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      -- Bone & bread
      By Nawaz, Saleema, 1979-
       c2013., General, Anansi Call No: QWF Fic Naw    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods--and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal's Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood, their paths begin to diverge. Beena catches the attention of one of the "bagel boys" and finds herself pregnant at sixteen, while Sadhana drives herself to perfectionism and anorexia.
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      By Strout, Elizabeth
       c2013., General, Random House Call No: Fic Str   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Catalyzed by a nephew's thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.
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      -- Self-deception, false beliefs, and the origins of the human mind
      By Varki, Ajit  Brower, Danny L
       2013., Adult, Twelve Call No: 121.63 V313d   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Presents a radical new theory on the origins of our species. It was not, the authors argue, a biological leap that set humanity apart from other species, but a psychological one: namely, the uniquely human ability to deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence--including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths. The awareness of our own mortality could have caused anxieties that resulted in our avoiding the risks of competing to procreate--an evolutionary dead-end. Humans therefore needed to evolve a mechanism for overcoming this hurdle: the denial of reality. As a consequence of this evolutionary quirk we now deny any aspects of reality that are not to our liking--we smoke cigarettes, eat unhealthy foods, and avoid exercise, knowing these habits are a prescription for an early death. Reality-denial affords us many valuable attributes, such as optimism, confidence, and courage in the face of long odds.
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      By Catudal, Steph
       2023., HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: NEW Bio C357e   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood--watching her father die of cancer--came flooding back. Written with lush lyricism, Steph's account of how this crisis forced her to confront her past is raw, illuminating, and heartbreaking: her father's death that wrecked her faith in God and jumpstarted a decade of rebellion, including running away from home and living out of a van at age sixteen, struggling with alcoholism, and delving into drugs to ease her pain. Sitting by Rivs's bedside, she grappled with the memories of the past and the uncertainties of the future while reckoning with the unknowns of her husband's illness. Rivs would endure a grueling eighty-four days in a medically induced coma, eventually undergoing chemo for a similar illness that stole her father. 'Everything All At Once' is a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting reflection on resilience and a powerful reminder that we can find healing no matter how broken we are.
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      By Goldhagen, Shari, 1976-
       c2006., Doubleday Call No: Fic Gol    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: After his mother dies, 25-year-old Jack Reed returns to Cleveland to work at his late fathers law firm and raise his brother, Connor, who is still in high school. Jack becomes a workaholic with a parade of women streaming in and out of his life, while lonely Connor feels he is a burden to his brother. Wary of their emotions, the two brothers avoid talking about the devastating events that have profoundly changed their lives, instead bickering over minutiae and suffering from an array of physical ailments. Connor eventually marries a leggy Harvard grad and immediately sets out to create the family he never had, while Jack becomes involved with a red-haired reporter whom he's not sure he loves. As the year's pass and their partners change, as Jack becomes immensely wealthy and Connor gets sick, the brothers bond becomes the central fact of their lives and one they finally acknowledge.
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      By Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
       2015., Alfred A. Knopf ; Alfred A. Knopf of Canada Call No: Bio S119g   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that [remained] in the richest and deepest way possible"--
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      By Pausch, Randy  Zaslow, Jeffrey
       c2008., Hyperion Call No: Bio P3342p   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
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      By O'Rourke, Meghan
       2011., General, Riverhead Books Call No: BIO O78l    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In this memoir about the death of her mother and grieving aftermath, poet and journalist O'Rourke (Halflife) ponders the eternal human question: how do we live with the knowledge that we will one day die?.
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      By O'Connell, Grace
       c2012., General, Random House of Canada Call No: Fic Oco    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: What's a girl supposed to do after her mother kills herself by walking into the Don River with her pockets full of unpolished zircon stones? Maggie removes the zircon stones from the inventory of the family's New Age shop and opens up for another day of business. Then her blackouts begin, as do the visits from a mysterious customer who offers help for Maggie's blackouts and her project of investigating her mother's past in the American South. Is Maggie breaking down in the way her mother did, or is her "madness" a distinctive show of grief? Nobody really knows, not her father, her boyfriend or her psychiatrist, and especially not Maggie, who has to make some crazy decisions in order to work to feel sane again. A vivid look at the various confusions that can set in after a trauma and an insightful, gently funny portrait of a woman in her early twenties, especially relatable to readers who grew up in the eighties and nineties, 'Magnified World' dramatizes the battle between the head and the heart and the limitations of both in unlocking something as complicated as loss.
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      By Greene, Jayson
       2019., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Bio G811o   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading up to her death, it quickly becomes a narrative that is as much about hope and healing as it is about grief and loss. Jayson recognizes, even in the very midst of his ordeal, that there will be a life for him beyond it--that if only he can continue moving forward, from one moment to the next, he will survive what seems un-survivable. With raw honesty, deep emotion, and exquisite tenderness, he captures both the fragility of life and absoluteness of death, and most important of all, the unconquerable power of love. This is an unforgettable memoir of courage and transformation - and a book that will change the way you look at the world"--
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      By Pearson, Patricia, 1964-
       2014., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: 133.901 P361o    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Sparked by extraordinary experiences that occurred in her family when her father and her sister both died in 2008, Patricia Pearson was launched on a journey of investigation into what she calls 'a curious sort of modern underground--a world beneath the secular world, inhabited by ordinary human beings having extraordinary experiences that they aren't, on the whole, willing to disclose.' Roughly half the bereaved population, about 20% of those near death who recover, and an unreported number of the dying witness or experience a sensed presence, the mystery of near-death awareness, and, if they are not in horrible pain or medicated into unconsciousness, rationally inexplicable feelings of transcendence and grace as they depart on the journey from which none of us return. Pearson brings us effortlessly into her illuminating quest for answers, inspiring us to own up to experiences we may never have shared with anyone. Secular or religious, all of us wonder deeply about these things if we let ourselves, and also about the medical, social and psychological implications of understanding what it means to pass through heaven's door."--From publisher.