Speaking Volumes

While October may make many of you think of Halloween and Trick or Treating, costumes and candy, ghouls and ghosts, October also is the month chosen as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Our library owns many books to help you with treatment, make decisions, and guide families on how to support your loved one. Most of our non-ficition books on breast cancer can be found in 616.99449, or in 362.1969. A staff member is always available to help you find material. Connecticut residents can use the health databases at www.iconn.org. which include The Health & Wellness Center, Medline Plus, and Connecticut Physician Profiles. A particularly valuable resource is also available to Connecticut residents in Healthnet,  The University of Connecticut Health Center Library's consumer health information program for Connecticut residents and public libraries. Here you contact  a librarian. with personal medical questions. 

 Don't forget that breast cancer is not only a woman's cancer as evidenced in one man's story Saving Jack : a man's struggle with breast cancer / Jack Willis.

Books we have purchased this year include:

Stand by her : a breast cancer guide for men / John W. Anderson.

Choices in breast cancer treatment : medical specialists and cancer survivors tell you what you need to know / edited by Kenneth D. Miller.

Pretty is what changes : impossible choices, the breast cancer gene, and how I defied my destiny / Jessica Queller

Nordie's at noon : the personal stories of four women "too young" for breast cancer / Patti Balwanz

The Everything Health Guide to Living with Breast Cancer: An Accessible and Comprehensive Resource for Women

In addition I'd like to recommend this poignant memoir that has touched the hearts of many...Kelly Corrigan's The Middle Place. The opening line gives a picture of what is to come...The thing you need to know about me is that I am George Corrigan's daughter, his only daughter. It is the story of her life growing up in the Irish -American Corrigan family and the story today of her father and her own successful battles with cancer.

Hear  a bit of Kelly's story here...