subject results for "Tuberculosis."

Everything Is Tuberculosis

Green, John — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry's story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world -- and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis"--

Everything Is Tuberculosis

Green, John — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller
John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun-Times. Goodreads Readers’ Choice Nonfiction Winner.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.
In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

When the Meadow Blooms

Gabhart, Ann H. — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

"Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring to his life?"--Provided by publisher.

Qi feng le

Hori, Tatsuo — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Bad Juliet

Blunt, Giles — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"At a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster. Recently jilted by his fiancé, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom, Paul encourages her to write a memoir. As Paul reads her words, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah's memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can't begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves Sarah worried that she has little time left, she begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her."--

Light and Air

Wendell, Mindy Nichols — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York"--

The Empusium

Tokarczuk, Olga — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target."--Back cover.

The Empusium

Tokarczuk, Olga — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas"--

Plague-busters!

Fitzharris, Lindsey — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

"This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--

Oscar Lives Next Door

Farmer, Bonnie — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Meet Oscar Peterson, who will someday become a legendary jazz pianist. He started out as a boy who loved to play the trumpet, until tuberculosis left his lungs too weak to blow the horn.

With Every Breath

Camden, Elizabeth — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

"It's 1891 and Trevor and Kate are united in a quest to cure tuberculosis. Can they overcome past secrets and current threats to find hope for a future together?"--Provided by publisher.

The Mistress of Nothing

Pullinger, Kate — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Clara's Rib

Flannigan, Clara Raina — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

"Clara's Rib is the true story of Clara Raina Flannigan. Clara was an inveterate diarist and, from the time she entered the Royal Ottawa Sanatorium for tuberculosis patients at twelve years of age, until her final discharge from the San when she was twenty-six years of age, she gives a riveting description of growing up in the San. Facing personal life and death medical setbacks on a daily basis, along with frequently standing around a death bed with other patients praying while one of their young friends died, promoted maturing quickly"--Publisher.

The Mistress of Nothing

Pullinger, Kate — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Mistress of Nothing

Pullinger, Kate — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A Life Consumed

Sims, Diane — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A collection of Lilly Samson's diary entries which are connected by fictitious narrative by her niece, Diane Sims.

Saara's Passage

Autio, Karen — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In this sequel to Second watch, Eleven-year-old Saara survives the Empress of Ireland shipwreck, only to suffer from nightmares and unaswereable questions. When her aunt is sent to a sanitorium she worries who will look after Baby Sanni.

The Forgotten Plague

Invalid Date

Historians and scientists discuss the widespread outbreak of tuberculosis that existed during the early nineteenth century.

The Mistress of Nothing

Pullinger, Kate — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London society. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd menage (marshalled by the resourceful Omar) that travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. When Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress, throwing herself into weekly salons, language lessons and excursions to the tombs, Sally too adapts to a new world, which affords her heady and heartfelt freedoms never known before. But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill-afford, and when Sally grasps more than her status entitles her to, she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing.