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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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Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection by A. J. Jacobs Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author and king of "immersion journalism" A.J. Jacobs tackles his most challenging experiment yet: a yearlong mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind — from his brain to his fingertips to his abs... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society Through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor by Patch Adams Publisher Comments The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine? Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system? Released as a film... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell Publisher Comments They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story, became best friends, talking about everything from their shared history of a struggle with alcohol, to their relationships with men and colleagues,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese Publisher Comments When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addition, and the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Song in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience by Bob Massie Publisher Comments In this inspiring memoir of faith and perseverance, Bob Massie recounts how a childhood illness laid the foundation for a life filled with compassion and activism. Bob Massie was born with classical hemophilia, a painful disorder that caused repeated... (read more) Your price: $24.00 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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God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet Publisher Comments San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-"anyone who had... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley Publisher Comments A beautifully written and darkly funny journey through the world of the allergic. Like twelve million other Americans, Sandra Beasley suffers from food allergies. Her allergies—severe and lifelong—include dairy, egg, soy, beef, shrimp,... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Diving Bell and the Butterfly (97 Edition) by Jean-dominique Bauby Publisher Comments In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir by Alice Eve Cohen Publisher Comments "Darkly hilarious...an unexpected bundle of joy." -O, The Oprah Magazine Alice Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she had a new love in her life, she was raising a beloved adopted daughter, and her career was... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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In Stitches by Anthony Youn Publisher Comments For anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, a hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir about a young Korean-American nerd turned renowned plastic surgeon that will make readers stand up and cheer—now available in paperback. Tony Youn grew up one... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - 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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Against Medical Advice by James Patterson Publisher Comments Now available in trade paperback, this is the heart-rending drama of one family's courage, heartbreak, sacrifice, and triumph in confronting an agonizing medical condition, written by two master storytellers. Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.00 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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I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish Publisher Comments By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of his extraordinary life. A Harvard-educated Palestinian doctor, he was born and raised in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "has... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto Publisher Comments Stephen Kuusisto's extraordinary memoir is both a literary tour de force and a journey through the shadowy existence of the legally blind. Brought up to disavow his blindness, Kuusisto spent much of his life trying to pass as a sighted man, traveling... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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