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
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1. Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
By: Paul A. Ruggieri
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
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2. The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
By: Matt McCarthy
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor--the sort of mythical,… read more
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3. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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4. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
By: Sheri Fink
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstruc… read more
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5. Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
By: Paul A. Offit
4.09
Format: None pages, ebook
In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing expose of the al… read more
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6. The Afrikaans (Thomas Prescott, #3)
By: Nick Pirog
3.98
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
Intimate in scale, but grandly outfitted, the luxury cruise liner 'The Afrikaans' hosts no more tha… read more
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7. 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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8. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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9. Rough Draft: A Memoir
By: Katy Tur
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From MSNBC anchor and New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur, a sharp and candid memoir about a… read more
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10. The Numbers (The Thomas Prescott Series)
By: Nick Pirog
4.33
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
The electrifying prequel and perfect introduction to the bestselling and fan-favorite Thomas Presco… read more
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11. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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12. The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
By: Lawrence Wright
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, whose best-selling thriller The End of… read more
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13. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
14. 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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15. Such Kindness
By: Andre Dubus III
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He … read more
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16. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
17. Gray Matter (Thomas Prescott, #2)
By: Nick Pirog
4.16
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
MEET THOMAS. THOMAS IS HAVING A ROUGH GO. HIS GIRL LEFT HIM. HE'S ALONE ON THANKSGIVING. HE'S O… read more
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18. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
By: David Quammen
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more
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"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
19. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
By: Regan Penaluna
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential … read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. Show Me (Thomas Prescott #4)
By: Nick Pirog
4.24
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Thomas Prescott must prove a horrific crime in a small town is tied to Big Biotech in the new thril… read more
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23. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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24. Jungle Up (Thomas Prescott, #5)
By: Nick Pirog
4.29
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
"Please find me, Thomas! Please!" Two years ago, Dr. Gina Brady broke Thomas Prescott's heart, b… read more
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25. 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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26. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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27. Pearce Oysters
By: Joselyn Takacs
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A family drama set along the Louisiana coastline during the 2010 BP Oil Spill, Pearce Oysters follo… read more
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28. 39: Your Last Birthday
By: Timothy Gene Sojka
4.31
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
2023 Maxy Awards Winner Stephen Detals played professional baseball before flaming out in whiskey-… read more
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29. Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon's Path
By: Craig R. Smith
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
His routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the desert… read more
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30. A Never Event: Exposing the Largest Outbreak of Hepatitis C in American Healthcare History
By: Evelyn V. McKnight
4.05
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
In the small, farming community of Fremont, Nebraska, townspeople eagerly welcomed an acclaimed doc… read more
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31. Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
By: Marty Makary
4.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Pr… read more
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