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Publications

Recommended Reading

Listed below is a sampling of the many books for children and adults dealing with the various questions and issues surrounding transplantation.

For more information or to order, simply click on the title of the book.

Living Donation

• A Gift of Life: A Page From the Life of A Living Organ Donor, by Lynn Chabot-Long, Paul Jenkins (Editor)

Children's Books

• Now Caitlin Can: A donated organ helps a child get well, by Ramona Wood
• How Will They Get That Heart Down Your Throat?: A Child's View of Transplants, by Karen Walton, Allison Patrice Peterson (Illustrator)
• Precious Gifts: Katie Coolican's Story. Barklay and Eve Explain Organ and Tissue Donation, by Karen L. Carney
• Organ Transplants: A Survival Guide for the Entire Family (It Happened to Me) (Hardcover), by Tina P. Schwartz

Immunosuppressive Issues

• Coping with Prednisone: It May Work Miracles, But How Do You Handle the Side Effects, by Eugenia Zukerman, Julie R. Ingelfinger

Organ Specific

• Breathing for a Living: A Memoir, by Laura Rothenberg
• I'm Glad You're Not Dead: A Liver Transplant Story, by Elizabeth Parr
• Stories of the Heart: Reflections on the Heart Transplant Journey: Stories of Hope and Inspiration, by Nancy Siemers (Editor)
• Kidney Dialysis and Transplants - the 'at Your Fingertips' Guide, by Andy Stein, Janet Wild
• Dying to Live: From Heart Transplant to Abundant Life (Paperback), by Gaea Shaw
• Life In Limbo: Waiting for a Heart Transplant (Paperback)by Lisa Stiles Nance

General Subject

• The Gift That Heals: Stories of hope, renewal and transformation through organ and tissue donation, by Reg Green
• The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric, and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation, by Paula T. Trzepacz (Editor), Andrea F. DiMartini (Editor)
• Patient To Provider: A Patient's Guide To Transplantation, by Jeffrey W. Young, Jr. MSN FNP APN-BC
• The Nicholas Effect: A Young Boys Gift to the World, by Reg Green, Linda Lamb (Editor)
• Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation, by Lee Gutkind
• Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life, by Robert Finn, Reg Green, Linda Lamb (Editor)
• The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon, by Thomas E. Starzl
• The Waiting Game, by Norbert R. Hoferichter
• To the Edge and Back: My Story from Organ Transplant Survivor to Olympic Snowboarder, by Chris Klug
• Coping with an Organ Transplant: A Practical Guide, by Elizabeth Parr and Janet Mize

For book listing additions or changes, please contact the editor.

If you're interested in receiving a custom patient information packet specific to one or more organs, please contact Patient Services. For additional brochures, reports, manuals and more, go to the online store.