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Between Expectations: Lessons from a Pediatric Residency

10 best books like Between Expectations: Lessons from a Pediatric Residency (Meghan MacLean Weir): Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, The Caregiver, Woman 99, Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders, The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them, Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors, Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine, So You Want to Be a Doctor?: A Guide for Prospective Medical Students in Australia, La Gesta del Marrano, The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
AuthorStephanie Land
ISBN0316505110
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.

"My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."

While the gap between upper middle-class...
The Caregiver
AuthorSamuel Park
ISBN1501178784
From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes gorgeous, emotionally wise tale about a daughter who unearths the hidden life of her enigmatic mother.

Mara Alencar’s mother Ana is the moon, the sun, the stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave...
Woman 99
AuthorGreer Macallister
ISBN1492665339
A vivid historical thriller about a young woman whose quest to free her sister from an infamous insane asylum risks her sanity, her safety and her life

Charlotte Smith's future is planned to the last detail, and so was her sister's - until Phoebe became a disruption. When their parents commit...
Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
AuthorJennifer Finney Boylan
ISBN0767921763
New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.

A father for ten years, a mother...
The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them
AuthorAmy Dickinson
ISBN1401322859
Amy Dickinson has made a career out of helping others, through her internationally syndicated advice column "Ask Amy." Readers love her for her honesty, her small-town values, and for the fact that her motto is "I make the mistakes so you don't have to." In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson...
Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
AuthorBrian Eule
ISBN0312377843
Each year on the third Thursday in March, more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital residencies in almost every field of medicine. The match determines the crucial first...
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
AuthorDanielle Ofri
ISBN0807072672
In Singular Intimacies, which the New England Journal of Medicine said captured the'essence of becoming and being a doctor, ' Danielle Ofri led us into the hectic, constantly challenging world of big-city medicine. In Incidental Findings, she's finished her training and is learning through practice...
So You Want to Be a Doctor?: A Guide for Prospective Medical Students in Australia
AuthorKerry J. Breen
ISBN1742860273
This book is designed for young people who are thinking about applying to study medicine in Australia. These students need to be fully informed as to what is required to be successful in their application and, more importantly, what is really involved in a medical career in Australia. The book describes...
La Gesta del Marrano
AuthorMarcos Aguinis
ISBN9504910793
For the ENGLISH version, please click: "Against the Inquisition"

La gesta del marrano es una novela basada en hechos históricos rigurosamente documentados, que narra la saga de la familia Maldonado da Silva y sus peripecias en el Nuevo Mundo.

Francisco Maldonado da Silva, cuya...
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
AuthorRee Drummond
ISBN0061997161
"That's when I saw him—the cowboy—across the smoky room."

I'll never forget that night. It was like a romance novel, an old Broadway musical, and a John Wayne western rolled into one. Out for a quick drink with friends, I wasn't looking to meet anyone, let alone a tall, rugged cowboy who lived...
Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
AuthorAllison Pataki
ISBN0399591672
A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future

Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly...
Wszystkie pory uczuć. Zima
AuthorMagdalena Majcher
ISBN8381031923
Rodzinna tajemnica i skomplikowane siostrzane relacje.
Wciągająca opowieść na długie zimowe wieczory.

Róża całe życie poświęciła innym. Wychowankowie w domu dziecka i niepełnosprawna siostra zajmowali ją bez reszty. Teraz ma szansę odmienić swoje życie –...
Nieodnaleziona
AuthorRemigiusz Mróz
ISBN8380753852
Pierwszy polski thriller psychologiczny na miarę największych światowych bestsellerów!

Gdybym oświadczył jej się chwilę wcześniej, nigdy by do tego nie doszło. Nie napadnięto by nas, ja nie trafiłbym do szpitala, a ona nie zniknęłaby na zawsze z mojego życia.

Dziesięć...
Zakochaj się, Julio
AuthorNatalia Sońska
Zimowa sceneria polskich gór i wzruszająca opowieść o miłości jak z bajki.

Julia jest nauczycielką w jednym z krakowskich liceów. Młoda i ambitna, cieszy się wśród uczniów szacunkiem oraz sympatią. Dziewczyna ma złote serce, a dla swoich wychowanków jest w stanie zrobić...
Uwierz w miłość, Calineczko
AuthorNatalia Sońska
ISBN8379760239
Usiądź wygodnie, zrelaksuj się i weź do ręki niezwykłą opowieść o Mai, która pozostaje wierna swoim marzeniom niczym baśniowa Calineczka…

Nie ma nic wspanialszego niż dwie bratnie dusze, które spotykają się po latach. Chciałoby się wykrzyknąć, że miłość zawsze...
After a While You Just Get Used to It: A Tale of Family Clutter
AuthorGwendolyn Knapp
A vibrant new voice ups the self-deprecating memoir ante with tragicomic tales of her dysfunctional life in swampland Florida and America’s Big Easy
 
A dive bar palm reader who calls herself the Disco Queen Taiwan; a slumlord with a penis-of-the-day LISTSERV; and Betty, the middle-aged...
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
AuthorJose Antonio Vargas
ISBN0062851365
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.

“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at...
On Stage, Please
AuthorVeronica Tennant
ISBN0887764649
What nine-year-old Jennifer Allen wants most in the world is to be a ballet dancer. And, despite a discouraging debut under the tutelage of cigar-chomping Mr. Vincent, and the warning from her friend Danielle that “it’s not all glamour,” Jennifer is determined to follow her dream.

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