Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine
10 best books like Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine (Robert Marion): Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, The Twilight Saga, Hawaii, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, W is for Wasted, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Paris by the Book, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
| Author | Vicki Myron |
| ISBN | 0446407410 |
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story...
| Author | Stephenie Meyer |
| ISBN | 0739352350 |
Stephenie Meyer holds you spellbound with her incredible "New York Times" bestselling Twilight Saga. Experience the entire series on audio with narrator Ilyana Kadushin and prepare to be amazed by the more than 60 hours of listening pleasure. "Twilight" (11 CDs):
When Isabella Swan moves to...
| Author | James A. Michener |
| ISBN | 0375760377 |
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from...
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
| Author | Atul Gawande |
| ISBN | 0312421702 |
A year or more ago, I mistakenly placed a review for Gawande's book Better under this title. I have fixed the mix up, and I have now read Complications.
Gawande is pure pleasure to read. His writing is fluid and full of germane examples as he addresses big issues like error and incompetence as well...
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
| Author | Roméo Dallaire |
| ISBN | 0786715103 |
On the 10th anniversary of when UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada proudly publishes the unforgettable 1st-hand account of the genocide by the leader of the mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, Dallaire has written a powerful story of betrayal, naïveté, racism &...
| Author | Sue Grafton |
| ISBN | 0399158987 |
Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I’d never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.
The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He’d been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach...
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
| Author | Atul Gawande |
| ISBN | 0805082115 |
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors...
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0393334791 |
In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach...
| Author | Liam Callanan |
| ISBN | 1101986271 |
A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.
Once a week, I chase men who are not...
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
| Author | Mary Pipher |
| ISBN | 1594481881 |
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: what is happening to the selves of adolescent girls?
As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why...
In Queen’s Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust—born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration Camp was the site of his family’s extermination—Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also named...
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
| Author | Neely Tucker |
| ISBN | 1400081602 |
Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't...
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
| Author | Robert Wachter |
| ISBN | 0071849467 |
While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills.
But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization...
| Author | Stewart O'Nan |
| ISBN | 0670022357 |
Once again making the ordinary and overlooked not merely visible but vital to understanding our own lives, Stewart O'Nan confirms his position as an American master with Emily, Alone.
A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, O'Nan's intimate novel follows Emily Maxwell,...
| Author | Rosamund Lupton |
| ISBN | 0749942010 |
Nothing can break the bond between sisters ...When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns about the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance, she is stunned...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 1419324721 |
11 CDs / 12.75 Hours
Book Four finds Morgaine moving closer to the fate that will set her intractably against Arthur--her lover, brother, and now, enemy. Returning to Camelot during the Feast of Pentecost, Morgaine accuses Arthur of compromising the crown, and demands that he return Excalibur...
| Author | Myla Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0385498802 |
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But...
| Author | Sarah L. Thomson |
| ISBN | 0142414123 |
This young readers edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present. Includes new photos and illustrations, as well as a special interview by...
New York Times Bestseller!
Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house.
When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 1419324705 |
This imaginative return to the Arthurian legend as told from its pagan priestesses continues with Book Two: The High Queen. Morgaine, finally reconciled to the birth of her son, must relinquish him to her aunt Morgause in exchange for the kept secret regarding his parentage. Arthur marries the timid...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 1556909179 |
8 unabridged cassettes, narrated by Davina Porter.
Book Three of the Mists of Avalon series inolves the imaginative retelling of the Arthurian legend, centering around the pagan priestesses of Avalon, who compete for the soul of Great Britain against the rising tide of Christianity.
"The...
THE VOICE OF GOD IS A HEARTBEAT AWAY In Fearfully & Wonderfully Made, Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand revealed how God’s voice is encoded in the very structure of our bodies. In His Image takes up where its predecessor left off, beckoning us once again inward and onward to fresh exploration and...
| Author | Robin Cook |
| ISBN | 0399160825 |
After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical...
| Author | Debbie Macomber |
| ISBN | 0553391135 |
Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. Despite some folks’ good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that Mark is only a friend. However, she seems to be thinking about this particular...
| Author | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.
Now a force to be reckoned with in the War Office, the young Mycroft Holmes is growing his network of contacts and influence, although not always in a manner that pleases his closest friend,...
| Author | Carol Goodman |
| ISBN | 0062562630 |
This chilling novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages blends the gothic allure of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca and the crazed undertones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper with the twisty, contemporary edge of A.S.A. Harrison’s The Silent...
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
| Author | Charles Fishman |
| ISBN | 0143038788 |
Wal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it is probably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented...
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0345496094 |
When Sy Montgomery opened her heart to a sick piglet she had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish. The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire, where...
The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy
| Author | Penelope Wilcock |
| ISBN | 1581341385 |
Some of the most beautiful books I have ever read. The author's books have had a profound affect upon me. One of the rare authors whose writings have brought me to tears. They are about the understanding of the strength and frailties of the human heart. The author gets right down deep into the souls of her...
Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World
| Author | Laura James |
| ISBN | 1509843086 |
From early childhood, Laura James knew she was different, but it wasn't until her mid-forties that she found out why. A successful journalist and mother to four children, she had spent her whole life feeling as if she were running a different operating system to those around her. This book charts a year...
