A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds. When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete screen of sunflowers), he learned that in the face of a crisis we all have the opportunity to decide what is most important to us. In this hilarious, high-spirited, sometimes harrowing memoir, Shapiro invites us into his battle with cancer, his romance with an oncology nurse, his journey through graduate school, and his most important life lessons. He tells his story with wit and grace and indomitable spirit, showing us that only when the rhythm of life is stirred violently are able to discover its full beauty.

Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds

Biographies & Memoirs

Shapiro, Dan

Arts & Literature

Vintage

Small paperback, phonics reader. This one is about PIZZA! By Scholastic books.

Pizza cook: A story about pizza cook Kwaku Twumasi (Scholastic phonics readers)

Children's Books

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Small paperback phonic reader.  This is a more advanced reader than one that has a couple words per page.

Clay things, play things!: A story about artist Becky Wible (Scholastic phonics readers)

Small paperback phonic reader. This is a more advanced reader than one that has only a couple words per page.

Tank talk: A story about marine biologist Laela Sayigh (Scholastic phonics readers)

Dan Shapiro's mother was always an avid gardener who tortured her neighbors with excessive quantities of zucchini, squash, and tomatoes. When Dan was twenty years old, he was diagnosed with cancer. Leaving Vassar to move home with his parents, he informed them that he'd learned marijuana would help him endure the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapy. His vehemently anti-drug mother was certain smoking dope would lead to his ruin. He argued. She countered. He gave up. Then suddenly she came around and gave him money to buy the pot he needed. But when he returned with the small Baggie, she was incredulous. She held out her hand and said, "Give me the seeds." Eleven-foot-high marijuana plants, at first coyly hidden by a row of sunflowers, soon towered over the backyard. It would be nine years before Dan, by then a parent himself, would fully understand the powerful forces behind his mother's decision to plant those seeds in her garden. At times hilarious, but always intimate, honest, and luminous, Mom's Marijuana takes us from Dan's first diagnosis to his second relapse, to -- finally -- sustained, thriving health. Whether it's the decision to paint himself green to frighten his mother after radiation treatment, fighting to survive while surrendering to love with an oncology nurse, or learning the meaning of life and family from events once taken for granted, Dan Shapiro tells his story with a wit and grace that made him a favorite on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Mom's Marijuana takes us on a literary skinny dip; exposed, cold, and raw, we're plunged into a compulsively, almost obsessively readable account of life with cancer and the exuberant redemption of health. Mom's Marijuana shows us that it's when the pulse and rhythm of life are stirred violently that we're made to learn the beauty of multitudes, of finding what it is that makes us so brutally vulnerable, plain, and godly all at once.

Mom's Marijuana: Insights About Living

Harmony

“Voices are a soul’s signature,” says psychologist Dan Shapiro, who in his daily practice hears plenty of them. For all his expertise, he admits he’s still terrified that “someone will keep something from me, and when they tell me the truth, I’ll be useless.” Treating other physicians has become one of Shapiro’s specialties. When the obstetrician Amelia Sorvino seeks his help—distraught that her own medical error could have injured a patient’s baby— Shapiro finds his talents as counselor and healer pushed to their limits. Session by session, he works to discover the sources of Amelia’s anguish--for his own sake as much as hers: he’s familiar with the burden of a doctor’s guilt, and he has seen how loss and trauma, if unchecked, can echo from generation to generation in a family. In this probing, intensely personal memoir, the words “Physician, heal thyself” assume a fresh and moving urgency.

Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her

Professionals & Academics

Doctor Dan Shapiro, a writer and psychologist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal journey into his treatment of a brilliant young obstetrician. Doctors in our society are often viewed as omnipotent, highly trained professionals who do not make mistakes, but they are, after all, still human. In Delivering Doctor Amelia, Dan Shapiro, who specializes in treating physicians, provides us with an intimate view of the vulnerability and sensitivity of doctors when their white coats come off. When Amelia Sorvino, a gifted obstetrician on Shapiro’s university hospital staff, comes to see him fearing that she has made a medical mistake, he finds himself struggling to help her overcome her self-doubts and fears, while reliving his own painful recovery from cancer at the hands of doctors just like her. As Amelia’s story unfolds, both doctor and patient are transported into their pasts. And through this journey of self-discovery, Amelia Sorvino becomes someone the reader is pulling for—a good woman whose career, family, and perhaps even life are in jeopardy. Intense, moving, and deeply human, Shapiro’s narrative invites us inside the minds and pasts of two very different and yet intimately connected people: doctor and patient, psychologist and physician. Like the work of Kay Redfield Jamison and Oliver Sacks, Delivering Doctor Amelia is a riveting narrative about the nature of healing, the power of redemption, and the compelling vulnerability of the human condition.

Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her

What avoidable problem destroys more young startups than any other? Why is it a mistake to ask for introductions to investors? When do you play the CEO card? Should you sell out?
Author and four-time founder/CEO Dan Shapiro tells the stories of dozens of startups whose companies lived and died by the advice in these pages. From inception to destruction and triumph to despair, this rollercoaster read takes aspiring entrepreneurs from the highs of billion-dollar payouts and market-smashing success to the depths of impostor syndrome and bankruptcy.
Hot Seat is divided into the five phases of the startup CEO experience:
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Founding explains how to formulate your idea, allocate equity, and not argue yourself to death</li>
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Funding provides the keys to venture capital, angels, and crowdfunding, plus clear advice on which approach to choose</li>
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Leadership lays out a path to build a strategy and culture for your team that will survive good times and bad</li>
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Management reveals how to manage your board, argue with your team, and play the CEO card</li>
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Endgame explains how to finish a company's existence with grace, wealth, and minimal litigation</li>
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Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook

Business & Money

Business Culture

O'Reilly Media

Sheriff Nottingham is a literary journal released on 4 holidays every year since 2015. The Holiday Herald has featured more than 55 contributors of original work from around the globe. The content ranges from short stories and critical essays to political commentary, screenplays, gonzo-journalism, illustrations and poetry on a wide variety of themes for each holiday issue. Sheriff Nottingham is based out of Los Angeles & Chicago. www.sheriffnottingham.com

Sheriff Nottingham 9 Fat Tuesday (Sheriff Nottingham's Holiday Herald)

Literature & Fiction

Blim, Chris

Laci, Roger de

Staughton, John J.

Minelli, Bobby

Ambros, Janek

Lough, Ryan Andrej

Griffiths, Faye

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Winner of a 2014 National Book Award (Gold Medal) from the Independent Book Sellers of America. Here are engaging and digestible lessons for couples navigating the life changes brought about by a cancer diagnosis. Dan Shapiro draws on his more than twenty-five years of clinical work as a health psychologist who has researched and worked with couples facing cancer, and on his own experiences of being both the patient (having and beating Hodgkin's lymphoma in his twenties) and the supporter/advocate (when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer) to weave together insights on facing cancer while maintaining a strong relationship. And in Health gives advice in short lessons on the main areas of concern or conflict that can come from life with cancer--from diagnosis to treatment and life post-treatment. Topics include: * How to forge yourselves into a powerful team and avoid common conflict points * Dealing with physicians and getting the best care possible, along with tips for navigating the medical world * Strategies for coping with the emotions that can interfere with your relationship--anger, mood swings, spouse fears, and depression * Distinguishing between supportive and draining people in your lives, and learning to invite and accept help * Opening to new types of intimacy and making peace with dependence

And in Health: A Guide for Couples Facing Cancer Together

Parenting & Relationships

Trumpeter

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