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Cancerland

A Medical Memoir

by David Scadden, Michael D'Antonio ...

An Amazon Best of the Month Book"For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden's most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." — The Wall Street JournalA doctor's riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer.What is it like to encounter cancer? ... ... Read more

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An Amazon Best of the Month Book"For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden's most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." — The Wall Street JournalA doctor's riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer.What is it like to encounter cancer? ...
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Cancerland

A Medical Memoir

by Michael D'Antonio, David Scadden ...

Narrated by David Scadden, Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

10 hours 41 min

A doctor’s riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer.What is it like to encounter cancer? How does it feel to face the unknown, to enter a world of hope, loss, and dread?From the diagnosis of his childhood friend’s mother to his poignant memories in the lab, David Scadden’s seen the unknown world of cancer from the lens of a young boy, a classmate, a researcher, a friend, a doctor, ... Read more

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A doctor’s riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer.What is it like to encounter cancer? How does it feel to face the unknown, to enter a world of hope, loss, and dread?From the diagnosis of his childhood friend’s mother to his poignant memories in the lab, David Scadden’s seen the unknown world of cancer from the lens of a young boy, a classmate, a researcher, a friend, a doctor,
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The Foursome

A Novel

by Christina Baker Kline ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives — who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they’re not just a curiosity—they’re a sensation. ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives — who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they’re not just a curiosity—they’re a sensation.
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Nineteen

A Daughter's Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery

by Leslie Johansen Nack ...

For fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wildand Greg Buenzli’s And Then We Hit a Rock comes Leslie Johansen Nack’s emotional follow-up memoir about her battle with addiction following a traumatic childhood—and her inspiring journey toward healing and happiness.“This is a memoir that will stay with readers long after the final page, not because of its trauma alone, but because of its honesty, grace, and ... Read more

$12.99 USD

For fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wildand Greg Buenzli’s And Then We Hit a Rock comes Leslie Johansen Nack’s emotional follow-up memoir about her battle with addiction following a traumatic childhood—and her inspiring journey toward healing and happiness.“This is a memoir that will stay with readers long after the final page, not because of its trauma alone, but because of its honesty, grace, and
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From the Corner of the Oval

A Memoir

by Beck Dorey-Stein ...

Narrated by Beck Dorey-Stein ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One?“[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York TimesRECOMMENDED READING theSkimm • Today • Entertainment Weekly • Refinery29 • Bustle • PopSugar • Vanity Fair • The New York Times Editors’ Choice • PasteIn 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-... ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One?“[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York TimesRECOMMENDED READING theSkimm • Today • Entertainment Weekly • Refinery29 • Bustle • PopSugar • Vanity Fair • The New York Times Editors’ Choice • PasteIn 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-...
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A Divine Language

Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age

by Alec Wilkinson ...

A "moving and original" memoir from the award-winning New Yorker writer about the profound discoveries he makes while learning math as an adult (Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times )A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceDecades after struggling to understand math as a boy, Alec Wilkinson embarks on a jo... ... Read more

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A "moving and original" memoir from the award-winning New Yorker writer about the profound discoveries he makes while learning math as an adult (Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times )A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceDecades after struggling to understand math as a boy, Alec Wilkinson embarks on a jo...
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The Dinner Club

by Helen Aitchison ...

Five people.Five secrets.Each needing healing, support and acceptance.Derek's life has changed suddenly. His wife of the past few decades has left him, unable to live with his secret anymore. Inspired by a TV show, he decides to start a dinner club to make new friends, the kind that might accept him if he can be brave enough to tell them the truth.Eddie is grieving, a widower, struggling as a ... Read more

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Five people.Five secrets.Each needing healing, support and acceptance.Derek's life has changed suddenly. His wife of the past few decades has left him, unable to live with his secret anymore. Inspired by a TV show, he decides to start a dinner club to make new friends, the kind that might accept him if he can be brave enough to tell them the truth.Eddie is grieving, a widower, struggling as a
... Read more
Genesis

The Story of How Everything Began

by Guido Tonelli ...

A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life—drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos.Curiosity and wonderment about the origins of the universe are at the ... Read more

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A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life—drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos.Curiosity and wonderment about the origins of the universe are at the
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Walk It Off

The true and hilarious story of how I learned to stand, walk, pee, run, and have sex again after a nightmarish diagnosis turned my awesome life upside down

by Ruth Marshall ...

Narrated by Ruth Marshall ...

Unabridged

7 hours 10 min

Furiously Happy meets Elaine Lui in this truly original—and surprisingly hilarious—memoir about one woman’s journey to learn how to walk after a debilitating diagnosis turned her life upside down.Learn How to Walk (Again) To-Do List:Step 1: StandStep 2: StepStep 3: Pee (Yes!)Step 4: Walk with walkerStep 5: Walk with sticksStep 6: Walk without propsRecreational interlude for sexStep 7: RUN!Ruth ... Read more

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Furiously Happy meets Elaine Lui in this truly original—and surprisingly hilarious—memoir about one woman’s journey to learn how to walk after a debilitating diagnosis turned her life upside down.Learn How to Walk (Again) To-Do List:Step 1: StandStep 2: StepStep 3: Pee (Yes!)Step 4: Walk with walkerStep 5: Walk with sticksStep 6: Walk without propsRecreational interlude for sexStep 7: RUN!Ruth
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Admissions

Life as a Brain Surgeon

by Henry Marsh ...

Narrated by Henry Marsh ...

Unabridged

7 hours 53 min

This program is read by the authorAn International Bestseller"Consistently entertaining...Honesty is abundantly apparent here--a quality as rare and commendable in elite surgeons as one suspects it is in memoirists." —The Guardian"Disarmingly frank storytelling...his reflections on death and dying equal those in Atul Gawande's excellent Being Mortal." —The Econ... ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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This program is read by the authorAn International Bestseller"Consistently entertaining...Honesty is abundantly apparent here--a quality as rare and commendable in elite surgeons as one suspects it is in memoirists." —The Guardian"Disarmingly frank storytelling...his reflections on death and dying equal those in Atul Gawande's excellent Being Mortal." —The Econ...
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution

How We Became Sapiens

by Silvana Condemi, François Savatier ...

Why aren't we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are.Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a new hominid group—the ... Read more

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Why aren't we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are.Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a new hominid group—the
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A Demon-Haunted Land

Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

by Monica Black ...

This account of German citizens swept up in a wave of supernatural obsessions after WWII and the Holocaust is "an engrossing story from beginning to end" ( Booklist).In the aftermath of World War II in Germany, a messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of ... Read more

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This account of German citizens swept up in a wave of supernatural obsessions after WWII and the Holocaust is "an engrossing story from beginning to end" ( Booklist).In the aftermath of World War II in Germany, a messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of
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