Communications: Transplant Book Reviews
On the TRIO Bulletin Board, under the Transplant: Book Reviews forum, there are short descriptive summaries of many transplant books. Full reviews of these books are linked from those entires, but also listed here alphabetically to guide your transplant reading pleasure.
Keep in mind that typically it takes some extreme experience to have a story worth writing a book about, so what you read in these books, while factual and real-life, should not be taken as "typical" transplant experiences. Every patient will have their own unique transplant challenges and outcomes. Read them for the inspiration they offer us all in how the human spirit can deal with life's "adventures" and then go off to write your own "real-life" story.
Click on the book title to download the full review (each a PDF file between 30k and 100k in size).
- Breathtaking
by Amber Nicole Metz (CF patient with double lung transplant)
- Burned
But Not Broken by Michael Nolte (extreme burn patient with tissue
transplant)
- Change of Heart by Brian Hartford and Peggy McCardle
- Coma Life by Richard S. Darling, D.D.S.
- Dying to Live by Gaea Shaw
- Dying
Was the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me by William E. Hablitzel, MD
(2006)
- Every Second Counts by Donald McRae (2006)
- Field Notes on the Compassionate Life by Marc Ian Barasch
- Final Exam by Pauline Chen
- Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
- God Spare Life by Dr Claudia Lynn Thomas
- How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland, MD
- Life in Limbo by Lisa Stiles Nance
- Living a Miracle by Randy Simms (2006)
- Letters for Lizzie by James O’Donnell
- Mr. Right and My Left Kidney by Joan Saltzman
- Mr.
NewHeart by David Hollar
- New Life by Bob Violino
- Now Caitlin Can by Ramona Wood
- Organ Transplant: The Music of Life by Caren Mazure
- Organ Transplants by Robert Finn
- Sick Girl by Amy Silverstein (Oct 2007)- Review Coming soon
- Stories From Her Journey by Liz Maxwell
- The Best He Had to Offer by Cynthia B. Herrick
- The Climb of My Life by Kelly Perkins (Nov 2007)
- The Gift That Heals by
Reg Green (Jan 2008)
- The Heart's Code by Paul Pearsall, Ph.D.
- The Power of Two by
Isabel Stenzel Byrnes & Anabel Stenzel (Nov 2007)
- The Surgeons by Charles R. Morris (Oct 2007)
- To the Edge and Back by Chris Klug with Steve Jackson
- Transplant: From Myth to Reality by Nicholas L. Tilney, M.D.
- When Crickets Cry, by Charles Martin (April 2006)
- YOU, The Owner's Manual by Michael F, Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.