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When Breath Becomes Air
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When Breath Becomes Air

By Paul Kalanithi ,

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A Monster Calls
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A Monster Calls

By Patrick Ness , Siobhan Dowd , Jim Kay (illustrator)

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The Fault in Our Stars
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The Fault in Our Stars

By John Green ,

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Rebecca Skloot ,

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Emperor of All Maladies

By Siddhartha Mukherjee ,

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Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
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Dying to Be Me

By Anita Moorjani ,

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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
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Decisive

By Chip Heath , Dan Heath ,

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Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss and Bold Living
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Both Sides Now

By Nancy Sharp ,

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That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
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That Good Night

By Sunita Puri ,

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The Body Papers: A Memoir
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The Body Papers

By Grace Talusan ,

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Radical Remission
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Radical Remission

By Kelly A. Turner ,

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Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself
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Eat to Beat Disease

By William W. Li ,

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On the Island
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On the Island

By Tracey Garvis Graves ,

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Mortality
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Mortality

By Christopher Hitchens ,

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A Glimpse of My Heart: One Nurse's Story
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A Glimpse of My Heart

By Delraya Anstine RN OCN ,

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Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love
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Everyday Madness

By Lisa Appignanesi ,

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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action; A Memoir
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Chasing My Cure

By David Fajgenbaum ,

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A Breast Cancer Alphabet
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A Breast Cancer Alphabet

By Madhulika Sikka ,

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Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth
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Gifted By Grief

By Jane Duncan Rogers ,

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Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey Through Breast Cancer
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Strength Renewed

By Shirley Corder ,

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It's Okay to Laugh: (Crying Is Cool Too)
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It's Okay to Laugh

By Nora McInerny Purmort ,

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How to Starve Cancer
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How to Starve Cancer

By Jane McLelland ,

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The Iceberg: A Memoir
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The Iceberg

By Marion Coutts ,

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Cancer Stem Cells: Philosophy and Therapies
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Cancer Stem Cells

By Lucie Laplane ,

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Outside the Box Cancer Therapies: Alternative Therapies That Treat and Prevent Cancer
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Outside the Box Cancer Therapies

By Mark Stengler , Paul Anderson ,

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The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Integrating Deep Nutrition, the Ketogenic Diet, and Nontoxic Bio-Individualized Therapies
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The Metabolic Approach to Cancer

By Nasha Winters , Jess Higgins Kelley ,

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Adaptive Oncogenesis: A New Understanding of How Cancer Evolves Inside Us
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Adaptive Oncogenesis

By James Degregori , Michael Degregori (illustrator) ,

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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
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Improbable Destinies

By Jonathan B. Losos ,

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The Last Wish of Sasha Cade
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The Last Wish of Sasha Cade

By Cheyanne Young ,

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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
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The Undying

By Anne Boyer ,

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Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
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Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

By Susan M. Love , Karen Lindsey , Elizabeth Love

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Finding Balance
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Finding Balance

By Kati Gardner ,

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Spice Bringer
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Spice Bringer

By H.L. Burke ,

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Unexpected Lessons in Love
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Unexpected Lessons in Love

By Bernardine Bishop ,

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The One Thing
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The One Thing

By Marci Lyn Curtis ,

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Radical Survivor: One Woman's Path Through Life, Love, and Uncharted Tragedy
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Radical Survivor

By Nancy Saltzman ,

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Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
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Memoir of a Debulked Woman

By Susan Gubar ,

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Henry's Sisters
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Henry's Sisters

By Cathy Lamb ,

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Perennials
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Perennials

By Julie Cantrell ,

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The Dragon of New Orleans
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The Dragon of New Orleans

By Genevieve Jack ,

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Driving Miss Norma: An Inspirational Story about What Really Matters at the End of Life
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Driving Miss Norma

By Tim Bauerschmidt , Ramie Liddle ,

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The Circus Train
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The Circus Train

By Judith Kitchen ,

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The Hidden Wound
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The Hidden Wound

By Wendell Berry ,

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Chris Beat Cancer: A Comprehensive Plan for Healing Naturally
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Chris Beat Cancer

By Chris Wark ,

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The Cancer Revolution: A Groundbreaking Program to Reverse and Prevent Cancer
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The Cancer Revolution

By Leigh Erin Connealy ,

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The Story of My Tits
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The Story of My Tits

By Jennifer Hayden ,

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The Bus on Thursday
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The Bus on Thursday

By Shirley Barrett ,

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Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
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Priced Out

By Uwe E. Reinhardt ,

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Tracking Medicine: A Researcher's Quest to Understand Health Care
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Tracking Medicine

By John E. Wennberg ,

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Can I Have My Ball Back? A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle
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Can I Have My Ball Back? A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle

By Richard Herring ,

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Dying to Do Letterman: Turning Someday into Today
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Dying to Do Letterman

By Steve Mazan ,

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Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About This Magnificent Life)
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Late Fragments

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Shine: Rediscovering Your Energy, Happiness and Purpose
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Shine

By Andy Cope , Gavin Oattes ,

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Keto for Cancer: Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy as a Targeted Nutritional Strategy
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Keto for Cancer

By Miriam Kalamian ,

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The Priority List: A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons
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The Priority List

By David Menasche ,

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Before the Poison
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Before the Poison

By Peter Robinson ,

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Deadpool
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Deadpool

By Joe Kelly , James Felder , Ed McGuinness (artist)

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One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
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One Long River of Song

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Chasing the Dead
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Chasing the Dead

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An Uncommon Friendship
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An Uncommon Friendship

By Monique Colver , Stewart Young ,

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The Woman Who Fooled The World: Belle Gibson's cancer con, and the darkness at the heart of the wellness industry
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The Woman Who Fooled The World

By Beau Donelly , Nick Toscano ,

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Everything Happens for a Reason
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Everything Happens for a Reason

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