The first in Lessings' Children of Violence series, MARTHA QUEST introduces Martha at age 15, chafing at the restraints of her bourgeois home and domineering mother. As soon as she is able, Martha leaves her rural home for the city, where she joins a political left-wing group, has her first sexual experience, and meets and marries her husband. In ...
The highly acclaimed true-medicine account of the making of a pediatrician--by the author well known for her novel Other Women's Children. In piercing prose, Perri Klass takes readers through her extraordinary three years of internship and residency in a Boston children's hospital.
An ideal gift for Mother's Day, this richly exuberant mother-daughter memoir offers a chronicle of the never-ending quest for success, inner peace, and a really clean kitchen. Recipes and knitting patterns included.
A highly accomplished physician in a Boston neonatology ward finds her life shattered when she is accused of causing a child's death. Not only must she clear herself of the charge, but she finds that she must look deeply into her life--something she has seldom taken the time to do--and come to terms with what she finds there.
This work provides a glimpse inside the doctor's mind for aspiring physicians, medical buffs, and anyone who's ever been a patient. If you get completely wrapped up in the drama of "E.R." or "House", or sit in the surgery wondering what's really going on in your doctor's head, then this book is for you. Expertise versus commonsense practice; moral ...
Three O. Henry winners are among the 11 stories collected here, some of which were previously published in womens' magazines like Glamour and Redbook. Here, female characters bond with one another in unusual ways.
This poetic picture book celebrates the love that exists between parent and child. Here a bear cub enumerates the wonderful things he and his mother do together--from playing to reading to snuggling in their favorite chair. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text.
When knitters get together they talk about what they are knitting, share the fine points of a centred decrease, or mourn the demise of a favourite yarn, but they rarely touch on knitting's greatest truth: The real power of knitting has more to do with what goes on in the head and the heart than what happens on the needles. It's well known, even ...
Amelia Stern is a pediatrician in a city hospital. Mother of one son, she is also very involved with the lives of her patients, one of whom was born with AIDS and another of whom is an undernourished child of neurotic professional parents. Amelia finds herself consumed by her work to the point of neglecting her own family, a fact that is hit home ...
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