Bawdy Double
The Premier's adult daughter begins to behave with an utter absence of wherewithal and insight. An Admiral's dreamboat son engages in five years of profligate behavior after his sterling, top-of-his-class Academy graduation.A doctor called in to examine both scions determines they're mutaclones. Her wife kidnapped and her clinic bombed, the doctor flees across the galaxy - into the stronghold of her antagonists.
Bawdy Double
The Premier's adult daughter begins to behave with an utter absence of wherewithal and insight. An Admiral's dreamboat son engages in five years of profligate behavior after his sterling, top-of-his-class Academy graduation.A doctor called in to examine both scions determines they're mutaclones. Her wife kidnapped and her clinic bombed, the doctor flees across the galaxy - into the stronghold of her antagonists.This is the large print edition of Bawdy Double, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Bawdy Double
The Premier's adult daughter begins to behave with an utter absence of wherewithal and insight. An Admiral's dreamboat son engages in five years of profligate behavior after his sterling, top-of-his-class Academy graduation.A doctor called in to examine both scions determines they're mutaclones. Her wife kidnapped and her clinic bombed, the doctor flees across the galaxy - into the stronghold of her antagonists.
The Calling Buds Remix
Ray is struggling. He lost two fingers in Iraq, and maybe he's lost something more. Or has he just forgotten himself? Perhaps an undemanding job at the local medical marijuana start-up will be just what he needs. But the brave new world of legal dispensaries is fraught with soaring expectations, culture clashes and one snag after another. There's an odd bunch of people working there too, like Caldwell who's maniacally bent on revolutionizing the whole industry. Or Damian, the master grower, who's super cool about everything except working alongside the horticulture specialists. And then there's Lily, as unpredictable as she is pretty.Ray's cousin Gina worries about him. She's been like a mother, and her husband, Jiggy, also a veteran, is a bit of a genius, but he's so difficult, with his foul-mouthed diatribes, especially the ones directed against state-governed commercial cannabis production.Between the job and his relatives, will Ray ever find the healing he's looking for?
Transplant
After four interns at NYC's Bellevue Hospital are indicted for kidnapping and murder, detectives Tommy Jackson and Orrin Rampersad get on the case.Dubbed by the press as the Mad Doctors, the interns allege that the mysterious Dr. Cyclops is the mastermind behind the operation, while all evidence points to gang leader Django Tamsulosin as having abducted the victims for organ and bionic limb transplants.The detectives believe that there's a cover-up, and the victims are refusing to testify. Desperate for answers, can Jackson and Rampersad learn the true secret of Dr. Cyclops, and bring the perpetrators of the horrific crimes to justice?This is the large print edition of Transplant, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Transplant
After four interns at NYC's Bellevue Hospital are indicted for kidnapping and murder, detectives Tommy Jackson and Orrin Rampersad get on the case.Dubbed by the press as the Mad Doctors, the interns allege that the mysterious Dr. Cyclops is the mastermind behind the operation, while all evidence points to gang leader Django Tamsulosin as having abducted the victims for organ and bionic limb transplants.The detectives believe that there's a cover-up, and the victims are refusing to testify. Desperate for answers, can Jackson and Rampersad learn the true secret of Dr. Cyclops, and bring the perpetrators of the horrific crimes to justice?This is the large print edition of Transplant, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
No Time To Quit
A push to regain a little of the relationship with his best friend before kids took him out of the picture. A mountain face that was not forgiving.Benjamin Ainsworth moves from job to job aimlessly, never allowing himself to be tied down.The problem is his friends are getting married, setting up house and looking to have children. His relationships are growing up into a world he doesn't want.He has a chance to regain a bit of the fun when his friend agrees to go mountain climbing before the big day.Cynical and self-absorbed he never considers the consequences until he wakes up. He can move, but has lost all memory of HOW to move.Anything.There is a promising technique that requires Benjamin to enter a virtual world. The problem? He will be forced to admit to his fears.The ground-breaking technology includes a hidden A.I. staying off the radar of the Department of Defense.Will he be the one treated, or will his attitude perhaps affect the newly formed and still learning entity?If he wants to move again, Benjamin Ainsworth has some growing to do whether he wants to or not.Sometimes, growing up after you are an adult is the hardest thing to do.Go up and click on BUY NOW or Read for Free and immerse yourself in No Time to Quit: Pivot Lab Chronicles Book Three.Then tell your friends to read it, too."Funny, with moments of punch-you-in-the-gut feels. Action with consequences. This isn't your normal read."
Unexpected Opportunity
Would you be willing to chance dying to come out of a coma? Would you do the same if it was your son's life?Mary and Senator Tad Williams pushed their son Justin to go on a date that went horribly wrong. Now, they try to figure out a way to help their son out of a coma. At almost $5,000 a day for ICU expenses, their insurance options are running out.Amber, Nick, and Jacob built a new immersive game system for the future. The only problem is, at $800 a day, no one can afford it.Dr. Dubois wrote a paper about how you might help a person out of a coma, but it was crushed under the might of the medical lobbyists on Capitol Hill.Now, the three groups need each other to save a life, fight the establishment, and help a young man in need.The only challenge is, Justin can die in real life if he dies in the game.Will he wake up from his coma? Will lobbyists crush the principled senator who needs to talk to his son one more time?And can Justin possibly survive inside a fantasy world built in his own mind, where pain is real?It isn't just the future of humanity at stake, it's Justin's life, too.Go up and click on BUY NOW or Read For Free and immerse yourself in the P.I.V.O.T. Lab Chronicles.**Previously published as a part of Too Young To Die
Final Chance
Justin is acclimating inside the virtual world, but can he find the final element he needs to escape from the world of PIVOT?With Prima's help-or, perhaps, despite it-he has gotten to Insea, the capital of the Elven lands.Aided by Tina, who is desperate to help Justin recover from the accident she created, Justin decides to fight in the Tournament of Insea.The one problem?His chief rivals are a set of twins who believe they're reincarnated gods-and they'll stop at nothing to make sure they take power.Can Justin win? Will he awaken from his coma?It isn't just the future of humanity at stake. It's Justin's life, too.Go up and click BUY NOW or Read For Free and immerse yourself in the P.I.V.O.T. Lab Chronicles.**Previously published as a part of Too Young To Die
The Doctor’s Dilemma
The fragility of life. The persistence of hope. The marvels of medicine.Doctors are our modern saviors. And, yet who is the surgeon behind the mask or the doctor behind the stethoscope?In sixteen literary short stories, Daly Walker reveals the great weight that falls on the shoulders of healers. The line between life and death is often as thin as the blade of a surgeon's scalpel."India's Passage" reveals a surgeon facing his worst nightmare: a misstep that shakes his confidence and nearly ends his career. In "Blood" a surgeon must decide whether to save a life or respect a patient's religious beliefs. In "Boots on the Ground" a surgeon in Afghanistan confronts the irony of saving lives in the midst of a combat zone. And, in "Palliation" a doctor learns an important lesson about the Hippocratic oath.If you like stories brimming with emotion and characters whose flaws and self-doubts make them all the more human, then the luminous tales in Daly Walker's The Doctor's Dilemma will take you on profound journeys of discovery, redemption, and hope. Step inside the operating room where life hangs in the balance. Read The Doctor's Dilemma today.
Don’t Blame the Rats
Don't Blame the Rats is based on the life of Dr. Anthony Paul Sterling. Part true and part fiction, the author's story represents a compilation of his vivid imagination, gift of language, and desire to stir the inspiration of those who read his short stories and other explorations.He says, "The characters are mine and mine alone. The child is my granddaughter. I wanted her to be recognized in my writings."His book covers his life in New York City from 1955 to the present day, as well as his experiences in Vietnam.As for the rats: "On the outside Detective Adam was smiling but on the inside, he was down: he knew some facts that were very disheartening: all female and male prostitutes in New York City were HIV positive; few people could afford treatment; many of these people left the city and traveled over many states and foreign countries. He also knew that a single female rat can deliver 15,000 babies in litters in a single year, which meant billions world-wide. Imagine AIDS being carried and spread everywhere on the globe! He notified his superiors, then called the ASPCA, CDC, Board of Health and friends at Columbia University. The bottom line was: we need animals for testing and treatment." About the Author: Anthony Paul Sterling, M.D., Ph.D., says he "was born in a ghetto in New York City. I studied hard and became an orthopedic surgeon." Now retired and living in Florida, he was inspired to write this book by his granddaughter (because of the way she speaks to animals). Besides writing, he is an aficionado of competitive martial arts.
The Doctor’s Dilemma
The fragility of life. The persistence of hope. The marvels of medicine.And, yet who is the surgeon behind the mask or the doctor behind the stethoscope?In sixteen literary short stories, Daly Walker reveals the great weight that falls on the shoulders of healers. The line between life and death is often as thin as the blade of a surgeon's scalpel. "India's Passage" reveals a surgeon facing his worst nightmare: a misstep that shakes his confidence and nearly ends his career. In "Blood" a surgeon must decide whether to save a life or respect a patient's religious beliefs. In "Boots on the Ground" a surgeon in Afghanistan confronts the irony of saving lives in the midst of a combat zone. And, in "Palliation" a doctor learns an important lesson about the Hippocratic oath.If you like stories brimming with emotion and characters whose flaws and self-doubts make them all the more human, then the luminous tales in Daly Walker's The Doctor's Dilemma will take you on profound journeys of discovery, redemption, and hope. Read The Doctor's Dilemma today.
The Pre-Med That Could
★★★★★ "Best book ever for someone who is thinking medicine as a career!" - Reader review___A refreshing and inspiring take on a self-help book for young people looking to get into medical school!The Pre-Med thought about the giant hill ahead of her. Grades, volunteering, shadowing, and research. Test scores, essays, applications, and interviews.The road to medical school was going to be a difficult one.Lost, overwhelmed, and filled with self-doubt, a Pre-Med navigates the challenging and complicated route to medical school.Whether you are just beginning the journey to become a doctor, celebrating your acceptance to medical school, or looking for motivation anywhere along the way, you'll feel a special kinship with our Pre-Med as she overcomes obstacle after obstacle on her path to beating the odds.She has persistence, dedication, and a strong inner voice on her side but this isn't like anything she's ever taken on before.Will she figure it out?Does she have what it takes?Order your copy now and join her on her journey and be inspired on your path to Med School!
Breathing Liquid
What if you were offered your dream job but only temporarily? What if there were no clear path for afterwards? Would you take the leap? Breathing Liquid is based on the true events that led to Dr. Jay Greenspan being faced with this very situation. Throughout his career, Jay never worried about having a clear plan, and while many of his decisions became successes, he also suffered setbacks that would have left others afraid to step out of their comfort zones. Despite the devastating loss of pediatric patients, missed promotions, personal complications, and peer criticism, he remained positive, kind-hearted, and mission focused. These experiences helped prepare him for his dream job but none more so than the Standards of Behavior he learned from his mentor, Mark. Breathing Liquid follows Jay as he is shown how to define the innate traits that have brought him success and establish proven behaviors that allow him to keep saying yes when others say no.
Match
What do politics, living donor kidney transplants, and the current opioid crisis all have in common? Sarah Golden and Jackie Larsen, best friends since nursing school, could never have imagined that they'd end up as amateur sleuths searching to find a killer--for the second time! Jackie, a stay-at-home mom with marriage troubles, is racing the clock to get her young son, Wyatt, a living kidney donor to avoid the ravages of dialysis. Sarah, who has been living her career in the fast-paced world of organ transplantation, is helping expedite Wyatt's kidney transplant. Then a much-despised hospital colleague turns up dead of an opiate overdose--despite the fact that she'd never used drugs--and Sarah smells foul play. Her curiosity and tenacity pull Jackie, once again, into a life-and-death adventure that neither woman could have expected. Armed with smarts, tenacity, big hearts, and their raucous senses of humor, the pair gets the help of a few colorful friends to pursue the killer and take on the mission in the only style they both know how: straight on and arm-in-arm as the friends they've always been.
Round the Red Lamp
Round the Red Lamp. Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life (Arthur Conan Doyle)Round the Red Lamp. Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a volume collecting 15 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. These are medical and fantasy stories. The idea has been suggested to Conan Doyle by Jerome K. Jerome two years before when he was editor of The Idler. The red lamp was the usual sign of the general practitioner in England wrote Conan Doyle in the preface.Preface[Being an extract from a long and animated correspondence with a friend in America.]I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of medical life with a certain amount of realism. If you deal with this life at all, however, and if you are anxious to make your doctors something more than marionettes, it is quite essential that you should paint the darker side, since it is that which is principally presented to the surgeon or physician. He sees many beautiful things, it is true, fortitude and heroism, love and self-sacrifice but they are all called forth (as our nobler qualities are always called forth) by bitter sorrow and trial. One cannot write of medical life and be merry over it.Then why write of it, you may ask?If a subject is painful why treat it at all? I answer that it is the province of fiction to treat painful things as well as cheerful ones. The story which wiles away a weary hour fulfils an obviously good purpose, but not more so, I hold, than that which helps to emphasise the graver side of life. A tale which may startle the reader out of his usual grooves of thought, and shocks him into seriousness, plays the part of the alterative and tonic in medicine, bitter to the taste but bracing in the result. There are a few stories in this little collection which might have such an effect, and I have so far shared in your feeling that I have reserved them from serial publication. In book-form the reader can see that they are medical stories, and can, if he or she be so minded, avoid them. - Yours very truly, A. CONAN DOYLE.P.S. - You ask about the Red Lamp. It is the usual sign of the general practitioner in England.
Presumed Consent
Organ procurement is a world-wide concern. There exist insufficient donors, and thousands who could be saved are dying daily. One potential solution is "presumed consent," which stipulates that upon death, the deceased is presumed to have given consent to have his viable organs donated to a person in need. A provocative and relevant topic cloaked within an adventure, Presumed Consent leads investment advisor Jon Levine, physician Alyssa Martin, and FBI agent Matthew Johnson to become ensnared in a series of adventures which embroil them in the issue. The three travel first to a Chilean offshore island where a reclusive American-trained transplantologist operates, then to several dialysis centers in Florida, and finally to an obscure transplant hospital in Bolivia. Unexpectedly, Levine and Johnson are offered the opportunity to play golf with the President, as a result of which both are appointed Presidential Advisors. Ultimately, this allows Alyssa the opportunity to make a presentation directly to the President himself, espousing the concept of presumed consent. "Thought-provoking...Engaging...Compelling" "Informative...Insightful...Part Science--Part Adventure" "Informative...Profound"
Designer Babies Growing Pains
When you're wealthy and your genome has been edited to enhance your looks, intelligence and strength, life should be perfect, right? That wouldn't be the answer you would get from Adam, Ensley or Madeline, the first three genetically modified humans. They're learning the hard way that perfect genes don't make it any easier to find love, avoid heartache or deal with discrimination. On top of that, they find themselves targeted by old enemies taking lethal new forms. Compounding everything is that while they look and act twenty-five-years-old, they're actually only five, the result of tweaks to their genome that sped up their physical and mental development. Lucky for them, they might have eternity to figure it all out.
Designer Babies The First Mothers
Why would three successful women cross legal, cultural and religious redlines to carry genetically engineered human embryos? Environmental Attorney Bree Battle does it because a mysterious doctor will only cure her terminal brain cancer if she agrees. Zadie Springer is an advertising executive for whom invitro fertilization has failed, but needs to have a baby to ensure her bloodline continues. Popstar Gwen Blaze and her husband have the Huntington's Disease gene, but are desperate for a baby that won't face the same fate. For these three women, genetically engineered babies are their only choice. However, they have no idea that by agreeing to this, they have made themselves vulnerable to chaos. The danger for each is real as they find themselves caught between public controversy and secret warring factions of an ancient order. Everyone involved defends their actions as necessary for the quote 'greater good of humanity.' Words that sound all too familiar in today's reproductive climate.
Designer Babies Passing the Torch
Adam, Ensley and Madeline have enjoyed professional highs and suffered personal lows in the past fifteen years as the world has struggled to come to grips with the reality of human gene editing. As their personal lives have gotten more complicated, a new development adds to the turmoil. Animal DNA, spliced into the genetic sequence of cloned human embryos, has created an army of altered humans with special abilities. They've proven themselves useful to governments looking to avoid casualties to their own soldiers in dangerous situations, but can their charismatic leader be trusted? The answers the three of them find may determine the future of mankind.
Life Form
Matt Strong, a high school biology teacher in a small New Hampshire town is stunned when people from the town start dying of a mysterious ailment. They're fine when in the town, but get sick and soon die horribly when they venture away.As more deaths occur, he gets the CDC and other government agencies involved in his investigation. Meanwhile clandestine government forces are using deadly force to stop Matt, and his friends, from reaching the truth.
I Am Not Normal
Gene therapy is a dual-edged weapon that can immortalize or make the human race extinct.What would happen if human genes get mixed with mysterious foreign genes? Will it create a new race of humans or will it somehow destroy the human race?Here is a girl, Prathyaharini, who receives gene therapy for her mortal illness but unfortunately also receives, without her consent, a foreign gene.Enjoy the battle of these invincible genes and humans.
Better to Trust
When trust is violated, can it ever be recovered? Alison Jacobs needs brain surgery and places ultimate trust in her sister's husband, Grant Kaplan, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and expert in treating her condition. But Grant is hiding a dark secret which threatens the outcome: an addiction to prescription pills. As Alison struggles to rebuild her life, Grant's daughter, Sadie, spends more time with a new friend. Frustrated that her parents exclude her from the conversations about her beloved aunt, Sadie makes increasingly risky choices which could endanger not only her, but her entire family. Alison is also harboring her own secret-an extramarital affair with a woman. Her close call with mortality spurs her to take a closer look at her marriage, explore her newfound sexuality and figure out what she wants for her future. How will she rebuild her life and move forward? Can she find a way to repair her broken relationship with her only sister? Secrets swirling around drug use and sexual identity must be dealt with in order for the family to learn to trust each other again.
HERE STILL Dying Into Life Anew
A Riveting Tale of Losing Life to Come Alive Praised by renowned medical doctor and spiritual teacher Bernie Siegel, let this uplifting journey take you on a roller coaster ride, assured to come out ahead.An astonishing saga! Told entirely in the first person, Dr. Yaz's style truly allows us to be part of this epic journey. I hear a universal message in her words: "Life is worth it; live it well while you have it." -Ann Frost, CounsellorInspired by rich personal experiences, Dr. Yaz unveils potent secrets of life and death amid a life-threatening crisis. She vividly depicts how one's sanity, sexuality and spirituality are tossed around, and transformed, while intimate relationships are lost and born afresh.A page-turner. A brave story, well told. -Ellie Stein, MD, PsychiatristSimply a masterpiece, covering every aspect of life and living. -Margaret Mantle, MEdIt brought tears to my eyes. So tender, so bold and yet so raw... A must read to understand the survivor spirit. And beneficial to relationships. -Sandy, Cancer SurvivorA tribute to the human spirit's ability to endure, recover and fly again. Incisive, thought-provoking, yet also full of tenderness and love. -Margaret Ardan, TeacherI couldn't put it down. Brilliant. Insightful. -Francine KhanThis is such a strikingly real insight into life and self-realization that reflecting on one's own life becomes inevitable. -Dr. Peter Coy, Oncologist Dr. Yaz makes the world a better place. -Dr. Walley Temple, OncologistAn unusual, gripping work - interwoven in seamless ways, related in a compellingly fresh and highly original voice. -Dr. Gordon BrittanA wonderful adventure. Dr. Yaz is a dynamic author - a storyteller with an ability to see situations in Technicolor. This is an important book. Am thankful for the opportunity to read it. -Dr. Blair Little This is such an impressive story. I was up all night reading, lost in time. Thank you. -Iryna Spica, Book DesignerRead and find within you the inspiration as Dr. Yaz did. Concepts I teach she is living; and has expressed in her writing with the rawness of a first-person account. -Bernie Siegel, MDI LOVED it!! Couldn't put it down. What a compelling story! -Lynette EdisonI highly recommend this book as an invaluable tool for self-discovery. An honestly lived human life is a work of art and this journey reflects it with distinct clarity. -Michael Boyle, CounsellorA clear, fresh and very personal story of a deep and raw struggle. Refreshing and cause for reflection whichever path your own quest for life takes. -Myra ReinheimerI strongly recommend Dr. Yaz's book. It will leave readers feeling inspired. The flow of the story is brisk and has an element of 'exotic' that increases reader engagement. I think it will do very well. -Mary Rosenblum, EditorLoved the book. Got goosebumps, it's amazing... -Jessica KamanWishing to bear a child, Ada's gut grows with terminal cancer instead. Her ambitious career and young marriage take a tumble as she falls through an abrupt death into an unlikely revival. The East and West clash in her mixed bloodline, yet reconcile in her healing. She discovers life anew whilst dying, living, fear, strength, grief, joy... become illuminated in wondrous ways.The Art of Living Well, Secrets of Life, Holistic Healing, Health and Wellness, Living and Dying in Harmony, Healing Power of Illness; Cancer, Survival, Stem Cell Transplant, Body Mind Spirit, Soul, Heart, Transformation, Authenticity, Courage; Medicine, Spirituality, Ancient Wisdom, Energy Psychology, EFT, Reiki, Yoga, Shamanism, Meditation; Inspiration, Near Death Experience, Metaphysics, Miracle, Alchemy; Stress, Grief, Joy, Alcoholism, Addiction; Relationships; Multiculturalism, Western and Eastern Philosophy, Middle East, Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, USA, Rockies
First Do Harm
Death of loved ones, an illicit affair, deception, and covert lies throws renowned Boston-based surgeon Dr. Daniel Oxman into a murderous rage. Once an ethical young man who clawed his way out of poverty during the Great Depression to become a world renowned surgeon dedicated to healing the sick and dying Danny reaches his goal in young adulthood. But as loss and deception from the people he loves most slowly enters into his life, Danny's sense of morals and professional ethics vanishes and he uses his medical knowledge to commit an atrocious crime of passion. First Do Harm is an historical suspense novel that exposes the vulnerable side of the human spirit. This suspense thriller leaves readers questioning the meaning of what counts as justified revenge, and whether they too can commit heinous acts that go against their basic natures if they walked in Danny's shoes.
Resuscitated
After enduring tragedies with earlier pregnancies, Martina and Derek Johnson have high hopes for their next baby. But the infant is born much too early and shows no signs of life in the delivery room. Dr. Sarah Belden must make a split-second decision: declare the severely premature baby to be stillborn and let nature take its course, or do everything possible to save him. Sarah feels duty-bound to resuscitate the tiny infant and does so with great skill. The child survives, but as he grows it becomes clear that the young boy is severely disabled. Struggling to raise their son, the Johnsons are crushed by medical debt and grow weary from stress. Feeling responsible for their misfortune, Sarah repeatedly second-guesses her decision and is tormented by self-doubt that threatens to destroy her promising career and tear apart her own budding family. The desperate parents reluctantly agree to drag themselves and Sarah Belden through the nobody-wins ordeal of a medical malpractice lawsuit. As the lawyers battle, a remarkable witness comes forward whose testimony can change the course of events.
The Vampire Inside Me
At twenty-one, Lucia Farris is graduating college and looking ahead to graduate school, believing her future to be bright and secure. But life comes to a painful halt when she is admitted to the hospital and rushed to several emergency surgeries. The doctors diagnose her with two new autoimmune diseases: pulmonary arterial hypertension and lupus.Lucia doesn't know what to expect, but she knows her life is forever changed-nothing she's diagnosed with is curable, not that her life expectancy is more than six months, anyway. Her dreams, including working at the International Monetary Fund, seem grounded for good. In the present, told in an alternating timeline three years later, Lucia is lucky to be alive, but life will never be what it was. Yet, when she meets Oskar, an Austrian graduate student, her body is painfully aware of her reaction to him (and how long it's been since she hit her last O). From date one, sparks fly. When lips meeting becomes hips meeting, both find their bodies as dangerously compatible as their minds. As feelings shift toward more, Lucia's all too aware that her disease was "too much" for boyfriends in the past. And Oskar doesn't plan to stay in Atlanta forever. Still, there's a pull they just can't resist. **ownvoices, chronic-illness**
Tuesday Night Requiem
Episode #5 of Nurse Kit Carson's Knife & Gun Club: Nurse Kit Carson's life hangs by a thread. The deadly grippe has the town of High Plains under the gun and an assassin known as the Lone Gunman is delivering his own twisted form of justice. Meanwhile, Sheriff Bully Ratzer is hellbent on winning the governor's seat and Balmy Wether comes back to town to expose him.
Hard Bought Love
Dotty's cancer is progressing, and the world of PIVOT is one of the only things that helps her avoid the pain. With her children's help, the PIVOT team has made her an avatar that looks just like her younger self, and Dotty is now serving as an envoy to help keep the nations of PIVOT from turning on one another. With Prima, Justin, and Tina by her side, she races against time to finish her mission.Go up and click on BUY NOW or Read For Free and immerse yourself in Hard Bought Love, P.I.V.O.T. Lab Chronicles Book Six.Then tell your friends to read it, too.
The Painted Veil
A pure white veil represents the innocent; the title of the book alludes to the loss of innocence. Set in London and Hong-Kong in the 1920s. The book depicts the falling of a beautiful but shallow Kitti Fane. When Kitti's husband, a bacteriologist, discovers her affair with another man, he forces her to accompany him to Hong Kong, the heart of a cholera epidemic.
Fat Girl
She spent ten years in a coma. Now, 760 pounds later, Sara hungers for revenge.Growing up, Sara had always been that girl---the fat girl. The one the kids made fun of. The one with no dates, no friends, and who had to endure the taunts, the humiliation, and the loneliness.Her wealthy mother was a size 6, single parent who loved her only child, but did not get it, "How could such a smart girl weigh 800 pounds?" Neither Sara nor the myriad of doctors who tried to treat her obesity, got it either.˃˃˃ When her mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she needs someone to care for Sara after she dies.She turns to a handsome young attorney with a deal: "You get $250,000 every year Sara stays alive."˃˃˃ Seeing opportunity, the attorney enlists the aid of a former college roommate, now physician.They have a plan; it works, Sara loses weight. She also has vivid dreams.˃˃˃ Someone comes to her room each night and in the darkness touches Sara. Then more. Things she has never experienced beforeInitially repulsed, she soon anticipates and longs for the touch. But it was all a dream---or was it?Scroll up and grab a copy today.
Arrowsmith
First published in 1925, Sinclair Lewis' "Arrowsmith" is the fascinating tale of a man torn between the pursuit of scientific knowledge and the demands of everyday domestic life. "Arrowsmith" was published to great critical acclaim, being awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, and has endured as the author's most popular novel. It is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, an intelligent and scientific young man who leaves his small Midwestern hometown to attend medical school and become a doctor. Along the way he lives his personal life haphazardly while he struggles to devote more of his time and attention to his scientific endeavors. The tension between his family and his life of rigorous and exacting scientific pursuit come to a dramatic head during an outbreak of bubonic plague on a tropical island. Martin must make difficult decisions between his principles, his research, and his ethical obligations. "Arrowsmith" is a well-researched and detailed description of medical training and practice, as well as an intense character study and thought-provoking examination of the tension that exists between everyday life and the rigorous pursuit of scientific inquiry. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Open Heart
Life is fleeting. Love is a gift.In this coming-of-age novel set in the 1970s, Gene Hull is whitewashing the trunks of Arizona citrus trees when he spots a beautiful girl and falls instantly in love. The girl is vulnerable and shy. Though Gene breaks through her reserve, a date at a wave park turns into a near disaster, and Gene must call on the one person he can always rely on-his doctor father.Although the girl survives and Gene wins her over, what will happen when they leave for college? Is she truly "the one," or will distance drive them apart?When a freak accident blows a hole in Gene's freshman year, his grades tank, and he bobbles the ball with the love of his life. She's gone forever. Not only that, but he'll never get into med school on grades alone.Hoping to improve his chances of admission, he spends the summer trailing a famous heart surgeon. But can Gene, determined to live up to his father's legacy, turn his summer in the "Heart Room"-an operating theater of chilling cold, bone saws, and macabre humor-into an experience that would make his father proud? Will he ever love again?If you like novels where family life is complicated, and parents' expectations trickle down into their children's lives, then you'll love Gregory D. Williams' roman ? clef about life, love, and finding one's own true path.Read Open Heart today for an inside look at a team of surgeons healing broken hearts and a young man trying desperately to heal his own.
Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools in the United States to adhere to mainstream science in their teaching and research.The book contains considerable social commentary on the state and prospects of medicine in the United States in the 1920s. Arrowsmith is a progressive, even something of a rebel, and often challenges the existing state of things when he finds it wanting.This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of mankind and of selfless devotion to the care of patients, Lewis throws many less noble temptations and self-deceptions in Arrowsmith's path. The attractions of financial security, recognition, even wealth and power distract Arrowsmith from his original plan to follow in the footsteps of his first mentor, Max Gottlieb, a brilliant but abrasive bacteriologist.
Give No Ground
Dorothy spent most of her life doing the right thing. Now, widowed and with a cancer diagnosis, she's ready to cut loose in the world of PIVOT. After learning magic and defending a caravan from a set of elves with a seriously overblown sense of superiority, Dotty had only one request: in her next game, she wanted to be uglier. So, she's an orc now, tusks and all. And when she finds out that a group of dragons have been posing as gods to prey on orc villages, she is not going to stand for that...even if it means giving a legendary orc shaman the dressing down of his life. Hey, you don't raise 4 children, 7 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren without getting REALLY good at reading the riot act.Go up and click on BUY NOW or Read For Free and immerse yourself in Give No Ground, P.I.V.O.T. Lab Chronicles Book Five.Then tell your friends to read it, too.
A Light Too Far Away
Neurosurgeon Susan Cosgrove Pritchard reluctantly takes on a 12-year old patient with a critical illness and resurrects her deceased father's prior cancer research in an effort to save her patient. Little did she know that saving a young boy would bring her into deadly conflict with a predatory business tycoon and a powerful pharmaceutical industry, both of whom would stop at nothing to derail her, leaving the date of her young patient hanging in the balance. But giving up in the face of challenge did not win Dr. Pritchard her prestigious career and the respect of her profession. Talent and relentlessness did. Join her on her journey toward a light too far away.
The Examined Life
When Theodore Dalrymple wrote The Examined Life, poking fun at modern man's excessive concern for his own health, he little thought that Covid-19 would soon turn satire into reality. Are there considerations in life other, or more important, than health? The protagonist of this biting satire knew the answer even before Covid-19 struck. Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Admirable Evasions and Around the World in the Cinemas of Paris.
Shadow Land
When night falls upon Ditchfield Juvenile Detention Facility in the Maryland foothills, whatever the watch tower lights don't touch is taken by the shadows. Inside are young men the state calls lost causes and future convicts. The violent. The mentally ill. The forgotten.Gordon Pope hates Ditchfield. Rumors have swirled about the place for years. Whispers of beatings. Mental abuse. Even experiments. Every patient he's had that ended up there took a chunk of his heart with them.One of those patients is a young man named Charlie Cunningham. He knows all too well that the rumors are true. That's why Charlie has a plan. By the time the crooked guards do nighttime rounds, he'll be long gone.Charlie has unfinished business with the dark side of Baltimore. And with Gordon Pope. He made a promise to his sister. One he intends to keep, no matter what.The Baltimore City Police are about to go on high alert. And when they do, Detective Dana Frisco and Marty Cicero are all that stands between Gordon Pope and the oncoming storm.What readers are saying: ★★★★★ - "Wonderful addition to the other two in the series!" ★★★★★ - "Better and Better" ★★★★★ - "Dont' miss out on reading this book!" ★★★★★ - "Love Gordon Pope!"
Anything Goes
Anything Goes finds Garven Wilsonhulme, a boyish prankster, champion college wrestler, and sociopathic driven competitor struggling his way to the pinnacle of success in his university life. There is nothing he will not do to get into medical school--nothing. He is willing to use his friends, destroy his enemies, lie, cheat, and steal to get there if that is what it takes. Anything Goes is the story of how that success is achieved and at what cost--to himself, to his family, and even to his friends. That cost includes alienating the most prominent professor at Stanford, which is only the beginning of his willingness to take on all comers in the jungle of modern competition.
The Vulture and the Phoenix
Arthur Koestler, the notable twentieth century playwright said, "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion." Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author, writes with gripping realism about the point in Garven Wilsonhulme, M.D., F.A.C.S's life when he turns the hopes and aspirations of his family, friends, colleagues, and opponents into illusions. In so doing, he realizes that he has become both The Vulture and The Phoenix in his own life. He scrambles to the heights of fame, prestige, riches, and cruelty. There, he meets a wall of opposition and begins the final great fight of his complicated life and career. What he does will surprise and amaze you. This is the finale of the successful Saga of a Neurosurgeon series.
All in Jest
"It is really quite simple," the renowned French Canadian expert on pituitary surgery began his answer. Neurosurgeon defendant Sybil Norcroft, M.D., F.A.C.S., PhD steeled herself to hear the description that could possibly spell the end of her rising career. Even a glance at the imperturbable face of her defense attorney failed to convey any calm to the roiling tempest in the surgeon's brain. Plaintiff's Attorney Paul Bel Geddes was the attack dog who declared a jihad against Dr. Norcroft in the Brendan McNeely malpractice case and hounded her then and afterward to the point of distraction. The case seared Sybil's soul because she had her own doubts about how and why the handsome young scion of the wealthiest family in the city had bled to death on her operating table. Bel Geddes could not let the animosity that was engendered by the McNeely case go, and he relentlessly pursued the famous woman neurosurgeon in a personal crusade. After years of harassment, Sybil Norcroft had had enough, and she applied her brilliant mind and her considerable resources to ending the war declared against her. The war was a classic example of uncivil justice both in and out of the courtroom. How the JEST comes about is worth the reading. The book is full of fun, humor, anger, fear, pathos, intense emotional conflict, and tense and riveting courtroom drama. There is a considerable amount of theater outside the courts as well. You will want to read it in one sitting and to pass it along to your family and friends the next day.
The Young Coyote
The Young Coyote tells the hard-hitting story of a boy from Cipher, Arizona who is expected to be a zero just like his town. He has no intention of fitting into that conventional wisdom and fights with his fists and his mind to get up and out of his straitened circumstances. He makes it to Stanford University with a pugnacious attitude where he meets snobbery and prejudice. At Stanford, he finds out that his real fight is just beginning. Garven Wilsonhulme will succeed at any cost.
Catching Babies
The birthing of a new baby is one of life's great medical and human dramas. When it goes well, it is a loud and joyful mess. But when it goes badly, it is a travesty, devastating not only to hopeful mothers, but also to their doctors regardless of how well they have learned to anticipate and navigate the myriad hazards of obstetric medicine.Catching Babies charts the professional and personal struggles of those doctors. In the halls of a busy metropolitan teaching hospital, a group of OB/GYN doctors complete their residencies and embark on ambitious careers, all while trying to hold their lives together at the seams. Based on true stories from delivery rooms and labor decks, Catching Babies spins the doctors' stories into a gripping mosaic of the obsessions, the anxieties, and the heroism of doctors who have chosen to preside over life's greatest medical drama: high-risk childbirth.
Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell is a novel of a man's driven life, one of overarching ambition. Here, Garven Wilsonhulme, would-be neurosurgeon, enters medical school and learns about the grim realities of competing for his place in a class where 50% of the students will be gone by the time of graduation. He makes life-long friends and enemies and faces for the first time what it is to be a student of the human condition and what life as a physician will hold for him. He learned a mnemonic ditty for the bones of the wrist: "Never Lower Tillie's Pants, Grandmother Might Come Home" and how to save a boy dying from meningitis. In Heaven and Hell, Garven is first introduced to the gripping world of neurosurgery by the man who becomes his mentor. That meeting proves to be life changing.
The Long Climb
Garven Wilsonhulme almost gasped as his prospective father-in-law handed him a check for a huge sum. He could not imagine himself in possession of a sum which would answer his every need until he could start making a handsome living as a brain surgeon. He looked at the gloating expression on his adversary's face-a look of triumph. To the young M.D., it seemed that he had become engaged in a social poker game with, for him, stupendous consequences riding on how he plays his hand. He could take the sure figure and run, or he could ask for even more. In either case he would crush the innocent pawn in all of this, Elizabeth. That was a secondary consideration, he had to admit to himself. Or he could do the "right thing" and turn the man down indignantly and marry his daughter and live happily ever after--in relative poverty. This is the crux of The Long Climb. What Garven does about his choice is likely to be the foundation of his life as a neurosurgeon and the stuff of a great story. The Long Climb, is the newest novel by Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author who writes with gripping realism.
Academia
Academia: The Law of the Jungle by Author Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author who writes with such gripping realism, is a novel of a driven man who finally gets to be a surgeon in training and then an academic neurosurgeon on his way to the top of his profession. He watched the fall from glory of his mentor, and came face to face with his greatest opponents in the fang-and-claw competition of a merciless competition at the heights of prestige.
Autism, Are You F*&king Serious?
Nick's Mom knew there was something very different about her son. Here is the raw, honest and informative account of her journey through the diagnosis of his severe classic autism - the rather underwhelming world of medical support, some heartbreaking episodes, her avid learning about medications each day and ultimately the power of love that underpins her parenting of young Nicholas. This piece was written by someone who is in a position to speak through her experiences and save other parents from stress, confusion and frustration as they must adapt to raising an autistic child. This true story is not for the fainthearted or those seeking neat, easy messages. This writer is wise far beyond her years, and her extremely difficult circumstances are related with wit, laconic humour, absolute transparency and true grit. Her insights are relevant to readers whose lives are touched by this rather mysterious condition, and who will benefit from witnessing her ballsy, steadfast stance - often parenting on her own. Autism, Are you F*&^ing Serious? Will make a deep impression on all readers, but if you have a child who is "on the spectrum" this book is a godsend.
Cuando ya no est矇
聶Puede el amor vencer a la mayor epidemia del siglo XX? Noviembre de 1918. Una mortal epidemia conocida como "gripe espa簽ola" recorre el planeta como una plaga. A繳n no hay cura y nadie parece estar a salvo de sus garras invisibles. En York, una joven escritora y su marido, veteranos de guerra, descubren que la gripe ha infectado a uno de ellos. Tras encerrarse en casa para no contagiar a los dem獺s tratar獺n de sobrevivir d穩a a d穩a con los pocos 繳tiles de los que disponen y con unos conocimientos m矇dicos adquiridos en el campo de batalla. La enfermedad pondr獺 a prueba los cimientos de su amor y les descubrir獺 el verdadero significado de sus vidas.
