
The Tennis Partner
A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
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Abraham Verghese
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An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.
“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston Globe
When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security in the sport they love and with each other. This friendship between doctor and intern grows increasingly rich and complex, more intimate than two men usually allow. Just when it seems nothing can go wrong, the dark beast from David’s past emerges once again—and almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened as David spirals out of control.
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- De: Deborah Anna Luepnitz
- Narrado por: Deborah Anna Luepnitz
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines, she recounts five true stories from her practice, stories of patients who range from the super-rich to the destitute, who grapple with panic attacks, psychosomatic illness, marital despair, and sexual recklessness. Intimate, original, and triumphantly funny, Schopenhauer's Porcupines goes further than any other book in illuminating "how talking helps".
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Poignant listen
- De Robert B. Davis en 08-23-21
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The Widows of Champagne
- De: Renee Ryan
- Narrado por: Karen Peakes
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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Champagne, 1939. Gabrielle Leblanc Dupree is taking her family's future into her hands. While she should be preparing for a lavish party to celebrate two centuries of champagne making, she secretly hides Chateau Fouché-Leblanc's most precious vintages behind a fake wall in the cellar in preparation for the looming war. But when she joins the resistance, the coveted champagne isn't the most dangerous secret her cellar must conceal.
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Good but a bit religious
- De Far North en 03-31-23
De: Renee Ryan
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A House Without Windows
- A Novel
- De: Nadia Hashimi
- Narrado por: Ariana Delawari, Susan Nezami
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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For two decades Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of his death. Her children swear their mother could not have committed such a heinous act. Kamal's family is sure she did and demands justice.
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For the want of the right reader
- De chris en 08-25-16
De: Nadia Hashimi
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The Honey Bus
- A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
- De: Meredith May
- Narrado por: Candace Thaxton
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split, and suddenly, she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment, she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees.
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Touching story
- De Tess Villa en 05-31-19
De: Meredith May
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The Paris Apartment
- De: Kelly Bowen
- Narrado por: Polly Lee, Marisa Calin, Gemma Dawson, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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London, 2017: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother’s hidden secrets - including a treasure trove of famous art and couture gowns. One obscure painting leads her to Gabriel Seymour, a highly respected art restorer with his own mysterious past. Together they attempt to uncover the truths concealed within the apartment’s walls.
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Thank you for an Amazing story!
- De A.vega en 07-20-21
De: Kelly Bowen
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With the End in Mind
- Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
- De: Kathryn Mannix
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Carling, Kathryn Mannix
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar and gentle process, death has come to be something from which we shy away, preferring to fight it desperately than to accept its inevitability. Palliative care has a long tradition in Britain, where Dr. Kathryn Mannix has practiced it for 30 years. In this book, she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying.
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Wonderful book!
- De Randall Roth en 01-29-18
De: Kathryn Mannix
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My Beloved Monster
- Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
- De: Caleb Carr
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten.
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True love
- De Lucy M Norris en 06-29-24
De: Caleb Carr
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Moonrise over New Jessup
- De: Jamila Minnicks
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. Instead, they seek to maintain, and fortify, the community they cherish on their “side of the woods.” In this place, Alice falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup’s longstanding status quo and could lead to the young couple’s expulsion—or worse—from the home they both hold dear.
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Wonderful!
- De Blee en 03-21-23
De: Jamila Minnicks
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The Book of Doors
- A Novel
- De: Gareth Brown
- Narrado por: Miranda Raison
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers—a lonely yet charming old man—dies right in front of her. Cassie is devastated. She always loved his stories, and now she has nothing to remember him by. Nothing but the last book he was reading. But this is no ordinary book… It is the Book of Doors. Inscribed with enigmatic words and mysterious drawings, it promises Cassie that any door is every door. You just need to know how to open them.
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So good! I see a series!
- De Smith en 03-11-24
De: Gareth Brown
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This Isn't Going to End Well
- The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
- De: Daniel Wallace
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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If we’re lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero and inspiration for so much of what followed: his longtime friend and brother-in-law William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was James Dean, Clint Eastwood, and MacGyver all rolled into one, an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, a master of all he undertook, William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate.
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Lovely, Deep Hearted True Story
- De DebS en 06-24-23
De: Daniel Wallace
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Long Illness
- A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving
- De: Meghan Jobson MD PhD, Juliet Morgan MD
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Drs. Meghan Jobson and Juliet Morgan specialize in treating long illness; from their work on the frontlines with long COVID, they know that all long illnesses shares many of the same hallmarks. Using evidence-based integrative medicine, they have put together a program that legitimizes long illness and validates concerns where other physicians often dismiss them. In Long Illness, you’ll find an unparalleled, holistic approach to healing.
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The most singularly amazing & helpful book!
- De view en 04-09-24
De: Meghan Jobson MD PhD, y otros
an honest telling of the horror of addiction
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Beautiful story about love and compassion
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Have not read one of Verghese’s books that was not a great story. This is hard content to read.
Great writer, tough story.
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Engaging story
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Heart Gripping
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Autobiographical
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Characters
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sad
heartbreaking
sobering
empathetic
honest
Must read for all those in the medical profession
Honesty
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ThiS man is an extraordinary writer.
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Another great book by Abraham Verghese
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