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-Titulo Original : The Nurses Secret: A Thrilling Historical Novel Of The Dark Side Of Gilded Age New York City
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Kensington
-Descripcion Original:
Product Description The unflinching, spellbinding new book from the acclaimed author of The Second Life of Mirielle West. Based on the little-known story of America s first nursing school, a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital s training school for nurses, while a spate of murders continues to follow her as she tries to leave the gritty streets of the city behind... A spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. This is historical fiction at its finest! – Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker s Secret BookBub s Best Historical Fiction of Summer Based on Florence Nightingale s nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ignorant and unskilled, Bellevue prizes discipline, intellect, and moral character, and only young women of good breeding need apply. At first, Una balks at her prim classmates and the doctors endless commands. Yet life on the streets has prepared her for the horrors of injury and disease found on the wards, and she slowly gains friendship and self-respect. Just as she finds her footing, Una s suspicions about a patient s death put her at risk of exposure, and will force her to choose between her instinct for self-preservation, and exposing her identity in order to save others. Amanda Skenandore brings her medical expertise to a page-turning story that explores the evolution of modern nursing including the grisly realities of nineteenth-century medicine as seen through the eyes of an intriguing and dynamic heroine. PRAISE FOR AMANDA SKENANDORE S THE SECOND LIFE OF MIRIELLE WEST In this superior historical, the author s diligent research, as well as her empathetic depiction of those subjected to forced medical isolation, make this a winner. Publishers Weekly Review Praise for Amanda Skenandore Amanda Skenandore dazzles us with a spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. I was fascinated from start to finish and could not put this book down. This is historical fiction at its finest! Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker s Secret on The Nurse s Secret In this superior historical from Skenandore, the wife of a 1920s Hollywood actor is transformed by the news of a medical diagnosis... Skenandore makes plausible Mirielle s metamorphosis from Hollywood socialite to active, caring member of the Carville community. The author s diligent research, as well as her empathetic depiction of those subjected to forced medical isolation, make this a winner. Publishers Weeklyon The Second Life of Mirielle West Scrupulous in her research and practically clairvoyant in her choice of urgent subjects from the Indigenous boarding schools of her first novel to the disease and quarantine of The Second Life of Mirielle West historical novelist Amanda Skenandore has quietly become one of the valley s finest authors. The Las Vegas Review Journal Despite being a fictional work, in her book The Second Life of Mirielle West Amanda Skenandore has used her medical background as a registered nurse and her storytelling skills as a writer to describe the sorrows experienced by patients with leprosy who were quarantined at the Carville Leper Home. The Lancet Effies community of freedmen and Creoles in Reconstruction New Orleans is unforgettable. Skenandores second novel is recommended for readers who enjoy medical historical fiction reminiscent of Diane McKinney-Whetstones Lazaretto, and historical fiction with interpersonal drama. Library Journal on The Undertakers Assistant Our immersion in that world--from the particulars of baking marble cake to the grisly minutiae of embalming corpses to the messy and violent politics of the Reconstruction South--is so complete that the reader never doubts it once existed. That said, one of this novels many
-Fabricante :
Kensington
-Descripcion Original:
Product Description The unflinching, spellbinding new book from the acclaimed author of The Second Life of Mirielle West. Based on the little-known story of America s first nursing school, a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital s training school for nurses, while a spate of murders continues to follow her as she tries to leave the gritty streets of the city behind... A spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. This is historical fiction at its finest! – Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker s Secret BookBub s Best Historical Fiction of Summer Based on Florence Nightingale s nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ignorant and unskilled, Bellevue prizes discipline, intellect, and moral character, and only young women of good breeding need apply. At first, Una balks at her prim classmates and the doctors endless commands. Yet life on the streets has prepared her for the horrors of injury and disease found on the wards, and she slowly gains friendship and self-respect. Just as she finds her footing, Una s suspicions about a patient s death put her at risk of exposure, and will force her to choose between her instinct for self-preservation, and exposing her identity in order to save others. Amanda Skenandore brings her medical expertise to a page-turning story that explores the evolution of modern nursing including the grisly realities of nineteenth-century medicine as seen through the eyes of an intriguing and dynamic heroine. PRAISE FOR AMANDA SKENANDORE S THE SECOND LIFE OF MIRIELLE WEST In this superior historical, the author s diligent research, as well as her empathetic depiction of those subjected to forced medical isolation, make this a winner. Publishers Weekly Review Praise for Amanda Skenandore Amanda Skenandore dazzles us with a spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. I was fascinated from start to finish and could not put this book down. This is historical fiction at its finest! Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker s Secret on The Nurse s Secret In this superior historical from Skenandore, the wife of a 1920s Hollywood actor is transformed by the news of a medical diagnosis... Skenandore makes plausible Mirielle s metamorphosis from Hollywood socialite to active, caring member of the Carville community. The author s diligent research, as well as her empathetic depiction of those subjected to forced medical isolation, make this a winner. Publishers Weeklyon The Second Life of Mirielle West Scrupulous in her research and practically clairvoyant in her choice of urgent subjects from the Indigenous boarding schools of her first novel to the disease and quarantine of The Second Life of Mirielle West historical novelist Amanda Skenandore has quietly become one of the valley s finest authors. The Las Vegas Review Journal Despite being a fictional work, in her book The Second Life of Mirielle West Amanda Skenandore has used her medical background as a registered nurse and her storytelling skills as a writer to describe the sorrows experienced by patients with leprosy who were quarantined at the Carville Leper Home. The Lancet Effies community of freedmen and Creoles in Reconstruction New Orleans is unforgettable. Skenandores second novel is recommended for readers who enjoy medical historical fiction reminiscent of Diane McKinney-Whetstones Lazaretto, and historical fiction with interpersonal drama. Library Journal on The Undertakers Assistant Our immersion in that world--from the particulars of baking marble cake to the grisly minutiae of embalming corpses to the messy and violent politics of the Reconstruction South--is so complete that the reader never doubts it once existed. That said, one of this novels many
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