We recently received two copies of a comprehensive cancer survivor reference binder from the Lance Armstrong Foundation for your use as reference material in the library. Best of all, if you want your own personal copy, for only the cost of shipping and handling you will be sent a smaller spiral-bound notebook version that is more portable for your use at home – and gives you space to insert your own personal information.
Called the “Live Strong Resource for Cancer Survivors: Survivorship Notebook,” the large binder at the library, more than 250 pages long, is designed to organize and guide a patient’s cancer experience with practical information about cancer-related concerns, worksheets and stories from cancer survivors.
If you or someone in your family or circle of friends is facing cancer, you know how hard it can be to keep track of your appointments, stay on top of your medications and remember the questions you want to ask health care workers. That’s why we urge you to come into the library to look at this useful document. It contains a great deal of useful information relating to cancer care and treatments, estate planning, coping with uncertainty, how to communicate with your health care team, and resources to help you deal with this awful disease.
It also includes places for your own medical records, list of medications, letters, journal entries and other personal information to help you and your family keep needed information handy. That’s why it is such a good idea for you to ask for your own personal copy.
To order your own notebook, go to www.livestrong.org/notebook. The notebooks are free, but shipping and handling charges may apply. You may also view the information in the notebook at www.livestrong.org. If you would like to receive one-on-one support, please contact Live Strong Survivor Care toll-free at 866-235-7205 or visit www.livestrong.org/survivorcare. They can help you get counseling and referrals to local resources, address financial and insurance concerns, and help you connect to new treatments in development.
This cancer information service is a joint project of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the American Library Association. The two organizations are planning to provide additional support materials in the future.
As Lance says in his introduction, “If there is one thing cancer has taught me, it’s that we are stronger than we think…. When you believe in your strength and how to tap into it, you ‘live strong…’. Before I had cancer I just lived, now I live strong.” The world-famous cyclist is a testicular cancer survivor and driving force behind LiveStrong.
Cookbooks
“The Cook’s Encyclopedia of Bread” by Christine Ingram and Jennie Shapter is a fully illustrated reference guide to the breads of the world, with fascinating information about traditional baking methods. Its 150 recipes all have step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs. “Martha Stewart’s Cookies” contains recipes for 175 different cookies, plus ideas for packaging them as gifts and information about tools and techniques to bake them.
Large print novels
“Carolina Isle” by Jude Deveraux tells of the stormy results when two young ladies in their 20s decide to switch lives. “Dumping Billy” by Olivia Goldsmith is a romance set in Brooklyn. “The Windmill” by Stephanie Gertler follows a woman with a seemingly perfect life in Massachusetts whose husband suddenly disappears. “Mater Biscuit” by Julie Canon is the story of a family living in a small town in the South. “Between Sisters” by Kristin Hannah” is a portrait of two women – sisters by blood, strangers by choice – about to come together in a time of exquisite joy and unbearable sadness. “Dog Days” by Mavis Cheek is the story of a new divorcee facing life with a new dog, a daughter and many friends trying to match her up with other men. “Interpreter of Maladies” is an award-winning collection of nine stories that has won almost every award for debut fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize.
Non-fiction
“Head and Heart: American Christianities” by Garry Wills is a landmark examination of Christianity’s place in American life over our history from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush. “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” by Atul Gawande looks at medical failure and triumph, and how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. “A Canary’s Tale: Politics, Poison and Pollution vs. the Environment and the Public Health” by Jacob B. Berkson tells of a retired lawyer who develops multiple chemical sensitivity after his house is treated for termites. “Stori Telling” by actress Tori Spelling from the television show Beverly Hills 90210 is a memoir that talks about her decadent childhood, the real life behind the rumors and her quest to define herself in her own terms.
Books on CD
“The Other Boleyn Girl” By Philippa Gregory, the novel about Mary and Anne Boleyn competing for the love of Henry VIII, has been made into a major motion picture. It also have this book in hard cover. “A Prisoner of Birth” by Jeffrey Archer tells of how a man sentenced to 22 years in Britain’s highest-security jail seeks revenge. “Duma Key” by Stephen King is a supernatural tale set on an undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast.
War stories
“American Warrior” is a combat memoir of Vietnam by Brigadier General John C. Bahnsen Jr., one of our country’s most decorated soldiers in the Vietnam War. “Tutankamun’s Aremies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt’s Late 18th Dynasty by John Coleman Darnell and Colleen Manassa explores the vast, complex and sophisticated military machine that defended and expanded the borders of the empire during the Eighteenth Dynasty. “Patton’s Pawns: The 94th U.S. Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line” by Tony Le Tissier tells of this division formed late in World War II made by largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings, with unfortunate consequences for mutual trust ands respect.
Quotable quote
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions, nor expensive diversions, or variety of company, if she can be amused with an author.” -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English aristocrat, writer and champion of women’s rights.
Thanks to our donors
For books and materials this week we thank Jan Aarvord, Kathy Bennett, Julie Gillentine, Biz Greene, Phyl Daleske, Susan Durkee, Caren Gavic, Kathleen Golden and Anna O’Reilly.
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