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Ian McEwan s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia s childhood... (more)

Nurse

by Peggy Anderson

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER-OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! A shocking, inspirational bestseller, Nurse is the story of eight weeks in the life of a nurse in a large urban hospital. It is all here: the joy and pain, the death and drama, the mistakes, successes, and secrets. Nurse reads like a novel, but sticks in the memory like real experience-because it is.

Condition Critical

by Echo Heron

"ENTERTAINING...GRITTY, BEHIND-THE-SCENES DETAILS OF HOSPITAL OPERATIONS." --Booklist "In the prologue of this book, Echo Heron, RN, states: Nurses are able to do what they do because they are rich in the gifts of healing, compassion and love. She then goes on to illustrate that statement with 18 chapters of amusing and moving true stories of her career in critical care and in the emergency room." --Chicago... (more)

Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse

by Echo Heron

This is a nurse's story unlike any other, because Echo Heron is a very special nurse. Dedicated to healing and helping in the harshest environments, she spent ten years in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Her story is unique, penetrating, and unforgettable. Her story is real. "Compelling reading." NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

A Good Woman

by Danielle Steel

From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novel—a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman’s unbreakable spirit.... Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But... (more)

The Stiff and the Dead: A Pauline Sokol Mystery (Pauline Sokol Mysteries)

The Stiff and the Dead: A Pauline Sokol Mystery (Pauline Sokol Mysteries)

by Lori Avocato

This funny and charming second book in our promising new mass market mystery series features Pauline Sokol, a sassy 30–something ex–nurse turned medical insurance fraud investigator. Pauline Sokol has just escaped serious bodily harm during her first investigation, when her second case file is literally thrown into her lap. And this one seems to be a doozie––with one suspect already dead! Pauline's sleuthing... (more)

Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam

Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam

by Lynda Van Devanter

"This incredible story, which plunges us immediately into the bloodiest aspects of the war, is also a suspenseful autobiography that will keep you chewing your fingernails to see if Van Devanter survives any of it at all. She proves herself a natural storyteller. . . . The most extraordinary part in this book is Van Devanter's plight after the war-her attempt to retrieve the love of her family, only to realize... (more)

We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

by Elizabeth Norman

Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," here is the true, untold account of the first American women to prove their mettle under combat conditions. Later, during three years of brutal captivity at the hands of the Japanese, they also demonstrated their ability to survive. Filled with the thoughts and impressions of the women who lived it, "every page of... (more)

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

by Anne Fadiman

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong,... (more)

Cherry Ames Student Nurse (The Cherry Ames Nursing Stories)

Cherry Ames Student Nurse (The Cherry Ames Nursing Stories)

by Helen Wells

Meet the nurse who inspired a generation of young people to go into nursing. Smart, courageous, mischievous, quick- witted, and above all, devoted to the profession of nursing, cherry meets adventure wherever she goes… In Student Nurse, Cherry starts nursing school at Spencer with a mixture of anxiety and anticipation – would she have what it takes to be a nurse? She leaves her quiet town of Hilton,... (more)

The Nursing Mother's Companion, Fifth Revised Edition (Nursing Mother's Companion (Paperback))

The Nursing Mother's Companion, Fifth Revised Edition (Nursing Mother's Companion (Paperback))

by Kathleen Huggins

The best-selling The Nursing Mother's Companion , now in its fully-updated fifth edition, will help you get off to a good start and guide you through the early months, covering all the basics of breastfeeding and including easy-reference "survival guides" for quick problem-solving. Since its original publication in 1986, more than 1 million nursing moms have relied on this classic guide. Breastfeeding has major... (more)

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (18th ed)

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (18th ed)

by Donald Venes

For more than 65 years, Taber's has provided students, nurses, and health professionals with the definitions and information they need to provide superior care for their patients, while remaining portable and easy-to-carry. KEY FEATURES INCLUDE: 56,000 easy-to-understand definitions -- almost 50% more than the competition 700 illustrations; more than 500 in full-color Cyclopedic format means... (more)

Linda Richards: First American Trained Nurse (Discovery Book)David R. Collins

Linda Richards: First American Trained Nurse (Discovery Book)

by David R. Collins

A brief biography of the woman whose concern for the sick led her to become the first professional nurse in the United States in 1873.

Nursing America: One Year Behind the Nursing Stations of an Inner-City Hospital

Nursing America: One Year Behind the Nursing Stations of an Inner-City Hospital

by Sandy Balfour

The world of nursing as seen through the prism of eight nurses' lives over the course of a year working at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Nursing is one of the fastest-growing occupations in the United States. What draws people to this most challenging of professions? And what is it like to return, day after day, to a place where lives hang in the balance? In Nursing America , Sandy... (more)

A Duty to the Dead

by Charles Todd

From the brilliantly imaginative New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes an unforgettable new character in an exceptional new series England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. Growing up in India, she learned the importance of responsibility, honor, and duty from her officer father. At the... (more)

Fundamentals of Nursing

by Patricia A. Potter, Anne Griffin Perry

Comprehensive, logically-organized, and easy to read, this market-leading fundamentals text provides students with a solid base for their nursing education. Encompassing principles, concepts, and skills, it offers thorough coverage, a nursing process framework, an emphasis on critical thinking, and a focus on care in all settings. This new edition addresses a number of key issues, including evidence-based... (more)

The Surrender Tree

Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

by Margarita Engle

It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish—Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war?... (more)

What Nurses Know and Doctors Don't Have Time to Tell You

What Nurses Know and Doctors Don't Have Time to Tell You

by Pat Carroll

This comprehensive home reference guide addresses a wide range of health concerns - as only a nurse who knows the inside story on health care can. From headaches to ankle sprains, asthma to zinc remedies, this authoritative resource reveals what everyone needs to know in order to get healthy - and stay that way. Included are hundreds of insider tips on easing symptoms, promoting healing, following a... (more)

Forensic Nurse: The New Role of the Nurse in Law Enforcement

Forensic Nurse: The New Role of the Nurse in Law Enforcement

by Serita Stevens

ON THE FRONT LINES A young victim of a hit and run is brought to the ER...A college student thinks she may have been raped....A homeless man is covered with chemical burns but won’t say how he got them... Across the country, in moments of crisis, nurses are often the first witnesses to acts of trauma. And when the human body itself is a crime scene, what a nurse does—from asking the right questions to preserving... (more)

Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse

Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse

by Janice Hudson

Trauma junkies are people who feed on danger and stress. They do their best work under pressure. Janice Hudson was an adrenaline-charged emergency room nurse in a San Francisco-area hospital when a friend told her about CALSTAR, a fledgling helicopter ambulance service with an opening for a flight nurse. Weeks later she was swooping over the Bay Area to scenes of shootings, accidents and disasters. The trauma... (more)

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by Ian McEwan

by Peggy Anderson

by Echo Heron

by Echo Heron

by Danielle Steel

by Lori Avocato

by Lynda Van Devanter

by Elizabeth Norman

by Anne Fadiman

by Helen Wells

by Kathleen Huggins

by Donald Venes

by David R. Collins

by Sandy Balfour

by Charles Todd

by Patricia A. Potter, Anne Griffin Perry

Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

by Margarita Engle

by Pat Carroll

by Serita Stevens

by Janice Hudson