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Front of the Class

How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had

by Brad Cohen, Lisa Wysocky
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008

As a child with Tourette syndrome, Brad Cohen was ridiculed, beaten, mocked, and shunned. Children, teachers, and even family members found it difficult to be around him. As a teen, he was viewed by many as purposefully misbehaving, even though he had little power over the twitches and noises he produced,...
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The Boy in the Moon

A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son

by Ian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011 "[A]n intimate glimpse into the life of a family that cares around the clock for a disabled child, that gets so close to the love and despair, and the complex questions the life of such a child raises...It is a beautiful book, heartfelt and profound,...
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Marie Curie and Her Daughters

The Private Lives of Science's First Family

by Shelley Emling
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

A new portrait of the two-time Nobel winner and her two daughters Focusing on the first family in science, this biography of Marie Curie plumbs the recesses of her relationships with her two daughters, extraordinary in their own right, and presents the legendary scientist to us in a fresh way. Although...
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Dangerous Minds

A Funny & Inspiring Story of Teaching

by LouAnne Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995

She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school. And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained to kill with her bare hands. They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inner city sophomores she inherited from a teacher...
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Believe Me

My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease

by Yolanda Hadid
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

From the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills comes an emotional and eye opening behind-the-scenes look at her descent into uncovering the mystery of chronic Lyme disease. In early 2011, Yolanda was struck by mysterious symptoms including brain fog, severe exhaustion, migraines and...
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Cure Unknown

Inside the Lyme Epidemic

by Pamela Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

The groundbreaking, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease—the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience—now with a brand new chapter. When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found...
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Mercies in Disguise

A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them

by Gina Kolata
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

"[Kolata] is a gifted storyteller. Her account of the Baxleys... is both engrossing and distressing... Kolata's book raises crucial questions about knowledge that can be both vital and fatal, both pallative and dangerous." —Andrew Solomon, The New York Review of Books New York Times...
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Trauma

My Life as an Emergency Surgeon

by James Cole
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011

In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happen. TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of...
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Match Day

One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors

by Brian Eule
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009

Three new doctors—all women—struggle to balance professional ambitions and personal relationships, triumphs and crises, uncertainties and decisions, through one pressure-packed day and the first year of their careers in medicine Each year, on the third Thursday in March, more than 15,000...
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On Call

A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency

by Emily R. Transue, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine...
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by Alan Deutschman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011

"One to one, no one is as compelling, as charismatic, as seductive as Steve Jobs. It's just magic." – Alan Deutschman on "Bloomberg West" in August 2011 In this original e-essay, part of the forthcoming book Why Steve Jobs Matters, veteran Silicon Valley journalist Alan...
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Patient by Patient

Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice

by Emily R. Transue, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009

Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice. As she strives to help her patients face a range of challenges from the humorous to the profoundly devastating she learns that while medical school...
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The Fossil Hunter

Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

by Shelley Emling
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while...
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Another Kind of Madness

A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

by Stephen Hinshaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

WINNER: Best Autobiography/Memoir, 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I’ve read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw’s...
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