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  • 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

    $1.99 USD

  • 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

  • Retired Ground

    A Climber's Odyssey

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    He went looking for adventure. The mountains gave him so much more.In Retired Ground, Michael J. Collins documents his fifty-year pilgrimage into wild places, braiding his lifelong travel journal together with poetry, history, philosophical musings, and hard-earned reflection. The book begins with a twenty-one-year-old hitchhiking through Ireland as The Troubles gather in the distance, then ranges ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Least of Men

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    Sixteen years ago, Chicago surgeon Dr. David Carroll lost everything.When Russian mafia boss Dimitri Barkov tried to seize Carroll’s medical practice, David refused. Barkov’s retaliation was swift and brutal—David’s wife murdered, federal agents gunned down, and David forced into hiding in the remote wilderness of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The world believed the story ended there, with David dead ... Read more

    $4.99 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

    $28.99 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

    $46.99 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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  • The Postcard

    A Novel

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    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARTIME Magazine・ NPR・ Library Journal・ The Globe and Mail・ Lilith・ Forward Magazine・ Toronto Star・ The New YorkerWinner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest's The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devasta... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus