Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
10 best books like Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon (Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa): Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, Eva Luna, Island Beneath the Sea, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, Kissing Galileo, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, We the Animals, The Dark Side, Dusk and Other Stories, Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
| Author | Kelly Weinersmith |
| ISBN | 0399563822 |
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, an illustrated investigation into future technologies
What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already?
In this book,...
| Author | Isabel Allende |
| ISBN | 0553280589 |
Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller—available for the first time in ebook.
Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born...
| Author | Isabel Allende |
| ISBN | 0061988243 |
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and...
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
| Author | Immaculée Ilibagiza |
| ISBN | 1401908977 |
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly...
| Author | Penny Reid |
| ISBN | 1942874464 |
Her professor just saw her mostly naked. Awkwardness is guaranteed to ensue.
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
| Author | Ivan Van Sertima |
| ISBN | 0812968174 |
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals,...
| Author | Justin Torres |
| ISBN | 0547576722 |
An exquisite, blistering debut novel.
Three brothers tear their way through childhood — smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are...
| Author | Danielle Steel |
| ISBN | 0399179410 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In her new novel, Danielle Steel tells a riveting story of the dark side of motherhood.
Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness, watching as her parents dedicated themselves completely to her final days and then divorced. As a young...
| Author | James Salter |
| ISBN | 0865473897 |
Ah, Salterland! Where it’s always 196—. Where Town is a gleaming oak bar, Country a superb yet forsaken woman who drinks a little too much (and has a good chance of dying in a riding accident), and Europa a precocious gamine who is really down for anything, you just have to ask. I wouldn’t want a woman...
Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
| Author | Sandeep Jauhar |
| ISBN | 0374141398 |
Doctored is the shocking follow-up to Intern, Sandeep Jauhar’s widely praised chronicle of the harsh realities of a hospital residency. Now the director of the Heart Failure Program at a Long Island hospital, Jauhar uses his own story as a scalpel to lay open the American health-care system.
The...
The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now
| Author | Rita Emmett |
| ISBN | 0802775985 |
Almost everyone procrastinates. For some it causes problems and strains relationships at home and at work. For most people, though, procrastination is a frustrating or troublesome habit we would like to overcome. Rita Emmett will inspire you to get started. With humor and with advice drawn from her...
Shamed: The Honour Killing That Shocked Britain – by the Sister Who Fought for Justice
| Author | Sarbjit Kaur Athwal |
| ISBN | 0753541548 |
In 1998, Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers, their mother, one wife. But the subject they were discussing was anything but ordinary. At the head of the...
Taliban Escape!: One Woman Journey Out of Hell
A recent United Nations study declared the following: "At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime, with the abuser usually someone known to her." Taliban Escape! One Woman's Journey Out of Hell is the story of Adéela--one...
Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President
| Author | Vicente Fox |
| ISBN | 0670018392 |
The charismatic former President of Mexico offers a clear and candid perspective on the state of world affairs When Vicente Fox swept into office in 2000, he broke the dictatorial one-party rule that had strangled Mexico for over seventy years. A native son of Mexico, grandson of immigrants from the...
NEW, UPDATED EDITION: The 2015 updated edition, produced by popular demand from our readers has been substantially re-edited.
This is the true story of Samina Younis, born in Britain to a strict, religious Muslim family - a family that practices the tradition of forced marriage which they...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The lessons our children teach us are the hardest ones. What do we do when our children don't pursue our hopes for them? In this riveting new novel, Danielle Steel explores how families can evolve and grow in unexpected ways.
A senior partner at a prestigious New York...
Thieves of Civilization: Afrocentric Attempts to Appropriate the Cultural Heritage of Native Americans and Latino Indo-Mestizos in America
| Author | Gabriel Haslip-Viera |
| ISBN | 1499294174 |
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Aquellas horas que nos robaron: El desafío de Gilberto Bosques
Una historia basada en hechos reales junto con relatos ficticios, que suceden mientras se lleva acabo la IIGM, que se enfoca en España, Francia y México. Cuenta varias historias que de alguna manera se van entretejiendo de manera muy leve pero que llevan al sentimiento de querer escapar de la realidad....
