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Proof of Heaven
Simon & Schuster 2012; US$ 15.99A SCIENTIST?S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander... more...
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Pan Macmillan Australia 2012; US$ 18.03"My experience showed me that the death of the body and brain is not the end of consciousness... What happened to me while I was in a coma is the most important story I will ever tell. But it's a tricky story to tell because it is so foreign to ordinary understanding." When prominent US neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander goes into a coma after contracting... more...
Proof of Heaven
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; Not AvailableThe life-changing near-death experience of a respected neurosurgeon. more...
Brain on Fire
Free Press 2012; US$ 25.00One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a ?flight risk,? and her medical records?chronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all?showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability.... more...
The Good Nurse
Grand Central Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific... more...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998; US$ 14.99Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced,... more...
Mummy?s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl secretly caring for her severely disabled mother
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; Not AvailableThe fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson. A recent census shows that there are at least 175,000 child carers in the UK, 13,000 of whom care for more than 50 hours a week. Many remain invisible to a system that would otherwise help them. Abigail is one of those children. This is her story. more...
Midwife on Call
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; US$ 20.83Agnes Light trained as a nurse in the 1960s and went on to become a midwife - helping to bring new lives into the world for over thirty years. After fainting from shock at the first birth she attended as a student, Agnes grew to adore her job and the lifelong friends that worked with her on the maternity ward. In her enchanting memoir, she recalls... more...
The Spark
Random House of Canada 2013; US$ 29.95The extraordinary memoir of a mother's love, commitment and nurturing, which allowed her son, originally diagnosed with severe autism, to flourish into a universally recognized genius--and how any parent can help their child find their spark. Today, at 13, Jacob is a paid researcher in quantum physics, working on extending Einstein's theory of relativity.... more...
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 16.00The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the ?master of the non-fiction narrative.? This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out... more...









