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• Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain

  the Proven Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory, Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes, and Avoid Chronic Illness

  Bale, Bradley

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  Boost your cardiovascular health, optimize your mental strength, and prevent and reverse arterial disease with this personalized plan from the founders of the renowned Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center.

• The Caregiver's Guide to Stroke Recovery

  Practical Advice for Caring for You and Your Loved One

  Jorgensen, Lucille

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  A stroke changes the life of more than just the survivor. Becoming a caregiver for a stroke patient means increased responsibilities, hard decisions, and new emotional stresses--especially when the patient is a loved one. This stroke recovery book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Father and Son

  A Memoir

  Raban, Jonathan

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  A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father's experience in World War II, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

• Really? I Had a Stroke?

  a Story of Stroke and the Best Strageties for Maximum Brain Recovery

  Tippett, William J., 1974-

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  Explores the lives of four very different individuals are dramatically changed forever when each experiences a significant and unique stroke event.

• Locked in Locked Out

  Surviving a Brainstem Stroke

  Jennings, Shawn

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  With unexpected humour and tender honesty, Shawn shares his experiences in his struggle for recovery and acceptance of his life after the stroke.

• Whole Brain Living

  the Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life

  Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959-

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  At age 37, Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a massive left-hemisphere stroke that took away her ability to speak, walk, read, write, or remember any of her life -- and gave her an unprecedented, profound experience of dwelling in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bangin' Beans

  60 Vibrant Vegan Meals Powered by Plant-based Protein

  Doig, Sarah

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  Everyone's favorite legume makes cooking a breeze: beans are cheap, easy to prepare and great vessels for all kinds of flavors. Not to mention, they're a powerful plant-based protein source full of fiber, iron, potassium and other vital…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fiber Fueled Cookbook

  Inspiring Plant-based Recipes to Turbocharge Your Health

  Bulsiewicz, Will

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  Leading gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, or "Dr. B," introduced readers to the wonders of fiber with the bestseller Fiber Fueled-a guide to optimizing the gut microbiome, sharpening immunity, lowering cholesterol, and promoting weight loss…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fix-it and Forget-it Instant Pot Light & Healthy Cookbook

  7-ingredient Recipes for Weight Lost and Heart Health

  Comerford, Hope

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  Here are more than 100 heart healthy, low-calorie, fresh recipes that the whole family will love. All are made in an Instant Pot -- your solution for tasty, terrific meals without a lot of time or trouble!

• The Beauty of Living Twice

  Stone, Sharon, 1958-

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  Award-winning actress, activist, and humanitarian chronicles her efforts to recover and rebuild after a massive stroke.

• Suffer Strong

  How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything

  Wolf, Katherine (Stroke victim)

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  After miraculously surviving a near-fatal brainstem stroke at age 26, as told in their memoir, Hope Heals, life for the Wolf's changed forever - and so did the way they viewed God, the world, and themselves in it.

• Beauty in the Broken Places

  a Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

  Pataki, Allison

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  This is a manifesto for living, an ultimately uplifting story about the transformative power of faith and resilience. It's a tale of a husband's turbulent road to recovery, the shifting nature of marriage, and the struggle of loving through pain and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember

  the Stroke That Changed My Life

  Hyung-Oak Lee, Christine

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  Lee processes her stroke and illuminates the connection between memory and identity in an honest, meditative, and truly funny manner, utterly devoid of self-pity.

• The New American Heart Association Cookbook

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  The ultimate resource for anyone looking to improve cardiac health through recipes that cut saturated fat and cholesterol.

• Hope Heals

  a True Story of Overwhelming Loss and An Overcoming Love

  Wolf, Katherine (Stroke victim)

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  An excruciating yet beautiful road to recovery has led the Wolf family to their new normal, in which almost every moment of life is marked with the scars of raising a young son after suffering a massive brain stem stroke without warning.

• Different Strokes

  An Intimate Memoir for Stroke Survivors, Families, and Caregivers

  Boorstein, Steve

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  This is an essential book for anyone who's ever had, or been hurt by, a stroke.

• My Stroke of Insight

  a Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

  Taylor, Jill Bolte, 1959-

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  Here Taylor shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain.

• Stroke Survivor

  a Personal Guide to Coping and Recovery

  McCann, Andy, 1966-

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  Funny, poignant and informative, the book is not just a personal story, but also offers a wealth of advice and information for anyone who wants to know more about strokes.