Grief Connects Us: A Neurogsurgeon's Lessons on Love, Loss, and Compassion
By: Joseph D. Stern
4.22
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
In his exceptionally thought-provoking and moving memoir, neurosurgeon Joseph D. Stern explores how…
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1. The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7)
By: Ivan Doig
4.07
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekee… read more
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"Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul."-Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7)
2. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more
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3. Dying: A Memoir
By: Cory Taylor
4.37
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Cory Taylor is one of Australia's celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booke… read more
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4. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
By: Kathryn Mannix
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more
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5. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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6. Life Lessons
By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , David Kessler
3.73
Format: 32 pages,
After experiencing a paralyzing stroke in 1995 and facing her own mortality, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross … read more
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7. Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
By: Michael J. Collins
4.28
Format: 320 pages,
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8. I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
By: Brook Noel , None
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Now there is a hand to hold... Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of a close … read more
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9. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
By: Bryan Burrough , John Helyar
4.27
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at… read more
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"With every girl there was a moment before you broke up when you knew - you just knew - that if you left her right then, you would never make up."-Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
"Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investm…"-Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
10. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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11. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
12. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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13. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
14. 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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15. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
By: Joshua D. Mezrich
4.23
Format: 384 pages, ebook
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs fro… read more
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"Po powrocie do Oxfordu Medawar skupił się całkowicie na sprawdzeniu hipotezy, że odrzucanie przeszczepu allogenicznego jest zjawiskiem immunologicznym."-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
"The sick suffer alone, they undergo procedures and surgeries alone, and in the end, they die alone. Transplant is different. Transplant is all about having someone else join you in your illness. It m…"-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
16. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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17. Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
By: Anthony Youn
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be a doctor? “I am a doctor.” Every year, thousands of medical school gradua… read more
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18. Keeping Lucy
By: T. Greenwood
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Rust & Stardust comes this heartbreaking story, inspired by true events, of how … read more
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19. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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20. The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
By: Michael Connelly
4.21
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it… read more
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" There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962."-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him …"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for li…"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system’s checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizatio…"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
21. The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story
By: Nechama Birnbaum
4.56
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what i… read more
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22. Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
By: Lily Ebert
4.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the powe… read more
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23. Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
By: Sallie Tisdale
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, … read more
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"We share a grand social agreement about mortality. We choose not to notice, if we can."-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
"Our ideals about a so-called good death are constricting. Death is not something at which we succeed or fail, something to achieve. Life and death are not possessions."-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
"…grief is not a disease to be cured. Grief is a wound, not unlike that from a knife or a bludgeon. The injury will heal in time leaving a scar but the tissue is never quite the same. One moves forwar…"-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
24. More Numbers Every Day: How Data, Stats, and Figures Control Our Lives and How to Set Ourselves Free
By: Micael Dahlén
3.70
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In the vein of Factfulness, How Not to Be Wrong, and The Drunkard's Walk, a timely and delightful l… read more
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25. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
By: Anna Mehler Paperny
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A vibrant, compelling memoir that bravely reveals the real-life havoc the depression wreaks and an … read more
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"Depression affects everyone on the planet, directly or indirectly, in every possible sphere. its very ubiquity robs it of sexiness but not urgency."-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
"Suicidality and curiosity are anathema to each other: You can’t want to know things if you want to die. As long as I had questions I had reason to live, and when I was overwhelmed by a desire for dea…"-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
26. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
By: Tripp Mickle
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the pass… read more
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27. Through the Snow Globe
By: Annie Rains
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
It’s a Wonderful Life meets Groundhog Day, as a woman dangerously close to losing it all receives a… read more
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28. Before and After Loss: A Neurologist's Perspective on Loss, Grief, and Our Brain (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
By: Lisa M. Shulman
3.59
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An expert neurologist explores how the mind, brain, and body respond and heal after her personal ex… read more
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29. Frontline: Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease
By: Tony Redmond
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One heroic doctor’s unflinchingly honest and visceral account of the impossible ethical choices req… read more
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30. Grief Connects Us: A Neurogsurgeon's Lessons on Love, Loss, and Compassion
By: Joseph D. Stern
4.22
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
In his exceptionally thought-provoking and moving memoir, neurosurgeon Joseph D. Stern explores how… read more
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