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  Bringing Out the Dead (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Joe Connelly, Paul Schrader

  Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes from deep within the experience, and the result is a debut novel of extraordinary power and intensity. In Frank Pierce, a brash EMS medic working the streets of Hell's... (more)
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  The Rescuer (O'Malley)

  by Dee Henderson

  Stephen O'Malley is a paramedic who has been rescuing people all his life. But he's running now -- from the burden of his profession, from the grief of losing his sister, and from a God he doesn't want to trust. He's run into a mystery. Stolen jewels are turning up in unexpected places, and his friend Meghan is caught in the middle of the trouble. Stephen's about to run into a night he will never forget: a... (more)
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  Tower Stories: The Autobiography of September 11th

  by Damon DiMarco

  FOREWORD TO "TOWER STORIES: The Autobiography of September 11, 2001" BY TOM KEANE, CHAIRMAN 9/11 COMMISSION It is difficult to remember that day, but we must. Time has its own way of dulling the sharp edge of memory. Once the edge has been sufficiently blurred, the distorting colors of apocrypha swirl in, smearing the true image and creating a fable. A myth. Whatever it’s name, the resulting picture is... (more)
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  Breath: A Novel

  by Tim Winton

  Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist. His new work, Breath , is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one’s limits against nature, finding like-minded souls, and discovering just how far one breath will take you. It’s a story of extremes—extreme sports and extreme emotions.   On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrillseeking and barely... (more)