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	<description>Everything you wanted to know about young adults and cancer. But were afraid to ask.</description>
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		<title>Hot off the Press – The Planet Cancer Book!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cancer in young adults is isolating. It’s terrifying. It’s not-supposed-to-happen. Through this book, we hope to bring the strength and energy of an entire community of passionate, amazing, spirited, generous young adults to support a newly diagnosed reader or, at the very least, to reassure them that they’re neither alone nor crazy. Visit the Planet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Rodeo in Joliet&#8221; by Glenn Rockowitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Rockowitz’s new book, Rodeo in Joliet, is a glimpse into the mind of the author after his cancer diagnosis at 28, when he is diagnosed weeks before the birth of his only son, and given three months to live. Ironically, his father is diagnosed a week later, and his cancer journey parallels and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Everything Changes: The Insider&#8217;s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s&#8221; by Kairol Rosenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EVERYTHING CHANGES dusts the sugarcoating off the young adult cancer experience to uncover gritty and ultra-confessional stories of fear, tenacity, jealousy, frustration, embarrassment, and hope. From sex toys to assisted suicide, and COBRA payments to clubbing during chemo, the unvarnished stories in EVERYTHING CHANGES reveal what most young survivors are thinking but few have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life&#8221; by Lance Armstrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This memoir by cyclist Lance Armstrong is a must read for all cancer survivors, but is particularly relevant for younger people with cancer. It gave me comfort, some laughs and a huge dose of inspiration. It helped boost my positive thinking in dealing with my own cancer and made me think “if he can overcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Red Devil&#8221; by Katherine Russell Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.planetcancer.org/2009/12/14/the-red-devil-by-katherine-russell-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first sentence of Katherine Russell Rich's book, "The Red Devil," smacks you in the face: "I found the lump twenty minutes before breakfast, three weeks after my marriage broke up." From there the blows continue as we go with her on a solitary ride through what she calls Cancerland: to a biopsy, on dates, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Measure of our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness&#8221; by Jerome Groopman, M.D.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jerome Groopman sketches brief but eloquent portraits of eight patients in this rumination on illness, spirituality, modern science, living and dying. As a leading researcher in the fields of cancer and AIDS, he is certainly well-acquainted with death, and he presents the book as an attempt to "capture and illuminate [the] complexity" of issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Before I Say Goodbye&#8221; by Ruth Picardie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved the hell out of this tiny little book, and found myself crying and laughing simultaneously more than once in the course of reading it, as passage upon passage made me yell, "Yes! EXACTLY like that!" A chocolate-loving, fashion-obsessed, British freelance writer, Ruth Picardie was 32 years old and happily married with one-year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing&#8221; by Reynolds Price</title>
		<link>http://www.planetcancer.org/2009/12/14/a-whole-new-life-an-illness-and-a-healing-by-reynolds-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, in general we're not big fans of the blow-by-blow cancer memoir. But this is Reynolds Price we're talking about here--award-winning novelist and professor at Duke University' with numerous poems' stories and plays to his credit (not to mention song lyrics for James Taylor). In 1984, he found a 10-inch-long tumor in his spinal cord--"the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Here and Now: Inspiring Stories of Cancer Survivors&#8221; by Elena Dorfman and Heidi Schultz Adams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facing cancer is a life-changing event, one that prompts soul-searching and a reevaluation of all that one holds to be true. In the years following their own cancer treatments, authors Elena Dorfman and Heidi Schultz Adams were left wondering, What difference has cancer made in other people's lives? What does it mean to survive a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Enter Sandman&#8221; by Stephanie Williams</title>
		<link>http://www.planetcancer.org/2009/12/11/enter-sandman-by-stephanie-williams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Williams wrote this novel during her battle with breast cancer. A high-powered journalist in New York City, novel-writing was always something she had been drawn to, but feared. When she was given a terminal diagnosis, she decided it was now or never. "Enter Sandman" is a powerful legacy to a life well-lived. Trisha Portman [...]]]></description>
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