Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front
10 best books like Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front (Echo Heron): A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America, The Witches Are Coming, Me, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives, Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain, The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death, The Woman I Was Before, Well, Doc, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time!: The Unexpected Adventures of a Trauma Surgeon, Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse, Backbone: The Life and Game-Changing Career of a Spinal Neurosurgeon
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
Author | T. Christian Miller |
ISBN | 1524759937 |
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth.
On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke...
Author | Lindy West |
ISBN | 0316449881 |
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.
WE’RE WITCHES,
AND WE’RE HUNTING YOU.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo...
Author | Elton John |
ISBN | 1250147603 |
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.
Christened...
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...
Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain
Author | Sarah Vallance |
ISBN | 1542043026 |
The searing, wry memoir about a woman’s fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury.
When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she’s walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she’s led from work to...
The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
Author | John Bateson |
ISBN | 1501168223 |
In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek’s Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking cases handled by the coroner of Marin County, California throughout his four decades on the job—from high-profile deaths to serial killers, to Golden Gate Bridge suicides.
Marin County,...
The perfect picture hides the darkest lies.
A new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or a hiding place...
Kate Jones is running away. She has left her old life behind, changing both her own name and her daughter’s. No-one must ever connect Kate with the mistake that destroyed...
Well, Doc, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time!: The Unexpected Adventures of a Trauma Surgeon
In 1976, Paul Waymack began chronicling his experience as a third-year medical student, and for the next 20 years, he kept a journal filled with crazy stories of unusual patients, maladies, and international espionage. Some of them, he’s the first to admit, seem unbelievable--like chasing a naked...
Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
Author | Janice Hudson |
ISBN | 1552095738 |
Trauma junkies are people who feed on danger and stress. They do their best work under pressure. Janice Hudson was an adrenaline-charged emergency room nurse in a San Francisco-area hospital when a friend told her about CALSTAR, a fledgling helicopter ambulance service with an opening for a flight...
Backbone: The Life and Game-Changing Career of a Spinal Neurosurgeon
Author | Volker K H Sonntag |
ISBN | 1945962755 |
On a beautiful spring morning in 1989, neurosurgeon and spine expert Volker Sonntag was just finishing rounds at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. At that same moment sixteen miles away, a hard-charging boy named TJ veered his bike into the path of a speeding pickup truck. The impact all...
Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger investigate the mysterious disappearance of a true-crime writer.
When true-crime writer Olivia Cruz disappears with no signs of foul play, her new boyfriend, Lincoln Sharp, suspects the worst. He knows she didn’t leave willingly and turns to attorney Morgan...
Author | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
ISBN | 1250197236 |
"An exhilarating thrill ride that keeps you turning pages.. Ryan deftly delivers a denouement as shocking as it is satisfying."--Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Last Time I Saw You
Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows...
Author | Tig Notaro |
ISBN | 0062266632 |
One of America’s most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.
In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C.Diff, her mother...
Patients I Will Never Forget
Author | Sally Willard Burbank |
In her twenty-five years as a primary care internist, Dr. Sally Burbank has seen everything---lunatics, criminals, hypochondriacs, and even a Cocker spaniel! By popular demand, she has penned a collection of humorous and inspiring true stories to forever capture these memorable encounters. The...
Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth
Author | Carlton Smith |
ISBN | 0451404165 |
The devil in disguise
This is a well-written account of wife-killer Randy Roth who lived and murdered in King County, Washington.
Roth was married four times. His first marriage to Donna Sanchez lasted five years and produced one son. His second marriage to Janis Miranda ended after...
These Colors Don't Run: A Collection of Reader-Submitted Medical Stories
If you're a long-time fan of either series, you know what to expect when you crack open the cover of the 18th volume!
If you're new to the series, come on in. You can pick up any volume that interests you, as there is no story you need to follow from one volume to the next.
Highlights of this...
Confessions of a Trauma Nurse
Have you ever what goes on in the life of a Trauma Nurse? Take a journey straight from the minds of real Trauma Nurses that live it every day.
You will rethink your entire perspective on the healthcare industry and their providers after reading this book.
“Do yourself a favor and never give in...
Sometimes the past just won’t stay buried.
When 14 year old Brittany disappears one night, her parents are devastated, certain she has been taken.
They can’t bear to think about who has done this and what might be happening to their precious girl.
Even worse, the police...