1. BREAST CANCER? LET ME CHECK MY SCHEDULE! edited by Peggy McCarthy and Jo An Loren (Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 1997, paperback, $14.00). Ten professional women (including NABCO's Amy Langer) share their wisdom and experience about what it means to live with breast cancer. 235 pages. Order from Westview Press, (800) 386-5656.
    
2. THE CANCER JOURNALS by Audre Lorde (Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, 1980, paperback, $7.00). Reflections on her breast cancer by the late black lesbian poet. 77 pages. Available from Aunt Lute Books, PO Box 410687, San Francisco, CA 94141, (415) 826-1300.
    
3. THE CLIMB OF MY LIFE by Laura Evans (Harper, San Francisco, 1996, $22.00). The author traces her experience from the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990 to 1995, when she led sixteen other breast cancer survivors in a climb to the summit of the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere. Laura Evans is the founder of Expedition Inspiration (see page 31). Bookstores.
    
4. FIRST, YOU CRY by Betty Rollin (Harper Paperbacks, New York, 1993 edition, paperback $5.50). The newest edition of the first "mass-market" personal account, the pathbreaking autobiographical account of her experience with breast cancer in the 1970s by the NBC correspondent and NABCO Honorary Board member. 213 pages. Bookstores.
    
5. NOT NOW . . . I'M HAVING A NO HAIR DAY: HUMOR AND HEALING FOR PEOPLE WITH CANCER by Christine Clifford, illustrated by Jack Lindstrom (Pfeiffer-Hamilton, Duluth, MN, 1996, $9.95 plus $4.45 shipping). Using her own experience with breast cancer, the author shows how the power of laughter and positive thinking promote recovery and growth. 144 pages. Order from The Cancer Club, 6533 Limerick Drive, Edina, MN 55439, (800) 586-9062, www.cancerclub.com.
    
6. PORTRAITS OF HOPE by Nora Feller and Marcia Stevens Sherrill (Smithmark Publishers, New York, NY. 1998. $24.95). Fifty-two inspirational survivors are profiled by Ms. Sherrill and their color portraits are photographed by Ms. Feller. The two-volume set includes a journal for thoughts and notes. Includes a foreward by Rosie O'Donnell, and information about breast cancer from NABCO. 112 pages plus journal. Bookstores.
    
7. THE RACE IS RUN ONE STEP AT A TIME: MY PERSONAL STRUGGLE AND EVERY WOMAN'S GUIDE TO TAKING CHARGE OF BREAST CANCER by Nancy Brinker with Catherine McEvily Harris (Summit Publishing Group, Texas, 1995, paperback $13.95 plus shipping). Ms. Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Race for the Cure;rm, and a NABCO co-founder, discusses the latest advances in detection, treatment options, and statistics, along with her own powerful story. All royalties from the book are donated to the Komen Foundation. 270 pages. Bookstores or the Komen Foundation, (800) I'M AWARE. (Audiotape version available).

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