Wish You Were Here
If your life was going perfectly to plan, would you risk everything to change it?
Diana O’Toole watched the car wreck that was her parent’s marriage and determined that her life would pan out...
Books: medical
The End of Men
Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a patient with flu-like symptoms. Within three hours he is dead. This is how it begins.
The unknown virus sweeps through the hospital with deadly...
Eat Yourself Healthy
The go-to lifestyle guide for a happy gut that will transform your health and wellbeing.
Drawing from the latest research and a decade of experience as a dietitian and consultant at The Gut Health...
My Sister's Keeper
In all thirteen years of Anna's life, her parents have never given her a choice: she was born to be her sister Kate's bone marrow donor and she has always given Kate everything she...
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has no wallet and no idea of his destination. He has abused alcohol...
The Twelve-Mile Straight
In a small town in rural Georgia, two babies are born - one light skinned and one dark. Their mother, Elma Jessop is a white sharecroppers daughter and the birth of her children causes a scandal in...
The Growing Season
A company named FullLife provides people with the opportunity to have a baby outside of traditional methods. The embryo is placed inside a pouch which exists outside of the body. These pouches mean...
Contagion
Callie is missing and Shay may have been the last one to see her.
Together with Callie's brother, Kai, they search for her but with an epidemic racing through the country can they find her...
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi was 36 and working as a neurosurgical resident when he was diagnosed with an inoperable lung cancer. This book outlines how his awareness as a doctor altered his experiences as a...
Life in a Fishbowl
Jackie’s life wasn’t perfect, but it was normal. That is, until her dad got a terminal cancer diagnosis. Then went and did what anyone faced with mountains of medical bills and a family...
Beyond Human: How Cutting Edge Science is Extending Our Lives
Never before in the history of medicine has mankind faced such hope and peril as those of us poised to embrace the radical medical technologies of today.
Eve Herold's Beyond Human examines the...
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few...
The Easy Way Out
If you could help someone in pain, would you?
Evan is a nurse, a suicide assistant. His job is legal . . . just. He's the one at the hospital who hands out the last drink to those who ask for...
