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The Uncertain Art

Thoughts on a Life in Medicine

by Sherwin B. Nuland
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008

“Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate.” –attributed to Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C.E. The...
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by Professor Earl Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

Under the Microscope is the story of an extraordinary man, his many life-changing inventions, and his exceptional life and special friendships. Born into a family of doctors - on the paternal and maternal sides - with a birth defect that no one knew how to treat, Earl Owen was given a dose...
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The Orientalist

Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life

by Tom Reiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.  Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...
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by Marius Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011

Marius Barnard is best known as a member of the pioneering medical team that performed the world’s first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in 1967, with his brother Chris. But his achievements extended into other spheres. He was an active anti-apartheid campaigner and MP for the Progressive...
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The Pope Who Would Be King

The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe

by David I. Kertzer
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe. “[David I.] Kertzer’s brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy between 1846 and 1850 reads like...
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Pilgrimage

My Search for the Real Pope Francis

by Mark K. Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016

A down-to-earth and deeply intimate portrait of Pope Francis and his faith, based on interviews with the men and women who knew him simply as Jorge Mario Bergoglio Early on the evening of March 13, 2013, the newly elected Pope Francis stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and...
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Wild Rose

Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy

by Ann Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005

For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb...
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Grant and Twain

The Story of a Friendship That Changed America

by Mark Perry
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004

In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter not only both their lives but the course of American literature. Over the next fifteen...
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by Ann Wroe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2000

Pontius Pilate arrived in Judaea in the year 26, sent to collect taxes and oversee the firm establishment of Roman law. His ten-year term was a time of relative peace in this fractious new outpost of the Roman Empire, where violence was not uncommon. He was not loved and not quite feared, and might...
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Martin Luther

Renegade and Prophet

by Lyndal Roper
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

From “one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers” (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. “Magnificent.”—The...
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Bobby Kennedy

The Making of a Liberal Icon

by Larry Tye
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

“A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [the] most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”—Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine. Larry Tye appears...
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by Elisabeth Bumiller
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007

Condoleezza Rice, one of most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. In this stunning new biography, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female...
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Franklin and Lucy

President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life

by Joseph E. Persico
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008

“Just when you thought you knew everything about Franklin D. Roosevelt, think again. Joseph E. Persico [is] one of America’s finest historians. . . . You can’t properly understand FDR the man without reading this landmark study.”—Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University “Persico’s...
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by Jacob Weisberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008

This is the book that cracks the code of the Bush presidency. Unstintingly yet compassionately, and with no political ax to grind, Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg methodically and objectively examines the family and circle of advisers who played crucial parts in George W. Bush’s historic downfall. In...
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