Recovered, Not Cured: A Journey Throu...
Richard McLeanThis very personal exploration of schizophrenia explores each stage, from the early signs and reactions from friends and family to seeking help and the challenges of recovery. McLean bravely shares his paranoid delusions and offers bo...
Lessons I Learned in the Dark: Steps ...
Jennifer RothschildAt the age of fifteen, Jennifer Rothschild confronted two unshakable realities: Blindness is inevitable ... and God is enough. Now this popular author, speaker, and recording artist offers poignant lessons that illuminate a path to fr...
The Best Seat in the House: How I Wok...
Allen RuckerOne Tuesday afternoon Allen Rucker, Hollywood comedy writer and family man, wakes from a nap to find himself paralyzed from the waist down. Shocking? Yes. Unfair? Absolutely. Reality? Inescapably. Rucker is shaken up and angry, but s...
Atypical: Life with Asperger's in 20 ...
Jesse A. SapersteinThe poignant, funny, and truly unique observations of a young writer diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. "Please be forewarned that you are about to read the observations and life lessons of someone who entertains himself by far...
Waiting for Home: The Richard Prangle...
John SchneiderRichard Prangley was unjustly institutionalized for fifteen years. Yet he managed to become not only a productive citizen but also an effective advocate for the developmentally disabled. In Waiting for Home, journalist John Schneid...
To Love What Is: A Marriage Transform...
Alix Kates ShulmanA personal story of crisis, commitment, and hope from the best-selling author of Memoirs of An Ex-Prom Queen One day it happens, the dreaded thing that will change your life forever, the more dreadful because, though you've half exp...
Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an...
Philip SimmonsNow I find myself in late August, with the nights cool and the crickets thick in the fields. Already the first blighted leaves glow scarlet on the red maples. IIt's a season of fullness and sweet longings made sweeter now by the fact ...
Through the Wilderness of Alzheimer's...
Robert SimpsonNearly four million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, a debilitating neurological disorder affecting the memory that places great stress on the sufferer as well as the caregivers. Robert and Anne Simpson share the story of Bob's e...
[Slater has] the playful mind of a philosopher and the exquisite, unique voice of a poet.' (The Washington Post Book World) In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to redraw the b...
The Day the Voices Stopped: A Schizop...
Ken SteeleA nationally known spokesperson for the mentally ill offers hope and inspiration in this moving story of his decades-long struggle with schizophrenia and his remarkable recovery. For thirty-two years Ken Steele lived with the devast...
Touch the Top of the World: A Blind M...
Erik WeihenmayerA vivid and compelling book.' (Time magazine) Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disabil...
The late AIDS sufferer describes how he contracted the virus; the negative response of his friends and neighbors in his home town of Kokomo, Indiana; his battle to reenter school; and his fight to educate people about the diseas...
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy...
Jim WootenAward-winning correspondent for ABC World News and Nightline Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into po...