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General health
Medical and health textbooks, women’s health, menopause, cancer prevention, health promotion
| Be your own best friend |
Proto, Lonis |
| Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery |
Hall, Lindsay and Cohn, Leigh |
| Feel Fantastic |
Musk, May |
| Guide to Women's Health |
McTaggart, Lynne |
| Live Right for (4) Your Type |
D'Adomo, Peter J |
| Natural Alternative to HRT |
Glenville, Marilyn |
| Natural Health Natural Medicine |
Weil, Andrew |
| Say No to Cancer |
Holford, Patrick |
| The Change Women, Aging and the Menopause |
Greer, Germaine |
| The Cure Within |
Harrington, Anne |
| Understanding, preventing & overcoming Osteoporosis |
Plant, Jane and Tidey, Gill |
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Breast Cancer > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| 100 Questions and Answers about Advanced and Metastatic Breast Cancer |
Shockney, Lillie D. & shapitro, Gary |
| Advanced Breast Cancer |
Mayer, Musa |
| After Breast Cancer |
Mayer, Musa |
| After Breast Cancer Surgery Looking Ahead |
Australian Cancer Society |
| B.O.O.B.S. |
Fisher, Ann, Kempner, |
| Breast Cancer |
American Cancer society |
| Breast Cancer |
Vogel, Carole Garbury |
| Breast Cancer? Breast Health! |
Weed, Susan S. |
| Breast Lumps |
Smith, Jane and Leaper, David J. |
| Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book |
Love, Susan |
| Eating Pomegranates |
Garbriel, Sarah |
| Five Lessons I didn't Learn from Breast Cancer |
Lewis, Shelley |
| I am Not My Breast Cancer |
Peltason, Ruth |
| I've got cancer but it hasn't got me |
Dooher, Kate |
| Just a Lump |
Leifert, Debbie et al |
| Just Get Me Through This! |
Cohen, Debrorah A. and Gelfand, Robert M. |
| Living Beyond Breast Cancer |
Weiss, Marisa, Weiss, Ellen |
| Living in the Postmastectomy Body |
Suckweiler, Becky |
| Lymphedema |
Burt, Jeannie and White, Gwen |
| Men With Breast Cancer |
Breast Cancer Care |
| Mom and the Polka-Dot Boo-Boo |
Sutherland, Eileen |
| No Family History |
McCormick, Sabrina |
| No Less A Woman |
Kahane, Deborah Hobler |
| Saving Jack |
Willis, Jack |
| Straight Talk about Breast Cancer |
Braddock, Suzanne W. et al. |
| The Breast Cancer Book |
Sampson, Val & Fenion, Debbie |
| The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet |
Arnot, Bob |
| The Breast Cancer Survival Manual |
Link, John and Forsthoff, Cynthia and Waisman, James |
| Understanding Breast Cancer |
Ogden, Joy |
| Understanding the Mammography controversy |
Finkel, Madelon |
| Uplift Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors |
Delinsky, Barbara |
| What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer |
Lee, John R and Hopkinds, Virginia and Zava, David T. |
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Cancer General > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| Cancer |
Anderson, Greg |
| Cancer 50 Essential Things to Do |
Anderson, Greg |
| Cancer is a word, not a sentence |
Buckman, Robert |
| Cancer Related Bone Pain |
Davies, Andrew |
| Cancer The Healthy Option |
Moule, Terry |
| Cancer: What Causes It, What Doesn't |
American Cancer Society |
| Everything Changes |
Rosethal, Kairol |
| Evidence-Based Cancer Prevention |
UICC International Union Against Cancer |
| Fighting Cancer from Within |
Rossman, Martin L |
| Opiods in Cancer Pain |
Forbes, Karen |
| Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster |
Huddleston, Peggy |
| Quick Reference for Oncology Clinicians |
Holland, Jimmie C. |
| Radiation Therapy and You |
National Institutes of Health |
| Singing the Life |
Bryman, Elizabeth |
| The Cancer Atlas |
Mackay, Judith et al. |
| The Cancer Handbook |
American Society of Clinical Oncology |
| The Cancer Handbook |
McTaggart, Lynne |
| The Chemotherapy & Radiation Therapy Survival Guide |
McKay, Judith and Hirano, Nancee |
| The Frontier Cancer Medicine Guide |
Sikora, Karol |
| The Year My Mother was Bald |
Speltz, Ann |
| There but for the Grace of God |
Franz, Carol J |
| What Doctors Don't Tell You |
McTaggart, Lynne |
| What You Really Need to Know about Cancer |
Buckman, Robert |
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Childrens Cancer > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| Childhook Leukemia |
Keene, Nancy |
| Extreme Parenting |
Dempsey, Sharon |
| Hope for families of Children with Cancer |
Young, Linda & Ward, C.J. |
| Living With Childhood Cancer |
Woznick, Leigh A., and Goodheart, Carol D. |
| Side Effects |
Koss, Amy Goldman |
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Childrens Books
| A Volcano in My Tummy |
Pudney, Warwick & Whitehouse, Elaine |
| Because someone I love has Cancer |
American Cancer Society |
| Can I still kiss you? |
Russell, Neil |
Chemo Girl |
Richmond, Christina |
| Double-Dip feelings |
Cain, Barbara |
| Gentle Willows |
Miles, Joyce |
| Harry goes to Hospital |
Bennett, Howard J. |
| Heaven |
Allan, Nicholas |
| I feel Angry |
Moses, Brian |
| I feel frightened |
Moses, Brian |
| I feel jealous |
Moses, Brian |
| I feel sad |
Moses, Brian |
| I have feelings |
Hunter, Novotney |
| I'm a Superhero |
Wilde, Daxton |
| Imagine a rainbow |
Miles, Brenda |
| Introducing Marlon your Cancer fighting friend |
Adams, Karen |
| Josh's smiley faces |
Ditta-Donahue, Gina |
| Keep your hair on |
Vercoe, Elizabeth |
| Little Tree |
Miles, Joyce |
| Mom and the Polka-dot Boo Boo |
Sutherland, Eileen |
| Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine |
Crossley, Diana |
| Mummy's Lump |
Forrest, Gillian |
| No Matter What |
Gliori, Debi |
| Our family has Cancer too |
Clifford, Christine |
| Out of the Blue |
Stokes, Julie & Oxley, Paul |
| Peppermint Ward |
Halahmy, Miriam |
| Samantha Jane's missing smile |
Kaplow, Julie |
| Side Effects |
Koss Goldman, Amy |
| Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World |
Sunderland, Margot |
| The Famous Hat |
Gaynor, Kate |
| The Grieving Teen |
Fitzgerald, Helen |
| The Hope Tree |
Numeroff, Laura |
| The huge book of worries |
Ironside, Virginia |
| The Jester has lost his jingle |
Saltzman, David |
| The rainbow feelings of Cancer |
Martin, Carrie and Martin |
| The secret C |
Stokes, Julie |
| The Wishing Star |
Wyldbore-Smith |
| The year my mother was bald |
Speltz, Ann |
| What about Me? |
Peterkin, Alan |
| What Happens when someone dies |
Yarbrough, Tammy |
| What to do when you worry too much |
Huebner, Dawn |
| What to do when you're scared and worried |
Crist, James |
| What's it like Cancer? |
Royston, Angela |
| When I miss you |
Spelman, Cornelia Maude |
| When Mum or Dad has Cancer |
Couldrick, Ann |
| When someone dies |
Cusick, Tracey |
| When someone has a a very serious illness |
Heergaard, Marge |
| When someone special dies |
Heergaard, Marge |
| When something terrible happens |
Heergaard, Marge |
| When Uncle Bob Died |
Althea |
| When your brother or sister has Cancer |
National Cancer Institute |
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Gastric / Colorectal > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| 100 Questions and Answers about Colorectal Cancer |
Bub, David S. Rose, S & Wong, W.D |
| 100 Questions and Answers about Gastric Cancer |
Shah, Manish, Pinheiro, Natasha &Shah, Brinda |
| Living with Colon Cancer |
Livingston Wood, Eliza |
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Gynaecological Cancer > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| 100 Questions and Answers about Cervical Cancer |
Dizon, Don, Krychman, M & DiSilvestro |
| A Guide to survivorship for Women with Ovarian Cancer |
Montz, F.J. |
| Abnormal Pap Smears |
Rushing, Lynda & Joste, N. |
| Beating Ovarian Cancer |
Bledy, Chris |
| Planning and implementing cervical cancer programs |
Allience for cervical cancer protection |
| The Gynaecological Cancer Guide |
Heffernan, Margaret |
| The Patient Active Guide to Living with Ovarian Cancer |
Wellness Community |
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Leukemia / Lymphoma / Myeloma > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| 100 Questions and Answers about Myeloma |
Bashey, Asad, Abonour, Rafat & Huston, James |
| Cancer and Leukaemia |
Vries de, Jan |
| Frankly Speaking about Lymphoma |
Wellness Community |
| The Breuss Cancer Cure |
Breuss, Rudolf |
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Lung Cancer > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| Breathing Deep |
Eini |
| How to Survive Lung Cancer |
Lloyd, Michael |
| Lung Cancer |
American Cancer Society |
| Lung Cancer |
Johnston, Lorraine |
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Other Cancer > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| 100 Questions and Answers about Kidney Cancer |
Campblee, Steven, Rine, B. Uzzo, R.G., Lane, B. chisolm, S |
| Banger and Mash |
Hern, Keith |
| In Your Face |
Mills, Lia |
| Living with a Brain Tumour |
Black, Peter |
| Meeting the Challenges of Oral and Head and Neck Cancer |
Leupold, Nancy E., Sciubba, James |
| Nuts, Balls and Rocks |
Jowett, Adrian |
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Prostate Cancer > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| Advanced Prostate Cancer and Me |
Goldstone, Daniel J. |
| My Prostate and Me |
Martin, Wiliam |
| Perfect Health? |
Wright, Thelma |
| Promoting Wellness |
Moyad, Mark A. |
| Prostate Cancer |
Kaltenbach, Don |
| Prostate Cancer |
Plant, Jane |
| Saving your Sex Life |
Mulhall, John P. |
| The Prostate Book |
Scardino, Peter and Kelman, Judith |
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Skin Cancer > Diagnosis, surgery, treatment
| Melanoma and Other Skin cancers |
McClay, Edward F. et al. |
| Skin Cancer Prevent and Survive |
Smith, Tom |
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Nutrition
Examples : recipes, cookery, nutritional supplements, healthy eating
| Ayurvedic cooking for Self-Healing |
Lad, Usha & Lad, Vasant |
| Beating Cancer with Nutrition |
Quillin, Patrick |
| Betty Crocker's Living with Cancer Cookbook |
Ghosh, Kris et al. |
| Betty Crocker's Living with Cancer Cookbook |
Gosh, Kris and Carson, Linda |
| Challenge Cancer and Win |
Dalzell, Kim |
| Cooking for Dummies |
Miller, Bryan and Rama, Marie |
| D-Glucarate: A Nutrient Against Cancer |
Slaga, Thomas J and Quillici-Timmcke, J |
| Diet and the Cancer Patient |
Waterhouse Kate |
| Eating Right for Life |
Trachtenberg, John, Flesner, Neil, Lancaster, Carol Casselman, Barbie |
| Fat |
Hollis, Judi |
| Foods for Better Health |
Webb, Denis and Smith SM |
| Foods to Fight Cancer |
Beliveau, Richard and Gingras, D |
| Good Nutrition A guide for people with cancer |
Canadian Cancer Society |
| Informed Decisions |
Harmon, Eyre J. et al. |
| Low Fat |
Tee, Susanna |
| Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods |
Varona Verne |
| Nutrition for the Person with Cancer |
American Cancer Society |
| Plans for Dinner |
Gomez, Linda |
| Portion savvy: the 30-day smart plan for eating well |
Wiatt, Carrie Latt |
| Probiotic Rescue |
Tannis, Allison |
| Stop Your Cravings |
Workman, Jennifer |
| The American Dietetic Association Guide to Women's Nutrition for Healthy Living |
Finn, Susan Calvert |
| The Breast Cancer Prevention and Recovery Diet |
Olivier, Suzannah |
| The Bristol Recipe Book |
Rippon, Sadhya |
| The Cancer Life Line Recipes |
Sen, Jane |
| The Cancer Survival Handbook |
Weihofen, Donna L |
| The Dries Cancer Diet |
Dries, Jan |
| The Plant Program |
Plant, Jane A and Tidez, Gill |
| The Solution |
Mellin, Laurel |
| The Strang Cancer-Prevention Center Cookbook |
Pensiero, Laura |
| What to eat during Cancer Treatment |
Besser, Jeanne |
| What to Eat if You Have Cancer |
Keane, Maureen and Chace, Daniella |
| Winding Your Weight Down |
Satterwhite, Olga |
| You Count, Calories Don't |
Omichinski, Linda |
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Complementary Therapies
Chinese medicine, reflexology, acupuncture, reiki
| Enhancing Cancer Care |
Barraclough, Jennifer |
| Gentle Cures for tough Cancers |
Loftis, Deanna |
| Iscador |
Overstolz, Angelika |
| Medicine Hands |
MacDonald, Gayle |
| Miracles Do Happen |
Shealy, C Norman |
| PDQ Pretty Darned Quick |
Cassileth, Barrie R. et al. |
| Power Plants |
Rector-Page, Linda |
| Self-Healing with Reiki |
Quest, Penelope |
| Spontaneous Healing |
Weil, Andrew |
| The Holistic approach to Cancer |
Pearce, Ian |
| The Ying and Yang of cancer |
Chan, Bernard |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine Approaches to Cancer |
McGrath, Henry |
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The alternative Cancer Treatment Guide |
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Self Help
Exercise, beauty, stress control, guided imagery
| A Cancer Battle Plan sourcebook |
Frahm, Dave |
| Anti Cancer |
Servan-Schrieber, David |
| Ask and It Is Given |
Hicks, Esther & Jerry |
| Ayurveda The science of self-healing |
Lad, Vasant |
| Beauty and Cancer |
Noyes Doan, Diane and Mellody, Peggy |
| Ceancer Recovery Guide |
Chamberlain, Jonathan |
| Getting Well Again |
Simonton, O., Carl and Simonton-Matthews, Stephanie and Creighton, J.L. |
| Guided Imagery for Self-Healing |
Rossman, Martin L |
| Healing Moves |
Krucoff, Carol and Krucoff, Mitchell |
| How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk |
Faber, Adele |
| Living With Cancer |
Daniel, Rosy |
| Love, Medicine and Miracles |
Siegel, Bernie |
| Minding the Body, Mending the Mind |
Borysenko, Joan |
| Music and Cancer |
Nagarsheth, Nimesh |
| Peace, Love & Healing |
Siegel, Bernie |
| Perfect Weight |
Chopra, Deepak |
| Spontaneous Healing |
Weil, Andrew |
| Stress and Relaxation |
Kenton, Leslie |
| Surviving the Cancer System |
Fesen, Mark |
| The Bristol Programme |
Brohn, Penny |
| The Dynamic Laws of Healing |
Ponder, Catherine |
| The Healing Journey |
Simonton, O., Carl |
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Coping: care and families
Telling children, in partnerships, family, carers’ guides
| As Big as it Gets |
Stokes, Julie & Stubbs, Di |
| Being a Cancer Patient's Carer |
Finegan, Wesley C |
| Booklet of Hope |
Prince-Stoltenberg, Suzanne K. |
| Breast Cancer Husband |
Silver Marc |
| Breast Cancer Online: In Our Own Words |
Thompson, Barbara, Ed. |
| Can I Still Kiss You |
Russell, Neil |
| Cancer and the Family |
Baider, Lea, Cooper, Cary & Kaplan, A. |
| Cancer as a Turning Point |
Le Shan, Lawrence |
| Cancer Care for Adolescents and Young Adults |
Kelly,Daniel |
| Cancer Caregiving A to Z |
American Cancer Society |
| Cancer in the Family |
Heiney, Sue P |
| Caregiving |
Houts, Peter S. |
| Caring for someone with cancer |
Battison, Toni |
| Couples Confronting Cancer |
Fincannon, Joy, L et al. |
| Facing Cancer Together |
Brown, Pamela N |
| How to Help Children through a Parent's Serious Illness |
McCue, Kathleen |
| How to talk to family caregivers about Cancer |
Bolletrio, Ruth Cohn |
| Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood |
Grinyer, Anne |
| Life After Cancer Treatment |
US Dept. of Health and Human Services |
| My Mother Your Mother |
McCullough, Dennis |
| The Hope Tree |
Numeroff, Laura, Harpham, W.S., McPhail D |
| The Huge Book of Worries |
Ironside, Virginia |
| The Secret C |
Stokes, Julie A |
| The Year My Mother was Bald |
Speltz, Ann |
| What can I do to help? |
Hutton, Deborah |
| When a Parent Has Cancer |
Harpham, Schlessel, Wendy |
| When Children Grieve |
James, John W and Friedman, Russell |
| When Life Becomes Precious |
Babcock, Elise NeeDell |
| When Someone You love has Cancer |
National Cancer Institute |
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Coping: psychologically
Emotional impact, positive thinking, visualisation
| 57 Good Things About Chemotherapy |
Kalla, Alec |
| A Cancer Patient's Guide to Overcoming Depression and Anxiety |
Hopko, Derek & Lejeuz, C |
| Cancer Care for the Whole Patient |
Adler, Nancy E & Page, A |
| Cancer Positive |
Colthurst, J |
| Coping with the Emotional Impact of Cancer |
Fiore, Neil |
| Creative Visualization |
Gawain, Shakti |
| Emotional Alchemy |
Bennet-Goleman, Tara |
| Fight Cancer |
Sikora, Karol and Thomas, Hilary |
| Full Catastrophe Living |
Kabat-Zinn, Jon |
| Group Therapy for cancer and Serious Illness |
Scott, Stacey |
| Head First |
Cousins, Norman |
| Planning and >Implementing Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Programs |
Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention |
| Surviving Cancer Emotionally |
Granet, Roger |
| The Human Side of Cancer |
Holland, Jimmie C. and Lewis, Sheldon |
| The Psychology of Couples |
Schmaling, Karen & Sher, Goldman, Tamara |
| Transforming Body Image |
Hutchinson, Germaine Marcia |
| Unstoppable Attitude |
Miller, Peter Max |
| You Can Conquer Cancer |
Gawler, Ian |
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Grief, bereavement
End of life care, palliative care
| A Caregivers Guide |
Macmillan, Karen et al. |
| Always and Forever |
Durant, Alan |
| Death |
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth & Kessler, David |
| Facing Death and Finding Hope |
Longaker, Christine |
| Final Gifts |
Callan, Maggie |
| Healing after Loss |
Hickman-Whitmaore, Martha |
| Heaven |
Allan, Nicholas |
| Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine |
Crossley, Diana |
| On Children and Death |
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth & Kessler, David |
| On Death and Dying |
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth & Kessler, David |
| On Grief and Grieving |
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth & Kessler, David |
| Out of the Blue |
Stokes, Julie & Oxley, Paul |
| Sheltering Thoughts about Loss and Grief |
O'Neil Gilchrest, Sharon |
| Staring at the sun |
Yalom |
| Start the Conversation |
Stone, Ganga |
| Surviving Your Partner |
Murphy, Sylvia |
| The Colors of Grief |
DiCiacco, Janis |
| The Empty Bed |
Wallbank, Susan |
| The Grief Recovery Handbook |
James, John W. and Friedman, |
| The Other side of Sadness |
Bonanno, George |
| The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying |
Rinpoche, Sogyal |
| The Year of Magical Thinking |
Didion, Joan |
| Then, Now and Always |
Stokes, Julie |
| To Live until We Say Goodbye |
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth & Kessler, David |
| When the Focus Is On Care |
Foley, Kathleen et al. |
| When Uncle Bob Died |
Althea |
| You'll Get Over It |
Ironside, Virginia |
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Life journeys, spirituality
End of life care, palliative care
| A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul |
Canfield, Jack and Hansen, Mark |
| A New Earth |
Tolle, Eckhart |
| Aches and Pains |
Binchy, Maeve |
| Ancestors, Spirits and Healing in Africa and Asia |
Wulfhorst, Ingo |
| At the Will of the Body |
Frank, Arthur |
| Breast Caner Be-Attitudes |
Baker, Sylvia Morgan |
| C Because cowards get cancer too … |
Diamond, John |
| Cancer Support Groups |
Herman, Joan |
| Cancer Vixen |
Marchetto, Marisa A |
| Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul |
Canfield, Jack and Hansen, Mark |
| Do not go gentle |
Howe, Herbert Marshal |
| Every Second Counts |
Armstrong, Lance |
| Faith, hope and Healing |
Siegel, Bernie & Sander, Jenifer |
| First, You Cry |
Rollin, Betty |
| Healing Lazarus |
Richmond, Lewis |
| Heaven |
Albom, Mitch |
| Ice Bound - A Doctor's Incredible Battle … |
Nielson, Jerri |
| It's Not About the Bike |
Armstrong, Lance |
| Kitchen Table Wisdom |
Remen, Rachel Naomi |
| Ladies in the wind |
Kaihuai Association |
| Life Wisdom |
Temsi, Carolyn and Handley, Caro |
| Love, Medicine and Miracles |
Siegel, Bernie S. |
| Moving Into Balance |
Larrivee, Barbara |
| My one-night Stand with Cancer |
Katan, Tania |
| Next to You - Caron's Courage |
Hunniford, Gloria |
| Real Magic |
Dyer, Wayne W. |
| Sacred Contracts |
Myss, Caroline |
| Singing the Life |
Bryan, Elizabeth |
| Snake Oil and other preoccupations |
Diamond, John |
| The Cancer Book, Chicken Soup for the Soul |
Canfield, Jack |
| The Celebration of Life |
Cousins, Norman |
| The fight of my life |
Clark, Barbara |
| The five people you meet in heaven |
Albom, Mitch |
| The Journey |
Bays, Brandon |
| The Luxury of Time |
Tomlinson, Jane and Mike |
| The Meditative Mind |
Goleman, Daniel |
| The Power of Now |
Tolle, Eckhart |
| The Purpose-driven Life |
Warren, rick |
| The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming |
Nash, Jennie |
| Triumphs of the Human Spirit |
Summers, Barry W. |
| Tuesdays with Morrie |
Albom, Mitch |
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