Author: Lydia Teh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789674152086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Our Hospital
Author: Samuel Shem
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0593439333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In this sequel to The House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital, Dr. Roy Basch returns to his economically depressed hometown in upstate New York to help the struggling hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the money-driven bureaucracy. After the tragic climax of Man's 4th Best Hospital, four doctors have left practicing medicine. But with COVID-19 sweeping the country, they come together to help the small town of Columbia, New York. The doctors and nurses are buckling as they battle both a raging pandemic and the financial woes facing small hospitals everywhere. But no matter what's happening in the world, babies are born, people fall in love, and doctors will do anything to save their patients. Our Hospital reveals the daily struggle of fighting a pandemic and its personal impact on healthcare workers young and old, who are terrified, exhausted...and determined, somehow, to prevail.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0593439333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In this sequel to The House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital, Dr. Roy Basch returns to his economically depressed hometown in upstate New York to help the struggling hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the money-driven bureaucracy. After the tragic climax of Man's 4th Best Hospital, four doctors have left practicing medicine. But with COVID-19 sweeping the country, they come together to help the small town of Columbia, New York. The doctors and nurses are buckling as they battle both a raging pandemic and the financial woes facing small hospitals everywhere. But no matter what's happening in the world, babies are born, people fall in love, and doctors will do anything to save their patients. Our Hospital reveals the daily struggle of fighting a pandemic and its personal impact on healthcare workers young and old, who are terrified, exhausted...and determined, somehow, to prevail.
Crystal Hope
Author: Douglas Milewski
Publisher: Donut Baby Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Anybody got a plan? When the world gets invaded, five teenagers get the most powerful weapons ever conceived. If this sounds like an ill-thought plan ripe with unintended consequences, such as leveling stray cities, you’d be right. Still, the world’s got to be saved. What’s a few cities between friends? If you need a light-hearted, action-packed, feel-good book with friendly giants, powerful mechs, mischievous psychics, super-science mages, a rampant disregard for physics, and five new friends on the road trip of a lifetime, this would be the book for you. There’s also an herbivore with an attitude. This is the full series, collected into a single volume.
Publisher: Donut Baby Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Anybody got a plan? When the world gets invaded, five teenagers get the most powerful weapons ever conceived. If this sounds like an ill-thought plan ripe with unintended consequences, such as leveling stray cities, you’d be right. Still, the world’s got to be saved. What’s a few cities between friends? If you need a light-hearted, action-packed, feel-good book with friendly giants, powerful mechs, mischievous psychics, super-science mages, a rampant disregard for physics, and five new friends on the road trip of a lifetime, this would be the book for you. There’s also an herbivore with an attitude. This is the full series, collected into a single volume.
The Crooked City
Author: Ryan Whitwam
Publisher: Ryan Whitwam
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Jonah doesn’t want to run–he has to. There’s only so much pain one man can cause before he needs to start over. Unstuck from his tainted past, he craves the anonymity he can only achieve by vanishing like a specter in the night. Before his new life is even underway, a chance encounter leaves him in possession of a curious object–something the mysterious Keepers of The Oracle will kill to obtain, but there’s more to the Keepers than Jonah could possibly imagine. They have the ability to do much worse than kill, and now he's in their sights. The Keepers wield power unlike anything Jonah has ever seen, and they’re closing in fast. He’s placed a new group of innocents in danger this time, and he can’t run away again.
Publisher: Ryan Whitwam
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Jonah doesn’t want to run–he has to. There’s only so much pain one man can cause before he needs to start over. Unstuck from his tainted past, he craves the anonymity he can only achieve by vanishing like a specter in the night. Before his new life is even underway, a chance encounter leaves him in possession of a curious object–something the mysterious Keepers of The Oracle will kill to obtain, but there’s more to the Keepers than Jonah could possibly imagine. They have the ability to do much worse than kill, and now he's in their sights. The Keepers wield power unlike anything Jonah has ever seen, and they’re closing in fast. He’s placed a new group of innocents in danger this time, and he can’t run away again.
Vortex
Author: Vanessa Acton
Publisher: Darby Creek ™
ISBN: 1512435139
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Blair and her brothers are driving home from a disastrous road trip when their day suddenly gets a whole lot worse. After facing down a tornado, their car is barely functioning, and the same can be said for Blair's older brother. Blair must take charge and get her family out of danger, but the storm isn't letting up. Will Blair be able to get her injured and scared brothers to safety . . . before the next twister hits?
Publisher: Darby Creek ™
ISBN: 1512435139
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Blair and her brothers are driving home from a disastrous road trip when their day suddenly gets a whole lot worse. After facing down a tornado, their car is barely functioning, and the same can be said for Blair's older brother. Blair must take charge and get her family out of danger, but the storm isn't letting up. Will Blair be able to get her injured and scared brothers to safety . . . before the next twister hits?
Agnes and the Hitman
Author: Jennifer Crusie
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312363055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding and a missing necklace, and the result is a sexy, hilarious adventure. Martin's Press.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312363055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding and a missing necklace, and the result is a sexy, hilarious adventure. Martin's Press.
The Master of Happy Endings
Author: Jack Hodgins
Publisher: Dundurn.com
ISBN: 0887628168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great adventure for himself. Axel Thorstad lives in a shack on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. Once a popular school teacher and thespian who touched the lives of hundreds of his students, he now lives in retirement and mourns the recent death of his wife. But even this stoical giant of a 77-year-old finds the isolation too much. He begins to run want ads in newspapers offering his services as a tutor, and meets the indomitable Mrs. Montana. She hires Axel to coach her precocious teenage-TV-actor son Travis for his school exams while he shoots a new episode in Hollywood. Life in L.A. is far removed from his isolated life in rural B.C., and soon Thorstad finds himself caught up in the drama of his young student’s life, and the return of an old flame. Set amidst the fleshpots, sound-stages and dining rooms of L.A., this engaging novel of lives and loves lost and found also gestures to the courage one needs in the face of the vulnerabilities of older age that all too soon beset.
Publisher: Dundurn.com
ISBN: 0887628168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great adventure for himself. Axel Thorstad lives in a shack on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. Once a popular school teacher and thespian who touched the lives of hundreds of his students, he now lives in retirement and mourns the recent death of his wife. But even this stoical giant of a 77-year-old finds the isolation too much. He begins to run want ads in newspapers offering his services as a tutor, and meets the indomitable Mrs. Montana. She hires Axel to coach her precocious teenage-TV-actor son Travis for his school exams while he shoots a new episode in Hollywood. Life in L.A. is far removed from his isolated life in rural B.C., and soon Thorstad finds himself caught up in the drama of his young student’s life, and the return of an old flame. Set amidst the fleshpots, sound-stages and dining rooms of L.A., this engaging novel of lives and loves lost and found also gestures to the courage one needs in the face of the vulnerabilities of older age that all too soon beset.
I Am Not Jackson Pollock
Author: John Haskell
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466894059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A bewitching collection of short fiction-haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life A circus elephant named Topsy was executed at Coney Island in the year 1900 for killing a man. That's true. So is the life of Saartjie (Sar-key) Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, who was herself a circus act in the first half of the nineteenth century. What is myth is the Indian god Ganesha, whose head was lopped off by his father, Shiva, and replaced-with an elephant's head-by his disconsolate mother, Parvati. In John Haskell's expert hands, these three curious strands are ingeniously woven together in one story called "Elephant Feelings." And so it goes with the rest of these dreamy meditations on the lives of artists, actors, writers, and musicians who are at once painfully human and larger than life. In "Dream of a Clean Slate," Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; in "The Judgment of Psycho," Haskell probes the sexual dynamic of Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Psycho, and then delves into a different relationship, the one between Hector and Paris in the Iliad; Orson Welles presides over the long story "Crimes at Midnight," a tense evocation of desire and its consequences. Haskell has written a series of myths for modern times, stories about the ways in which we are distant from ourselves and about the way art can sometimes help us imagine other worlds and other possibilities. It is an astonishing debut.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466894059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A bewitching collection of short fiction-haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life A circus elephant named Topsy was executed at Coney Island in the year 1900 for killing a man. That's true. So is the life of Saartjie (Sar-key) Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, who was herself a circus act in the first half of the nineteenth century. What is myth is the Indian god Ganesha, whose head was lopped off by his father, Shiva, and replaced-with an elephant's head-by his disconsolate mother, Parvati. In John Haskell's expert hands, these three curious strands are ingeniously woven together in one story called "Elephant Feelings." And so it goes with the rest of these dreamy meditations on the lives of artists, actors, writers, and musicians who are at once painfully human and larger than life. In "Dream of a Clean Slate," Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; in "The Judgment of Psycho," Haskell probes the sexual dynamic of Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Psycho, and then delves into a different relationship, the one between Hector and Paris in the Iliad; Orson Welles presides over the long story "Crimes at Midnight," a tense evocation of desire and its consequences. Haskell has written a series of myths for modern times, stories about the ways in which we are distant from ourselves and about the way art can sometimes help us imagine other worlds and other possibilities. It is an astonishing debut.
Long Time Gone
Author: Denis Hamill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743407105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
As one man attempts to piece his life back together again, he has to think back the year of hippies, Woodstock, drugs, anti-war and pro-war to try and make sense of who he is and where he is now.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743407105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
As one man attempts to piece his life back together again, he has to think back the year of hippies, Woodstock, drugs, anti-war and pro-war to try and make sense of who he is and where he is now.
Da Joka
Author: T. Fulton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1413430260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Da Joka, Nicolette she thinks she's as tough as they come. She never backs down from anything. Once on a straight and narrow path, she now finds herself in new surroundings and has to learn a new way of life. Trying to cope with the loss of her father. She finds herself becoming a person she wouldn't dream of in her worse nightmares. She must now learn and learn fast how to adapt to the environment that she was thrown into. Through it all she has her cousin, Janet and her best friend Stephanie. Together they grow through life's experiences, from their first sexual experience to the first time one of them gets caught at the wrong place at the wrong time. Notice that I said the first time one of them gets caught up. So, just sit back, relax, and get comfortable because trust me you're about to experience the life of Da Joka, SERIOUSLY!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1413430260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Da Joka, Nicolette she thinks she's as tough as they come. She never backs down from anything. Once on a straight and narrow path, she now finds herself in new surroundings and has to learn a new way of life. Trying to cope with the loss of her father. She finds herself becoming a person she wouldn't dream of in her worse nightmares. She must now learn and learn fast how to adapt to the environment that she was thrown into. Through it all she has her cousin, Janet and her best friend Stephanie. Together they grow through life's experiences, from their first sexual experience to the first time one of them gets caught at the wrong place at the wrong time. Notice that I said the first time one of them gets caught up. So, just sit back, relax, and get comfortable because trust me you're about to experience the life of Da Joka, SERIOUSLY!
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385382944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
During one of the most important times in the civil rights movement, one unforgettable family goes on a road trip in this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree, from author Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. When the Watson family—ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron—sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don’t realize that they’re heading toward one of the darkest moments in America’s history. The Watsons’ journey reminds us that even in the hardest times, laughter and family can help us get through anything. "A modern classic." —NPR “Marvelous . . . both comic and deeply moving.” —The New York Times "One of the best novels EVER." —Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385382944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
During one of the most important times in the civil rights movement, one unforgettable family goes on a road trip in this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree, from author Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. When the Watson family—ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron—sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don’t realize that they’re heading toward one of the darkest moments in America’s history. The Watsons’ journey reminds us that even in the hardest times, laughter and family can help us get through anything. "A modern classic." —NPR “Marvelous . . . both comic and deeply moving.” —The New York Times "One of the best novels EVER." —Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming