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Breast Cancer Booklist

Fiction

• What Girls Learn
  Cook, Karin
  Publisher: Pantheon List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0679448284 Date: 1997
  Publishers Weekly
  A radiant debut novel, What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensly human,this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
• Life Before Death
  Frucht, Abby
  Publisher: Scribner List Price: $ 21 ISBN: 068483507x Date: 1997
  PW Kirkus
  NYTBR Notable
  The acclaimed, prize-winning author of Snap, Licorice, and Are You Mine? Has created one of her smartest, most beguiling characters yet, in a novel that is by turns comic and tragic, but always redemptive. From the moment when Isobel Albright finds the tiny, sharp pebble of a lump in her breast, events begin to take place that confirm her sense that the natural order in undergoing an irrevocable transformation.
  
• Undressing the Moon
  Author: Greenwood, T.
  Publisher: St Martins $ 23.95 ISBN: 031228473x Date: 2002
  Library Journal
  The summer she turned 14, Piper Kincaid's free-spirited mother packed her bags and disappeared, never to be seen again. Overwhelmed and confused, Piper becomes entangled with an older man. The devastating consequences of this relationship continue to haunt her. Now 30 and suffering from breast cancer, Piper looks back at that summer, and tries to make peace with her past and her uncertain future.
  Updated 10/8/01
• Inch by Inch: A Novel of Breast Cancer and Healing
  Author: Norman, Geoffrey
  Publisher: Lyons $ 22.95 ISBN: 1592281974 Date: 2003
  LJ
  Based on true events, this novel tells the story of Jake and Leslie, a couple who have been married for 25 years, have two children in college, and a life they had expected. Then abruptly, on the way home from a business trip, Leslie tells Jake that she has breast cancer. Suddenly their world is turned upside down. Norman presents a scenario all too real for the quarter million women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year-and their families. There are books that map what is to be expected, but none present the husband's journey that parallels his partner's. And none are able to depict the searing emotional landscape of grief, fear, and healing, that Norman does with such grace. - Publisher Marketing.
  Updated 10.11.05

For Kids

• Loose Threads
  Author: Grover, Lorie Ann
  Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry $ 16.95 ISBN: 0689844190 Date: 2002
  Booklist
  Struggling with issues of popularity in junior high school and coming to terms with her Grandma Margie's cancer diagnosis and illness, seventh-grader Kay Garber journeys through some difficult months and tries her best to tie up some loose threads, while coming to a new understanding of the complexities and importance of faith and family.
  Grades: 4-7
  Updated 10.11.05
• Both Sides Now
  Author: Pennebaker, Ruth
  Publisher: Holt $ 16.95 ISBN: 0805061053 Date: 2000
  Bulletin Horn Book Kirkus SLJ
  Fifteen-year-old Liza tries to deal with the normal everyday crises of life in an Austin, Texas, high school, a process complicated by her mother's fight with breast cancer.
  Grades: 6-9
  Updated 10.11.05

Nonfiction

• Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
  Author: Delinksy, Barbara
  Publisher: Atria $ 20 ISBN: 0743431367 Date: 2001
  LJ
  Bestselling novelist and cancer survivor Delinsky issues practical advice she wishes she had previous access to. Delinsky covers questions of diet, social commentary and sexual identity she encountered in her own ordeal.
  Updated 10.11.05
• It Takes a Worried Man: A Memoir
  Author: Halpin, Brendan
  Publisher: Villard $21.95 ISBN: 0375507167 Date: 2002
  Library Journal
  An unsentimental, inspiring, and surprisingly funny account is written by a husband trying to deal with his wife's cancer--by turns horrifying and funny, but most of all, a love story.
  Suggested Reading: Memoir Stars | Breast Cancer
  Updated 1.31.02
• Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
  Author: Lucas, Geralyn
  Publisher: St Martins $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312334451 Date: 2005
  LJ
  In this soulful, surprising coming-of-age journey, a young, dynamic breast cancer survivor reveals how adversity became the impetus to examine her own sexuality and burgeoning womanhood.
  Updated 10.11.05
• Janet & Me
  Author: Mack, Stan
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 14 (paper) ISBN: 0684872781 Date: 2004
  PW LJ
  Featuring his trademark documentary cartooning style, acclaimed journalist-artist Stan Mack chronicles a poignant, unflinching, and intensely personal story of love and loss, and the remarkable relationship at the heart of it all. Illustrations throughout.
  Suggested Reading: Graphic Novel Stars
  Updated 11.3.04
• Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming: And Other Lessons I Learned from Breast Cancer
  Author: Nash, Jennie
  Publisher: Scribner $ 20 ISBN: 0743219791 Date: 2001
  LJ
  This fresh account of how breast cancer made one young mother a "wise old lady at the age of 36" is an inspiring read for the hundreds of thousands of women involved in the fight against breast cancer, whether they're patients, survivors or family.
  Updated 10.11.05
• Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battel for Survival at the South Pole
  Author: Nielsen, Jerri
  Publisher: Hyperion $ 23.95 ISBN: 0786866845 Date: 2001
  PW
  Ice Bound is the inspiring true story of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician with breast cancer stranded at a South Pole research station, whose amazing rescue made headlines around the globe. Set in a remote and desolate yet strikingly beautiful landscape, Nielsen's narrative of her transforming experience is a thrilling adventure.
  Updated 10.11.05