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A Life Spent Listening
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A Life Spent Listening

A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili. In … 224 View
A Lucky Life

A Lucky Life

As a longtime pediatrician, Richard Goldbloom placed a high value on connecting with and communicating with his patients and their parents. His ability to reach an audience is evident in this … 304 View
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Limits

From: On Opium

The author describes her writing life in relation to the chronic pain and stiffness of her disease and how, no longer depressed, she has stretched her own limits with opiods, and asks if she can … 23 $2.30 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Vertigo

From: On Opium

Through the metaphor and the physical condition of vertigo, the author describes a benign temporary condition of incapacitiating vertigo, an artist’s residency in Venice, and the experience … 13 $1.30 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Quake

From: On Opium

As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … 15 $1.50 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Monsters

From: On Opium

The author describes what suffering does to her body and mind and how the effort required to transcend it makes her feel like a monster. While her condition allows her to walk and run but not … 14 $1.40 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Dross

From: On Opium

In this chapter, dross, the undesirable scum that rises to the top of molten metal and also the residue from previously smoked opium is applied as metaphor to junkies: the unwanted product of … 17 $1.70 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Saturnalia

From: On Opium

Through the description of a trip to Spain, the author explores facism and the relationship between governments and drug users, and other disposable groups of people. The author states that we … 17 $1.70 Add
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Admitto Vos ad Gradum

Admitto Vos ad Gradum

From: A Lucky Life

Talks about becoming chancellor of the university (Dalhousie) 6 $0.60 Add
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An Ounce of Prevention:

An Ounce of Prevention:

What Is It Really Worth?

From: A Lucky Life

His work with the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination and Walter Spitzer 6 $0.60 Add
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At the Feet of the Masters

At the Feet of the Masters

From: A Lucky Life

Discusses studying medicine and some of the masters who taught him. He studied in the 1940s and completed his residency in the early 1950s. Talks 21 $2.10 Add
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Background:

Life Before Dementia

From: Pilgrim Souls

An Introduction to the first part of the book, talks about what it means to care for someone with Dementia 7 $0.70 Add
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Before We Met

Before We Met

From: Pilgrim Souls

Outlines their lives before they were married 16 $1.60 Add
Beryl

Beryl

The Making of the Disability Activist

A survivor of more than one hundred surgeries, a dangerous opioid addiction, and multiple suicide attempts, Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities … 318 View
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Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill

From: A Lucky Life

Talks about his great Uncle William Goldbloom (Buffalo Bill) who was a fur trader in Prince Rupert BC who he met in the late 1940s 7 $0.70 Add
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Coming of Age in Cape Breton

Coming of Age in Cape Breton

From: A Lucky Life

Talks about meeting his wife at school, going on to talk about visiting her family in Cape Breton and his dealings with the medical community there 12 $1.20 Add