The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine

10 best books like The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine (Frank Huyler): Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, The House of God, The Divorce Papers, Memory of Water, Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles, Sarah Jane, The Gladiator, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine, This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Author	David Eagleman
ISBN	0307377342

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In...

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Author

Gretchen McCulloch

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...

The House of God

Author	Samuel Shem
ISBN	0385337388

The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know.

Six eager interns  -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be.   They came from the top of their medical school class  to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a  year in...

The Divorce Papers

Author	Susan Rieger
ISBN	0804137447

Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old line New England firm where she very much appreciates that most of her clients are behind bars. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but one weekend, with all the big partners away,...

Memory of Water

Author	Emmi Itäranta
ISBN	0062326155

Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like...

Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles

Author	Keith Black
ISBN	0446581097

I was both fortunate (he is one of the very best neurosurgeons in the world) and unfortunate (I had a tumor) to have met Dr Black while researching/consulting my second treatment for removal of the aforementioned tumor. Although I did not have my surgery with Dr Black(mostly insurance issues), he has...

Sarah Jane

Author	James Sallis
ISBN	1641290803

A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised...

The Gladiator

Author	Simon Scarrow
ISBN	0755327780

The action-packed new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow While centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians, their transport ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave.

They...

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

Author	Thomas Hager
ISBN	1419734407

Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does...

This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism

Author	Herman Wouk
ISBN	0802726437

This is the perfect starting point for anyone-Jew or Christian -who wants to learn about Judaism. It is thoughtful, insightful, entertaining and sensitively explains Judaism to a broad readership
This is not simply a guide to the Jewish religion .Herman Wouk-a well known novelist and playwright...

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

Author	Kai Ashante Wilson
ISBN	0765385244

Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors' artifacts in hand, the Sorcerer follows the Captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight.

The two of them are the descendants of the gods who abandoned...

Dark Shadows Falling

Author	Joe Simpson
ISBN	0898865905

* Concise, objective account of the 1996 Everest debacle
* One of Simpson's most controversial and challenging books
* Short listed for the 1997 Boardman Tasker Award
In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die alone high on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched...

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...

Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana

Author	David Casarett
ISBN	1591847672

A doctor discovers the surprising truth about marijuana

No substance on earth is as hotly debated as marijuana. Opponents claim it's dangerous, addictive, carcinogenic, and a gateway to serious drug abuse. Fans claim it as a wonder drug, treating cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, glaucoma,...

Grace After Midnight: A Memoir

Author	Felicia Pearson
ISBN	0446195189

While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what's most remarkable about "Snoop" is what she has overcome in her life. Snoop was born a three-pound cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore. Those streets are among the toughest in the world, but Snoop was tougher. The runt of the ghetto...

Walking the Nile

Author	Levison Wood
ISBN	1471135667

A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller
His journey is 4,250 miles long.
He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers.
He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis.
He...

The Road Home

Author	Richard Paul Evans
ISBN	1501111825

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy—a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66.

Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead....

If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

Author

Christopher Ingraham

The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.  Like...

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,...

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...

Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

Author	Stephen Westaby
ISBN	0008196761

An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he’s worked on.Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon’s shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon...

Please Don't Take My Sisters

Author

Maggie Hartley

Three-year-old Lexie, five-year-old Amelie and thirteen-year-old Leo come to Maggie after Leo confesses to a teacher that his mother's addiction problems and her latest violent relationship has left him as the sole carer to his younger sisters.

Maggie welcomes the three children into...

The Sixth Man

Author	Andre Iguodala
ISBN	0525533982

The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the champion Golden State Warriors.

Andre Iguodala is one of the most admired players in the NBA. And fresh off the Warriors' third NBA championship in the last four years, his game has never been stronger.

Off...

Healing Children: A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine

Author	Kurt Newman
ISBN	0525428836

A groundbreaking medical memoir by one of our nation's leading pediatric surgeons--the visionary head of Children's National--for fans of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande.

"If you did nothing but read the astounding, miraculous and occasionally crushing stories that Dr. Newman so vividly...

The Legion

Author	Simon Scarrow
ISBN	0755353749

The bestselling author of CENTURION and THE GLADIATOR returns with another action-packed Roman adventure.

Trouble is brewing in Egypt. Rebel gladiator Ajax and his men have been posing as Roman soldiers and attacking naval bases, merchant vessels and villages. Prefect Cato and Centurion...

Praetorian

Author	Simon Scarrow
ISBN	0755353773

Macro and Cato now find themselves members of the elite Praetorian Guard, charged with defending the emperor himself against harm. Yet, they rapidly find that the Guard is riddled with conspiracies aimed at bringing the ageing emperor Claudius down, and raising either of his two sons, one by birth,...

A Divine Madness

Author

Avigdor Miller

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The Stepsister

Author	R.L. Stine
ISBN	1416900292

Fear Street -- Where Your Worst Nightmares Live... Emily wants to like her stepsister, but it hasn't been easy. As soon as Jessie moves in, she takes over Emily's room, steals Emily's clothes, and lies to everyone. Then Emily picks up Jessie's diary and learns a horrifying secret. Is Jessie really...

The Stolen Gods

Author	Jake Page
ISBN	0826328601

The first book in Jake Page's mystery series featuring Mo Bowdre, the blind sculptor, this popular novel is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press.


"Whether describing how Mo contemplates a piece of marble as he tries to imagine an eagle sculpture emerging from it,...

The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion

Author

Herman Wouk

"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins THE LANGUAGE GOD TALKS, Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal...