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CTN - MS LEADERS OF HOPE
Ideas shared, Lives inspired. The Best of MS Leaders of Hope 2004. Forward by Jackie Waldman. Published by Biogen Idec and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2005. 77 pages.
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CTN 20 YEARS AND STILL COPING AND PREVAILING
Multiple Sclerosis and other life struggles. Written by Thomas Bayuk and published by J&T Corporation 2004. 118 pages.
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CTN 50th ANNIVERSARY REMARKS
Sylvia Lawry. National MS Society. 1996. No Description (Video)
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CTN A DREAM IS A WISH YOUR HEART MAKES
Annette Funnicello Movie.
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CTN A DREAM IS A WISH YOUR HEART MAKES. My story by Annette Funicello with Patricia Romanowski.
Annette Funicello with Patricia Romanowski Time Warner AudioBook. 2 cassettes.
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CTN ANNETTE FUNICELLO AND STEVE REINGOLD
Interview with Good Morning America.
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CTN AWAKENINGS, 3rd Edition
Oliver Sacks Summitt Books, 1987. A neurologist's account of his work with a group of patients who had contracted sleeping sickness in the epidemic just after WWI. (339 pgs.)
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CTN BLINDSIDED
Richard M. Cohen Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 2003 Richard Cohen's account of living with a devastating illness. Read by Richard Ferrone. 4 audiocassettes. Running time is 5 1/2 hours.
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CTN BLINDSIDED, Lifting a Life Above Illness. A reluctant memoir written by Richard M. Cohen, 2004.
Richard M. Cohen Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. A great story written by former journalist Richard Cohen, husband of The View Anchor Meredith Vieira, chronicling his life and experiences with MS. 236 pages.
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CTN BRENDA'S STORY-MY LIFE WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Brenda & Matt Newton. Brenda & Matt Newton. 1993. 177 pages.
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CTN CARNAL ACTS
Nancy Mairs. Personal essays on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman and the opportunity and "gifts" of a difficult life.
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CTN CAROLE'S STORY: Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Carole Mackie. Channel 4, London, England Running time 9:45. Carole is the author of Me and My Shadow, a book also in the library.
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CTN CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL LIVE! Volumes 1-4
Career Track, Inc. Volume 1: Love- Learning to Love Yourself. Volume 2: Parenting- Learning and Teaching Volume 3: Living your Dreams - Overcoming Obstacles Volume 4: Coping with Death and Dying. Eclectic Wisdom. Video features Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Ru
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CTN CLAUDE - MSing AROUND - MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
John Mythem British Columbia, Canada, 1990
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CTN COPING OUTLETS: Spoken from the Heart, A collection of Poetry, Prose and Essays from people who live with MS
Ephy Costas-Holly
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CTN COURAGE, The Story of the Mighty Effort to End the Devastating Effects of Multiple Sclerosis, 2001.
Richard Trubo with an introduction by Sylvia Lawry Iven R. Dee, 2001. 302 pages
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CTN DARE TO DREAM
Marie Perna ANCEDE Publishers, 2001 A lighthearted account of one woman's ability to live for years, undiagnosed, with multiple sclerosis.
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CTN ENTERTAINMENT TONITE, INTERVIEW WITH ANNETTE FEB. 9, 1993...MEMORIES OF 1992 MS VACATION WEEK
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CTN Even The Riffle Can Be Exciting
Written by Thomas F. Elliott and published by Trafford Publishing, 2006. A story of the Colorado River and those who have attempted to journey through the Grand Canyon by whitewater rafting, some with limited mobility. 83 pages.
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CTN FALL DOWN LAUGHING
David L. Lander Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000. 200 pages.
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CTN FALL DOWN SEVEN TIMES, GET UP EIGHT
John K. Wolf Academy Books, Rutland, VT, 1995. Written for professional MS managers who have successfully learned to live well with MS and have incorporated the complexities of the disease into a life dedicated to active participation.
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CTN FEMINISM & DISABILITY
Barbara Hillyer University of Oklahoma, 1993. Explores issues of vital concern to women with disabilities and women caregivers.
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CTN FORREST GUMP
Winston Groom. Two cassettes, 3 hours.
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CTN GETTING LIFE
Julie Shaw Cole The Avocado Press, 2000
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CTN HIDE AND SEEK
James Patterson Little, Brown & Co., 1996. A fiction novel of terror and suspense. 356 pages.
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CTN HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOU...SO YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF OTHERS
Sue Vineyard Heritage Arts, 1989. A survival guide for human services workers and volunteers. 149 pages, 2 copies.
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CTN INCIDENTAL HEROES: DISABLING THE MYTHS ABOUT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS,
Edited by Jennifer L. Bove. Produced by Jackie Girsky Popper and Gina Minielli Gunkel, 31 pages.
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CTN INSIDE AND OUT: HOSTAGE TO IRAN, HOSTAGE TO MYSELF
Richard Queen GP Putnam's Sons, NY, 1981. A true account of a person with MS held hostage in Iran
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CTN INSPIRATIONAL PERSUASION: EXPERIENCING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
W. Randy Taylor Worldcomm Press, Alexander, North Carolina, 1993. Once an exceptional athlete, Taylor tells of his struggles in dealing with MS. He shows how his faith in God has helped him maintain his sense of humor and remain busy at home with his family and at work.
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CTN JACQUELINE DU PRE IMPRESSIONS
Edited by William Wordsworth Vanguard Press, NY, 1983. A collection of sketches of this famous cellist with MS, and written by her friends and colleagues.
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CTN Just Like Life, Only More So and Other Stories of Illness.
Written by Dana Snyder-Grant and published by Trail's End Publishers, 2006. 149 pages.
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CTN KOPLOWITZ, ZOE "Go the Distance": video and speech (edited)
Zoe Koplowitz No Year Go the Distance with marathon Strides (full speeches)
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CTN Lean On Me
10 Powerful Steps to Moving Beyond Your Diagnosis and Taking Back Your Life. Written by Nancy Davis and published by Simon and Schuster, Inc., 2006. 271 pages.
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CTN LEGWORK
Ellen Burstein MacFarlane with Patricia Burstein Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. True story of the author's courageous fight against her multiple sclerosis and the doctor who falsely claimed to cure her. 242 pages.
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CTN LIFE ON CRIPPLE CREEK
Essays on living with multiple sclerosis. Written by Dean Kramer. Published by Demos Medical Publishing, Inc. 2003. 149 pages.
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CTN MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ON DEATH AND DYING
Harper Collins Publishers. 1992. No Year Lectures based on a course in miracles. Audiocassette. Approximate running time is one hour.
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CTN ME AND MY SHADOW. Learning to Live with Multiple Sclerosis
Carole Mackie with Sue Brattle. In Great Britain by Aurum Press Ltd., 1999. 248 pages.
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CTN MIND MATTER
Anita M. Warner Lumina Press, 2005. As the auhor struggles with MS, she finds time to live out her dream and reach above the odds. 95 pages.
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CTN MONTEL WILLIAMS on Dateline and The Montel Williams Show covering multiple sclerosis
Nov. 19, 1999
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CTN MONTEL WILLIAMS PROGRAM
April 26, 2000 and May 9, 2000
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CTN MS. DOESN'T STAND FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Chamein Canton Writers Club Press, 2000
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CTN MS: TAKING A STAND
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CTN MY STORY, A Photographic Essay on Life with Multiple Sclerosis, 2004
Amelia Davis with a forward by Mrs. Richard Pryor Demos Medical Publishing Inc., 2004 112 pages.
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CTN ON HAVING MS
Charlie Yessian
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CTN ONE PARTICULAR HARBOR
Janet Lee James Noble Press, 1993. The outrageous true adventures of a woman with multiple sclerosis living in the Alaskan wilderness. (250 pgs.)
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CTN PEOPLE WITH MS WITH THE COURAGE TO GIVE, 2003
Jackie Waldman Canari Press, 2003 Twenty-four people who recognize the potential within each of us living with MS. 163 pages.
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CTN PERSPECTIVES ON DISABILITY, 2nd Edition, 1993
Mark Nagler, Ph.D. Health Markets Research, 1993 Text and readings on disability reflecting positive thrusts acheived by people with disabilities. 547 pages.
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CTN PLAINTEXT
Nancy Mairs Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 1986 A collection of essays in which the author with MS applies recent feminist concepts to her own life
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CTN QUEST FOR LIFE A handbook for people with life-threatening illness.
Petrea King DAWN Publications, 1994. 381 pages.
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CTN RIDING THE GOLD CURVE
Faye Morgan Texas Tech University Press 1994. A Novel based on the author's life story and her struggle with MS. 392 pages.
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CTN RISKING HOPE: FRAGILE FAITH IN THE HEALING PROCESS
Kathleen O'Connell Chesto, Kansas City, MO, 1999 The author shares her journal on coping with multiple sclerosis and raising a family.
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CTN SINBAD'S GUIDE TO LIFE (BECAUSE I KNOW EVERYTHING
Sinbad (David Ritz) Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, 1997. Read by Sinbad (David Ritz). (2 cassettes, 150 mins)
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CTN SONGS FOR ALL SEASONS
presented by Jeannie and Melody Felton and produced by Jeannie Felton, and MS client. 2007
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CTN SOUL DOES NOT AGE, THE
Lotte Sempell Klenbort Two Ems,Inc., 1996. 150 pages.
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CTN SPIRIT MAKES A MAN
Joseph J. Panzarello, Jr Doubleday and Co., NY, 1978 Autobiography of a doctor with MS who taught at New York University and helped guide a nationwide rehabilitation program.
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CTN STILL ME
Christopher Reeve. Random House, Inc., 1998. The author's physical, emotional and spiritual journey on the way to rebuilding his life after a spinal cord injury. 309 pages.
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CTN STRONG AT THE BROKEN PLACES
Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope. Written by Richard M. Cohen. Published by Harper Collins Publishers, 2008. 332 pages.
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CTN SUE THOMAS: BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER
Afflicted by MS that affects her mobility and vision, her belief in God has helped her overcome her obstacles. Produced by Vision Video. Running time is 60 mins. (Video)
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CTN THE BEST OF A 4TH COURSE OF CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL
Handheld Productions, 1997 Story-telling by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Hanoch McCarty, Meladee McCarty and Brian Carpenter.(90 mins)
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CTN The Breakdown Lane
Written by Jacquelyn Mitchard. A novel of love, loss and self-discovery. Fiction: main character has MS. Published by Harpertorch, 2005. 447 pages. 2 copies.
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CTN THE CREATIVE WILL, Project Rembrandt, 1993.
Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993. An exhibition of works by thirty-one artists with multiple sclerosis. 96 pages.
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CTN THE THINGS WE DON'T TALK ABOUT ... OR...YOU BETTER SMILE THROUGH THE TEARS
Coping and Prevailing with MS and other life struggles. Written by Thomas Bayuk and published by Thomas Bayuk 2005. 88 pages.
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CTN THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD, a children's module transfer
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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CTN TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE.
Doubleday, September 1997 A book written by Mitch Albom about "an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson." 192 pages.
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CTN UNIQUE PERCEPTION, A
Donald G. Spencer Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, 1993. Attempting to deal with a chronic illness, disabling disease or injury is a situation we all hope never to confront. Still, this is a fact of life many of us will have to confront. "A Unique Perception" is an autobiography about a man with MS whose posit
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CTN VIGNETTES Stories from Lives with Multiple Sclerosis.
Edited by John Wolf, MD, Margaret Miles, CPS and Kitty Pickett, MA Academy Books, 1993.
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CTN WELCOME TO MY WORLD, 2nd Edition.
Anne L. Shuell Anne L. Shuell, 1996. Stories of people's triumph over adversity.
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CTN WHEN THE ROAD TURNS
Margot Russell Health Communications, Inc., 2001 Inspirational stories by and about people with MS. With a prologue by Montel Williams.
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CTN WHO SAID SO?
Rachelle Breslow Berkeley, CA, 1991. A woman's fascinating journey of self-discovery and triumph over multiple sclerosis.
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CTN WHY ARE DANDELIONS WEEDS?
Kathy Chesto Sheed & Ward, 1993. This book tells of the insights, laughter, and faith that children can bring to adults and how they help us remember our own journey in life. Written by the author of "Risking Hope." It is a must read for all!
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CTN WINNING SPIRIT, THE
Zoe Koplowitz with Mike Celizic. Doubleday, 1997 Life lessons learned in last place. 226 pages.
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CTN WOMEN AGAINST MS LUNCHEON - HARTFORD 2004
Videotape of keynote speaker, Sue Thomas. A truly inspirational story of a deaf woman and her struggle with MS.
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