...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Children with Special Needs: Stories of Love and Understanding for Those Who Care for Children with Disabilities
| Author | Jack Canfield |
| ISBN | 0757306209 |
'These powerful heart-rending stories are filled with honesty, humor, hope and offer inspiration to parents, teachers, and anyone else who cares for children with special needs. By embracing the magnificence, inner peace, and beauty each child possess, our own attitudes are shifted from despair...
| Author | Sue Miller |
| ISBN | 0345455444 |
In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father, James Nichols, once a truly vital man, as he succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease. Beginning an intensely personal journey, she recalls the bitter irony of watching this church historian wrestle with his increasingly befuddled notion...
| Author | Sherwin B. Nuland |
| ISBN | 0679781404 |
Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysterious capacity to marshal...
I Am the Central Park Jogger
| Author | Trisha Meili |
| ISBN | 0743244389 |
A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the...
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir
As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the world?s most dangerous war zones. As a child, she lived in a war zone of a different kind. Her mother, Dolores, suffered from what is now called manic depression; but when Jacki was growing...
| Author | Doctor X. |
| ISBN | 0060804912 |
The week-by-week diary of a young doctor during his year of hospital internship. Frank, sometimes shocking, and completely honest, it is the first inside account of modern medical and hospital practice that has ever been presented to the American public.
Intern gives the reader a gripping...
Note to Self: 30 Women on Hardship, Humiliation, Heartbreak, and Overcoming It All
| Author | Andrea J. Buchanan |
| ISBN | 1416948767 |
Thirty inspiring women share the enduring lessons they have learned from the defining moments of their lives.
Life rarely works out exactly as we plan. Rejection by a cherished friend, the onset of an unexpected illness, struggle with body image and self-perception -- these experiences...
The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse
Ellen LaMotte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. She began her nursing career as a tuberculosis nurse in Baltimore and then served as an army nurse in Europe during World War I. After that she traveled to Asia where she saw the effects of opium addiction. The Backwash of War (1934)...
Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
| Author | Danielle Ofri |
| ISBN | 0142004383 |
When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of New York's legendary Bellevue Hospital as a tentative medical student, she is plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, overworked interns devising audacious strategies to cope...
| Author | Priya Basil |
| ISBN | 0385611420 |
When Sarna Singh leaves the lustrous green hills of Uganda for England, rows of cramped old houses were not what she was expecting. Husband Karam has brought her to Clapham Common, hoping that the greenery will remind her of Kampala.But Sarna is convinced they have moved to England so he can visit his...
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
He was one of the most famous men of the twentieth century, the subject of best–selling biographies and a hit movie, as well as the inspiration for a dance step – the Lindy Hop – he himself was too shy to try. But for all the attention lavished on Charles Lindbergh, one story has remained untold until...
