Nonfiction Works Chapters

Four days after leaving Nantucket, the Essex was overwhelmed by a terrible squall which damaged the ship during a knockdown.

Lewy is short for "Lewy Body Dementia," a debilitating illness without a cure.

Thomas Nickerson, George Pollard and Owen Chase returned to Nantucket after the wreck of the Essex. Each coped in different ways as they tried to reco...

Solomon Northup, known as "Platt," experiences slave life in Louisiana with a "good master" and a "bad master."

Edwin Epps is a cruel slave-owner who frequently beats slaves for no reason other than to inflict misery. After John Tibeats, Solomon Northup ("Platt...

A mortgage, for the life of Solomon Northup ("Platt") ends-up saving him from death at the hands of a cruel slave-owner called John Tibeats.

Chapter 40, of "Little Women," is one of the saddest chapters in the story. Louisa May Alcott based this chapter on events which happened to her siste...

Being lost is much more than it seems for someone with Lewy Body Dementia.

As dementia progresses, once-cohesive thoughts become obscured (leading to frustration and hopelessness).

What does a dementia-afflicted patient do when she doesn't remember what seems impossible to forget ... especially when it just happened?

A man dressed in black seems to follow a patient wherever she goes, but no one else seems him. Is he real?

After losing so many of his closest family members, Samuel Clemens - better known as Mark Twain - develops a serious heart condition. People who knew ...