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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The star of the iconic movie Dirty Dancing richly evokes the places and times that defined a nation, looks back on her unbridled romantic adventures in Hollywood, shares the fallout from a plastic surgery procedure that negatively impacted her career and reveals now she took her life back.
Author
Language
English
Description
Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the queen of England, and traveled the world with her sisters. Yet rosemary was intellectually disabled, a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family.
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Can a boy be "trapped" in a girl's body? Can modern medicine "reassign" sex? Is our sex "assigned" to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of "gender identity"?
When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan Anderson...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ben Carson tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland at age 33.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born in the 1940s, Patricia Bath dreamed of helping people as a doctor, even though that wasn't a career option for most women at that time--especially African American women. This empowering biography follows Dr. Bath in her quest to save and restore sight for blind people, "choosing miracles" when everyone else had given up hope. Along the way, she co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, invented a laser device for removing...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
viii, 305 pages ; color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting...
Author
Publisher
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine and describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
315 pages
Language
English
Description
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary...