Biography: science, technology and medicine

A space enthusiast goes inside mission control with a motley crew of rocket scientists in this "e;fascinating journey of discovery peppered with humor"e; (Publishers Weekly).

America's most controversial medical examiner explores the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F.

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A cardiac technician takes you to the front lines of emergency medicine-from tragic car accidents to gunshot wounds-in this "e;fast-moving"e; memoir (Booklist).

CHASING SHADOWS tells the story of a young man who pays a heavy price for pursuing his own dream.

These are the trying, true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians who often are the only thing standing between any one of us and death.

A trainer shares true stories of famous lion, orangutan, and other animal actors that "e;will hold readers enthralled"e; (School Library Journal).

"e;A bold memoir"e; of one young woman's courageous battle with breast cancer-the basis for the Emmy-nominated Lifetime movie starring Sarah Chalke (People).

Set in London between 1973 and 1983, Adrift is a compelling true story portraying the way a husband's mental illness tragically destroys a happy marriage.

Kimberly Beam was a middle school Language Arts teacher in Massachusetts and an English teacher in Maryland before being diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma.

This story is the first of three completed novels in which fictional Vienna Police Inspector Karl Marbach is a central character.

A PATIENTS PERSPECTIVE: There have been an increasing number of articles and books by medical professionals warning us of the hospital dangers, but very few by patients based on their personal experience.

When Walt Larimore, MD, moved his young family to Kissimmee, Florida, to start a small-town medical practice in 1985, he had no idea he was embarking on an enterprise that would change his life in ways both large and small.

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies.

Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman.

In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, movingand at times raucously humorousone of the nation's leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Gib'sOdyssey is the true story of one extraordinary man, Gib Peters, and his solo odyssey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS).

A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give upWhen twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by deja vu: the same illness that took her sister's life was threatening to take her daughter's too.

Tales of an Ironman is abook about authors journey from childhood to adulthood.

Between the 1940s and the 1960s,rheumatic fever was a leading causeof death in children.

This book is for anyone, young or old, who has ever had a desire or ambition to achieve the American Dream.

The book is a collection of stories: assignments from a long and enjoyable engineering career as well as anecdotes and experiences from summer jobs, vacations, and consulting.

Amy Gingrich saw her disease as a prison.

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Retired, seventy-six-year-old Michael Barker was living the good life in beautiful Vermont.

My choice to keep my son at home, during his illness, seemed like the only option due to my sons aversion to staying in a hospital.

Three Roses: Living with Muscular Dystrophy and Marrying the Ideal Woman introduces a man who knew from his early childhood that he would face life with the ever-present reality of muscular dystrophy.

When Dr.

Its Been a Good Life, Dad!

Maria Russo is a retired Service Manager of Verizon Enterprise Solutions and is now an author of this non-fiction book about her life.

I Am on My Way to Healing: Two Strokes and a Recovery shares an authors journey along the path from two strokes toward healing and recovery and a renewed sense of hope.

In 1923 in Andalusia, Alabama, twenty-odd miles north of the Florida line, a physician was born.

All senior citizens look forward to good health as those later years draw near.

Many of us have definite plans about how the story of life goes, but the purpose of God prevails.

It was 1969 and the war in Vietnam was at its height.

Stroke no joke is the autobiography of a middle aged African American man who navigates the process of reclaiming and re- finding his life it provides an insightful look into the mind of a once strong independent man after he suffered a serious stroke that changes his life forever.

Albert Lamarre never imagined that one day he would stare down the barrel of a shotgun pointed at him by a Texas ranchers daughter.

When Maria gets a job at Anthonys donut and coffeehouse in New York City, shes thrilled to be working.

Shelly is an amazing little girl who rode an alligator, drove a blimp, and refused to give up her fight against cancer.

Then he tells you Ilike to dress up as a women, and the journey begins.

Born to poor immigrant parents in 1921, author Dr.

Art Marsicano shares the inspiring story of his wifes five-year battle with ovarian cancer in this tribute to God, marriage, and the power of love.

On a warm September day in 1957, author John Allen Resko walked through the gates of Saint Charles into a world he was ill prepared to confront.

Karl Maramorosch may be best known for his accomplishments as a top scientist, but the story of how he became such a success has never been tolduntil now.

Astronaut Dr.

Author Ruth Brown was born with mastocytosis, a rare, complex, and little-known disease responsible for producing a multitude of diverse symptoms.

Dave Faber and Robert McGehee were meant to be together: Less than two years after their first date, they were married.

Pedro Nosa Halili was the one they called the medicine man.

When Everything Changed: My Journey from Physician to Patient is the inspiring memoir of Dr.