Almost Home: Stories of Hope and the Human Spirit in the Neonatal ICU
10 best books like Almost Home: Stories of Hope and the Human Spirit in the Neonatal ICU (Christine Gleason): Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Practical Magic, The English Assassin, Lady Susan, Negeri 5 Menara, Ranah 3 Warna, Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives, Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
| Author | Svetlana Alexievich |
| ISBN | 0312425848 |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
| Author | Adam Higginbotham |
| ISBN | 1501134612 |
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0425190374 |
The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman.
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have...
| Author | Daniel Silva |
| ISBN | 0451208188 |
The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists. Now Silva has outdone himself, with a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland's shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration...
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0486444074 |
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
O Lady Susan Vernon, what a juicy jewel of a villainous character you are, a black diamond, repelling and fascinating at the same time, your wicked charm inspiring possibly an uncanny form of envy more than simple revulsion. Deceiving everyone...
Alif lahir di pinggir Danau Maninjau dan tidak pernah menginjak tanah di luar ranah Minangkabau. Masa kecilnya adalah berburu durian runtuh di rimba Bukit Barisan, bermain bola di sawah berlumpur dan tentu mandi berkecipak di air biru Danau Maninjau.
Tiba-tiba saja dia harus naik bus tiga...
Alif baru saja tamat dari Pondok Madani. Dia bahkan sudah bisa bermimpi dalam bahasa Arab dan Inggris. Impiannya? Tinggi betul. Ingin belajar teknologi tinggi di Bandung seperti Habibie, lalu merantau sampai ke Amerika.
Dengan semangat menggelegak dia pulang ke Maninjau dan tak sabar...
| Author | Theresa Brown |
| ISBN | 0061791555 |
“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone.“ — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam
“A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. Extraordinary.” — Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Critical Care is the powerful...
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital’s cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical...
Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles
| Author | Edward Humes |
| ISBN | 0743264436 |
With "Baby ER," Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes tells the unforgettable story of wonder and hope that lies at medicine's cutting edge, where extraordinary healers and extraordinary patients come together to make miracles -- in a place where lives are held, literally, in the palms of doctors'...
The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
| Author | Alexandra Robbins |
| ISBN | 0761171711 |
In this lively, fast-paced narrative, New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Robbins digs deep into the subculture of nursing, drawing readers into a brilliantly captivating in-depth investigation of the extraordinary working lives of nurses and the shocking behind-the-scenes secrets...
| Author | Daniel Silva |
| ISBN | 0141019085 |
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing that gravely injured an old friend, but while there he encounters something that turns his world upside down. It is a face --- a face that feels hauntingly familiar, a face that chills him to the bone.
While...
Dr. Julia Cates was one of the country's preeminent child psychiatrists until a shocking tragedy ruined her career. Retreating to her small western Washington hometown, Julia meets an extraordinary six-year-old girl who has inexplicably emerged from the deep woods nearby—a child locked in a...
The Secrets of Lost Stones
| Author | Melissa Payne |
| ISBN | 1542006287 |
A soul-stirring novel about the bonds between mother and child and the redemption that comes with facing the past and letting it go.
Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and—most heart-wrenching—her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident....
| Author | Naomi Ragen |
| ISBN | 0312570198 |
In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable...
Dark secrets are revealed in Vatican City in this Gabriel Allon thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva.
In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately....
Alif merasa berdiri di pucuk dunia. Bagaimana tidak? Dia telah mengelilingi separuh dunia, tulisannya tersebar di banyak media, dan diwisuda dengan nilai terbaik. Dia yakin perusahaan-perusahaan akan berlomba-lomba merekrutnya.
Namun Alif lulus di saat yang salah. Akhir 90-an, krisis...
| Author | M. Tiyasaa |
| ISBN | 9786232050 |
Soé Isabel menceritakan perjuangan seorang gadis yang hidupnya kerap bersahabat dengan kehilangan. Tidak pernah merasakan peranan ayah dalam hidupnya, kehilangan ibu yang amat dicintainya, hingga kepergian neneknya tepat sebelum ujian akhir Soé di SMA.
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