Open Road: 9207 books
One Children's Place
Inside a Children's Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
“A welcome and poignant account of the intense human and political dynamics of a major children’s hospital that will have a substantial impact on the way you view children and their care.” —The New England Journal of Medicine
Lee Gutkind is a master at stepping into the worlds of medicine...
Raquela
A Woman of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A National Jewish Book Award–winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel’s statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.
During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the...
The Court of Last Resort
The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason.
In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed...
by Buzz Aldrin, Wayne Warga
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression.
“We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth,...
Karen
A True Story Told by Her Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Winner of the Christopher Award: This bestseller tells the inspirational true story of a girl with cerebral palsy and the mother who wouldn’t give up on her.
In 1940, when Karen Killilea was born three months premature and developed cerebral palsy, doctors encouraged her parents to put her...
Echoes of Heartsounds
A Memoir of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This New York Times–bestselling author’s memoir of her own heart attack is “a refresher course in handling life’s meanest challenges with grace” (Library Journal).
It begins late one afternoon in her kitchen. There is no collapse, no massive pain. Just a slight fluttering sensation...
Scientific Autobiography
And Other Papers
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
In this fascinating autobiography from one of the foremost geniuses of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in this volume were written for the general reader and make accessible Planck’s scientific theories as well as his philosophical ideals, including his thoughts on ethics and morals.
Encore
A Journal of the Eightieth Year
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The bestselling author and newly minted octogenarian “demonstrates that old age can be a vibrant and liberating experience . . . fearless and triumphant” (Publishers Weekly).
On the second day of her 80th year, May Sarton began a new journal. She wrote it because she wanted “to go on...
by Pat Ivey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
These are the trying, true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians who often are the only thing standing between any one of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive firsthand experiences, as well as an unflinching eye for drama and detail, to bring us the unheard tales of heroism...
Sigmund Freud's Mission
An Analysis of his Personality and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm examines the creator of psychoanalysis and his followers
With his creation of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud redefined how people relate to themselves and to the larger world. In Sigmund Freud’s Mission, Freud scholar and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm demonstrates...
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Renowned social psychologist Erich Fromm’s classic study of Freud’s most important—and controversial—ideas
Bestselling philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm contends that the principle behind Freud’s work—the wellspring from which psychoanalysis flows—boils down to one well-known...
The Coroner Series
America's Most Controversial Medical Examiner Tells All
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A New York Times–bestselling author and renowned Los Angeles medical examiner challenges the verdicts in America’s most controversial celebrity deaths.
“Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi encountered the best and the worst of Los Angeles—movie stars and gangsters, politicians and millionaires. . . ....
Hearts
Of Surgeons and Transplants, Miracles and Disasters Along the Cardiac Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Pioneer heart surgeons and bitter rivals: The “thoroughly engrossing” true story of doctors Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley (The New York Times Book Review).
By 1970, the Texas Medical Center in Houston was the leading heart institute in the world, home to the field’s two most distinguished...
Heartsounds
The Story of a Love and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The national bestseller and undying testament of a wife’s love for her husband as he embarks on the fight of his life.
On a story assignment in France for the New York Times Magazine, Martha Weinman Lear has just escaped tourist-infested Cannes for a quiet pension in the hills behind the...