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  • Laughing is Legal!

    More enlightening, outrageous, and humorous tales from the orthopedic surgeon and author of Bony Baloney and Write Side of the Grass

    by Ralph V. Wilson ...
    Laughing is Legal! The primary purpose for writing this book was to create a fun read. I hope my stories will variously entertain you with insights from a physician's perspective, or explain unexpected and fascinating details behind prosaic topics like Money, Marble, or Mosquitoes. Many vignettes are my firsthand accounts of dealing with puzzling personalities and unpredictable behavior of my ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Adventures in Human Anatomy

    by Mary Roach ...
    **An Instant New York Times BestsellerA BEST BOOK OF 2025: TIME • SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN • SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE • KIRKUS • SHELF AWARENESS • CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARYA Goodreads Choice Awards NomineeFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy.**The body is the most complex machine in the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So

    A Memoir

    by Mark Vonnegut M.D. ...
    More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learning that willpower isn’t nearly enough.Here is Mark’s life childhood as the son of a struggling writer, as well as the world after Mark was released from a mental hospital. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Saving My Knees: How I Proved My Doctors Wrong and Beat Chronic Knee Pain

    by Richard Bedard ...
    "Saving My Knees" tells an inspirational story of beating chronic knee pain (2nd edition: August 2017). Richard Bedard was a journalist in his mid-40s, living abroad, when he was diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome, or chondromalacia patella. His burning joints made his life so miserable that he fantasized about hacking off his kneecaps. Four doctors failed to help; one said he would never ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nightingale Tales

    Stories from My Life as a Nurse

    by Lynn Dow RN ...
    In the 1950s, nurses served as handmaidens to the physician; by the start of the new millennium, they had become admired independent practitioners. Nightingale Tales is a peek into that transition, as told by a nurse who lived it. Each chapter is a stand-alone story depicting the ridiculous mores nurses have been subjected to over the years, the archaic equipment they’ve had to struggle with, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader The World's Gone Crazy

    432 All-New Pages of the Strangest, Most Outrageous Stuff You'll Ever Read

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    Uncle John's latest compendium of the most bizarre and entertaining information imaginable: a Worldwide Weird-opedia!Good news: It's not you, the world really is going crazy! And Uncle John is barely sane enough to guide you through it all in this whirlwind tour of all things strange and weird. Yes, loyal Throne Room readers, these 432 all-new pages of pure crazy will shock and confound you . . . ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Because I Said So!

    The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids

    by Ken Jennings ...
    Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings “reveals the truth behind all those things you tell your children” (Parade) in this entertaining and useful New York Times bestseller about parenting myths, old wives’ tales, and everyday warnings “armed with case histories, scientific find... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Best of Us

    A Memoir

    by Joyce Maynard ...
    'This haunting story, penned by a master wordsmith, is a reminder to savor every loved one and every day.' BooklistIndie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember

    The Stroke That Changed My Life

    by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee ...
    A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three.Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on the morning of December 31, 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world—quite literally—upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, her doctors informed her that she had had a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Stuck Up!

    125 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They Shouldn't Be

    by Rich E. Dreben, Murdoc Knight, Marty A. Sindhian ...
    A very funny collection of 100 X-ray images showing foreign objects ingested or inserted into human bodies, accidentally or on purpose.The human imagination truly knows no limits. Without it, there would be no great art, no advances in science and technology, and no extreme sports. Without it, we'd also be deprived of the many insights into human nature that we get out of witnessing other people ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A History of Present Illness

    A Novel

    by Anna DeForest ...
    This “brutal and brave” (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation—physical, spiritual, or both.A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Dave Barry Turns Forty

    by Dave Barry ...
    "Just the ticket for the '90s."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEIf you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put on your protective eyewear and take a probing look inside your increasingly Spam-like body at: The Midlife (Yawn ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD