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Arlington Public Library is taking the fight against breast cancer to a higher level with the help of a new $800 award from the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation.
The funds will go for new books on fighting and surviving the disease, ranging from preventative diet cook books to graphic novels. Each book will contain a special bookplate honoring the VBCF's efforts. The Library will also display a variety of the foundation's brochures on health maintenance and strategies for coping with cancer.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women except for skin cancers. The chances of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman's life is a little less than one in eight.
The books purchased with the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation award include:
- Farewell To John Dreswick
We are sad to report that longtime Library employee John Dreswick passed away Sunday, April 18, from pancreatic cancer. John had worked for the Library for over 30 years (starting at Central Circulation), and spent recent many hours keeping the 900s...
- Soline Krug In The Art Of Food
Over the next few weeks, we'll be interviewing some of the artists in The Art of Food, our current exhibit at Central Library. Our first conversation is with Soline Krug, a local painter transplanted from Europe, who's fiery images of wine cellars...
- Washington Post Obituary For A Former Columbia Pike Librarian
Marilyn Earl Thrall, former Columbia Pike librarian and Arlington resident, died on December 22, at age 79. The following obituary was published Friday, Jan. 8, in the Washington Post. Marilyn Earle Thrall, 79, a librarian and homemaker, died of cancer...
- Were You There??
Last Monday, Jan 30th, author John Green stopped by Third Place Books to read from and sign copies of his latest release, The Fault in Our Stars. His brother, Hank, was with him. The Famous Vlogbrothers!! I read the book over the weekend; I laughed and...
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Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, October 2012: Tissues at the ready, I braced myself for The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe?s memoir of his mother?s death from pancreatic cancer. But Mary Anne Schwalbe is such a...
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Library Honored in Fight Against Breast Cancer
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| Oct. 25, 2011: VBCF's Lydia Stewart presents Library Director Diane Kresh with a check as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month |
Arlington Public Library is taking the fight against breast cancer to a higher level with the help of a new $800 award from the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation.
The funds will go for new books on fighting and surviving the disease, ranging from preventative diet cook books to graphic novels. Each book will contain a special bookplate honoring the VBCF's efforts. The Library will also display a variety of the foundation's brochures on health maintenance and strategies for coping with cancer.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women except for skin cancers. The chances of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman's life is a little less than one in eight.
The books purchased with the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation award include:
- 100 Questions and Answers About Advanced and Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Better Than New (Insider Tips From a Glamour Girl on Surviving Breast Cancer, Mastectomy and Reconstruction)
- The Breast Cancer Companion: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
- The Breast Cancer Field Manual: A Guide for Young Women, Their Families and Friends
- Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do
- Cancer Vixen: A True Story
- Con Fe: Como Transformar Tu Vida Y Empezar de nuevo
- I Am Not My Hair: A Young Woman's Journey and Triumph Over Breast Cancer
- Just Get Me Through This! A Practical Guide to Coping with Breast Cancer
- Now What? A Patient's Guide to Recovery After Mastectomy
- The Pink Ribbon Diet: A Revolutionary New Weight Loss Plan to Lower Your Breast Cancer Risk
- Previvors: Facing the Breast Cancer Gene and Making Life-Changing Decisions
- Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
- Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner's Program to protect Against & Fight Breast Cancer
- The Whole Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors: A Nutritional Approach to Preventing Recurrence
- Yoga and Breast Cancer: A Journey to Health and Healing
- Farewell To John Dreswick
We are sad to report that longtime Library employee John Dreswick passed away Sunday, April 18, from pancreatic cancer. John had worked for the Library for over 30 years (starting at Central Circulation), and spent recent many hours keeping the 900s...
- Soline Krug In The Art Of Food
Over the next few weeks, we'll be interviewing some of the artists in The Art of Food, our current exhibit at Central Library. Our first conversation is with Soline Krug, a local painter transplanted from Europe, who's fiery images of wine cellars...
- Washington Post Obituary For A Former Columbia Pike Librarian
Marilyn Earl Thrall, former Columbia Pike librarian and Arlington resident, died on December 22, at age 79. The following obituary was published Friday, Jan. 8, in the Washington Post. Marilyn Earle Thrall, 79, a librarian and homemaker, died of cancer...
- Were You There??
Last Monday, Jan 30th, author John Green stopped by Third Place Books to read from and sign copies of his latest release, The Fault in Our Stars. His brother, Hank, was with him. The Famous Vlogbrothers!! I read the book over the weekend; I laughed and...
- Available @ Your Library
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, October 2012: Tissues at the ready, I braced myself for The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe?s memoir of his mother?s death from pancreatic cancer. But Mary Anne Schwalbe is such a...