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  • Country Vet
    Randy L. Skaggs
    John R. Erickson, author of Hank the Cowdog series, says, 'Vets have a kind of double vision on the human experience. They see us as the clients who bring in the patients and pay the bill, but they also see our sins, flaws, and weirdness reflected in our animals. Dr. Skaggs recognized early on that this was a rich source of humor-not ridicule, not humor that cuts, but the kind ...
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    25,16 €

  • A Gentle Rain of Compassion
    David R Shlim / David R. Shlim
    Finding a fascinating and gratifying medical practice in Kathmandu saved his medical career, but befriending a reincarnate Tibetan lama transformed his life.This compellingly written memoir is a grand adventure tale of travel in Nepal and Tibet, tense and highly emotional medical encounters, new romances, and ground-breaking medical research. But all these eventually take a bac...
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    22,79 €

  • Enjoying the Interval
    Kerreen M. Reiger
    Anyone who has enjoyed the great happiness and intimacy of a family-centred birth, and any midwife or health professional who has attended one, owes a debt of gratitude to internationally known Canadian doctor, researcher, and medical reformer, Murray Enkin. Enjoying the Interval takes on the fascinating, joyful task of exploring Dr Enkin’s identity and achievements along with ...
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    37,58 €

  • My Timely Arrival
    Deborah Trenchard
    This is a story about a woman in her 70’s with an undiminished appetite for life, love and adventure. Her journey takes us through South London SurgerySerious illness and survivalBereavementPolitical change and optimistic personal decisionsIt tells of the creation of a new life that may inspire others to see their third age as a place of opportunities and liberation rather than...
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    22,76 €

  • Brain Recovery-A Journey of Hope
    Laura Stoicescu
    How a learning mindset helps create new neural pathways after a stroke.We often take our life for granted. We lead busy lives and assume that we can control our destiny, goals, and future. But one day, everything can turn upside down. Imagine you went to bed with a migraine and woke up in a hospital intensive care unit. Doctors tell your significant other that you suffered a ma...
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    21,28 €

  • One Step at a Time
    Brian Fraser / Callum Fraser
    One Step At A Time is a firsthand account of a young man’s battle with leukemia. In the first half of the book, Brian Fraser describes, with the utmost honesty, what it is like to fight a relentless, punishing disease. He reflects on the horror of his initial diagnosis, the rollercoaster that is cancer treatment, and how his everyday life was flipped upside down. Sadly, Brian p...
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    24,86 €

  • One Step at a Time
    Brian Fraser / Callum Fraser
    One Step At A Time is a firsthand account of a young man’s battle with leukemia. In the first half of the book, Brian Fraser describes, with the utmost honesty, what it is like to fight a relentless, punishing disease. He reflects on the horror of his initial diagnosis, the rollercoaster that is cancer treatment, and how his everyday life was flipped upside down. Sadly, Brian p...
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    36,19 €

  • Those Micro Preemie Eyes
    Maria Zak / Sasha Zak
    It is a heart wrenching memoir about 7 months with a micro preemie in the NICU that does not skip a step. With each event presented with photos, everything is on display as mommy and baby survive tough procedures, celebrate milestones and overcome disappointing setbacks. Parent based themes include mental health issues, milk pumping depression, and becoming the best advocate fo...
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    20,99 €

  • Defeating Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
    John Diehl
    When John Diehl, a licensed Hearing Instrument Specialist, is struck with extreme tinnitus and hyperacusis, he realizes just how much he and so many others in the medical field don’t understand these conditions. He’s even told by a high-profile doctor that the condition isn’t reversible. As a medical professional and owner of an Audiological and Optical practice, he would usual...
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    11,15 €

  • Twisted Sister
    Rebecca Burnett
    As a registered nurse with over seventeen years of experience, I thought it was time to lighten the ever-increasing seriousness of the world and share my personal experiences and shenanigans traveling as a nurse. My daily situations are told to you the only way I know how: brutally honest and truthfully raw whilst smothered in my dark and dirty sense of humour. Read this book i...
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    16,68 €

  • Twisted Sister
    Rebecca Burnett
    As a registered nurse with over seventeen years of experience, I thought it was time to lighten the ever-increasing seriousness of the world and share my personal experiences and shenanigans traveling as a nurse. My daily situations are told to you the only way I know how: brutally honest and truthfully raw whilst smothered in my dark and dirty sense of humour. Read this book i...
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    25,17 €

  • The Beatles, Babies and Broken Bodies
    Pat Zehr
    What does it take to be a frontline healthcare worker? Dedication, perseverance, strength, passion: the standard superlatives of a hero. Add being a nurse in Canada’s northern region and practising medicine as a woman, and the backstory gets more dramatic. From vivid descriptions of the far north to dealing with misogyny in medical school and beyond, Pat Zehr’s poignant memoir ...
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    19,40 €

  • The Umbrella Picker
    Jane McNeice
    The Umbrella Picker tells the true story of a woman who felt lost for 45 years. After a long and relentless journey of searching for answers, the hand of fate finally revealed to her what she had waited a lifetime for.The answer was life changing. She is no longer lost, and having found her own, unique way, Jane has written the (brutally honest!) book she wished was available t...
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    18,53 €

  • Tesla’s Words
    Ellis Oswalt
    Full Color Edition (color interior). Tesla’s Words is an extraordinary voyage of Nikola Tesla’s actual words. In this debut work, Ellis Oswalt has crafted a heavily researched drama to reinforce the importance of Nikola Tesla, and to highlight previously unexplored aspects about the mind of this great forgotten super-genius. 130 years after achieving some of humankind’s most n...
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    20,16 €

  • Integrity comes with a price
    Trevor Young
    I will continue to blow the trumpet for democracy in the state of Antigua and Barbuda.At the end of my life, I would only want to be remembered as that drop of water that bore a hole in the stone, not as a great policeman nor a great community activist nor a great politician.I continue to drip on the big stone of corruption in Antigua and Barbuda, nepotism, bigotry, and prejudi...
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    20,90 €

  • Adventure On
    Erin Spineto
    Have you run out of motivation to keep fighting the ongoing battle against diabetes?In Adventure On, Erin Spineto focuses on the pillars of diabetes adventure, why adventure works to lighten the burden of diabetes care, and why it’s critical that you get the motivational aspect of your diabetes care handled right now.Completing hundreds of miles of adventures, from swimming aro...
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    11,03 €

  • I Feel Your Stare
    Cheryl Gillespie
    "Imagine yourself in a position of maneuvering through aspects of our everyday living we simply take for granted."Would we see our existence as a beautiful opportunity to explore and live our moments fully, or spend our time lamenting our perceived hardships?"Throughout "I FEEL YOUR STARE," you will be transported to a place in time whereby Cheryl Gillespie's descriptive sc...
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    27,84 €

  • Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect
    Perry Muse
    My mother called me a thrill seeker as a kid. That continued to be a fair assessment throughout my life, but with unforeseen consequences. For 57 years I managed to cheat death as I endured accidents such as a head on car collision that catapulted me through two windshields or hitting a telephone pole at 110 MPH on a motorcycle, to name just a couple. But none of these true-lif...
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    33,63 €

  • WHAT COMES AFTER CANCER
    Patricia Rodi
    This memoir will touch you, torment you, and teach you how to fight for your life. At 35 years old, newly married and with a baby, Patricia Rodi was told she had three months to live. Her advanced stomach cancer would require risky surgery, grueling treatments, and, if she survived, would result in a diminished life. The aftermath of treatment did, indeed, bring challenges as g...
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    12,69 €

  • An Accidental Immigrant
    Andrew Sherwood
    This book describes the author’s unintended immigration to America. After arriving in the USA, he spent thirty years traveling the globe for a new scientific employer before finally settling down with the love of his life to enjoy a happy and peaceful retirement. Despite an almost total lack of scientific education, he was fascinated by the science and scientists he became invo...
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    16,36 €

  • Florence and Mary
    Inez Tuck
    Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole are recognized for their heroism in the Crimean War. Little is known about how these ordinary girls from very different cultural and economic backgrounds became extraordinary women leaders. The book describes the significance and intersection of race, class, and gender as necessary contributors to their development and recognition as nursin...
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    17,68 €

  • Marcia Ann Gold
    Bob Gold
    This is a story about love and hope, and like every good story, it has to have a villain. Our villain was cancer. Marcia and I eloped on Valentine’s Day, 1986. When a marriage starts like that, it also ends with as much passion as its beginning. There is never, ever enough stories to tell about this woman who was never bored or boring. She embraced life, love, and most of all, ...
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    23,93 €

  • The Candy In My Pocket
    John Robert Wiltgen
    A percentage of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research FoundationImagine becoming legally blind while working at becoming a renowned architectural designer. You have a mortgage on a building you’ve just started renovating; rent is due for your office; and employees must be paid. How would you cope? Or picture yourself with chron...
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    24,28 €

  • Sacrificing America’s Women
    Phillip Bretz
    The author asks if you know anyone or yourself who was diagnosed with breast cancer? If so, even if they made it the journey probably wasn’t one they or you would want to repeat. What if it were possible to diagnose breast cancer at an ultra-small stage before it had a chance to spread (The lavender Way). What if you could treat breast cancer successfully in an office setting (...
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    22,44 €

  • Who is Going to Believe They Saved or Prolonged My Life
    Carl E. Kegerreis
    It’s hard to believe that in this life, as a human, we can be attacked by a little devil that can sneak inside us, attack us, and command his warriors to destroy our body. Who is going to believe they saved or prolonged my life? I wanted to thank everyone responsible for removing the little devil from my body and tell them, 'Thank you for saving my life.' I was surprised when I...
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    4,99 €

  • Two More Years
    EC Stilson
    He said the dreaded words, 'I give you two years to live,' and my heart froze in time.'Thank you for this most amazing, inspiring book; it is a very treasured read. It made me do a lot of thinking and helped me come to terms with things in my life.' ~ Bernadette Longu, Readers’ Favorite Books Reviews (5 STARS)'This memoir is a precious life lesson for me as it made me realize t...
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    14,91 €

  • The Coming Of Evolution
    John Wesley Judd
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Coming Of Evolution: The Story Of A Great Revolution In ScienceThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked toward...
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    13,27 €

  • Strength Beyond Cancer
    Nardeane Ahmed
    When she first heard the heart-halting words: 'You have breast cancer,' Nardeane was devastated. She couldn’t wake up from this nightmare of a reality no matter how long she waited or how hard she tried. With an overwhelming flux of emotions, she spent the first ten months of her journey in utter loneliness, suffering, and pain, both emotionally and physically. Facing cancer wa...
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    25,23 €

  • Strength Beyond Cancer
    Nardeane Ahmed
    When she first heard the heart-halting words: 'You have breast cancer,' Nardeane was devastated. She couldn’t wake up from this nightmare of a reality no matter how long she waited or how hard she tried. With an overwhelming flux of emotions, she spent the first ten months of her journey in utter loneliness, suffering, and pain, both emotionally and physically. Facing cancer wa...
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    28,51 €

  • In Sickness & In Health
    James Nutt
    In Sickness and In Health: God’s Continuous Miracles describes the tears, fears, challenges, and accomplishments of living with Systemic Lupus and Chronic Kidney Disease. The author describes how hard he had to fight to stay alive for more than 39 years. The disease not only affected his mind, body, soul, and spirit, but also his family. The story intends to inspire, uplift, an...
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    17,70 €


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