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Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
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Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Second Suns
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $20.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $20.00
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of... Read more >
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The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
Written by Nora Gallagher
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $11.99
Written by Nora Gallagher
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $11.99
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.
One day at the end of 2009, during a...
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The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
Written by Nora Gallagher
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.00
Written by Nora Gallagher
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.00
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.
One day at the end of 2009, during a...
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HEALING THE WOUNDS
A Physician Looks at His Work
Written by David Hilfiker, M.D.
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of... Read more >
A Physician Looks at His Work
Written by David Hilfiker, M.D.
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of... Read more >
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The Spark
A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $25.00
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $25.00
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
The Spark
A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $12.99
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $12.99
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
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The Spark
A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $40.00
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $40.00
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
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The Spark
A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
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The Cost of Hope
A Memoir
Written by Amanda Bennett
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $26.00
From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life.
When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating, yet somehow irresistible Terence... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Amanda Bennett
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $26.00
From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life.
When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating, yet somehow irresistible Terence... Read more >
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The Cost of Hope
A Memoir
Written by Amanda Bennett
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $13.99
From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life.
When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating, yet somehow irresistible Terence... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Amanda Bennett
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $13.99
From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life.
When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating, yet somehow irresistible Terence... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Opening My Heart
A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $18.99
A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $18.99
Tilda Shalof had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, and crushing chest pains. When the results...
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Arms Wide Open
A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $16.00
A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $16.00
In this prequel to the highly praised The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman reaches back to her youthful experiments in living a fully sustainable and natural life in the 1960s and ’70s in rural Minnesota and on a commune in Ohio, forming alliances with the eco-minded and antiwar counterculture. From those...
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A Dangerous Method (Movie Tie-in Edition)
The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
Written by John Kerr
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $16.95
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL
“Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant.” —Newsday
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship... Read more >
The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
Written by John Kerr
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $16.95
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL
“Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant.” —Newsday
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship... Read more >
Doctors
The Biography of Medicine
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2011
Price: $13.99
How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears... Read more >
The Biography of Medicine
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2011
Price: $13.99
How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Mind's Eye
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.00
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.00
With compassion and insight, Dr. Oliver Sacks again illuminates the mysteries of the brain by introducing us to some remarkable characters, including Pat, who remains a vivacious communicator despite the stroke that deprives her of speech, and Howard, a novelist who loses the ability to read. Sacks investigates those who can...
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Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
Nurses
The Real-Life Experiences of Registered Nurses
Written by Michael Brown, R.N.
Format: eBook, 318 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $7.99
Registered nurse Michael Brown has interviewed over fifty practicing nurses, spanning forty-one states and most nursing specialties. He takes you to the front lines of his profession, where split-second, life-and-death decisions are made every day by these unsung heroes of health care, who put their own lives at risk to provide... Read more >
The Real-Life Experiences of Registered Nurses
Written by Michael Brown, R.N.
Format: eBook, 318 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $7.99
Registered nurse Michael Brown has interviewed over fifty practicing nurses, spanning forty-one states and most nursing specialties. He takes you to the front lines of his profession, where split-second, life-and-death decisions are made every day by these unsung heroes of health care, who put their own lives at risk to provide... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Opening My Heart
A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $27.95
A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $27.95
Tilda Shalof had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, and crushing chest pains. When the results...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Opening My Heart
A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: eBook, 302 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $13.99
A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: eBook, 302 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $13.99
Tilda Shalof had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, and crushing chest pains. When the results...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Arms Wide Open
A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman
Format: Hardcover, 324 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $24.95
A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds
In her first, highly praised memoir, The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman recounted the stories that patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife. In Arms Wide Open, a prequel... Read more >
A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman
Format: Hardcover, 324 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $24.95
A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds
In her first, highly praised memoir, The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman recounted the stories that patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife. In Arms Wide Open, a prequel... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Arms Wide Open
A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $24.95
A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $24.95
A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds
In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband, an OB/GYN, in Appalachia. In...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Ask Me Why I Hurt
The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Written by Randy Christensen, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $15.00
The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way. Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather... Read more >
The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Written by Randy Christensen, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $15.00
The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way. Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ask Me Why I Hurt
The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Written by Randy Christensen, M.D.
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $11.99
The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather... Read more >
The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Written by Randy Christensen, M.D.
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $11.99
The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Medicine in Translation
Journeys with My Patients
Written by Danielle Ofri
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $18.00
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures. In Medicine in Translation... Read more >
Journeys with My Patients
Written by Danielle Ofri
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $18.00
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures. In Medicine in Translation... Read more >
