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  Last Night in the OR - A...

  Bud Shaw

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  The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, MD, who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients.He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient's husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling to complete a twenty-hour operation as mental and physical exhaustion inch closer and closer; and flying to retrieve a donor organ while the patient waits in the operating room. Within these more emotionally charged vignettes are quieter ones, too, like growing up in rural Ohio, and being awakened late at night by footsteps in the hall as his father, also a surgeon, slipped out of the house to attend to a patient in the ER.

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  HiBrow: World Book Night 2011

  Lemn Sissay, Hayley Atwell,...

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  A celebration of adult literature and reading.The whole book industry, including booksellers, librarians and publishers were invited come together an pick out their favourite titles to be included the final list of 25 books by authors from the UK and Ireland. The final list included fiction, poetry, memoirs among others. There were some bestsellers, classics and some lesser known.Interviews with Lemn Sissay, Hayley Atwell & Stanley Tucci, Philip Pullman.

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  The Traitor of Colditz

  Robert Verkaik

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  It is the depths of the second world war.The Germans like to boast that there is 'no escape' from the infamous fortress that is Colditz.The elite British officers imprisoned there are determined to prove the Nazis wrong and get back into the war.As the war heats up and the stakes are raised, the Gestapo plant a double-agent inside the prison in a bid to uncover the secrets of the British prisoners. Captain Julius Green of the Army Dental Corps and Sergeant John 'Busty' Brown must risk their lives in a bid to save the lives of hundreds of Allied servicemen and protect the secrets of MI9.Drawn from unseen records, The Traitor of Colditz brings to light an extraordinary, never-before-told story from the Second World War, an epic tale of how MI9 took on the Nazis and exposed the traitors in their midst.

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  The King in Love - Edward VII's...

  Theo Aronson

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  The King in Love is an all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womanizer, Edward VII, as Prince of Wales and King. It is also a study of the three women with whom the King was most deeply in love-his "official" mistresses, Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick, and Alice Keppel.Spanning three decades and packed with incident, scandal, and high romance, the story is set in the extravagant and hypocritical world of late Victorian and Edwardian society. It is full of colorful characters: Edward's beautiful and betrayed wife Alexandra; the three cuckolded husbands-Edward Langtry, the Earl of Warwick, and the Honorable George Keppel; the flamboyant Oscar Wilde; the sensuous Sarah Bernhardt; the dissipated Prince Albert Victor; and the sexually complex W. E. Gladstone. Royal biographer Theo Aronson draws on new and unfamiliar material in this vivid book and reassesses many aspects of his subjects' lives. He challenges long-established myths and reveals much that was hitherto unknown-not least the extraordinary scene that took place at the deathbed of King Edward VII. The result is a brilliant evocation of a world, and a way of life, that is gone forever.

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  I Found My Treasure

  Chris Durán

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  Chris Duran was an internationally famous romantic singer in the 1990s, designed for the Hispanic, English and Portuguese markets. It had a legion of fans, their songs appeared in the successful stops of radios of the world and in the Billboard. In Brazil and Mexico, his songs were novels. It was cover of several magazines; coming to be elected by a famous American magazine as one of the most beautiful men in the world. Chris Duran has sold approximately 6 million albums in his 19-year career, crowded large venues with his shows and shared venues with renowned artists. He has achieved much of what the world knows as success. Until the day he suffered a serious car accident.After this incident, it was never the same. Chris realized that all the luxury and glamor he was living with on a daily basis was nothing. He could see the huge void inside him. In his loneliness and anguish he began to seek for God.When he found it, he discovered a great treasure. The best. And he had to give up everything the world had to offer him. Chris did it. And he does not regret it. That was your biggest gain. He lost to win. And he gained more than he dreamed.Today Chris Duran praises God through his songs and is minister of the Gospel.

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  The Riverman - Ted Bundy and I...

  Robert D. Keppel, William J. Birnes

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  From a detective who knew “more about identifying . . . serial killers than anyone else in the field,” an account of the search for the Green River Killer (Ann Rule, New York Times–bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me). 
   
  After a search of over twenty years, one of America’s most elusive serial killers was finally apprehended. Now, read the true story of one man’s attempt to get inside the mind of the Green River Killer 
   
  July 15, 1982: a woman’s strangled body was found, caught on the pilings of Washington state’s Green River. Before long, the “Green River Killer” would be suspected in at least forty-nine more homicides, with no end in sight. Then the authorities received an unbelievable letter from the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy—then on Florida’s death row—offering to help catch the Green River Killer. But he would only talk to one man: Robert Keppel, the former homicide detective who had helped track Bundy’s cross-county killing spree. 
   
  Now these conversations are revealed, in which Bundy speculates about the motive and methods of the Green River Killer—and reveals his own twisted secrets as well. Now, as never before, we look into the face of evil . . . and into the heart of a killer.

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