Lisa Sparks: 5 books

With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis—patient,...

It’s the mother of all kids’ joke books—an all-encompassing, gut-busting, and bestselling collection of more than 1,700 jokes, tongue-twisters, riddles, and puns for all occasions. Here are 61 elephant jokes, including: What did the elephant say when he walked into the post office? /...

This popular and engaging text on health communication is now revised and updated in a second edition that incorporates recent research and boasts new material on topics such as crisis communication, social disparities in health, and systemic reform. Fully revised second edition of this popular...

Welcome to the United States of Death. A TV host shoots for ratings nirvana with what might be the perfect combination of murder victim, death row inmate, and celebrity guest executioner . . . A young man finally clinches a slot with his uncle's legalized hit squad and aims to prove he's not...

THEY'RE WAITING FOR HER . . . After ten years of brutal labor on a penitentiary meat-packing line, Tori Jennings now confronts an even more unbearable prospect: freedom. Just because she's free doesn't mean she has a future. As an Executable, she has no money, no rights, no citizenship,...