Author : C. C. Thomas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2012-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478292760
"[T]his book seeks to shed light on one of the most deadly and contagious disease of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Louisvile, as well as other areas in Kentucky, such as the world-famous Mammoth Cave in western Kentucky, once stood as the sole respite for all those afflicted with tuberculosis, or TB."--Back cover.
Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1473523494
**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson
Author : Nina Riggs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501169351
"Built on her ... Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a ... memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson--mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years--after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
Author : A.R. Kavli
Publisher : A. R. Kavli
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1733778403
One starship commander’s decision will decide the fate of the human race. Colonel Pierce Oswald has given the last twenty years of his life to the war with the Proximans. It's a war Earth is losing. It's a war that has taken everything from him. Returning from a secret mission to recover an alien artifact, he finds the Sol system ominously silent. Realizing the enemy won the war while he was away, Oswald decides his crew’s final mission—vengeance at any cost. He must lead the divided crew of the starship Roland on their deadliest mission yet. Can Oswald achieve victory against a superior foe, mutiny, and his own overwhelming grief? With Our Dying Breath is a dark, military sci-fi adventure with an apocalyptic twist that explores the choices a desperate ace commander makes when he has nothing left to lose. If you like tales of starship warfare that explore the darkness of space, then you'll enjoy A.R. Kavli's grim sci-fi novel. Buy With Our Dying Breath today to fight alongside Pierce Oswald and the crew of the starship Roland on their final, deadly mission.
Author : Rita Herron
Publisher : Slaughter Creek Novel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477805930
"For years, Brenda Banks was haunted by nightmares hinting at the true identity of her birth mother. That hunger for the truth inspired her to become a reporter, and Brenda refuses to back down when a serial killer targeting Slaughter Creek chooses her to publicize the gruesome crimes. It's a twisted game, one she's certain to lose without the help of FBI Special Agent Nick Blackwood, the man she's loved since high school--and whose tormented past holds the key to catching a killer. Narrowly surviving childhood with a sadistic father, Nick Blackwood has devoted his life to chasing down criminals, but he's never forgotten the small-town beauty he once loved. But when a murder investigation brings him face-to-face with Brenda Banks, Nick cannot ignore the smoldering fire she rekindles in his troubled soul. Allowing Brenda into his heart means letting down his guard--and that's just what the killer is counting on."-- Page [4] of cover.
Author : Alane Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101162724
Seventeen year old Cameryn Mahoney is the assistant to the county coroner, so she's no stranger to death. But when it's possible that the next death under investigation might be your own, things take on a whole new meaning. Cameryn thought she was done with Kyle O'Neil after his first attempt to kill her in Angel of Death. But now he's back, and he's after her again. Compelling and gripping, this newest addition to the Forensic Mystery series will have readers on the edge of their seats.
Author : Kathy Leo
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780996971942
Hallowell, founded by Kathy Leo of Vermont, is a hospice choir connected to Brattleboro Area Hospice. Hallowell has served as a model for many other hospice choirs formed as part of this growing movement. Kathy continues to co-lead workshops in the practice of bedside singing for the dying. She also works part time as a care coordinator for Brattleboro Area Hospice. Prior to her work with the dying, Kathy was a midwife and childbirth educator.
Author : Robert W. Walker
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558172616
Windy City coroner, Dr. Dean Grant, must track a serial cellophane slayer in order that the people of Chicago might again breathe easily
Author : Wendy Corsi Staub
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786044551
A SEASIDE RETREAT . . . It’s summer on the Jersey Shore. Children play on the beach. Husbands are off working in the city. And the surf echoes in the night. Here, in this perfect place, a serial killer has no worries in the world—except choosing the next victim . . . HAS JUST BECOME . . . Cam Hastings has come to Long Beach Island with her teenage daughter and the hope that maybe she can save her failed marriage. Cam has never stopped loving her husband Mike nor has she been able to outrun her flaws and demons—a vanished mother, a lost sister, and the ugly visions she has of missing children . . . A KILLER’S FAVORITE PLAYGROUND . . . Now, Cam is about to step over the edge. For once, she will act on one of her visions—and then face the consequences. For a killer has just struck again. And for Cam, and the people she loves most, fear has come home for good . . .
Author : M. J. Rose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145162154X
This gothic tale zigzags from the violent days of Catherine de Medici's court to twenty-first-century France. Set in the forest of Fontainebleau, crisscrossing the lines between the past and the present, this mesmerizing tale of passion and obsession illuminates the true path to immortality: the legacies we leave behind.
