The following is a guest post by Tina Martel, author of Not in the Pink. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com I am a visual artist who accidently wrote a book. I never meant to write one. It just happened. I was diagnosed with Stage Two B Breast Cancer in 2011. My entire life changed in a heartbeat….
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Ellen Hopkins
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Love Lies Beneath by Ellen Hopkins
Tara lives in San Francisco and is a wealthy 40-year-old confident woman who has been married 3 times but has never been in love. While on vacation in Tahoe with her sister, Melody, she has a skiing accident and ends up in the hospital where she meets handsome Dr. Cavin Lattimore. They start going out, and everything seems to be going great until Tara meets Cavin’s son, Eli. The father-son relationship…
George Schnaider
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Poems from Life’s Precipice
The following is a guest post by George Schnaider, author of Impressions and Expressions. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. In 1984, I was struck by a car while I was walking along the shoulder of a road. I was nearly killed. I spent three weeks in a coma, four weeks connected to a life support machine, seven…
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Memoirs of a Stranger by Tamar Douglas
Asha Shakes was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and now lives in the US. She is desperately trying to get rid of her culture, as she believes it weighs her down. At the same time, she develops all kinds of conditions (paranoia, OCD, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, delusions), and she ends up being admitted against her will to a mental health hospital. During her stay there, she only trusts one therapist, Dr. Gayle….
Alison Neuman
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Searching for Normal by Alison Neuman
When she was three years old, Alison Neuman was diagnosed with dermatomyositis, a rare muscle disease that also affects her immune system. However, she did not know the name of her debilitating illness until much later. She spent a lot of time in hospitals and at doctor’s appointments with her mother by her side. As she was growing up, the disease progressed, and Alison ended up needing a wheelchair. It didn’t…
John Green
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Fault in Our Stars is the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster, an empathetic 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer. She has been battling the illness since the age of 12, and a new drug seems to have stopped the cancer’s progress. She needs to be hooked to an oxygen tank though to help her breathe, and she totes the device wherever she goes. However, illness has isolated her, and she spends…