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A student who never stopped learning
After the Wreck I Picked Myself Up. Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Against All Odds
A Life of Grace
Brain: The Complete Mind
Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Developing…
Social Skills, Self Control, Job Seeking Skills
Brain Lash
Behind the Smile
Brain Tumor
Brain Basics
Brain Tumours
Brain Injury Safety Education& Prevention
Crash Test
Coping with Life after Injury
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries
Conquering the Darkness
Courage After Coma
Counselling in Rehabilitation
Communication Without Speech
Children’s Activity Book
Drugs (Know the Facts, Cut Your Risk)
Drug Safety
Epilepsy
For the Love of My Children
Franklins Bicycle Helmet
Go Fly a Bike
Glowing Hearts 3
Getting on with the Rest of Your Life After Stroke
Head Cases
Head Injury Recovery in Real Life
In an Instance
In Search of Wings
I had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse?
I Can’t Remember Me
Invisible and Disabilities
Ketchup On The Baseboard
Life Beyond Hearing Loss
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Look Inside Your Brain
Lets Learn About Epilepsy
Look, Listen and Live
My Stroke of Insight
Mick Harte Was Here
My Grandma Doesn’t Wear A Helmet
Over My Head
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Pain (Learning to deal with it)
Personal Safety
Patient Resource Handbook
Remind Me Why I’m Here
Second Chance
Stress Without Distress
The Brain That Changes Itself
The Man Who Lost Himself
The Fun Book
The Human Brain Book
The Day My Life Changed
The Incredible Human Flip Chart
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
The Chronic Pain Patient
The Man With a Shattered Word
The joy of Stress
The Challenge of Stress
The Brain and Behavior
Trauma
The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Until the Cows Come Home
Understanding Transient Ischemic Attack
Unlocking The Myths
Understanding Your Senses
View From the Bedpan
Whiplash
You Can’t Use Your Brain if You’re a Jelly Fish
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Title: A Student Who Never
Stopped Learning
Author: Grazia Murdoch-Riolo
Publisher: Grazia MurdochRiolo
# of Copies: 2
Summary: This story is to educate people, and to give hope to those
who suffer. To show them the other side of the mountain where
another life can be lived. Where we can learn to live a life of faith, with
love for God, and without discouragement, even when the prognosis is
very poor or the situation is tragic. This story has another purpose- to
deliver a message to people, to educate parents of children with a
disability.
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Title: After the Wreck I Picked Myself Up.
Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Jenna Abbott separates her life into two categories: before
the wreck and after the wreck. Before the wreck, she was leading a
normal life with her mom in suburban New York. After the wreck, Jenna
is alone, trying desperately to forget what happened that day on the
bridge. She’s determined not to let anyone get close to her- she never
wants to feel so broken and fragile again.
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Title: Against All Odds
Author: Graig W. Meyers, M.S.
Publisher: Book Masters
# of Copies: 1
Summary: God having provided me with colors to paint a masterpiece
of opportunity following my tragedy, I feel indebted to touch dawn’s
bright awakening with an effervescent spirit, and not gaze westward to
mourn the day’s passing.
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Title: A Life of Grace
Author: Jillian King
Publisher: Epic Press
# of Copies: 1
Summary: In this story, A life of Grace, children will learn about brain
injury and its consequences, how to interact with friends who sustain a
traumatic brain injury and the importance of and reasoning behind,
protecting their head whenever possible.
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Title: Brain: The Complete Mind
Author: Michael S. Sweeney
Publisher: National Geographic
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Take a minute to think about what your brain is doing- right
now- as you are reading this text: Millions and millions of neurons are
utilizing countless synapses to process the words.
Using today’s modern technology combined with the cumulative
knowledge of thousands of years of research brain takes you to the
place where consciousness originates.
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Title: Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Developing…
Social Skills, Self Control, Job Seeking Skills
Author: William H. Burke, Michael Wesolowski,
Mark Guth
Publisher: HDI Publishers
# of Copies: 1 of each (3 books)
Summary: These books are informational and help books for people
with an ABI.
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Title: Brain Lash
Author: Gail L. Denton, Ph D
Publisher: Demos Health
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Brain lash, an easy accessible guide that complements
medical treatment for anyone with mild brain injury. Written by a
psychotherapist who has experienced mild traumatic brain injury
firsthand, its down-to-earth, practical advice covers virtually every
aspect of the recovery process.
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Title: Behind the Smile
Author: Marie Osmond
Publisher: WARNER BOOKS
# of Copies: 1
Summary: At age 39, known for her signature smile and upbeat
attitude, Marie Osmond was living with what seemed to be the pictureperfect life. She was beautiful, talented, happily married, and cohosting the successful Donny and Marie show. She had postpartum
depression. This is a personal story of her struggle and life.
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Title: Brain Tumor
Author: Brain Tumor Foundation of
Canada
Publisher: Brain Tumor Foundation of
Canada
# of Copies: 1
Summary: This handbook was compiled by the Brain Tumor Foundation
of Canada to assist patients and families affected by brain tumors.
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Title: Brain Basics
Author: OBIA
Publisher: Bayshore Home Health
# of Copies: 1
Summary: The Brain Basics training program is to provide frontline
Health Care workers and others with an introduction to the world of
brain injury and to equip them with information that will allow them to
work effectively with persons who have sustained an Acquired Brain
Injury.
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Title: Brain Tumours
Author: NBTF
Publisher: National Brain Tumor Foundation
# of Copies: 1
Summary: This book teaches you about the brain and tumors.
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Title: Brain Injury Safety Education& Prevention
Author: George Peter Gatsis
Publisher: Black Diamond Effect
# of Copies: 7
Summary: A comic book about being safe, protecting your brain and
being aware of yourself.
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Title: Crash Test
Author: Chris Bye
Publisher: Bastian Books
# of Copies: 2
Summary: During their years growing up together in St. Catharine’s,
Ontario, Chris and Rick Bye wanted nothing more than to be race-car
drivers. Their dream actually came true as both men persevered to
develop successful racing careers, competing at such venues as
Daytona, Mosport, and Mt. Tremblant. Then Rick, on his way to
participate in the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, had a nearly fatal
accident. While driving his race-car hauler on I-77 near Statesville,
North Carolina, he slammed into two semi trucks waiting for traffic to
clear. Chris suddenly found himself at his brother’s side-not for another
race but to help him recover from severe brain damage. Crash Test is
Chris’s inspiring story of crisis, transformation, and triumph, showing
how two men’s tenacity, tested on the racetrack, brought them
through what would become the race of their lives.
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Title: Coping with Life after Injury
Author: MADD (Mothers Against
Drunk Driving)
Publisher: (Editor) Janice H. Lord
# Of Copies: 2
Summary: MADD’s mission is to stop impaired driving and to support
victims of this violent crime. This book is an informational book about
coping with an injury, coping with a spinal cord injury, and closed head
injury.
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Title: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Recovering from
Traumatic Brain Injuries
Author: (101 authors) Amy Newark and Dr.
Carolyn Roy-Bornstein
Publisher: Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
# Of Copies: 3
Summary: Stories about surviving and thriving are paramount
importance. This book is inspiring and motivating-a great boost for the
spirit, as well as a source of useful information.
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Title: Conquering the Darkness
Author: Deborah A. Quinn
Publisher: PARAGON HOUSE
# of Copies: 1
Summary: She was living a fairy tale life, happily married and financially
secure, until that fateful day when her car careened off the road leaving
her husband dead and her in a coma. Seriously injured, she had to
struggle to learn how to function again while others seeking to grab her
business and fortune saw her as easy prey.
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Title: Courage After Coma
Author: Mufty Mathews
Publisher: Uneek Experience
# of Copies: 1
Summary: On November 30, 1987, on a dark, cold night, the phone call
every parent dreads came to us. Wendy, our 27 year old daughter, was
in a car accident; something shattered her skull and crashed into her
brain.
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Title: Counselling in Rehabilitation
Author: William Stewart
Publisher: CROOM HELM
# of Copies: 1
Summary: The emphasis is on the personal, emotional and social
aspects of disease and disability, rather than on practical physical
procedures.
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Title: Communication without Speech
Author: Anne Warrick
Publisher: ISAAC
# of Copies: 1
Summary: In the summer of 1996, ISAAC’s biennial conference was held
in Vancouver, Canada. At that conference the idea of a book about
augmentative communication, one which could be used by parents,
relatives, community workers, neighbours and friends in every village
and city in the world, was born.
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Title: Children’s Activity Book
Author: Operation Lifesaver
Publisher: Canada Safety Council
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Teaching children about railroad safety.
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Title: Drugs (Know the Facts, Cut Your Risks)
Author: CPLT
Publisher: National Library of Canada
Summary: This book cannot answer every possible question about
drugs. It can provide readers with some basic guidance, helping them to
see things that they might otherwise miss, to understand them, and to
act on them.
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Title: Drug Safety
Author: Community Safety Net
Publisher: City Of Quinte West
# of Copies: 1
Summary: To educate children on drug safety.
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Title: Epilepsy and…
Seniors, Professionals and caregivers, Living,
Teens, Safety, Overview, Women, Parents, Teacher
Author: Edmonton Epilepsy Association
Publisher: E.E.A
# of Copies: 2 of each book (19 books)
Summary: These books are guides to help people who know someone
with epilepsy. It tells the reader facts, lifestyles, questions and answers,
safety, seizures, and tips.
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Title: For the Love of my Children
Author: Lin Damboise
Publisher: Lin Damboise
# of Copies: 1
Summary: My true life story begins as being the only boy of three
children. We grew up on a farm near a small town. After I finished
school I started working in the mines, got married and had two girls.
Five weeks after we had our second girl, I had a mining accident which
left me in a coma for almost a month. When I woke up I was paralysed
on my left side, and had lost my speech. My wife could not handle it
and took the kids and left. Eventually I learned I learned to walk and
talk again.
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Title: Franklin’s Bicycle Helmet
Author: Kids can Press
Publisher: CORUS
# of Copies: 1
Summary: A book about Franklin learning to be a safe bike rider and
wearing the right helmet for him.
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Title: Go Fly a Bike
Author: Bill Haduch
Publisher: Dutton Children’s Books
# of Copies: 1
Summary: The ultimate book about bicycle fun, freedom and science.
An informational book about your bike and how to take care of yourself
and the bike.
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Title: Gloving Hearts 3
Author: Jeffrey Tiessen& Kimberly Tiessen
Publisher: Gluckstein
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Short stories about mothers and their children with
disabilities.
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Title: Getting on with the Rest of Your Life
After Stroke
Author: Michael Cloutier
Publisher: Canadian Stroke Network
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Think of this program as learning to fly. First there is “LiftOff” where participants will learn the ingredients to getting off the
ground; then there is Gaining Altitude when participants will put into
practice in their community and in their own lives some of the learned
skills; the final stage is “full flight” when the participants have a plan for
meaningful activity for the rest of their life.
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Title: Head Cases
Author: Michael Paul Mason
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
# of Copies: 2
Summary: Manson deftly conveys the
frustrations and inequities of traumatic brain injury… He performs a
valuable service by calling attention to the plight of the brain injured.
Manson has provided a needed, and sobering, account of reality.
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Title: Head Injury Recovery in Real Life
Author: Larry E. Schutz & Michael E. Schutz
Publisher: Plural Publishing
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Some people may wonder why recovery from head injury
needs to be the subject of a book. It is commonly assumed that an
injury to the brain heals up; however, that idea is a myth. Brain damage
is permanent. For many years, the National Head Injury Foundation
issued its newsletter under this motto: After head injury life is never
the same. They felt it was important for members to understand that
the healing process is less complete than most expect it to be.
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Title: In an Instant
Author: Lee and Bob Woodruff
Publisher: Thorndike Press
# Of Copies: 2
Summary: In January 2006, the Woodruffs had it all. With a happy
marriage and four beautiful children, Lee was a public relations
executive and Bob had just named co-anchor of ABC’s World News
Tonight. Then, while Bob was embedded with the military in Iraq, he
suffered a traumatic brain injury that nearly killed him. In an Instance is
the frank and compelling account of how Bob and Lee’s lives came
together, were blown apart, and then were miraculously put back
together again- and how they survived the tragedy that gripped a
nation.
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Title: In Search of Wings
Author: Beverley Bryant
Publisher: Wings
# of Copies: 1
Summary: In search of wings tells the devastating true story of a
gymnastics judge’s coping with TBI after an auto accident that affected
her cognitive skills and memory.
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Title: I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse?
Author: Suzy Becker
Publisher: Workman Publishing
# of Copies: 1
Summary: An irreverent, inspiring story of an artist overcoming a
terrifying medical condition and reclaiming her funny bone.
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Title: I Can’t Remember Me
Author: Judy Martin-Urban, Courtney Martin
Larson
Publisher: LangMarc Publishing
# of Copies: 1
Summary: This touching true story begins in Indiana in 1997, shortly
after Courtney graduated from college. Left with a life-threatening
brain injury, her brave struggle back to her family and a productive life
is most inspiring. With love and help of family, friends and faith, life can
take on a new meaning.
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Title: Invisible Illnesses and Disabilities
Author: Sharon E. Smith
Publisher: Lifestyles Press
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Sharon Smith’s book is a common-sense, hands-on approach
to gaining wellness that everyone who has suffered a disability needs to
read. The book is rich in suggestions to improve your life, regain your
self-esteem, and climb out if the doldrums that so often accompany
long-term that are imperceptible to others.
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Title: Ketchup on the Baseboard
Author: Carolyn Rocchio
Publisher: Lash&Associates Publishing
# of Copies: 1
Summary: On November 23, 1982, the Rocchio Family changed forever.
Tim Rocchio was in a horrific car accident. This catastrophic event
changed the course of this family’s future.
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Title: Life beyond Hearing Loss
Author: CHS/SCO
Publisher: Canadian hearing Society
# of Copies: 1
Summary: The Canadian Hearing Society is the leading provider of
services, products and information.
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Title: Look inside Your Brain
Author: A Poke and Learning Book
Publisher: A Poke & Look Learning Book
# of Copies: 1
Summary: A children’s book about their brain and how it works.
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Title: Lets Learn about Epilepsy
Author: The Epilepsy Company
Publisher: Edmonton Epilepsy Association
# of Copies: 1
Summary: An activity book about epilepsy for children.
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Title: Look, Listen and Live
Author: Daniel Di Tota
Publisher: Operation Lifesaver
# Of Copies: 2
Summary: Children have always had a fascination with trains. Their
curiosity has often drawn them to dangerous areas near railway
equipment and property. This activity book is part of Operations
Lifesaver’s anti-trespassing program. With your help, it is designed to
educate children about the association dangers.
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Title: My Stroke of Insight
Author: Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Publisher: Viking
# of Copies: 1
Summary: I was, by anyone’s standard, no longer normal. In my own
unique way, I had become severely mentally ill. And I must say, there
was both freedom and challenge for me in recognizing that our
neurological perception of the external world, and our relationship to
it, is a product of our neurological circuitry. For all those years of my
life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination.
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Title: Mick Harte Was Here
Author: Barbara Park
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
# of Copies: 1
Summary: My father started to cry then. I think that’s when it first hit
me we were in way over our heads in this one. This was one of those
tragedies that needed a family that knew what it was doing. Like the
Kennedys or the Queen of England and her whole bunch. Not a family
like ours that comes unglued if someone doesn’t follow the morning
bathroom schedule.
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Title: My Grandma Doesn’t Wear A Helmet
Author: Shoshanna Brett Anisman
Publisher: Trafford
# of Copies: 1
Summary: My Grandmas name was Roz but I called her Bubbie. She was
the coolest Grandma ever and I can prove it. I’m going to tell you a
fantastical story that will explain it all.
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Title: Over my head
Author: Claudia L. Osborn
Publisher: Andrews McMeel
Publishing
# Of Copies: 2
Summary: This is an exceptionally well-written and engaging account of
one woman’s experiences, thoughts, feelings and relationships as she
slowly navigates a terrible corner in her life, and ultimately finds a “new
identity.”
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Title: Objects in Mirror are Closer than they
Appear
Author: Sol mogerman
Publisher: iUniverse
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Sol was unexpectedly hit head-on by a drunk driver on an icy
mountain road in the fall of 1985 as he was coming home from his
evening job as a professional musician. As a result of this accident, he
suffered a brain injury (stroke) that affected his ability to play music
and changed his life forever.
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title: Pain (Learning to Live Without it)
Author: Dr. David Corey and Stan Solomon
Publisher: Macmillan of Canada
# of Copies: 1
Summary: A definitive book on managing chronic pain, which is any
pain which lasts for six months or more. Thorough, simply written, and
with clear illustrations, it emphasizes the importance of the sufferer’s
own active involvement in a step-by-step program. This-up-to-date
book demon striates how to handle pain.
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Title: Personal Safety
Author: Community Safety Net
Publisher: City of Quinte West
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Teaches kids about personal safety.
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Title: Patient Resource Handbook
Author: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
Publisher: Searching Canada Inc.
# of Copies: 1
Summary: At Brain Tumour Foundation Canada, we are dedicated to
reaching every Canadian affected by a brain tumour with support,
education and information, and to funding brain tumour research.
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Title: Remind Me Why I’m Here
Author: Dianna Lund
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc
# of Copies: 1
Summary: In the spring of 1996, Diana Lund was top-ranked project
manager in her min-thirties when a car accident instantly changed her
personality and her life’s direction. Thrust into short-term memory loss
and cognitive deficit, self-perception kept colliding into reality.
Neurologists underestimated her difficulties; they sent her back to
work, to manage multi-million dollar contracts, in a mentally
compromised state.
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Title: Second Chance
Author: Michael J. Pasloski
Publisher: Canadian Cataloguing
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Michael has some stories to tell. He is a musician,
businessman, husband, and father. A good and stable life- until he was
critically injured in a car accident near Kamsack, Saskatchewan, on
January 21, 1997.
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Title: Stress Without Distress
Author: Hans Selye
Publisher: McCELLAND AND STEWART
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Hans Selye knows more about stress than any other scientist
alive. Here, taking off the lab coat and speaking simply to all of us, he
offers a lifetime of learning about how survive in a pressure-ridden
society.
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title: The Brain That Changes Itself
Author: Norman Doidge, M.D
Publisher: Penguin Books
# Of Copies: 2
Summary: The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure
and function of our brains- even into old age- is the most important
breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries. In the revolutionary
look at the brain, bestselling author, psychoanalyst Norman Doidge,
M.D., introduces both the brilliant scientist championing this new
science of neuroplasticity and astonishing progress of the people whose
lives they’ve transformed. Introducing principles we can all use as well
as a riveting collection of case histories- stroke patients cured, a
women with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, learning
and emotional disorders overcome, IQ’s raised, and aging brains
rejuvenated- The Brain that Changed itself has “implications for all
human beings, not to mention culture, human learning and human
history.”
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Title: The Man Who Lost Himself
Author: June Callwood
Publisher: Canadian Cataloguing in Publication
Data
# Of Copies: 2
Summary: In 1988, when Terry Evanshen’s jeep was T-boned by a van
running a red light, the CFL Hall of Famer sustained such a severe brain
damage it was a wonder he survived. When he finally came out if a
coma, he did not know who his wife was. Her face meant nothing to the
former football hero. All of his memories- were gone. He had no idea
who he was.
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Title: The Fun Book: 102 Ways for Girls To Have
Fun
Author: Melina Gerosa
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
# of Copies: 1
Summary: A great read with lively, original ideas to have fun.
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Title: The Human Brain Book
Author: Rita Carter
Publisher: DK
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Reveals with extraordinary clarity every aspect of the human
brain’s anatomy and how it functions.
Hundreds of incredible images allow you to explore the brain in
unprecedented detail.
Includes the latest cutting-edge research and ideas about the brain.
Discover how the brain works with clear, illustrated explanations that
demystify complex processes, such as memory, perception, and
consciousness.
Find out how and why the brain malfunctions with analysis of the most
common diseases and disorders to affect the brain.
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Title: The Day My Life Changed
Author: Carmel Reilly
Publisher: Magpie Books
# of Copies: 1
Summary: An inspiring collection of first-hand personal accounts of
people whose lives have changed dramatically, sometimes suddenly, as
the result of particular incidents or events. Carmel Reilly brings
together the moving testimonies of ordinary people from all over the
world who have triumphed over adversity and succeeded in changing
the courses of their lives. She has complied a wonderful collection of
uplifting stories of those who have reached crossroads or turning points
in their lives.
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Title: The Incredible Human Body Flip Chart
Author: N/A
Publisher: Tormont Publications Inc.
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Your body is one of the most amazing machines you’ll find
anywhere! Find out what’s inside of you, and learn about how your
different organs work.
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Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
(and Other Clinical Tales)
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Summit Books New York
# of Copies: 1
Summary: In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks cast his
net wide and explores a greater variety of neurological disorders and
their no less extraordinary effects upon the minds and lives of those
affected.
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Title: The Chronic Pain Patient
Author: Philip L. Gildenburg, Richard A. DeVal
Publisher: KARGER
# of Copies: 1
Summary: This book describes a practical approach to the management
of a difficult, common, and frustrating problem: the patient who
complains of chronic pain and yet has no identifiable illness or
structural pathology.
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Title: The Man with a Shattered World
Author: A.R Luria
Publisher: Harvard University Press
# of Copies: 1
Summary: This is a compelling portrait of a man’s heroic struggle to
regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the
head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a
frightening world: he could recall his childhood but not his recent past;
half his field of vision had been destroyed; he had great difficulty
speaking, reading, and writing.
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Title: The Joy of Stress
Author: Peter G. Hanson, M.D.
Publisher: Hanson Stress Management Org.
# of Copies: 1
Summary: An important book on a crucial subject (stress) for men and
women alike. Its good medicine, that makes for very tasty reading.
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title: The Challenge of Pain
Author: Ronald Melzack&Patrick Wall
Publisher: Penguin Books
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Until the middle of this century research into the field of
pain theory. Over the past two decades pain research has been
transformed into a speciality in its own right, and is now one of the
most rapidly advancing fields of science and medicine.
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Title: The Brain and behavior
Author: Frank Grubbs M.S.
Publisher: The Transitional Learning
Community
# of Copies: 1
Summary: A work and informational book about the brain and its
behavior.
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Title: Trauma
Author: Basil A. Pruitt
Publisher: Lippincott Williams& Wilkins
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Informational book about trauma, injury, infection, and
critical care.
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Title: The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (work book)
Author: Douglas J. Mason, PSY. D.
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
# of Copies: 1
Summary: A blow to the head or the dramatic acceleration and
deceleration that occur in a serious car crash can cause a traumatic
brain injury. At their most serious, these events are critical and life
threatening, but even a mild incident can cause problems with
memory, communication, and mental focus.
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Title: Until the Cows Come Home
Author: J.T. Blakemore
Publisher: Airleaf
# of Copies: 1
Summary: For those of us who sometimes feel that the light at the end
of the tunnel really is an oncoming train, J.T. Blackmore is living proof
that we don’t have to simply stand on the tracks and be run down. This
is the story of a man who faces down a great deal of adversity and lives
to tell the tale.
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Title: Understanding Transient Ischemic Attack
Author: Heart and Stroke Foundation
Publisher: Heart and Stroke Foundation
# of Copies: 1
Summary: An informational book about TIA.
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Title: Unlocking the Myths: Keys to Success
Author: Simcoe York Children
Publisher: Thomson Rogers
# of Copies: 1
Summary: For parents, teachers and caregivers who are living with or
working with a young person whose behavior has been affected by a
brain injury, this resource guide provides a wealth of proven strategies
that will facilitate a happier, and more productive quality of a life for
everyone concerned.
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title: Understanding Your Senses
Author: Rebecca Treays
Publisher: Usborne Science
# of Copies: 1
Summary: This book opens your eyes to how you detect the world
around you. Find out how tiny babies’ senses develop, uncover the
trickery of optical illusions, step into the unreal world of virtual reality,
and learn about the super senses of some animals.
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Title: View from the Bedpan
Author: Beverley June Richmond
Publisher: Epic Press
# of Copies: 2
Summary: Days after being run over by a truck, newspaper advertising
rep Bev Richmond awakens to find herself flat on her back in Intensive
Care with orthopedic and brain injuries. View from the bedpan is
Richmond’s amusing, informative, and inspiring journey through
hospitalization and healing.
In this candid, touching book, read about outpourings of support and
divine intervention. Witness the struggle for survival and the mastery of
the commode. Meet nurses, hospital personnel, and a revolving cast of
roommates.
Learn about hospital routines, the art of summoning a nurse, the
mystery of the closed door. Explore pain, hallucinations, and phobias,
as well as the many challenges affecting long-term hospital patients.
Benefit from the seventy-five helpful strategies for patients and
caregivers alike.
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Title: Whiplash
Author: Dr. Arthur Ameis
Publisher: SEAL BOOKS
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Written especially for someone living with a neck injury, this
concise, comprehensive and totally up-to-date guide tells you what you
need to know about living with whiplash. From testing to treatment,
from exercise to recovery.
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title: You can’t use your Brain If You’re a Jellyfish
Author: Fred Ehrlich, M.D.
Publisher: Blue Apple Books
# Of Copies: 3
Summary: This fun and informative look at brains-insect brains, bird
brains, dog and cat and monkey brains, and our brains- and how they
work is sure to intrigue young readers. As he has done in so many other
books, Dr. Fred Ehrlich takes a complex subject and makes it not only
understandable but fascinating, and sometimes even funny.
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Title: Your Amazing Brain and How it Works
Author: Marge Engelman
Publisher: Attainment Company, Inc.
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Information about the brain in a fun, easy way.
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Title: Young Cyclist’s Guide
Author: Ontario Cycling Association
Publisher: Ontario Government
# of Copies: 1
Summary: Teaching kids about being safe and learning about their
bikes.
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