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The first half of the book was absolutely enthralling, packed with tense drama and emotional depictions of front-line medical care during the Vietnam War. The second half, after the main character returns home from war, drags a bit in places and fixates on some toxic relationships. Despite those rough patches, I picked it as a favorite this year for its unique take on the nurses' story, an often-overlooked part of history.
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…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
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…
“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…
