Olo Books: 58 books
Apples, Broccoli & Rats with Islands
Short thoughts on envy and positivity for writers (and human beings in general)
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Do you seethe with envy? Do you turn such a vibrant shade of green, staring at your friend's award-winning, New York Times bestselling books, that you kind of look like...broccoli?
Yeah. Me too.
Comparing yourself with other writers feels like comparing apples and broccoli.
Guess...
No Air
A short medical radio drama featuring Hope Sze
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Dr. Valerie Chia strides into St. Joseph's emergency room expecting the usual Montreal Monday morning chaos. Nothing she and the other day doctor can't handle, with the help of the nurses and a little coffee.
Until the other day doctor doesn't show up. And one of the overnight patients crashes....
by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In a world where two independent bookshops close every week, Space and Time Books takes its fate into its own hands. Well, it's a bookstore. It doesn't actually have hands. But it does have a Book of Spells. And, like anyone else, Space and Time Books receives three wishes...
by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
When I mention that I work in an emergency room, people usually say, 1. Are you a nurse? 2. Wow. That must be really hard. 3. What's it like?
This is what it's like to be an emergency doctor.
That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring...
Broken Bones
New True Noir Essays From the Emergency Room by the Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
New, blistering, darkly funny essays breaking bones. And fixing them. And the seamy underside of life in the emergency room, with its cornucopia of crazy cases, not just bone-centred ones. For example, the man who tried to eat his own thumb and the case of bleeding brains. The most unfeeling doctor...
Beware of the Chinese Mama
Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
"Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan," suggested a friend. That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto the pages. And now, wouldn't you know...
by Melissa Yuan, Melissa Yuan-Innes
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Only boys can tell fortunes. Actually, only one boy in a thousand. Until Julia Sharpe starts a fortunetelling revolution in the wild and wacky year of 1985. Up 'til now, the only girls who told fortunes were lying, crazy, or both. But Julia has to do something before her family's fortunetelling company...
The Emergency Doctor's Guide to a Pain-Free Back
Fast Tips and Exercises for Healing and Relief
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Most back pain books are boring. Life is short. Read this one instead.
Back pain bites. It affects almost every adult in industrialized countries.
Emergency physician and Medical Post columnist Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a fast-paced book, based on the most recent scientific research,...
by Melissa Yi, Melissa Yuan-Innes
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Dead Man Drowning
Magic? Dr. Hope Sze steers clear of magic.
But when “Elvis the Escape King” chains and nails himself inside a coffin and lowers himself into Montreal’s St. Lawrence River, he can’t break free.
So Hope restarts his heart and saves his life. But now Elvis...
Student Body
A Hope Sze Novella, with Bonus Radio Drama: No Air
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Student Body After facing down three murderers, Dr. Hope Sze comes face-to-face with a sociopath who escapes the criminal justice system. For the first time, in this 10,000-word novella, that sociopath gets to speak. Read Student Body after the novel Terminally Ill, or face the consequences.
Bonus...
by Melissa Yin, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Melissa Yi
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
When Octavia Ling spots an ad for The Italian School for Assassins, she figures that it sounds like a crazy workout, better than pole dancing, and exactly the kind of nuttiness she craves for a birthday that ends in a zero.
Except, when “V" lands in Florence, the other assassin students seem…awfully...
The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged
More True Tales From Med School and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
I'm baaaaack.
That's right. You can't keep the most unfeeling doctor in the world away.
Was I always such a hard-hearted lass? Of course not. I offer you some counter-examples from medical school, a time when I was so earnest and hard-working, I scraped my finger on the mannequin while...
by Melissa Yi
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
How do you solve a problem like your mother?
A ferocious flash fiction story, now a finalist for the Derringer Award.
Accompanied...
by Melissa Yi, Melissa Yuan-Innes
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Selected as one of the great must-read mysteries of the summer by Canada's national book show, CBC Radio's The Next Chapter
A dead man in the snow shatters Dr. Hope Sze’s peaceful month of research at an Ottawa stem cell lab.
Hope discovers that one man’s body leads to a series of...