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“alec glen”

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  • In the Front Line

    A Doctor's Life in War and Peace

    by Alec Glen ...
    This memoir by a Scottish doctor who was born and went on to work in Govan was found among family papers long after his death in 1972. Less an account of the author's inner life, it is a graphic narrative, by a practitioner in the hospitals and homes of a major city, of hands-on medical care during much of the twentieth century.After training as a medical student on the wards of Glasgow hospitals, ... Read more

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  • When My World Was Very Small

    A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch

    by Ruth Rakoff ...
    In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast.And so begins the journey of biopsy, surgery, chemotherapy, all accompanied by tidal waves of anxiety and grief: how to tell the children? Should ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    **Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS!The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).**Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Weekends at Bellevue

    Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER

    by Julie Holland ...
    “A gem of a memoir . . . Holland takes us for a ride through the psych ER that is at once wild and poignant, a ride that leaves deep tracks in even the healthiest of minds.”—Katrina Firlik, M.D., author of Another Day in the Frontal LobeJulie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Country Doctor's Notebook

    by GP Editors, Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Originally published in 1925, ‘A Country Doctor's Notebook’ is part autobiography and part fiction collection of short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov—Soviet playwright, novelist, and short-story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. This records the author’s experiences practicing in a small village hospital in Smolensk Governorate in revolutionary Russia between 1916 and 1918, ... Read more

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  • Mozart and the Whale

    An Asperger's Love Story

    by Jerry Newport, Mary Newport ...
    An unforgettable love story and the incredible chronicle of a musical genius and a mathematical prodigy who share a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome.When Jerry and Mary Newport met, the connection was instant. A musical genius and a mathematical wonder, the two shared astronomic IQs, but they also shared something else—they both were diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Man Who Couldn't Eat

    by Jon Reiner ...
    “I’m a glutton in a greyhound’s body, a walking contradiction, in the grip of the one thing I can’t have—food.”Food is not just sustenance. It is memories, a lobster roll on the beach in Maine; heritage, hot pastrami club with a half-sour pickle; guilty pleasures, a chocolate rum-soaked Bundt cake; identity, vegetarian or carnivore. Food is the sensuality of a ripe strawberry or a pork chop ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • He Wanted the Moon

    The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him

    by Mimi Baird, Eve Claxton ...
    **Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony KushnerA Washington Post Best Book of 2015A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.**Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

    A Memoir

    by Amy Silverstein ...
    In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silverstein’s donor heart plummeted into failure. If she wanted to live, she had to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Be The Best You Can Be (Polio My Constant Companion)

    by Michael B ...
    This book covers one person's story of life with this virus, and the effects it had on his life. There are many I am sure, stories from people living with this, or from people who know someone who has survived polio.This account is written in the victim's own words, as he lived it and viewed his life. It is a personal account. ... Read more

    $3.20 USD

  • Extraordinary Hearts

    A Journey of Cardiac Medicine and the Human Spirit

    by John A. Elefteriades, MD ...
    Cardiac surgeon John A. Elefteriades, one of Men’s Health magazine’s ten best doctors in America, shares moving patient stories and lessons about the human heart.The human heart is a paradox, incredibly strong yet surprisingly fragile. And while stories that reveal its symbolic characteristics abound, there are far fewer that laud its physical capabilities, which are perhaps even more profound.Dr. ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Follow Your Bliss

    The Life and Times of a Family Doctor

    by Donald Hodder ...
    Dr. Donald Hodder has woven tales of joy and sorrow, humour and fulfillment into this interesting memoir. He practised family medicine for over forty-five years, all of it in his native Newfoundland. During his career, he kept many notebooks detailing his experiences. These became the foundation for this book. In studied prose and lilting verse, with integrity and compassion, he interlaces ... Read more

    $8.99 USD