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A sudden cancer diagnosis upends an ordinary mother's life, sparking a raw memoir of medical trauma and defiant resilience. Coping with illness transforms from a lonely battle into a journey of emotional healing. For anyone navigating a sudden life crisis, this gripping narrative captures the...

Nach den beiden Bestsellern „Ich bin zu alt für diese Scheisse!" und „Man wird nicht jünger durch den Scheiss!" entführt Sie Notfallsanitäter Horst Heckendorn zum dritten Mal in die unglaubliche, aber wahre Welt des Rettungsdienstes. Diesmal ohne das böse „S"-Wort im Titel, aber garantiert wieder mit seinem berühmt-berüchtigten rabenschwarzen Humor.

En 2007, à l'âge de dix-huit ans, Alexandrine Descotes se demande pour la première fois pourquoi elle, son frère et sa sœur sont nés triplés par fécondation in vitro. En quête de réponses, elle se tourne vers ses grands-parents paternels. Colette, sa grand-mère, entrouvre alors la porte d'un secret familial longtemps tu. À la fin des années 1950, à Lyon, la vie d'un jeune couple bascule : le corps de leur nouveau-né ne ressemble à aucun autre. Les médecins parlent d'un cas exceptionnel, " aussi rare que de gagner le gros lot à la Loterie nationale ".

Un roman en apnée pour retranscrire l'urgence de la pandémie. Ce qu'elle a fait aux vivants et aux morts, à notre humanité. Mars 2020. La France se confine. Dans tous les hôpitaux du pays, il faut prendre des décisions et agir vite. En première ligne, un psychiatre partage son temps entre son équipe mobile qui maraude dans une ville fantôme à la recherche de marginaux à protéger, et les unités Covid où les malades meurent seuls, privés de tout rite.

Mut, Zuversicht, Selbstvertrauen: Das zeichnet Marianne Koch aus, und ihre alleinerziehende Mutter hat es ihr vorgelebt. Ihren Vater, den jüdischen Arzt Rudolf Schindler, der emigrieren musste, lernt sie erst als Erwachsene kennen. Da hat ihre Filmkarriere, der zuliebe sie ihr Medizinstudium unterbrach, sie schon nach Hollywood geführt. Doch ihre Passion gilt der Medizin.

A memoir of menstruation, madness and monsters. Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy is an absolute mess. She is irritable, depressed, angry, weepy, out of control. She lays in bed, stares at the walls for hours. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. When a doctor diagnoses her with PMDD...

The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller ‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in...

The second collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer’s daughter, James Herriot thinks he’s finally got himself sorted. But life as a...

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon – and writing . . . As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life...

This audio edition is read by Nicholas Ralph, known for his role as James Herriot in the All Creatures Great and Small TV series. ** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 ** Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal...

Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis. Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions...

'Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure.' Alain de Botton A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country doctor...

'Electric with insight' - Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women – famous figures from across time and popular culture, and...

A aguardada – e bem-humorada – autobiografia de um dos mais importantes pensadores de nossos tempos. Quando Oliver Sacks tinha doze anos, um professor escreveu em avaliação: "Sacks vai longe, se não for longe demais". Hoje está claro que ele jamais parou de avançar. Desde as primeiras...

Read by the author, Adam Kay. The multi-million copy bestseller Book of the Year at The National Book Awards ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor...

The number one Sunday Times bestseller. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In...

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years...

In 2015, Juno Carey left her job as a midwife, burnt out, frustrated and looking for a better way to deliver care to women. And then she found work that she loves, that brings her satisfaction and the knowledge of helping women, directly and fundamentally, every day. Working in an abortion...

Oliver Sacks apreende o drama da doença que o levou a morte de forma honesta e eloquente, em toda sua complexidade médica e humana. Durante os últimos meses de sua vida, Oliver Sacks escreveu uma série de ensaios nos quais explorou de maneira comovente seu percurso pessoal para concluir a...

'My first stray thought: cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer teach him before it finishes him off? Peter Goldsworthy asks, obliquely. A GP of forty years' practice, as well as one of Australia's most awarded and...