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Karen Schreck Author Of While He Was Away

From my list on war-torn love.

Why am I passionate about this?

My passion for novels about war with a love-related component is rooted in my upbringing. My father served in the military and suffered from PTSD all his life as a result. He regaled me with stories of his time in the army during World War II, but those stories were wildly comic or compelling tales of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. The darker aspects of his experience came out in his nightmares, and later in life, in the flashbacks he experienced after his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. My mother’s life was also impacted by war. Her first marriage ended when her husband was killed in battle, and she had her own kind of PTSD as a result.

Karen's book list on war-torn love

Karen Schreck Why Karen loves this book

Here is another book about strong women who supported each other as they served in battle, not as soldiers, but as nurses.

Reading The Women, I got to experience the evacuation hospitals designed to provide rapid trauma care near combat zones. The war-torn love represented in these pages is both platonic and romantic.

This is not a YA novel, but it is a very accessible read, and it raises important ethical questions. What makes a good war, exactly?

By Kristin Hannah ,

Why should I read it?

65 authors picked The Women as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The missing. The forgotten. The brave… The women.

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.

“Women can be heroes, too.”

When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…


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Book cover of Everyday Medical Miracles: True Stories from the Frontlines in Women’s Health Care

Everyday Medical Miracles by Joseph S. Sanfilippo (editor),

Frontiers of Women from the healthcare perspective. A compilation of 60 true short stories written by an extensive array of healthcare providers, physicians, and advanced practice providers.

All designed to give you, the reader, a glimpse into the day-to-day activities of all of us who provide your health care. Come…

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Joseph S. Sanfilippo Author Of The Expert Guide to Fertility: Boost Your Chances for Pregnancy

From Joseph's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Joseph's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Joseph S. Sanfilippo Why Joseph loves this book

Women’s health is an important topic for all of us, both men and women. Here we have a unique vision of the reproductive tract of a woman. It began with a visit to the Surgeons Hall Museum and rows of jars with all kinds of reproductive tract anomalies. As the author aptly conveys, the “most miraculous and misunderstood organ in the human body”, i.e. the uterus” is what it’s all about!

Mapping the body from a most interesting and unique perspective is the mission of author Hazard. We learn about the interesting entity of complete absence of the uterus, viz. Mayer Roikatansky Kuster Hauser Syndrome. Having personally taken care of this group of patients, our author provides a unique glimpse into the psychological as wll as anatomic challenges this group of patients experience. The good news is today we live in an age of uterine transplanhts. Thank you Dr Mats…

By Leah Hazard ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Womb as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

“Page for page, I may not have ever learned more from a book.... Womb is a history book as well as a biology book but it’s also an adventure and a celebration.” —Rob Delaney, actor and author of A Heart That Works

A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus—from birth to death, in sickness and in health, throughout history and into our possible future—from midwife and acclaimed writer Leah Hazard

The size of a clenched fist and the shape of a light bulb—with no less power and potential. Every person on Earth began inside a uterus, but how much do…


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