Life on the Ground Floor
By: James Maskalyk
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be aliv…
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1. When Breath Becomes Air
By: Abraham Verghese , Paul Kalanithi
4.40
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely obse… read more
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"If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?"-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does."-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?" "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. …"-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air
2. 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
3. The 33 Strategies of War
By: Robert Greene , Joost Elffers
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 L… read more
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"Life has more meaning in the face of Death."-Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
"Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it."-Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
"12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it."-Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
"The key to staying unintimidated is to convince yourself that the person you're facing is a mere mortal, no different from you-- which is in fact the truth. See the person, not the myth. Imagine him …"-Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
4. The House of God
By: John Updike , Samuel Shem
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to kno… read more
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- medical
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5. 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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6. The Flying Troutmans
By: Miriam Toews
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars… read more
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7. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
By: Henry Marsh
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more
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8. Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
By: Jessica Alexander
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eye-opening and intimate memoir about life as an international humanitarian aid worker in the fi… read more
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- nonfiction
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9. Life on the Ground Floor
By: James Maskalyk
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be aliv… read more
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10. Ti prego lasciati odiare
By: Anna Premoli
5.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer e Ian si conoscono da sette anni e gli ultimi cinque li hanno passati a farsi la guerra. A… read more
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11. 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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12. Secret Daughter
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be -- she's newly married and has started her care… read more
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13. One Summer: America, 1927
By: Bill Bryson
4.09
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports read… read more
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"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts"-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
14. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
By: Atul Gawande
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imp… read more
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15. Seriously... I'm Kidding
By: Ellen DeGeneres
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing." Ellen Degeneres' winning, upbeat candor … read more
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16. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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17. Your Life in My Hands
By: Rachel Clarke
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, hel… read more
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18. A House in the Sky
By: Sara Corbett , Amanda Lindhout
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful… read more
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19. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
20. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
21. The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
By: Kerry Daynes
4.03
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictab… read more
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"There is no them and us, it is just us."-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
"It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself."-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
"[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the id…"-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
22. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
By: Christie Watson
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more
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"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
23. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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24. This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
By: Stefanie Green
4.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted d… read more
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25. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
By: Jesse Wente
4.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more
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26. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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27. Girlfriend on Mars
By: Deborah Willis
3.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She… read more
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28. 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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29. The Innocents
By: Michael Crummey
3.78
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more
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"A body must bear what can't be helped."-Michael Crummey, The Innocents
30. We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing
By: Jillian Horton
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When we need help, we count on doctors to put us back together. But what happens when doctors fall … read more
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