By a Thread
Priscilla F Shapiro
1997
362.196
Author's emotional, grief, & life challenges, folowing sudden death of her spouse due to heart attack.
When Your Spouse Has a Stroke: Caring for your partner, yourself, and your relationship
Sara Palmer & Jeffrey Palmer
2011
362.196
Advice for carepartners of stroke-survivors, using examples from real couples.
After The Stroke, My Journey Back To Life
Mark McEwen & Daniel Paisner
2009
362.196
Second account from morning television show host after suffering a stroke.
One-handed in a two-handed world: the step-by-step guide to managing single-handedly
Tommye-K Mayer
1996
362.196
How to manage with one hand, by age 23 stroke survivor.
Never Give Up: My Stroke, My Recovery and My Return to the NFL
Tedy Bruschi & Michael Holley
2007
362.196
NFL star Bruschi has stroke 9 days after SuperBowl in 2005.
Between heaven and hell: the story of my stroke
David Talbot
2020
362.196
Author and founder of Salon.com has stroke in 2017.
The Amazing Liz and Her Stroke Journey from A-Z
Lora Miele
2021
362.196
Children's book. Recounts the story of the author's friend's stroke in "A is a Apple" style.
The Stroke Book: A Guide to Life After Stroke for Survivors and Those Who Care for Them
June Biermann & Barbara Toohey
2005
362.196
Biermann is survivor; co-author is her caregiver.
I Just Can't Read My Own Mind
Bill Hrncir
2021
362.196
Account by stroke survivor. Author spoke to SAO (Stroke Awareness Oregon).
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby
1998
362.196
Account by French brain-stem stroke surivor. Also a movie.
My Stroke of Luck
Kirk Douglas
2002
362.196
Famous actor has stroke in 1996 at age 79.
A Stroke of Luck: My Journey Through a Traumatic Brain Injury
Aithal
2025
362.196
Stroke survivor has "mindset reset". Recovery precepts for mind, body, spirit, hope.
Return to Ithaca: A Woman's Triumph Over the Disabilities of a Severe Stroke
Barbara Newborn
2013
362.196
Author has stroke at 21. Many years later recaps life & triumphs.
After the Stroke: A Journal
May Sarton
1988
362.196
Author of novels suffers stroke.
Identity Theft, Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke
Debra Meyerson & Danny Zuckerman
2019
362.196
Biography, with a twist. The book integrates Meyerson's stroke survivor story with those of other survivors.
Relentless: How a Massive Stroke Changed My Life for the Better
Tex Baxter
2018
362.196
Biography by stroke survivor with aphasia. Parts written by wife.
Sum it up: 1,098 victories, a couple of irrelevant losses, and a life in perspective
Pat Head Summitt & Sally Jenkins
2013
362.196
Autobigraphy from famous basketball coach. Includes her struggle with early-onset Alzheimer's.
My year off, Recovering Life After a Stroke
Robert McCrum
1998
362.196
British editor has stroke at age 42.
My Stroke Of Luck: Alphabet To Author
Vijay Santhanam
2013
362.196
Man at age 41 suffers stroke/paralysis/aphasia and perseveres with spirit & willpower to recovery.
With One Hand Tied Behind My Brain
Avrel Seale
2020
362.196
Biography with humor injected, written by a stroke survivor, aged 50, a writer/editor, makes recovery and is limited to use of one hand.
Love Stroke: Stroke Recovery and One Young Couple's Journey
Kelly Marsh & Brad Marsh
2016
362.196
Kelly has stroke at 39, husband is co-author.
Just Say "Yes" to Life!: Stories of Thriving after Stroke
Stroke Awareness Oregon
2021
362.196
Each chapter presents a different survivor account. The book is available free from Stroke Awareness Oregon.
Hope Heals: a true story of overwhelming loss and an overcoming love
Katherine and Jay Wolf
2016
362.196
Young married woman suffers severe stroke in 2008, chronicling recovery and life changes & challenges, "new normal" & Hope.
I Regret Almost Everything
Keith McNally
2025
362.196
Memoir by New York restaurateur, including his stroke and its consequences
Change in the Weather, Life After Stroke
Mark McEwen
2008
362.196
Account from morning television show host after suffering a stroke.
Will & I: a memoir
Clay Byars
2016
362.43
Author, a twin, has stroke at 18 while recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash.
Mayo Clinic on Incontinence, strategies and treatments for improving bladder and bowel control
Paul D. Pettit & Anita H. Chen
2021
616.62
Medical advice
Sex in the Brain: How Seizures, Strokes, Dementia, Tumors, and Trauma Can Change Your Sex Life
Amee Baird
2020
616.8
Sex after stroke; by neuropsychologist.
tPA for Stroke: the Story of a Controversial Drug
Justin Zivin & John Simmons
2011
616.81
Account of the development of the clot-busting drug tPA
One hundred names for love: a stroke, a marriage, and the language of healing
Diane Ackerman
2011
616.81
Author tells the story of her husband's stroke & aphasia. He too had been a writer. "Words" had been their world, both professionally & within their marital relationship.
Healing the broken brain: leading experts answer 100 questions about stroke recovery
Mike Dow, David Dow & Megan Sutton
2017
616.81
Advice from a medical doctor, a survivor, and a speech therapist.
Hemispheres - Inside a Stroke
Karen Lazar
2011
616.81
Account by South African stroke survivor.
Living With Stroke: a Guide for Patients and Their Families
Richard C Senelick
2018
616.81
Advice from neurologist
Teaching me to run
Tommye-K Mayer
2010
616.81
Stroke-survivor learns how to run again, & more.
Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation
Richard D. Zorowitz
2014
616.81
2nd edition Textbook (888 pages), most commonly found in collection as an e-book. Three chapters germane to RHD.
The twelfth raven: a memoir of stroke, love and recovery
Doris Brett
2014
616.81
Husband has stroke at 59.
Caplan's Stroke: A Clinical Approach
Louis R Caplan (editor)
2006
616.81
5th edition Textbook (648 pages)
Hope After Stroke for Caregivers and Survivors: The Holistic Guide to Getting Your Life Back
Tsgoyna Tanzman
2019
616.81
Title eponomously describes content.
My Stroke of Insight, a Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor
2008
616.81
Biography from brain scientist recounting her stroke experience, and long arduous recovery.
Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke
Joel Stein, Julie K. Silver & Elizabeth Frates
2006
616.81
Advice from 3 doctors
Striking back at stroke: a doctor-patient journal
Cleo Hutton & Louis R Caplan
2003
616.81
Hutton, a nurse, is a stroke-survivor. Caplan is her doctor.
Stronger After Stroke: Your Roadmap to Recovery
Peter G Levine
2016
616.81
3rd edition
Getting your brain and body back: everything you need to know after spinal cord injury, stroke, or traumatic brain injury
Bradford C Berk
2021
616.83
Dr Berk suffers a spinal cord injury. Creates University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute.
Singing in the Rain - Weathering the Storm of Dementia With Humor, Love, and Patience
Vicky Ruppert & Ann Henderberg
2013
616.831
Two Rochester, NY caregivers chronicle the last three years of their husbands' dementia.
Complicated Grief: Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals
Margaret Stroebe
2012
616.89
Account of the scientific foundations surrounding the topic of complicated grief
The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
Lloyd I Sederer
2013
616.89
Not specific to stroke
On becoming a person; a therapist's view of psychotherapy
Carl R Rogers
1961
131.3
Rogers a psycotherapist, innovator of client-centred therapy, explores his development, & insights.
Thanks!: how the new science of gratitude can make you happier
Robert A Emmons
2007
152.4
Not specific to stroke
If I understood you, would I have this look on my face?
Alan Alda
2017
153.6
Actor Alda traces his quest to understand how to communicate better.
The compassionate instinct: the science of human goodness
Dacher Keltner (editor), Jason March (editor), Jeremy Adam Smith (editor)
2010
155.2
Collection of writings on compassion, including from Steven Pinker, Michael Pollan, Dalai Lama.
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society
Robert Neimeyer (editor)
2021
155.93
Collection of chapters from different authors on grief and bereavement around the world.
Ambiguous Loss: learning to live with unresolved grief
Pauline Boss
2000
155.93
Advice for people whose loved ones are still alive but have been 'lost' because of changed circumstances
Chronic Sorrow, A Living Loss
Susan Roos
2017
155.93
Explores natural grief reactions to losses that are not final and continue to be present in the life of the griever.
The Mindfulness Code: keys for overcoming stress, anxiety, fear, and unhappiness
Don Altman
2010
158.1
Practices for developing mindfulness from a psychotherapist and former Buddhist monk
Your perfect right: a guide to assertive living
Robert E Alberti & Michael L Emmons
1986
158.1
Not specific to stroke
A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis
1960
248.86
Religious scholar Lewis recounts his experience after the death of his wife. The basis for the movie Shadowlands.
Life, in Spite of Me: Extraordinary Hope After a Fatal Choice
Kristen Jane Anderson
2010
248.86
Unsuccessful suicide attempt leaves author in wheelchair, changes in life perspective.
The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy After Heartbreak: Lessons From a Life of Faith
Charles S. Sherman
2014
296.7
Biography from rabbi whose son suffers a brain-stem stroke.
Becoming partners; marriage and its alternatives
Carl R Rogers
1972
301.42
Rogers a psycotherapist, innovator of client-centred therapy; exploration & discussions re intimate relationships.
Gabby: A Story of Courage, Love and Resilience
Gabby Giffords & Mark Kelly
2012
328.73
Biography. Congresswoman Giffords's recovery from gunshot wound. Also a movie "Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down".
Kitchenwise: essential food science for home cooks
Shirley O Corriher
2020
641.5
Not specific to stroke
No one is self-made: build your village to flourish in business and life
Lakeysha Hallmon
2025
658.04
Emphasizes the importance of community for self-help.
Finding My Words: Aphasia Poetry
Michael Obel-Omia
2021
811.6
Poetry from stroke survivor with aphasia.