The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
By: Tracie White
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“A renowned geneticist races against time to diagnose a malady that landed at his door… A complex, …
Want to Read $ 14.99"We've got to do better, I thought. This story of injustice had continued on far too long. It's time for the misinformation and stigmatization surrounding ME/CFS to stop. Our leaders need to step up to the plate, acknowledge past mistakes, and fix them. All the evidence is there in black and white. More research funding to find a cure would prevent so much unnecessary suffering and save lives."-Tracie White, The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
"We've got to do better, I thought. This story of injustice had continued on far too long. It's time for the misinformation and stigmatization surrounding ME/CFS to stop. Our leaders need to step up to the plate, acknowledge past mistakes, and fix them. All the evidence is there in black and white. More research funding to find a cure would prevent so much unnecessary suffering and save lives."-Tracie White, The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
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1. Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
By: Katherine Rundell
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can’t prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English bo… read more
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2. Cry of the Kalahari
By: Mark Owens , Delia Owens
4.33
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied u… read more
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"For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"The entire Blue Pride, nine in all, surrounded us, nearly all of them asleep. We were quite literally in bed with a pride of wild Kalahari lions."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"Especially after our Makgadikgadi experiences, we were very aware that the two absolute essentials for survival in the Kalahari were water and the truck."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
3. Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey Into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
By: Julie Rehmeyer
4.04
Format: 9 pages,
Science journalist Julie Rehmeyer was so sick she sometimes couldn't turn over in bed. The top spec… read more
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4. The State of Me
By: Nasim Marie Jafry
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
A beautifully written debut novel by an exciting author. Curriculum Vitae Name: Helen Fleet Work Ex… read more
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5. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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6. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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- medical
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"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
7. The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery
By: Ross Douthat
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnis… read more
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8. The House of Broken Angels
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, a sprawling and deeply felt portrait of a Mexican-… read more
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"Only selfish people are negative, Angel."-Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
"Big Angel was late to his own mother's funeral."-Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
"Men who do good deeds only wish to atone for their sins."-Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
"Wildflowers after rain the heart breaks open and little bright seeds fall out."-Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
9. The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water
By: Erin Bartels
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When Kendra Brennan moves into her grandfather's old cabin on Hidden Lake, she has a problem and a … read more
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"...novels are for looking through someone else's eyes, seeing what someone else sees when they look at the world, and realizing, perhaps for the first time, that other people are just as real and ali…"-Erin Bartels, The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water
"Yes, there had been increasing distance between you and me--there always is between people who have been friends from a young age as each grows into her own self, which might be a self that neither a…"-Erin Bartels, The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water
10. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more
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11. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
By: Judith Heumann
4.48
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more
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- disability
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"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
12. Notes from a Sickbed
By: Tessa Brunton
3.61
Format: 152 pages, Library Binding
In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as c… read more
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13. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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- disability
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"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
14. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
By: Laurie Zaleski
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more
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"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
15. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- disability
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
16. On Animals
By: Susan Orlean
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more
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"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."-Susan Orlean, On Animals
17. Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
By: Zain E. Asher
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength… read more
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18. Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
By: Frances Ryan
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The austerity crisis and threat to disability rights In austerity Britain, disabled people have be… read more
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19. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
By: Tessa Miller
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,… read more
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20. How to Do Life with a Chronic Illness
By: Pippa Stacey
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
'I know that living with a chronic illness in this inaccessible world is tough. Trust me, I know. B… read more
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21. Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities , and Chronic Environmental Illness
By: Neil Nathan
4.48
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Millions of people are suffering from chronic illnesses that, unbeknownst to them, are the result o… read more
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- medical
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22. Girlfriends
By: Emily Zhou
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more
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23. The Getaway
By: Greer Hendricks
3.32
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
In this short thriller from number one 'New York Times' best-selling authors Greer Hendricks and Sa… read more
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24. The Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic's Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever
By: Ryan Prior
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Silver Award Winner in “Rising To The Moment Focused COVID Pandemic” Category of the Nautilus Awar… read more
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25. The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out
By: William Dameron
3.94
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out. Do you know me?… read more
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26. Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better
By: Polly Atkin
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
'It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form… read more
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27. Decode Your Fatigue: A Clinically Proven 12-Step Plan to Increase Your Energy, Heal Your Body and Transform Your Life
By: Alex Howard
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A practical guide to overcoming chronic fatigue, adrenaline fatigue syndrome and chronic low energy… read more
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28. Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me
By: Sutanya Dacres
3.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One , an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt … read more
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29. Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
By: Albert Bourla
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Wall Street Journal Bestseller 2022 Genesis Prize Laureate Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Business… read more
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30. A Still Life: A Memoir
By: Josie George
4.28
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
Josie George lives in a tiny terraced house in the urban West Midlands with her son. Since her earl… read more
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"It was the cruellest and worst and most necessary thing I have ever done, and I have never regretted it, not once."-Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir
"The older you get, the harder it is to experience a singular grief. Instead, when loss comes again, it doesn't bring something solid all the way through or isolated, it brings you a Russian doll. Los…"-Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir
31. The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
By: Tracie White
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“A renowned geneticist races against time to diagnose a malady that landed at his door… A complex, … read more
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"We've got to do better, I thought. This story of injustice had continued on far too long. It's time for the misinformation and stigmatization surrounding ME/CFS to stop. Our leaders need to step up t…"-Tracie White, The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
