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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.

Why am I passionate about this?

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Joseph's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Joseph S. Sanfilippo Why Joseph loves this book

A glimpse into the world of a neurosurgeon.

Let’s begin from a historical perspective, Harvey Cushing’s incredible diligence really reflects the genius of an incredibly talented surgeon and gifted artist who would sketch each brain tumor and details of the surgical procedure, patient after patient. Moving on to training to be a neurosurgeon. Plan on a 6 to 7 year residency commitment. What’s it like to operate in an incredibly confined space? Inside the skull. Dealing with rupture of a main artery that feeds the brain, viz. middle meningeal artery that was severed from trauma makes one sit at the edge of their seat when reading the account; this topic is addressed in the “Penetrating Head Trauma” chapter.

If you are a first year resident Dr Schwatz outlines what your life will be like, what surgical procedures will you be involved with. We then are toured through “Sports Neurosurgery” and…

By Theodore H. Schwartz ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

“If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz's talented hands, the most enigmatic 3 1/2 pounds of tissue in the known universe comes to light in remarkable and revelatory ways.”
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, and New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at…


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