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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Autism
Disability Pride Fiction
Reading Well: Shelf Help for young people
Reading Well: Shelf Help for young people eBooks
Disability Pride Fiction
Reading Well: Shelf Help for young people
Reading Well: Shelf Help for young people eBooks
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A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. When he finds a neighbour's dog murdered, he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
Author
Series
How to Help Someone With volume 6
Publisher
Trigger Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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'This is an incredibly supportive, compassionate and practical guide for those caring for a relative living with dementia. The book provides clear guidance, stratergies and responses to those in need'�Dr Penny Rapaport, Clinical Psychologist 'The person with dementia and the caregiver are at the heart of this relevant, rich-in-content handbook. Underpinned by evidence-based theory, the text is written with compassion, guiding the reader to navigate...
Author
Publisher
Ebury Digital
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When a loved one has been diagnosed with dementia, many family members assume new roles as carers, helping their relative to remain safe, happy and as independent as possible. Dementia Essentials is a practical, realistic and reassuring guide to help you and the person with dementia on the journey ahead. Written by a real carer with first-hand experience of the challenges dementia poses, the book is full of essential advice, personal insights and...
6) And finally
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence. As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
' Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubbly, highly strung and hugely entertaining Big Brother 7 contestant. Since leaving the Big Brother house, she has forged a successful career for herself in presenting and writing. Yet Nikki isn't just another reality television contestant and her life story is not like any other you will ever read. From the age of eight until she was nineteen Nikki battled anorexia nervosa but few cases...
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Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
My mother, a house that is slowly collapsing, a bridge dancing to a tremor.' It started when she could no longer remember the word for 'book'. Then her mind, her language and her identity began to slip away. This is Erwin Mortier's moving, exquisitely observed memoir of his mother's descent into dementia, as a once-flamboyant woman who loved life and pleasure becomes a shuffling, ghostlike figure wandering through the house. Piecing together the fragments...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Zaffre audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
London's East End, 1890. Growing up in poverty, Hester Stainsby toils day and night in the laundry room of Poplar Hospital to help support her family; her father Fred, her younger twin siblings, Harry and Polly and cantankerous Granny Garter. When Fred is badly injured in an accident at the docks, the family's fortunes take a turn for the worse. Determined to make a better life for herself and her loved ones, Hester trains to be a nurse, throwing...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Meet the 90-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the woman with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole. All these people had their lives transformed by the remarkable discovery that our brains can repair themselves through the power of positive thinking. In this audiobook, bestselling author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge reveals the secrets of the cutting-edge...
12) Miracle cure
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Language
English
Description
Sara Lowell and Michael Silverman are the ideal celebrity couple: she's TV's most popular journalist and he's New York's hottest basketball star. Their lives would soon be shattered by Dr Harvey Riker's clinic and the miracle cure that millions seek. One-by-one his patients are getting well. One-by-one they are targeted by a serial killer.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Shoot the Damn Dog blasts the stigma of depression as a character flaw and confronts the illness Winston Churchill called �the black dog', a condition that humiliates, punishes and isolates its sufferers. It is a personal account of a journey through (and out of) severe depression as well as being a practical book, offering ideas about what might help. With its raw, understated eloquence, it will speak volumes to anyone whose life has been haunted...
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The listener response to this play when it was first broadcast as part of the 'God?s Country' series was overwhelming and it has gone on to become an audio bestseller.Performed by Becky Simpson, Spoonface is a young autistic Jewish girl who, learning that she is terminally ill, contemplates the meaning of life and death in a dramatic monologue interwoven with operatic extracts from the magical voice of Maria Callas.It was awarded Best Drama and Talkie...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
After years of dismissive doctors and misinformation, Bridget Hustwaite finally received a diagnosis for her intensely heavy periods, pulsing headaches and the excruciating abdominal pain that makes her ovaries feel like they are on fire. She has endometriosis - hard to pronounce, hard to diagnose and even harder to live with. Two excision surgeries and one thriving endo Instagram community later, Bridget knows firsthand how much personal research...
16) The hidden beach
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
In the oldest part of Stockholm, Bell Everhurst is working as a nanny for an affluent family. Hanna and Max Mogert are parents to seven-year-old Linus and five-year-old twins Ellinor and Tilde, and Bell has been with the family for over two years. One early Spring morning, as she's rushing out to take the children to school, she answers the phone - and everything changes. A woman from a clinic she's never heard of asks her to pass on the message that...
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Publisher
ABC Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Katie Piper is 24 and well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model. She has the world at her feet - but then she meets Daniel Lynch on Facebook. After an horrific rape and acid attack, her mind, body and spirit are snatched away. This is the inspiring story of her fight to get them back.
18) One August night
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Language
English
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25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences. When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy. In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future...
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Publisher
Macmillan Cancer Support
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
This booklet is about cancer and dementia. It is for anyone who has both cancer and dementia. It explains what may happen after you are diagnosed with cancer. It also has practical advice about ways to look after yourself when you have cancer and dementia.
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