Illness Fiction

A smart, funny, sex-positive YA perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Rainbow Rowell, this is a heartwarming look at the particular challenges of adolescence, written as only a teen could. Simone is HIV-positive - and positive HIV won't define her. She also knows that celibacy is - technically - the best way to stay safe. Enter Miles Austin: intelligent, funny and way too sexy for Simone to resist. But her classmates don't know that she's HIV-positive - and what is the truth worth in the hands of the wrong person?

Macy Hollinquest is 11 years old, and don't count on her to change that anytime soon. Her birthday is just days away, but she has no intention of turning 12 without her dad by her side. He'd promised to be there for her big day, yet he's been gone for months - away after his discharge from the army, doing some kind of top secret "important work".

When Rachel, a GP in Salisbury, meets Luc, the attraction between them is instant. But Rachel is married with a daughter–and Luc isn’t well. Despite themselves, a heady love affair begins–one that threatens to risk everything Rachel has worked for. And when someone in the town is found dead, the spotlight turns to Luc. Torn between her career, her marriage and her heart, Rachel finds herself in the middle of something much darker than she could have imagined…

Do you find them getting more and more excited jumping around, especially when it's time for bed? Even if your kids finally fall asleep, do you find them waking up in the middle of the night from nightmares? Then you start searching online: Meditate sleep, sleep stories for adults, or natural anxiety relief for kids...If this sounds like you, search no further. This little storybook is for you. This little audiobook is to engage both of you. It carefully curates guided interactive meditations to help you and your kids build a mindful bedtime routine together.

Cymbeline Igloo is bored. Bored of home learning, bored of lockdown, bored of not being able to do anything. And to make things even worse, his mum accidentally gave away his favourite football shirt. But then Mrs Stebbings, the beloved school cook, is taken into hospital, and suddenly coronavirus seems much closer to home. When Cym starts a project all about Mrs Stebbings’ childhood in World War II, he can’t know that it’s the beginning of something incredible and even dangerous.

Mark ist ein ganz normaler Junge. Eigentlich. Er hat einen Hund namens Beau und eine beste Freundin namens Jessie. Er fotografiert gerne und träumt davon eines Tages einen Berg zu besteigen. Aber in einer Hinsicht ist er anders. Mark ist krank. Krankenhaus krank. So krank, dass er vielleicht nicht wieder gesund wird. Mark haut ab - Beau immer an seiner Seite.

Prologue to an Epitaph is an exciting, moving account in which the author relays a compelling narrative from four different viewpoints - the diametrically opposing perspectives of a neonatal intensive care unit nurse, the teen mother, her younger brother, and the preemie herself.

À l'âge de huit ans, je me suis réveillée sourde. Je m'étais endormie une nuit d'hiver, sur le plancher de ma cabane dans l'arbre. Personne ne sait ce qui est arrivé ni pourquoi j'étais cachée là. Moi-même, je l'ignore. Après avoir passé la moitié de ma vie dans le silence le plus profond, voilà que, lors d'un party entre amis, je réentends pour la première fois.

If I stop, we don't exist. Shawn's wife Audrey is having a psychotic break, or atleast it seems that way. She keeps writing strange symbols into notebooks and won't stop to even go to the bathroom. She says she can't stop or the world they live in will cease to exist. She's not wrong, but it is so much worse than that. This is the 16th episode of The Night Portals Series season two finale. It is also told within The Pool Universe.

My lips are white. Sixteen-year-old Sep stares into the bathroom mirror. It’s not some weird lipstick (she never wears lipstick). Her lips are just - white. In a panic, she digs up an old lipstick and smears it on her colorless lips. But soon, more and more white spots begin to bloom, spreading their chalky tendrils across her olive brown skin. Does she have a disease? Is she turning into some kind of freak?

It is 1944 in war-battered London. Freya and Shona are identical twins, close despite their different characters. Freya is a newly qualified doctor treating the injured in an East End hospital, while Shona has been recruited by the SOE. The sisters are so physically alike that they can fool people into thinking that one is the other. It's a game they've played since childhood. But when Shona persuades her twin to swap roles to meet her Polish lover, he is angered at being tricked.

Querer a alguien no viene con mapa. Una brillante y conmovedora novela middle grade, una exploración sincera de la hermandad, los sueños y lo que significa estar allí para alguien a quien amas. Olivia está haciendo un viaje por carretera, el viaje de sus sueños, con su fiel cámara fotográfica y su hermana mayor Ruth a su lado. Hace tres años, antes de que su familia se mudara de California a Tennessee, Olivia y Ruth enterraron una caja con sus recuerdos en su playa favorita.

Selma er levende. Hun har forbrændinger i ansigtet og en fod, der gør ondt. Hun ved, hvad det var, hun var i gang med at sige til Vik, da bilen kørte galt. For at få sit liv tilbage har hun brug for at finde ud af, hvem hende pigen var, som Vik mødtes med, lige inden alt blev slået i stykker. Selma længes efter tiden før ulykken og en verden i alfabetisk orden. Men der mangler et V, et I og et K. ""Hvem var hun?" siger jeg. Han drejer hovedet og ser på mig. En sur smag i min mund. Den får spyttet til at klæbe til tungen, tungen til ganen. Jeg hader fornemmelsen af at kaste op.

Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer's, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace - and, ultimately, inspiration.

Lara ist sehr krank und weiß nicht, ob sie diese Nacht im Krankenhaus überleben wird. Doch als eine Ärztin sich an ihr Bett setzt und ihr von den Wundern und Geheimnissen der Biologie und alles über lebenswichtige Moleküle und unsere DNA erzählt, kann Lara plötzlich wieder neue Kraft schöpfen. Sie begreift, dass es noch Hoffnung gibt.

Branca está enferma de hepatite. Desde hai nove días está na cama e ten que gardar repouso absoluto durante cinco ou seis semanas. Unha eternidade! Encima ten que pasar o seu aniversario así, e é un aniversario importante: trece anos. Ese día regálanlle un álbum de fotos e súa nai proponlle que o complete para non se aburrir. E así, pouquiño a pouco, Branca vai lembrando distintos episodios da súa vida que nos permiten ir coñecendo como é e como foi esta rapariga de trece anos.

"If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I would." - Goodreads reviewer "Chroma Hearts by Mayumi Cruz is a gripping and thought-provoking story about fighting for love against mental illness, with a side of crime solving. Strongly recommended for those who enjoy mind-stirring and heart-squeezing." - KB Meniado, bookbed.org Can love triumph over all—even catatonic depression? Can love defeat everything—even a diabolical evil? A new bride suffering from catatonia. A determined husband trying to break through the black pit in which her brain escaped to. And a ruthless abomination who ...

When circumstances throw these two polar opposites together, they find they have more in common than they imagined. CJ discovers Russ's talent for art and arranges for Russ to create a mural in the hospital foyer, which leads to a tentative scholarship to the Art Institute. As life changes in ways neither of them could have expected, Russ must work harder than ever to better himself as CJ struggles with his deteriorating health.

Skin Deep explores beauty, ageing, imperfection, health and illness, all of which are closely related to skin, and interrogates whiteness, both historically, structurally and through current notions of white fragility and victimhood. Phillipa McGuinness has interviewed plastic surgeons, dermatologists, burn survivors, beauticians, melanoma sufferers, people who suffer from body dysmorphias, victims and perpetrators of racism and all kinds of people who are and are not comfortable in their own skin to write a book where science meets art and culture, history and politics.

Sparire. È questo l'unico programma di Nina per l'estate. E non perché la sua vita non le piaccia. A dir la verità, la sua vita di prima non era affatto male: scuola, social, amiche e nuoto. Ma di tutto questo, dall'incidente in motorino, è rimasto ben poco. Solo profonde cicatrici, nascoste dalle bende che avvolgono un viso in cui Nina non si riconosce più.