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Join Susan Lax and Mollie Sugarman for a Conversation on Finding the Oasis Within Following Diagnosis

In the newest chapter of Susan Lax & Friends, spiritual counselor Susan Lax is joined by Mollie Sugarman, the Clinical Director of NYBRA’s Patient Empowerment Program to discuss how to “Discover your Oasis After a Diagnosis.” Susan and Mollie will discuss the spiritual and emotional toolbox patients can tap into…

BookTribSeptember 2, 2022

Miscellany

12 Most Inspirational Books on Cancer to Read in 2020

Currently, more than 20,000 cancer books are available on Amazon alone. With so much information on hand, it can be hard for cancer patients and their loved ones to know where to start – and sifting through endless reviews is time-consuming. As part of The Mesothelioma Center’s goal to educate…

Karen SelbyJanuary 28, 2020

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“Why Her? Why Not Me?” Portrays Unbelievable Grief With Remarkable Authenticity

Why Her? Why Not Me?: A Series of Deep Familial Misfortunes (Balboa Press) discloses, in the very title, that tragedy comprises the crux of the forthcoming account. Chapter one's title, “The First Traumatic Event,” also reinforces the expectation. Despite this threatening storm cloud hanging over the reader’s mind, the opening…

Judy MorenoSeptember 17, 2021

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“Living in Color” Paints Love as the Best Treatment in One Couple’s Cancer Journey

If ever there was a story about a couple living in the moment in an inner world of uncertainty and anguish, making the best of it, and coming as close to a perfect ending as can be imagined, it’s Living in Color: A Love Story, in Sickness and in Health (createSpace),…

Jim AlkonOctober 11, 2021

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“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

“He might as well have told her that he was planning to jump off a bridge in the hope of bouncing the cancer out of his body.” About 650,000 cancer patients receive chemotherapy in an outpatient oncology clinic every year in the U.S. Rodney Stamps was not going to be…

Jim AlkonAugust 11, 2021

Nonfiction

VIDEO: Author Peter Green Talks Cancer Diagnosis, Recovery and Regaining Strength

Everyone has been touched by cancer whether it be a personal battle or that of a friend or family member. It is human nature to want to help but it is also in our nature to be unsure as to what actually is helpful. Survivor and author Peter Green is…

BookTribApril 4, 2018

Nonfiction

Eve Ensler of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Turns Her Body Inside Out

Her book, In The Body of the World (2013, Metropolitan Books), chronicles her Stage 4 uterine cancer diagnosis and treatment, and makes surprising connections between her disease and the cancers of war, poverty and pollution that plague our planet. And now through March, Ensler performs her play, also titled “In…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 19, 2018

Nonfiction

‘The Best of Us’: Joyce Maynard’s Memoir on Love, Loss and Life

I highly recommend reading Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us, but just make sure you have a box of tissues. Maynard finds the love of her life in her 50s, many years after being divorced and raising her children as a single mother. She and Jim, her new love, had a…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 8, 2017

Nonfiction

Deception, Turmoil, and Heroism in Kate Moore’s ‘The Radium Girls’

NPR has stated, "Radium Girls spares us nothing of their suffering; though at times the foreshadowing reads more like a true-crime story, Moore is intent on making the reader viscerally understand the pain in which these young women were living, and through which they had to fight in order to get their…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 31, 2017

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“Finny the Flying Fish” is a Children’s Book Character with a Real Life Mission

It's 4 a.m. and Angela Angelfish is awake. She has chemo at 6 a.m., and her mother is asleep in the hospital bed next to hers. She reaches for her iPad to go to Whalewishes.org to check her “Fishnook” mailbox to see if she has any "Whale Wishes" from people around the…

Jim AlkonNovember 10, 2021

Fiction

New Novel From National Book Award Winner Sigrid Nunez

What Are You Going Through (Riverhead Books) by National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez is a perfect follow-up to her previous novel, The Friend, where a woman’s friend passes away and she takes on the responsibility of her dog. In Nunez’s latest novel, empathy is the focus when this narrator’s…

Jennifer BlankfeinDecember 10, 2020

Fiction

The Harrowing Journey That Led Debut Author Tamara B. Rodriguez to Write ‘Hair to the Queen!’

Introducing new children’s book, Hair to the Queen!, by first-time author, mother and cancer survivor, Tamara B. Rodriguez. Rodriguez shares her writing journey below. As nearly everyone knows, October is recognized as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by the media and cancer survivors, alike. So, why is a first-time author…

BookTrib Guest AuthorNovember 4, 2016

Fiction

Abandonment, Anger, and a VW Van Named Ernie

In Remember Us (Morgan James Publishing) by Lindsay Blake and Layne James, that's exactly what happened to Reese Hamilton and her twin brother, Ben. Now, 13 years later, their father Carl has cancer, and Ben and Reese travel home to be with him. With no forewarning, their quirky mother Bernice…

K.L. RomoJanuary 29, 2019

Author Spotlight Nonfiction

Bonnie J. Addario Shares a Message of Hope in the Face of Lung Cancer

Bonnie J. Addario, co-founder and chair of the largest lung cancer patient advocacy organization in the nation, the GO2 Foundation, is a lung cancer survivor herself. But her book, The Living Room: A Lung Cancer Community of Courage (Post Hill Press) really isn’t about her own experiences; rather, it tells…

BookTribMay 24, 2021

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Today on FB: A Survivor’s Story

Join us today at 12:00 noon (EST) on the BookTrib Facebook page when we sit down with cancer survivor and former addict Steve Melen. Steve's personal journey through Stage IIIB stomach cancer and subsequent addiction to prescription painkillers would have broken many of us, yet he's beat the odds on…

BookTribJanuary 15, 2021

Better Self Listicles Nonfiction

7 Honest, Heartfelt Memoirs About Life in the Face of the Big-C

I’m almost certain you’ve heard platitudes like “You only live once” or “You could get hit by a bus tomorrow.” And while these remarks may evoke an exaggerated eyeroll due to their common appropriation in justifying spontaneous purchases and questionable haircuts, they also remind us to enjoy living. Because despite…

Chelsea CicconeFebruary 16, 2021

Join Susan Lax and Mollie Sugarman for a Conversation on Finding the Oasis Within Following Diagnosis

12 Most Inspirational Books on Cancer to Read in 2020

“Why Her? Why Not Me?” Portrays Unbelievable Grief With Remarkable Authenticity

“Living in Color” Paints Love as the Best Treatment in One Couple’s Cancer Journey

“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

VIDEO: Author Peter Green Talks Cancer Diagnosis, Recovery and Regaining Strength

Eve Ensler of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Turns Her Body Inside Out

‘The Best of Us’: Joyce Maynard’s Memoir on Love, Loss and Life

Deception, Turmoil, and Heroism in Kate Moore’s ‘The Radium Girls’

“Finny the Flying Fish” is a Children’s Book Character with a Real Life Mission

New Novel From National Book Award Winner Sigrid Nunez

The Harrowing Journey That Led Debut Author Tamara B. Rodriguez to Write ‘Hair to the Queen!’

Abandonment, Anger, and a VW Van Named Ernie

Bonnie J. Addario Shares a Message of Hope in the Face of Lung Cancer

Today on FB: A Survivor’s Story

7 Honest, Heartfelt Memoirs About Life in the Face of the Big-C

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