Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids

9 best books like Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids (Julie Salamon): Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment, I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story, A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back, The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Is There Still Sex in the City?, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Author

Dan Fagin

For the readers of A Civil Action, The Emperor of all Maladies and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a ripping scientific detective story, deep historical research and an unforgettable cast of characters into a riveting narrative that...

Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment

Author	Surya Das
ISBN	0767901576

Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American-born...

I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

Author	Lee Gutkind
ISBN	1937163121

This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first “sticks,” first births, and first deaths, and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts, and keeps them in the profession....

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Author	Haben Girma
ISBN	1478992816

The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.

Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off...

On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story

Author	Richard Jadick
ISBN	0451220536

A riveting memoir from the Navy doctor praised as "Hero, M.D." on the cover of Newsweek.

Cdr. Richard Jadick's story is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the war in Iraq. At thirty-eight, the last place the Navy doctor was expected to be was on the front lines. He was too old to be called...

A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

Author	Kevin Hazzard
ISBN	1501110837

A former paramedic’s visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta’s mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.

In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from...

The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

Author	Andrew Lawler
ISBN	0385542011

A sweeping account of a four-hundred-year-old mystery, the archeologists racing to unearth the answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America--from colonial days to today

In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived on Roanoke, an island off the coast of North Carolina. Chartered...

Is There Still Sex in the City?

Author	Candace Bushnell
ISBN	0802147267

Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty.

Set...

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

Author	Katrina Firlik
ISBN	1400063205

Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe,...