Diseases
Be With
By Mike Barnes
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD
AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS TV'S THE MORNING SHOW
A CBC CANADIAN BOOK TO READ FOR MENTAL HEALTH WEEK
Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: ... Read more
Comfort Heart
By Carol Ann Cole
With Anjali Kapoor
A memoir by the woman known as the Comfort Heart Lady. The story of the founder of the Comfort Heart Initiative is as inspiring as the power of the Comfort Hearts themselves. Carol Ann Cole was born in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, and at the age of 18 left to find a career ... Read more
Conspiracy of Hope
By Renée Pellerin
An explosive book that exposes the truth about breast cancer screening.
For decades, women have been told that mammograms save lives. Yet many scientists say that this is in fact not true. Conspiracy of Hope reveals how breast cancer screening was introduced in the US before ... Read more
Country of Poxes
By Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay
Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial ... Read more
Dead Man on a Bike
By Wayne Tefs
Wayne Tefs is the Dead Man on a Bike in his posthumous follow-up memoir to Roller Coaster: A Cancer Journey. Diagnosed with a rare cancer in 1994, Tefs spent the next 20 years raising a family, writing acclaimed works of fictions, battling cancer, and cycling. Always cycling. ... Read more
departures
By Dennis Cooley
The moon migrates, seasons cycle, and the body ebbs and flows. Drawing together the skeins of existence and his family's nearness, Dennis Cooley's departures joyously intermingles poetry and science. In the end, faced with his own mortality, Cooley fights back with great big ... Read more
Different Minds
By Lorna Drew & Leo Ferrari
Lorna Drew thought her partner was carrying his absent-minded professor status too far, until, two years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer Disease. A thoughtful memoir and a wide-ranging handbook, Different Minds is an illuminating side-by-side account of life with Alzheimer ... Read more
Four Umbrellas
By June Hutton & Tony Wanless
A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from — memory.
At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over ... Read more
Heal
By Arlene Weintraub
“Honest reporting . . . [A] useful and credible book. ” — Bloomberg Businessweek
“This book is science, emotion, and love of dogs all mixed together. ” — Chicago Tribune
How man’s best friend could help cure man’s greatest scourge
Drawn from extensive research, ... Read more
