Library

Here is a list of the books currently in our library. The genres vary across fiction, memoir, graphic medicine, reflections on the illness experience and poetry. Generally, clinical textbooks would not be included unless they exhibit a unique view of the medical world – such textbooks are already easily available through our medical school library. Big thanks to everyone who has donated!

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Author: Stephen R. Covey


The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho is one of the best selling and most influential authors in the world. Visit the Author online at www.paulocoelho.com

Author: Paulo Coelho


Autobiography of a Face

At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance.

Author: Lucy Grealy


The Body Keeps The Score

This book exposes the tremendous power of our relationship both to hurt and to heal – and offers new hope for reclaiming lives. Transforming our understanding of trauma and offering a bold new paradigm for healing.

Author: Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.


The Bourne Ultimatum

At a small town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed “Jason Bourne”. Only they knows Bourne’s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s deadliest and most elusive terrorist.

Author: Robert Ludlum



Complications

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, oferring an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is – uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

Author: Atul Gawande