Browse Books: Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine (Hardcover) By M.D. Ricardo Nuila $28.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Paperback) By Harriet A. Washington $18.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Paperback) By Robert Kolker $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (Paperback) By Rachel Aviv $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover) By Robert Kolker $29.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	On the Move: A Life (Paperback) By Oliver Sacks $16.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives (Paperback) By Brian Dillon $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Hardcover) By Thomas De Quincey, Frances Wilson (Introduction by) $15.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities (Hardcover) By Claudia Kalb $24.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people (Hardcover) By Tracy Kidder $30.00 Add to Wish List Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (Hardcover) By Rachel Aviv $28.00 Add to Wish List Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Paperback) By Suleika Jaouad $18.00 Add to Wish List Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days

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Banned or challenged books - a small selection

The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Art Spiegelman Cover Image

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image

A Light in the Attic By Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) Cover Image

The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner By Angie Thomas, Amandla Stenberg (Foreword by) Cover Image

The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image

Halloween Books

Stranger Things: Heroes and Monsters (Choose Your Own Adventure) By Rana Tahir, Patrick Spaziante (Illustrator), Katherine Spaziante (Illustrator) Cover Image

A Halloween Scare in St. Louis By Eric James, Marina Le Ray (Illustrator) Cover Image

Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel By Ray Bradbury Cover Image

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Three Books to Chill Your Bones: All 3 Scary Stories Books with the Original Art! By Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell (Illustrator) Cover Image

Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Works (Leather-bound Classics) By Edgar Allan Poe, A. J. Odasso (Introduction by) Cover Image

Vegetables in Halloween Costumes By Jared Chapman Cover Image

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