Monday, October 12, 2009

Mailbox Monday -- Columbus Day

Thanks to Marcia at The Printed Page I'm participating in the Mailbox Monday round up. This week I received the following advance review copies:

1) Cheating Death by Sanjay Gupta: Publisher's Summary: An unborn baby with a fatal heart defect . . . a skier submerged for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake . . . a comatose brain surgery patient whom doctors have declared a "vegetable."
Twenty years ago all of them would have been given up for dead, with no realistic hope for survival. But today, thanks to incredible new medical advances, each of these individuals is alive and well . . .Cheating Death.
In this riveting book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta-neurosurgeon, chief medical correspondent for CNN, and bestselling author-chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible. A bold new breed of doctors has achieved amazing rescues by refusing to accept that any life is irretrievably lost. Extended cardiac arrest, "brain death," not breathing for over an hour-all these conditions used to be considered inevitably fatal, but they no longer are. Today, revolutionary advances are blurring the traditional line between life and death in fascinating ways.

Drawing on real-life stories and using his unprecedented access to the latest medical research, Dr. Gupta dramatically presents exciting accounts of how pioneering physicians and researchers are altering our understanding of how the human body functions when it comes to survival-and why more and more patients who once would have died are now alive. From experiments with therapeutic hypothermia to save comatose stroke or heart attack victims to lifesaving operations in utero to the study of animal hibernation to help wounded soldiers on far-off battlefields, these remarkable case histories transform and enrich all our assumptions about the true nature of death and life.

Thanks to Hachette Book Group.

2) Secrets of the Christmas Box by Steven Hornby. Amazon Product Description. Enter the magical festive world of the Christmas 'Tree-Dwellers', as Larry, a Christmas snowman, wakes up after the long sleep in the Christmas box, to find his brother is missing.

Desperate to find him before Christmas, Larry, along with his girlfriend Debbie, a newcomer Splint, and Larry's companion Tinsel, break the laws of the 'Tree-Elders' and escape down the tree and away into the house, to look for clues.

Away from the safety of the tree and in an unfamiliar world, the Dwellers stumble upon a dark and sinister secret that threatens their entire world. Can Larry and the group make it back to the tree in time to warn the others, and finally uncover the truth behind the 'Secrets of a Christmas Box'?


Thanks to Shelf Awareness.

15 comments:

  1. Wow, Cheating Death sounds fascinating!

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  2. I'm with bermudaonion - cheating death sounds really interesting. Happy reading!
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  3. I've been seeing Dr. Gupta's book a lot lately - enjoy!

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  4. Interesting and unheard of as usual :) So much fun.
    Happy reading

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  5. Cheating Death sounds fascinating and The Christmas Box looks really cute. Enjoy your books!

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  6. Cheating Death is going on my WL. I love books and tv shows about this stuff! It's very interesting!

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  7. I think I'll look up that second book. Thanks for stopping by today.

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  8. I have read some about that first book. Science and medicine are amazing. The Hornby book sounds good, too. Can't wait for your reviews.

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  9. Secrets of the Christmas Box looks really cute.

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  10. I havent heard of it til now but Cheating Death sounds awesome. It's going straight on my wishlist, thanks!

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  11. Enjoy your books! They sound great.

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  12. I've been seeing Secrets of the Christmas Box in some of the book blogs. Enjoy all your books! :)

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  13. Cheating Death sounds like an interesting book. Happy reading.

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  14. These both sound good. Hope you like them.

    --Anna
    Diary of an Eccentric

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