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  • Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs

    The Making of a Surgeon

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger, something more meaningful than crushing rocks and drinking beer.In his acclaimed first memoir, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Bleeding Stops

    by Michael J Collins, MD ...
    What does a doctor do when he thinks his best is not good enough? Matthew Barrett, thirty-one years old and fresh out of residency, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as a combat surgeon in 1967 at the heightof the Vietnam War. Compassionate and sensitive to a fault, he is determined to make a difference but quickly finds his idealism crushed by the pain, suffering, and indifference that surround him. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Hot Lights, Cold Steel

    Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    "An orthopedic surgeon's down-to-earth, fast-paced, and frequently funny memoir of his residency [told] with a born storyteller's skill." — Kirkus ReviewsMichael Collins' account of his four-year surgical residency at the famed Mayo Clinic traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident navigating chaos and feelings of inadequacy to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Shieling

    A novel

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    When young surgeon David Carroll suspects that the mysterious buyers who want to purchase his group’s medical practice are Russian mobsters, he decides to take a stand against them. This decision takes a disastrous turn when the mobsters attack his home, killing his wife and the three FBI agents assigned to protect them. David, although wounded, survives, but is now a prime suspect and is forced ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story

    Edited by Michael J. Collins, Gavin Jones ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800–1865 argues that to truly understand the short story form, one must look at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply politicized world of 19th-century transatlantic theater and performance culture. By resurrecting long-neglected theatrical influences on representative works of short fiction, Michael J. Collins demonstrates that it was the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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    Hot Lights, Cold Steel

    Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years

    by Michael J. Collins, MD ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 21 min

    When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins's success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents Collins feels inadequate and unprepared. All too ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs

    The Making of a Surgeon

    by Michael J. Collins, MD ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger, something more meaningful than crushing rocks and drinking beer.In his acclaimed first memoir, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    What the tiniest forms of life can tells us about existence and our place in the universe

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  • Hotbox

    Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business

    by Matt Lee, Ted Lee ...
    James Beard Award–winning journalists expose food industry secrets in "the Kitchen Confidential of the big-ticket catering world" ( New York Times).Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have more in common with a mobile army hospital than a restaurant. Award-winning food writers the Lee brothers steeped themselves in the ... Read more

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  • Miracles in the ER

    Extraordinary Stories from a Doctor's Journal

    by Robert D. Lesslie ...
    You’ve heard about them. Extraordinary…unexplainable…seemingly miraculous true stories that couldn’t have happened—but did. Real-life stories of life changes, answered prayers, inner and outer healing where they appeared impossible.Again and again, bestselling author Dr. Robert Lesslie has encountered such Miracles in the ER during his decades of experience in emergency medicine. In these ... Read more

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  • Somebody to Love

    The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury

    by Matt Richards, Mark Langthorne ...
    A biography examining the final days of Freddie Mercury in the dawn of AIDS and the legacy he left behind.For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man ... Read more

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