I am told that the authors of books of the kind write them as fiction, and therefore are not bound to regard niceties of truth, I would reply that fiction is all the better the more it looks like truth, and gives the more pleasure the more probability and possibility there is about it...
Before she started writing fiction, Audrey received her master’s degree in education from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) and spent over two decades in public education. When she isn’t writing books she consults with school districts about creating environments for students that are more equitable, cu...
months ad possible years to come. Some men sign up, others decide to wait to be called and some will apply for exemptions to work in their job. As the inevitable begins, wounded men are starting to return, women are thinking of training to be nurses as well as becoming land girls. ...
Now, if you’d told me that hell was a library where the books were unreadable, I’d say that was some Saw-level torture porn. But that is not what this book is about. In fact, Peck is at first able to sell this premise to the reader in such a way that it appears to be a ...
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restrained to a bed for inhumane days at a time. The methods of the doctors and nurses on staff (no heroes among them, but like Pepper, regular human beings capable of small graces and big messes) aren’t the worst of what New Hyde has to offer, though. There appears to be a verita...
InA Simple Intervention(Peirene Press, £12.99) by Swiss writer Yael Inokai, Maret is a young nurse working on a ward for patients receiving experimental brain surgery to cure their destructive rage impulses. She lives a cloistered life among oth...
Moody did not seem to be amused by such a ridiculous comment. "Maybe you should ask your son, Blue, here. He seems to know about these sorts of things." The young boy chuckled shyly. "I guess Ikind ofI know..." "Yes, but if you read those silly books by that Rowling lady, yo...
‘a mother’ but if I don’t talk about it I feel like I’ll never have any personhood again.” Though none of these books speaks directly to religion, there is something holy about the shared experience of terror of the unknown in new parenthood. We are the monsters, and we are not...
It is about the daughter of German immigrants, Ella, an American nurse who (because of the time period) was discouraged from continuing on in her studies to be a doctor. She works as a nurse for three years in Philadelphia but reads medical books every opportunity she gets. During the ...