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Trauma
My Life as an Emergency Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happen.
TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of...
Match Day
One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Three new doctors—all women—struggle to balance professional ambitions and personal relationships, triumphs and crises, uncertainties and decisions, through one pressure-packed day and the first year of their careers in medicine
Each year, on the third Thursday in March, more than 15,000...
On Call
A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine...
by Alan Deutschman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
"One to one, no one is as compelling, as charismatic, as seductive as Steve Jobs. It's just magic." – Alan Deutschman on "Bloomberg West" in August 2011
In this original e-essay, part of the forthcoming book Why Steve Jobs Matters, veteran Silicon Valley journalist Alan...
Patient by Patient
Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice. As she strives to help her patients face a range of challenges from the humorous to the profoundly devastating she learns that while medical school...
The Fossil Hunter
Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day.
Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while...
The Lassa Ward
One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Ross Donaldson is one of just a few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases. As an untried medical student studying the intersection of global health and communicable disease, Donaldson soon found himself in dangerous Sierra...
I Fired God
My Life Inside---and Escape from---the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
A compelling memoir and account of the Independent Fundamental Baptist church and its shocking history of religious abuse.
Jocelyn Zichterman was born, raised, married into, and finally, with her family, fled the Independent Fundamental Baptist church. Founded by the fiery preacher Bob Jones,...
One Nation Under Sex
How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the secession movement. Woodrow Wilson's girlfriend dictated his letters to the German Kaiser. And lesbian relationships inspired Eleanor Roosevelt...
A Slave in the White House
Paul Jennings and the Madisons
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former...
That Woman
The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The King's Speech.
This is the story of the American divorcee notorious...
by Jerrold M. Packard
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1999
The story of five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time.
Vicky, Alice, Helena, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two...
The Romanov Sisters
The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." —People magazine
"The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but Rappaport captures sections of letters and diary entries to showcase...
The Queen Mother
The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality...