Learning Resource Center: Lending Library

Browse eBooks, audiobooks and more. We are always adding new ones!

OverDrive is our virtual library where you can check out eBooks and audiobooks and download them to your device. Email us your name and mailing address at learningcenter@mainehealth.org for a library card number. If you’d like to see more books about a certain health topic, please let us know!

Here For Now: Living Well with Cancer Through Mindfulness (EBOOK)

By Elana Rosenbaum

Through narrative, guided exercises, and meditations, Here For Now was the first book to apply the principles of mindfulness meditation to living with cancer. This book empowers the reader to transform suffering into compassion and joy. Follow Elana's journey as she experiences the shock of her own cancer diagnosis, the vulnerability of being a patient, the gratitude of survival and recovery, as well as the ability to live with uncertainty and help others live wholly and fully. Elana's career and life experience combine to make her a unique and powerful voice on living with cancer, one which cancer patients, survivors, family members and health professionals will turn to again and again.

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (AUDIOBOOK) by

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit. By using the practices described within, you can learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress related disorders…discover the roles that anger and tension play in heart disease… reduce anxiety and feelings of panic…improve overall quality of life and relationships through mindfulness meditation and mindful yoga.

Kimiko Does Cancer A Graphic Memoir (EBOOK)

By Kimiko Tobimatsu, Keet Geniza

At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixedrace woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an instant, she became immersed in a new and complicated life of endless appointments, evaluations, and treatments, and difficult conversations with her partner and parents. Kimiko knew that this wasn't what being twenty-five was supposed to be like ... but then, she didn't have a choice.

Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World (EBOOK)

By Mark Williams, Danny Penman

The life-changing international bestseller reveals a set of simple yet powerful mindfulness practices that you can incorporate into daily life to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and exhaustion. Mindfulness promotes the kind of happiness and peace that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life throws at you with new courage.

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management (EBOOK)

by Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix, Lucie Costin-Hall

Your mood, thoughts, and emotions can affect your perception of pain and even your ability to heal. In fact, your past life experiences influence your current physical challenges: "your biography influences your biology." While treatments like medication and physical therapy can be enormously beneficial to the body, to maximize pain relief, it's necessary to take advantage of the mind's healing abilities. This book offers a revolutionary new treatment approach, mindfulness-based chronic pain management, that helps you harness your mind's power to quiet your pain and put you in control.

The Cancer Wellness Cookbook: Smart Nutrition and Delicious Recipes for People Living with Cancer (EBOOK)

by Kimberly Mathai, MS, RD, CDE & Olivia Brent

Whether you are a cancer patient undergoing treatment, a caregiver, or a survivor, you’ll find this cookbook and nutritional guide essential it includes the latest scientific research on improving the lives of people living with cancer. Created by Seattle’s Cancer Lifeline, The Cancer Wellness Cookbook features nutritional plans and 100 recipes focusing on the foods that have been shown to prevent and forestall the spread of cancer. With super healthy and delicious ingredients like berries, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes, and fish, these dishes taste great and are filled with the nutrients that aid a person undergoing chemotherapy and other cancer treatments.

The Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center provides compassion, support, wellness groups, advocacy and education for patients, families, and friends in the midst of a cancer diagnosis, treatment and/or remission. Email: info@bethwrightcancercenter.org

The Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine offers one to one support; resource navigation services; in-person, virtual and recorded wellness programs and activities; support groups; complementary therapy; travel and food assistance; all FREE - to anyone impacted by cancer.

The Dempsey Center provides personalized care through counseling, support groups, nutrition, integrative therapies, movement and fitness, and more at no cost.