Can You Die of a Broken Heart?: A heart surgeon's insight into what makes us tick
By: Nikki Stamp
3.58
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When actress Debbie Reynolds died a day after her beloved daughter, Carrie Fisher, the world diagno…
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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3. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
By: Sarah Krasnostein
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more
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5. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
By: Susan Jeffers
4.22
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Success can be yours with Susan Jeffers's Feel the Fear and Do it AnywayThe world's foremost produc… read more
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6. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
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"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
7. Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
By: Henry Marsh
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in… read more
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8. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
By: Adam Kay
4.12
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more
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"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
9. That Night
By: Gillian McAllister
3.82
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
What would you do to protect your family? ANYTHING. That night everything changed. The nig… read more
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10. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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11. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
By: Julie Smith
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more
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"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
12. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
By: Richard Shepherd
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more
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"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
13. The Space Between
By: Michelle Andrews
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the creators of the hit podcast Shameless: relatable ruminations on the mess, the madness and … read more
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14. Perfect Little Children
By: Sophie Hannah
3.45
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under-14s away match, watch him play, and bring him home… read more
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15. The Honeymoon
By: Kate Gray
3.91
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
Two happy couples. One dead body. A whole load of secrets. Married life wasn't meant to st… read more
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16. The Seven Ages of Death
By: Richard Shepherd
4.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more
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17. The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare
By: Ben Bravery
4.30
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a… read more
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18. I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself
By: Toni Lodge
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half… read more
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19. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
20. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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21. Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more
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22. You Called an Ambulance for What?
By: Tim Booth
3.98
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more
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23. Our Woman in Moscow
By: Beatriz Williams
4.06
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly hum… read more
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"Ruth, I spent most of my life just trying to be safe. Trying to hide from what scared me. Letting other people control what happened to me. Then I realized the idea of safety itself is just a delusio…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"...humans are corrupt. We are all of us selfish, ignorant beasts, loyal only to ourselves and our own kind, interested only in getting a leg up on others, whether it's money or status or moral virtue…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"A man had appeared out of nowhere—a thick-shouldered, square-jawed, cleft-chinned all- American of a type Iris hadn’t seen in years. He showed her some friendly white teeth and continued in a slow co…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"[In marriage you] go through stages, like acts in a play. Act One, you fall in love, and the birds twitter and the bees go buzz, and you'll never love somebody else as long as you both shall live, am…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
24. Olive
By: Emma Gannon
3.68
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma Gannon. Independent. Adrift. An… read more
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"Did you know six minutes of reading can help reduce stress levels by up to sixty percent?" ... "That's sixty-eight percent better than listening to music, one hundred percent better than drinking tea…"-Emma Gannon, Olive
25. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree
By: Alli Parker
4.28
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more
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26. The Crossing
By: Sophie Matterson
4.38
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love by crossing 4750km o… read more
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27. The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life
By: Robin S. Sharma
4.31
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book redefining success to show readers how they can create truly abundant and ful… read more
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28. How to Fail
By: Elizabeth Day
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more
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"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
29. The Heatwave
By: Kate Riordan
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Under the scorching French sun, a tense homecoming unearths a long-buried family secret in this del… read more
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30. Milk It: Everything You Need to Know About Breastfeeding: Advice, solutions & self-care for every parent
By: Chantelle Champs
3.74
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
'A friendly breastfeeding companion' Giovanna Fletcher*****A modern, up-to-date, friendly and non-j… read more
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31. Can You Die of a Broken Heart?: A heart surgeon's insight into what makes us tick
By: Nikki Stamp
3.58
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When actress Debbie Reynolds died a day after her beloved daughter, Carrie Fisher, the world diagno… read more
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