Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy
10 best books like Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy (Geralyn Lucas): Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics, Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money, Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!, Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds, What We Have: A Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, The Loony-Bin Trip, Cancer Vixen, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, Bald in the Land of Big Hair: A True Story
| Author | Miriam Engelberg |
| ISBN | 0060789735 |
Miriam Engelberg was forty-three when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Like anyone faced with a life-altering personal trauma, she sought out a coping mechanism. While fellow patients championed the benefits of support groups and hypnotherapy, Engelberg found her greatest comfort in drawing,...
Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money
| Author | Erik Marcus |
| ISBN | 0975867911 |
Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal agriculture's cruelties and its far-reaching...
Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!
| Author | Jesse Ventura |
| ISBN | 1602392730 |
Jesse Ventura has had many lives—as a Navy SEAL, as a star of pro wrestling, as an actor, and as the governor of Minnesota. His previous books, I Ain't Got Time to Bleed and Do I Stand Alone?, were both national bestsellers. Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! is the story of his controversial gubernatorial...
Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds
| Author | Dan Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0375708014 |
A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds.
When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete...
| Author | Amy Boesky |
| ISBN | 1592405517 |
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The stirring true story of a woman who chose fearlessness in the face of a fatal family legacy and discovered the pleasure of living each moment to its fullest
At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured...
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
| Author | Devra Davis |
| ISBN | 0465015662 |
The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. Left untouched were many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, or the global environment. Proof of how the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer was either overlooked or suppressed....
| Author | Kate Millett |
| ISBN | 0252068882 |
this is my second time around, after many years, and i still find this books exceptional. first of all, kate millett writes beautifully. this woman's had many careers -- artist, activist, feminist theorist, writer -- but if her talents resided only in putting words in sequence and saying amazing things...
| Author | Marisa Acocella Marchetto |
| ISBN | 0307263576 |
What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds... a lump in her breast?
That/s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
Bald in the Land of Big Hair: A True Story
| Author | Joni Rodgers |
| ISBN | 0060955260 |
Bald in the Land of Big Hair is the hilarious—and often heartbreaking—tale of Joni Rodgers's journey through the badlands of cancer told with humor, occasional anger, and unflinching honesty. More than just a cancer book, this is a deeply affecting memoir of one woman's struggle to come to terms...
That Went Well: Adventures in Caring for My Sister
| Author | Terrell Harris Dougan |
| ISBN | 1401323294 |
Meet Terrell Dougan's sister, Irene: a woman in her sixties who still believes in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny--but who also enjoys playing those characters for the children at the local hospital; whose favorite outfit, which she'll sneak into whenever Terrell's back is turned, consists of Mickey...
To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us
| Author | Sasha Cagen |
| ISBN | 1416534695 |
What Do Your Lists Say About You?
More and more, we are a nation of list-makers, from grocery lists, New Year's resolutions, and things to do before we die to DVDs to rent and people we've kissed. In To-Do List (based on the popular blog of the same name, todolistblog.com) Sasha Cagen celebrates...
Cancer on Five Dollars a Day* (*chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
| Author | Robert Schimmel |
| ISBN | 0738211583 |
In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He'd won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he was told he would have to undergo chemotherapy immediately....
| Author | Fran Drescher |
| ISBN | 0446530190 |
I must be one of the few people who did not like/enjoy this book at all. I really liked Fran Drescher in The Nanny and was excited to start this book. Well...what can I say? It may be weird to give a low rating to someone's cancer story, but this book was annoying. Not very well written and she comes across as...
Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
| Author | Meredith Norton |
| ISBN | 0670019283 |
A hilarious and wickedly irreverent look at life with cancer
Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents...
My One-Night Stand With Cancer: A Memoir
| Author | Tania Katan |
| ISBN | 1555838901 |
When Tania Katan was 21 years old she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She survived, minus a breast. Exactly 10 years later it happened again. By age 31 Katan was a two-time breast cancer survivor with the scars to prove it and a sense of humor forged by the unthinkable. Her memoir, loaded with rage...
It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive
| Author | Evan Handler |
| ISBN | 1594489955 |
A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death.
Actor and author Evan Handler�s new book, It�s Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life, love, faith,...
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
| Author | Gilbert King |
| ISBN | 0465013783 |
On May 3, 1946, in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, a seventeen-year-old black boy was scheduled for execution by electric chair. Willie Francis had been charged with murder; his trial had been brief; his death sentence never in doubt. When the executioners flipped the switch, Willie screamed and writhed...
Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life
| Author | Sean Payton |
| ISBN | 0451232615 |
The inspirational true story of how one man led a football team-and a city- to triumph in Super Bowl XLIV.
In the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Superdome became a national symbol of misery and hopelessness, where the truly desperate rode out the storm.
Four years...
Since the death of their parents, Triona Pryor and her brother, Ben, have lived with their aunt and uncle in Camden, Maine. Now in her senior year of high school, Triona loves her family and friends, but she has always felt that she didn't quite fit in...in Camden, or anywhere else.
Enter Caleb...
Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer
| Author | Nancy G. Brinker |
| ISBN | 0307718123 |
Suzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years...
| Author | Jonah Black |
| ISBN | 0064408019 |
Volume IV continues what began with the first three installments of Jonah Black's diary: the no-holds-barred, darkly comic tale of one teenager's inner life. Teens will find a new kind of hero in Jonah: one whose acute observations mirror their own. The journals, in print for all to read, are irresistibly...
| Author | Kris Carr |
| ISBN | 1599212315 |
Actress and photographer Kris Carr thought she had a hangover, but a Jivamukti yoga class didn’t provide its usual kick-ass cure. A visit to her doctor confirmed her “liver looked like Swiss cheese,” covered with cancerous tumors. She entered trench warfare (wearing cowboy boots into the...
Not the Last Goodbye: On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer
| Author | David Servan-Schreiber |
| ISBN | 0670025917 |
At the start of this intimate and moving memoir, Dr. David Servan- Schreiber is returning by bicycle to his Paris home from an unsettling appointment. Following several months of fatigue and fainting spells, he had scheduled an emergency MRI. The results confirm his worst fears: the return of the cancer...
