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  • Not All of Us Are Saints

    A Doctor's Journey with the Poor

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  • Urban Injustice

    How Ghettos Happen

    David Hilfiker has committed his life, both as a writer and a doctor, to people in need, writing about the urban poor with whom he’s spent all his days for the last two decades. In Urban Injustice, he explains in beautiful and simple language how the myth that the urban poor siphon off precious government resources is contradicted by the facts, and how most programs help some of the people some of ... Leer más

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  • HEALING THE WOUNDS

    A Physician Looks at His Work

    Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of spiraling information and high anxiety. Drawing on his years of rural and urban experience, Dr. Hilfiker ... Leer más

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  • Full Moon at Noontide

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    de Ann Putnam ...
    Full Moon at Noontide is the story of Ann Putnam’s mother and father and her father’s identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. It’s the story of the journey from one twin’s death to the other, of what happened along the way, of what it means to lose the other who is also oneself. And it’s the story ... Leer más

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  • Benediction

    de Kent Haruf ...
    From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado.When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; ... Leer más

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  • Mountains Beyond Mountains

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  • Evicted

    Poverty and Profit in the American City

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    Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine

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  • Switching Time

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  • No One Left Behind

    How Nurse Practitioners Are Changing The Canadian Health Care System

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