An attorney is murdered. Another attorney is murdered. And another. It looks, one observer suggests, like somebody here has a serious problem with attorneys! Two surgeons, a man and wife. She ... is sued for malpractice and loses her case-a devastating blow to a proud professional that drives her into terrible despair and finally suicide. He ... watches his wife slowly pushed toward self-destruction by the cynical hostility of prosecutors in a legal system that has lost its concern for justice. But he decides he'll reintroduce justice into the system-his own kind, administered in his own way. Then malpractice attorneys begin to turn up dead. Each one is uniquely executed-and surgically altered in bizarre and disturbing ways. There are no fingerprints, no blood. Few clues are left behind. Usable evidence is sparse. And the killer, as he contemplates what he's accomplished, silently dedicates each murder to the memory of his beloved wife. The police detective assigned to this case, Septimus "Mac" McClymonds, soon confirms that he is in a battle of wits with a most unusual and highly intelligent serial killer. As he carefully studies the details of each crime, attempting to develop a profile of the perpetrator, he finds himself continually frustrated, and he is even taunted with grim humor by macabre notes the murderer leaves on the bodies of his victims, celebrating yet another death. Thus develops a cat-and-mouse game between Mac and his quarry, until the elusive killer finally seems to have been identified and Mac is about to nab him-except for . . . .

Scalpel

Literature & Fiction

Berman, Joel

Genre Fiction

Visual Managing

Many people live their entire lives without ever having their eyes opened. Oh I don’t mean they’re physically blind, but that they never have a sense of themselves as a member of society. They never really see the world around them or the people around them. Sometimes it takes a catastrophic event in our lives to give us that new vision that opens our eyes to life and love and people around us. I sincerely hope that you never have a catastrophic event that cannot be overcome, but I wish you all some event which will give you an emotional or spiritual or philosophical awakening while you are still young enough to appreciate it. Why do I mention this in the conclusion of a book about comprehensive breast care and surviving breast cancer? Because it is the passion that will carry you through the low points in your life, and let you see a different side of living. True, most of you will not get breast cancer; but knowing that one out of eight women will get that disease should give you the chance to help others and thereby help yourselves. Those touched by Cancer are in some ways the lucky ones because they can see a new horizon in their lives. Those who will never have cancer can only reach this understanding by becoming involved with those who have. I would hope that the knowledge and resources in this book will impact your life in a positive way, much as working with patients with breast and other diseases has impacted mine.

Comprehensive Breast Care

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Branden Books

Without warning, a small group of political radicals in Rome detonates a homemade bomb in an area crowded with up-scale shoppers--and the lives of many innocents are suddenly changed forever. Among them is Angela Bernard, a radiantly beautiful American university professor on her honeymoon, who is hit full-force by the blast and her face is torn apart. Jean-Pierre, her wealthy husband, who had been enchanted by her beauty and raw erotic nature, is now tragically confronted by terrible questions about loyalty to a wife whose mind and body are shattered. Further, and unknown to either of them, is the fact that Angela is pregnant, though she will ultimately discover that the child's father is not Jean-Pierre. Thus begun, this story of crisis and challenge unfolds on an international stage, revealing how strangers brought together by tragedy confront and struggle with passion, guilt, ambition, responsibility, and redemption. Circle in the Water is an exciting, fast-moving tale that follows the intertwined lives of six people who were profoundly affected by the bomb explosion--including two young lovers who come together years later as the book draws toward its remarkable and surprising finale.

Circle in the Water

Romance

Paranormal

Juniper Springs Pr

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The Cloak of Hippocrates is the compelling saga of Alex Morpheus, a boy growing up in nineteenth-century New England. In his infancy, Alex is abandoned by his father after his mother dies in childbirth, and though the wealthy senior Morpheus supports him financially throughout his youth he is never a parent to the child. In fact, while alex is in his early school years, his father moves to England, remarries, and has another family. Alex, undaunted and even strengthened by his difficult childhood, develops into a distinguished scholar and surgeon, also marrying the daughter of an influential U.S. Senator and having two children. His father, in the meantime, is apparently associated with several heinous murders in London, a situation that inevitably draws Alex there and to a reunion with the man who abandoned him decades earlier. Written in the style of Jean-Christophe and David Copperfield, this is a story rich with surprising twists and turns, including encounters wtih actual figures of that era, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.; Emily Dickinson; Dr. William Halsted; and even Jack the Ripper, giving the story a strong and intriguing historical sense.

The Cloak of Hippocrates

Contemporary

A Few Loose Screws follows the farcical adventures of a toilet company heir, Ogden Wellborn IV, whose birthright is one of great wealth and position, though his capacities for taking advantage of that good fortune don't happen to include intellectual prowess or good sense. His tragicomic bumblings include getting an M.D. degree by scheming his way through medical school; using family connections to enter a neurosurgery program for which he is remarkably unqualified; marrying well----or at least satisfyingly----to twenty-year-old stripper Bubbles McFarland; and, after the spectacular collapse of his neurosurgery ambitions, deciding to cap his career by finally doing something he thinks will be easy. So he becomes a Registered Nurse----and quickly learns how wrong he was about "easy," since soon he is stumbling over his own feet again. This madcap tale----authentic in its details of the medical field because the author is a successful surgeon----moves swiftly from one hilarious event to the next, exploring the life of an eternally optimistic simpleton who can't win for losing or build things up without wrecking them first, but who eventually finds peace of mind and a place for himself----far away from the complexities of the modern world.

A Few Loose Screws

Humor & Satire

This chilling book is based on the true story of Adrian Van De Ree, a Dutch/American forced into slave labor at the age of 19 by the Nazis during World War II. Beginning with events around the time Holland was invaded, it takes us into the home of an average Dutch family-Adrian's family-and describes their desperate efforts to survive in those terrible early years of occupation. But then life takes a frightening, unexpected turn for them when Adrian is betrayed by his Dutch/German employer, soon finding himself facing a grim future of forced labor. And we are jarred, unnerved by his recollections: an hour-by-hour history of one day among many in the experiences of a slave laborer, bringing clearly into focus a vivid picture of the horrors to which the young man and his fellow prisoners were subjected. It is reminiscent of similar circumstances that have been so well documented in countless books and films about the Holocaust, including such seminal works as Night by Elie Weisel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, and The Diary of Anne Frank. However, the awful fate that befell many non-Jewish citizens of occupied Europe as a result of Nazi brutality has often been overlooked in accounts of that long and terrible war. But unlike so many stories of those who suffered in that conflict, this one leads to a renewal of life, with Adrian describing the last days of his imprisonment, liberation by the Allies, return to freedom in Holland, and later his emigration to the United States. Slave Labor unflinchingly discloses the indignity and the savagery imposed by one group of people on another, but in the end it is shown to be that most hopeful of all tales, for it has become-as its subtitle declares-a Meditation on Humanity.

Slave Labor

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Michael "Curly" Sanford is a young man caught in a web of drugs and alcohol. A simple, happy life of adolescent leisure and adventure quickly deteriorates into an uncontrolled morass of incomprehensible demoralization after he leaves home and moves aimlessly from one city to another. He encounters situations with others arising out of their drunken rage, dalliance with street drugs, sexual interactions and even experiences violence and death. Following the pattern of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", living his own 21st century version of the beat generation, searching for the prosaic "meaning of life," his intellectual and academic pursuits quickly become subverted by alcohol, drugs and sexual exploitation. He meets men and women from several walks of life, each facing their own demons, and sees life through the eyes of others. The book moves rapidly down his path of self-destruction and has two opposing endings from which the reader may choose. He finds final solace when he realizes that, in spite of his disease of addiction, his troubles were basically of his own making and the solution lays in finally deciding to take action and work a program of recovery; his life or death depends on this. Serendipity as well as planned action struggle against one another in the life of this and every addict and alcoholic. The novel is an exciting, action-packed journey but also a meditation on drug addiction and alcoholism written by an author who has worked in the field of recovery for over thirty years. An excerpt from the book... once again "Curly" leaves a hospital only to pass quickly into his old habits: "The disease of alcoholism, the scourge of the addicted, rapidly returned in all its profusion. He was soon into repeating the same behavior and, so characteristic of the alcoholic, expecting different results. He would close his eyes and then open them, almost magically expecting everything to be different, as if some force had divined a change. The fiction that is cinema, make-believe, even computer games, ran through the synapses of his mind. Why face reality when he could immerse himself in extreme fantasy, live vicariously through some imagined person, come alive through a bottle of alcohol. He could be an actor in real life wearing the mask of Janus with two faces, changing from sad to happy with a swallow of liquor as the transforming agent. The delusion continued, only growing worse, with more and longer bouts of semi-consciousness, depression and lethargy. Within a week the stench and filth returned, his facial hair regrew and he once again took on the persona which had been temporarily washed away in the hospital."

The Human Machine: A Journey Through Drug Addiction and Alcoholism

Outskirts Press

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Scalpel

Comprehensive Breast Care

Circle in the Water

Scalpel

The Cloak of Hippocrates

A Few Loose Screws

Slave Labor

The Human Machine: A Journey Through Drug Addiction and Alcoholism