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Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine.

This Is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story. By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs up his scrubs, but medicine refuses to let go of him. Undoctored is Adam Kay's funniest and most moving book yet—an astonishing portrait of a life in and out of medicine, from one of Britain's finest storytellers.

Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: His wife, Thea, has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him. Welcome to the Bromance Book Club. Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men.

Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville’s hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors. After she catches him harassing a young hostess, she confronts him and gets fired. Liv vows revenge, but she’ll need assistance to take on the powerful chef. Unfortunately, that means turning to Braden Mack. When Liv’s blackballed from the restaurant scene, the charismatic nightclub entrepreneur offers to help expose her ex-boss, but she is suspicious of his motives.

Elena Konnikova has lived her entire adult life in the shadows. As the daughter of a Russian journalist who mysteriously disappeared, she escaped danger the only way she knew how: She married her childhood friend, Vladimir, and moved to the United States, where he is a professional hockey player in Nashville.

Country music’s golden boy Colton Wheeler felt the most perfect harmony when he was with Gretchen Winthrop. But for her, it was a love him and leave him situation. A year later, Colton is struggling to push his music forward in a new direction. If it weren’t about to be the most magical time of year and the support of the Bromance Book Club, he’d be wallowing in self-pity.

Explore each organ of the body in this immersive audiobook adaptation of Kay's Anatomy, read by world-wide multi-million bestselling author and former doctor Adam Kay with a full cast of voices, including Mark Gatiss, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Nyman and Lolly Adefope.

Alexis Carlisle and her cat café, ToeBeans, have shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef’s sexual harassment. When a new customer approaches to confide in her, the last thing Alexis expects is for the woman to claim they’re sisters. Unsure what to do, Alexis turns to the only man she trusts - her best friend, Noah Logan. Computer genius Noah left his rebellious teenage hacker past behind to become a computer security expert. Now he only uses his old skills for the right cause. But Noah’s got a secret: He’s madly in love with Alexis.

What Seems to Be the Problem with Adam Kay and Mark Watson reveals the intriguing and hilarious ways the body can go wrong - and the amazing stories that unfold when the medical world tries to help.... In conversation with his (very health-anxious) friend, the comedian Mark Watson, best-selling doctor-turned-writer Adam Kay takes a scalpel to the bizarre past, often-surprising present and fantastical future of medicine.

After a lackluster season and a disastrous performance that cost his team the World Series, Vegas Aces Pitcher Eric Weaver now faces an ultimatum from team management: Fix what's wrong with his game by the end of spring training, or else. When they tell him they're bringing in a new pitching coach to tweak his technique, he grits his teeth and agrees to be coached like a Little Leaguer again. He has sacrificed everything for his career and will do whatever it takes to save it. Until they tell him who the new coach is.

In Dear NHS, an amazing list of inspirational people come together to share their stories of how the national health service has been there for them and changed their lives in the process. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned, these stories together become a love letter to the NHS and the 1.4 million people who go above and beyond the call of duty every single day - selflessly, generously, putting others before themselves, never more so than now.

Ever Beckinsale is as competitive as any other athlete in Rio, but the American equestrian has at least one more reason than most for pursuing gold. If she can win, she’ll finally have the leverage she needs to live her life on her own terms and escape the stifling expectations of being the daughter of one of America’s richest families. But she’ll still have one last unfulfilled dream - finding the mysterious stranger who showed her an unexpected kindness two years ago.

Liebesromane sind auch (k)eine Lösung. Noah Logan hat ein Problem: Er ist in seine beste Freundin Alexis verliebt. Und das ist ein Problem, weil... na ja, weil sie eben seine beste Freundin ist. Er will Alexis auf gar keinen Fall verlieren. Nur, wenn er ihr seine Gefühle gesteht, könnte genau das passieren. Noah hat keine Ahnung, wie es weitergehen soll. Und verzweifelte Männer tun verzweifelte Dinge. Wie sich dem Secret Book Club anzuschließen. Die Jungs aus dem Buchclub sind der Überzeugung, dass sich jede Beziehung mit Hilfe von Liebesromanen verbessern lässt.

Jax Tanner knows this is it - one last season of summer ball before his dreams of being a Major League draft pick dry up and scatter in the wind like the dunes of Silver Lake. Once a Top 20 prospect, he’s now a wait-and-see thanks to a shoulder injury. If he doesn’t literally hit a homerun - lots of them - the only baseball in his future might be the community rec team sponsored by his family’s hardware chain. But baseball isn’t Jax’s only unfinished business in Silver Lake. There’s also her.

Die Ehe von Profisportler Gavin steckt in der Krise. Genau genommen ist sie sogar vorbei, wenn es nach seiner Frau Thea geht. Und das darf nicht sein. Thea ist die Liebe seines Lebens! Und er versteht, verdammt noch mal, nicht, was überhaupt passiert ist. Eigentlich müsste SIE sich bei IHM entschuldigen! Gavin ist ratlos und verzweifelt - bis einer seiner Freunde ihn mit zu einem Treffen nimmt. Einem Treffen des Secret Book Club. Hier lesen und diskutieren Männer heimlich Liebesromane, um ihre Frauen besser zu verstehen. Gavin hält das für Schwachsinn.

The Stantons and the Nortons were families in the truest, oldest sense: extended networks of kin stretching across the mountains, everyone within hiking distance. They’d come from the British Isles and settled in the Appalachians of North Carolina during the 1700s, bringing with them their dearly loved songs and their clannish ways, their ties to the land ultimately becoming as strong as their ties to one another.

Echte Männer lesen Liebesromane. Findet zumindest Geschäftsmann Braden Mack. Er gehört einem geheimen Buchclub an, in dem Männer Romances lesen und diskutieren, um Frauen besser zu verstehen. Theoretisch klappt das bestens, praktisch stellt ihn Liv, die Schwägerin seines Freundes Gavin, vor ein Rätsel. Er ist hin und weg von ihr, aber egal was er versucht, sie lässt ihn abblitzen. Doch als sie ihren Job verliert, schäumt sie vor Wut und bittet Mack um Hilfe: Sie will ihren Ex-Chef bloßstellen, der sexuelle Belästigung für ein Berufsrisiko hält.

Princess Kalei of Marama is moon-blessed, allowing her to resurrect her kingdom's loyal subjects. But when she's attacked in her safe lighthouse by a fiery pirate, her worldview is shattered once she learns what her power is really being used for. Determined to prove her innocence and willingness to stop her father, she has no choice but to trust her would-be killer to safely deliver her to the Vodaeardean princess. But who can she trust in when it seems Captain Evhen is not the only one who wants her dead?

Astro do country, Colton Wheeler sente uma sincronia perfeita entre ele e Gretchen Winthrop... só que ela não está interessada em compromisso. Um ano depois de um primeiro encontro que não deu certo, Colton tenta superar a paixão e enveredar por outros caminhos da música, tentando retomar o sucesso de antes. Não fosse a magia do Natal e o apoio do Clube do Livro dos Homens, ele estaria sofrendo encolhido num canto.

Liv Papandreas tem o emprego dos sonhos: ela é chef confeiteira do restaurante mais badalado de Nashville, comandado por Royce Preston, uma celebridade da TV. O problema é que, longe das câmeras, seu chefe é um mau-caráter. Certo dia, Liv flagra Royce assediando uma jovem recepcionista e, ao confrontá-lo, acaba demitida. Ela jura vingança, mas vai precisar de ajuda para derrotar alguém tão poderoso.