Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic
By: Anthony Almojera
3.84
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single…
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1. Paramedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine
By: Peter Canning
4.12
Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this unforgettable, dramatic account of one man's experience as an EMT, Peter Canning relives th… read more
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2. Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
By: Janice Hudson
4.32
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Trauma junkies are people who feed on danger and stress. They do their best work under pressure. Ja… read more
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- biography memoir
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3. Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
By: Harold Schechter
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
AMERICA'S MOST COLD-BLOODED! In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brut… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Report from Engine Co. 82
By: Dennis Smith
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered res… read more
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5. Shattered
By: Kathryn Casey
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
"Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today." --Ann Rule With true crime classics li… read more
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6. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
By: Cory Franklin
3.57
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more
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- biography memoir
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- audiobook
7. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's… read more
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8. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
By: Julie Holland
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych … read more
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9. Rescue 471: A Paramedic's Stories
By: Peter Canning
3.26
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
TRUE LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA In taut, thrilling prose, Peter Canning has written a book that captures … read more
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10. I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
By: Lee Gutkind
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
"I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out," a collection of true narratives, reflects the dynam… read more
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11. Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic
By: Kevin Grange
3.67
Format: 220 pages,
A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program--and practicing emerg… read more
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12. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In oth… read more
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13. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
By: Farzon A. Nahvi
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more
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14. All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit
By: Stephen M. Cohn
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, … read more
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- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. E.R. Nurses
By: James Patterson
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
James Patterson and Matt Eversmann present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives … read more
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"My job isn't just taking care of patients. I take care of families too. It is the greatest gift."-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses
"Nursing, I realize, isn't just about medicine. It's also about making---and preserving--- that human connection."-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses
"I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses."-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses
16. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
17. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
By: Thomas Fisher
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
20. Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
By: Michael Smith
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-… read more
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- nonfiction
- health
21. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
22. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.57
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more
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- biography
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
By: Joseph Pfeifer
4.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those… read more
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- audiobook
24. Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
By: Kevin Grange
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with… read more
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- medical
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- audiobook
25. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic
By: Anthony Almojera
3.84
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more
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- new york
- biography
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- health
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- medicine
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Fauci: Expect the Unexpected
By: Anthony Fauci
3.89
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Compiled from hours of interviews drawn from the eponymous National Geographic documentary, this in… read more
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27. OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center
By: Bruce Goldfarb
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Go behind the scenes inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where goo… read more
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- nonfiction
- health
28. The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
By: Marie Brenner
3.91
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis – based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting – that captu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Gutter Medicine: Twenty-six Years as a Firefighter Paramedic
By: Roger Huder
4.23
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
"My career as a firefighter/paramedic stretched from 1974 to 2000 when we were inventing EMS as we … read more
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30. Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
By: Jeff Hobbs
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace c… read more
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- audiobook
31. I Did Something Bad
By: Pyae Moe Thet War
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this smart and swoony adventure rom-com, a journalist and a movie star find themselves teaming u… read more
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