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The Internationally Bestselling Debut Thriller
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“Emotionally charged and tautly plotted, Emily Elgar’s debut is a stunning example of psychological suspense.”—Clare Mackintosh, international bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You
From a terrific new voice in psychological suspense comes a gripping thriller in the vein
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"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time Nurses. While Meghan is on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, after jumping from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was...
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Opera singer Dawn Woodward deals with her husband's estranged brother-in-law Tariq who is undergoing cancer treatment, Tariq's parrot, and teaching arias to a group of whistlers called the Warblers though she can't whistle herself. Eventualy Tariq and the Warblers have Dawn questioning herself and her career.
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""Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?" wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts, they have been revived at last by Maud Casey in City of Incurable Women as complex, flesh-and-blood people, dispossessed and marginalized due to their gender and class but with their own stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and re-imagined, poignantly...
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The novel takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding the fatal accident of Simon and of the events that follow. It examines the thoughts and feelings of those involved--from his grieving parents to the hardworking doctors and nurses--as they navigate the decisions of life and death.
9) Tatouine
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A man living in a Montréal apartment, with a dead-end job and cystic fibrosis, avoids feeling disapointed about his life by daydreaming about a fictional planet called Tatouine.
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Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon--the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth's life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding, palpably sexist field. But can she...
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An Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is an injury to the brain which results in deterioration of cognitive, physical, emotional or independent functions. It can occur as a result of trauma, hypoxia, infection, substance abuse, degenerative neurological disease, brain tumour or stroke. This Speaking From Experience video offers offer first-hand accounts from ten people living with ABI. They discuss the impact it has had on their lives and the ways they manage...
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Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common, life threatening genetic disorder in Caucasians. CF causes the body to produce abnormally thick and sticky mucus in several different parts of the body, most prominently in the lungs and other parts of the respiratory system. It also affects the pancreas, leading to serious digestive problems. Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, there is no cure. This Speaking from experience program offers offer first-hand...
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proof that the dying are the ones who have the most to teach us about life."--Atul Gawande "Thanks to When Breath Becomes Air, those of us who never met Paul Kalanithi will both mourn his death and benefit from his life. This is one of a handful of books I consider to be a universal donor--I would recommend it to anyone, everyone."--Ann Patchett"--Provided by publisher.
16) Anna O: a novel
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"The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But, in this mysterious shadow world, how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Her deep sleep is known by neurologists as 'resignation syndrome', a rare functional...
17) The tunnel
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"From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father-an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project"--Provided by publisher.
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Diagnosed with Alzheimers, Connie Kish hangs onto her identity as an intelligent woman, age forty-eight. She's the caregiver to her husband, Max, taking him under her wing when it should be the other way around. They're awash in Alzheimer's, struggling to stay afloat and looking after each other.
20) Cancer ward
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The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward" is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state."Cancer Ward," which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, "The Magic Mountain...
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