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Dancing in Small Spaces

An unstintingly honest and surprisingly humorous memoir that charts a couple’s parallel diagnoses of Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia.

In 2011, Leslie Davidson and her husband Lincoln Ford were enjoying ...

Ordinary Deaths

In Ordinary Deaths, Dr. Samuel LeBaron reminds us of our need for human connection when experiencing death and loss. Based on more than thirty years of working with children and adults dying from cancer, ...

Woman, Watching

From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, ...

Journey of a Thousand Miles

Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second World War and became the co-founder of what would soon become multi-million-dollar skin care company NeoStrata. / Ruey Yu évite la famine qui déferle ...

Anderson Ruffin Abbott

Anderson Ruffin Abbott graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1861, and became the first Canadian of African descent to train as a physician. Abraham Lincoln appointed him one ...