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HarperTrophy, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. From Publishers Weekly: Among the ingredients of this high-camp fantasy-mystery (besides the eponymous arachnids) are a club of seven elementary school girls, a meddlesome reporter named Meg Snoople and a romance between an ill truck driver and his nurse. Ages 8-12.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Yearling, 1983. Paperback. Good. Book Description Daniel, a midwestern farm boy, finds a battered dog and nurses it back to health, but is disappointed when the dog doesn't respond to his gestures of affection. ---- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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HarperEntertainment, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Book Description While visiting a track in New York, Christina Reese meets Cindy Blake, the well-known jockey and long-lost member of the Whitebrook family. Cindy has been plagued with shoulder problems throughout her racing career, and Christina is thrilled when her newly found relative aceepts an invitation to come to Whitebrook to rest and heal. But Cindy isn't the mentor Christina hoped she'd be. Bitter about racing, Cindy offers Christina li... more information

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Publications International, Ltd, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Book Description Take care of dozens of health problems at home with Hundreds of medical Remedies & Cures for Common Ailments. This is not a book of risky alternative therapies, "secret" treatments, or "miracle" cures. It's a compilation of safe, practical home remedies and health hints collected from physicians, nurses, and other health professionals and reviewed by John H. Renner, M.D. and the Consumer Health Infor... more information

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Aladdin, 1986. Paperback. Like New. Book Description Young Clara Barton is shy and lonely in her early days at boarding school. She is snubbed by the other girls because she doesn't know how to talk to them. But when she gets an opportunity to assist the local doctor, her shyness disappears, and Clara begins to discover her true calling as a nurse. When her beloved dog, Patch, is run over by a wagon, Clara nurses him back to health. Clara will grow up to become the founder of the American Red Cros... more information

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Dell Publishing Company, 1986. Paperback. Very Good. At 54, Charles Paris is still nursing the hope that one day his acting talent will be showcased in a brilliant West End play, The Hooded Owl. Alex Household, who wants the leading role, and Charles are feeling more and more confident as announcements are made that the play will have a West End run. But their hopes are dashed when they're told that both their parts are being given to well-known television actors. Alex storms off the set in a rage, bu... more information

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Onyx, 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Good. .--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Trans-Atlantic Publications, 1993. Paperback. Used - Good. Keating's last Inspector Ghote novel (The Iciest Sin) focused on the ethics of detection; this ironic tale goes still further in exploring the obsession of Detective Inspector Bill Sylvester, who investigates an anonymous tip that polished antiques-dealer Charles Roanoke has killed three nursing-home residents for the money he's inveigled them into leaving him. Despite increasingly fervent warnings from Supt. Sugden, the Big White Chief, t... more information

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Healing Arts Press, 1989. Paperback. Like New. Book Description The authors of Women on Menopause have turned to a topic of importance to all women, bringing to their subject a unique balance of clear, factual information and sound, supportive guidance. Their thoughtful discussion of menopause is augmented by first-hand experiences of physicians and nurses treating menopause and by the insights of women who are going through this transition themselves. These accounts are particularly valuable in that the... more information

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New English Library Ltd, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. When her married boyfriend is killed on the job, a fast-track London detective transfers to West Midlands looking for the peace and quiet that's so elusive in mystery fiction. Arriving at the Birmingham CID, Detective Sergeant Kate Power finds her new colleagues hunting a pedophilic killer and her old Auntie Cassie in a nursing home, from which vantage point she's left Kate a decrepit house and volunteered her for Sunday organ-playing at the loc... more information

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Dell, 1999. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen applianc... more information

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Clean, tight. Minor shelf wear. Cover may be different from that shown. Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the ... more information

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Ballantine Books, 1998. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. In New York City in the late '90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she's severely disoriented. Within seconds, it seems, she's in convulsions and, most bizarrely, can't stop biting herself. All the reader can do is hope she'll die quickly, but Kate Moran's body still has a few more disgusting turns to undergo, and Richard Preston--a Ja... more information

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Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. Meet Sophie. She sees herself as the too-tall "Mount Everest of teenage girls," who, along with her friends, often suffers from "lackonookie disease." She's dating smoky, sexy Dylan, covertly chatting online with "cybersoul"-mate Chaz, and secretly nursing a crush on sweet, geeky Murphy. Her two best friends are closer to her than sisters, and she "hates hating" her soap opera-addic... more information

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Harper Perennial, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. From Publishers Weekly The tragedy of a New York couple recounted in this candid, poignant journal also serves as a means of catharsis for the first-time author, who is the widow of an AIDS-afflicted mate. Cox's pain over her impending loss was compounded by a sense of betrayal at the duplicity of Keith, who had not told her he was gay until he sickened. During months of nursing him she grappled with a need to reassess their relationship and protect their... more information

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Penguin Books, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Her father's death prompts Grizelda to recall many of her more painful childhood memories, and also to confront some of the messy realities of her relationship with her female lover. She reluctantly recalls how she used to bully a strange little boy; and she nurses her regret that she never gave her father the chance to unburden himself of his excruciating memories as a Japanese POW. Glaister's novel is sophisticated and assured.--- Toronto Store Pick-up ... more information

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Vintage, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Clean, tight. Some helf wear. "Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu." Like a fairy tale, Ha Jin's masterful novel of love and politics begins with a formula--and like a fairy tale, Waiting uses its slight, deceptively simple framework to encompass a wide range of truths about the human heart. Lin Kong is a Chinese army doctor trapped in an arranged marriage that embarrasses and repels him. (Shuyu has country ways, a ... more information

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NAL Trade, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. Shors' sophomore effort (following Beneath a Marble Sky), set on an island in the South Pacific during three weeks in 1942, features achingly lyrical prose, even in depicting the horrors of war. After a U.S. hospital ship is torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese, a handful of survivors struggle for survival on a remote island. They include the captain and an officer; a Japanese prisoner, Akira, and two ship's nurses he saved (one of them the captain's wife);... more information

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Back Bay Books, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. In today's era of high-technology medicine, Suzanne Gordon, editor of books such as Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics, brings us the story of three nurses who work to humanize the experience of receiving medical care. W--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. From the Publisher Brian Burtch looks at contemporary midwifery practice in Canada and the role of the state in shaping and defining that practice. He examines the qualifications of midwives and discusses their legal status, the legacy of competition between nurses and midwives, and the impact of legal actions concerning midwifery practice. He emphasizes the pivotal role of the state in supporting midwifery and discusses the difficulties cr... more information

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