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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
August 3, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Thursday, August 4th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE NURSES: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital by Alexandra Robbins, which is available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Summer Reading contests on our Pinterest page here.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE NURSES: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital, by Alexandra Robbins
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Nursing is more than a career; it is a calling, and one of the most important, fascinating and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline responders battling traumas, illnesses and aggression from surprising sources, nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects them.
In THE NURSES, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Alexandra Robbins peers behind the staff-only door to write a lively, fast-paced story and a riveting work of investigative journalism. Robbins followed real-life nurses in four hospitals and interviewed hundreds of others in a captivating book filled with joy and violence, miracles and heartbreak, dark humor and narrow victories, gripping drama and unsung heroism.
Robbins creates sympathetic, engaging characters while diving deep into their world of controlled chaos --- the hazing (“nurses eat their young”); sex (not exactly like on TV, but it happens more often than you think); painkiller addiction (disproportionately a problem among the best and brightest); and bullying (by doctors, patients and others). The result is a page-turner possessing all the twists and turns of a brilliantly told narrative --- and a shocking, unvarnished examination of our healthcare system.
THE NURSES is a must-read both for the general public, who will learn hospital secrets that could save their own or a loved one’s life, and for nurses, who will proudly share the book as a rallying cry for support and celebration.
-Click here to visit Alexandra Robbins' official website.
-Click here to connect with Alexandra Robbins on Facebook.
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Click here to enter the contest by Thursday, August 4th at 11:59am ET. |
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