Published March, 2023
By Terence H. Young
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In Forbidden Knowledge, drug safety advocate Terence Young reveals how Big Pharma came to hold all the power in the pharmaceutical industry, and empowers patients to partner with their doctor to talk openly and plainly about prescription drugs to avoid adverse drug reactions. This is your survival guide to Big Pharma.

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Published November, 2022
By Mitchell Consky
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At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, journalist Mitchell Consky and his family of healthcare workers grapple with their frontline obligations while providing end-of-life care for his father with terminal cancer. Home Safe is a moving memoir of what it takes to come together to make a dying loved one feel safe at home.

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Published March, 2022
By Robert Earl Stewart
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Robert Earl Stewart weighs 368 pounds and struggles to catch his breath while talking. He starts running to save his life. Along the way he loses 140 pounds, ends up in jail, and eventually runs the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon.

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Published February, 2022
By Fraser Sutherland, Carmine Starnino and John Pepall
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A memoir of a family's resilience and its odyssey through the medical system, and an attempt to give dignity and meaning to a life cut mysteriously short. Fraser Sutherland, the late Canadian poet, wrote this memoir after his son, Malcolm, died suddenly at twenty-six after having suffered from schizophrenia.

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Published December, 2020
By Jonathon Reid
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After five weeks of officer training, Dr. John Reid was sent to Hong Kong in 1941. After the Japanese victory, he spent a year in Hong Kong prison camps before being sent to Japan as a slave labourer. His efforts to save his men were heroic, but he would never be the same.

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Published November, 2020
By June Hutton and Tony Wanless
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June watches and worries as her husband, Tony, gradually changes his interests, goals, and behaviour. The signs of dementia are all around, but a diagnosis of Alzheimer's takes seven years. Four Umbrellas provides a fresh perspective, bending the usual caretaker narrative by enfolding the voice of the person with the disease.

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Published June, 2020
By Patti M. Hall
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In Loving Large, Patti M. Hall confronts gigantism, an ultra-rare, infamous, and stigmatizing disease that threatens her young son's life and future. With wit, candour, and hilarity, she endures the harrowing medical odyssey with her two sons and learns to thrive in the aftermath.

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Published April, 2020
By Brodie Ramin
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Dr. Brodie Ramin brings the story of the opioid epidemic into the era of fentanyl, which is the leading cause of overdose death in North America. From his perspective as an addiction doctor working on the front lines of the epidemic, Dr. Ramin discusses the disease and the cure.

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Published January, 2020
By Shawn Jennings
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Dr. Shawn Jennings shares his experiences in the struggle for recovery and acceptance of his new life after suffering a brain stem stroke.

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Published April, 2019
By Brigitte Harrisson, Lise St-Charles and Kim Thuy
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New Ways of Understanding Autism offers a unique description of ASD (autism spectrum disorder), emphasizing that an autistic brain is different from a neurotypical brain.

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