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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the tale of a woman whose cells were used — without her knowledge — in breakthrough medical research after her 1951 death. Skloot's moving story of faith, family, and science uses the past to teach us about... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor Publisher Comments The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment. On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old, Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Bag to Blackberry(r) by Md Moore, Conner M. Synopsis Glance into the waiting room of Dr. Conner Moore as he shares a memorablejourney of a Maine Pediatrician in BLACK BAG to BLACKBERRY, A MAINE PEDIATRICIAN'S 40 YEAR JOURNEYWith nearly a quarter million office visits with children and theirfamilies, Dr... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.31 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments No other writer can blend the science of the brain with the love of language like Diane Ackerman. In this extraordinary memoir, she opens a window into the experience of wordlessness--the language paralysis called aphasia. In narrating the recovery of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart. One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer by Susan Gubar Publisher Comments Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008, Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery, an attempt to excise the cancer by removing part or all of many organs in the lower abdomen. Her memoir mines the deepest levels of anguish and devotion as she... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle) by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune by Roderick Stewart Publisher Comments In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his pioneering commitment... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Publisher Comments The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients. For over thirty years, generations of... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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In Stitches by Anthony Youn Publisher Comments Tony Youn grew up up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town of near wall-to-wall whiteness. Too tall and too thin, he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses, braces, Hannibal Lecter headgear, and had a protruding jaw that one day began to grow,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Water, White Water by Robert C. Samuels Publisher Comments Without self-pity, former New York City newspaperman and prize-winning magazine editor, Robert C. Samuels tells his own harrowing story of medical survival. He's filled it with tears, humor, love and triumph. Audacious, brilliantly written, Blue Water... (read more) Your price: $16.25 New - Trade Paper
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Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again by Tilda Shalof Publisher Comments Tilda Shalof had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tales of an African Vet by Roy Aronson Publisher Comments The heart-wrenching and adventure-filled stories of a South African wild animal vet and his colleagues When do you watch a wild animal suffer and let nature take its course, and when do you intervene? In his more than twenty-five years as an African... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Gray Matter: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time by David Levy Publisher Comments A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore Publisher Comments In an era when bloodletting was considered a cure for everything from colds to smallpox, surgeon John Hunter was a medical innovator, an eccentric, and the person to whom anyone who has ever had surgery probably owes his or her life. In this sensational... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth Publisher Comments An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one extraordinary woman At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy Publisher Comments "I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heart Warriors: A Family Faces Congenital Heart Disease by Amanda Rose Adams Publisher Comments Five months pregnant, Amanda Adams and her husband were given two abysmal choices regarding her pregnancy: force her baby to fight for his life through countless invasive and dangerous surgeries, or perform a late term abortion. Despite the fact that... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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