Showing results for "The Best Man" in Literary Fiction

Years after the events of The House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern cohorts to join him to teach a new generation of interns and residents. In a medical landscape dominated by computer screens and corrupted by money, they have one goal: to make medicine humane again.

Brenden McCarthy feels like he’s lost everything. His fiancée. His independence. And his passion for life. All due to one mountain-climbing misstep that cost him his sight. But he’s about to gain the last thing he ever expected: a big-hearted black Labrador named Nelson who’s given one last shot at being a Seeing Eye dog. Both are beyond hope and resigned to live alone. And both are about to experience a bond of friendship that develops when they least expect it.

Poet Gabriel Syme believes in the beauty of order and, as such, is recruited by Scotland Yard to an anti-anarchist police corp. While undercover, Syme meets fellow poet Lucian Gregory, a verse writer devoted to disorder, who introduces him to London’s anarchist underworld. Just as Gregory is to be elected to the central council, Syme’s cover is revealed and he is forced to make a decision that sends the cabal into chaos. Is anyone in this underground faction who or what they seem? Syme suddenly realizes he doesn’t have all the answers.

Plötzlich wird für Sophia alles anders: Ihr Ex-Mann erwartet ein Kind mit seiner Neuen, und kurz darauf stirbt ihre Mutter. Es beginnt eine Zeit der unendlichen Einsamkeit - und Schlaflosigkeit. Tagsüber fühlt sich Sophia wie ein Zombie, nachts treibt sie sich auf Twitter herum. Bis sie sich traut, selbst etwas zu twittern: "Suche andere Schlaflose im Raum Hamburg". Gleich drei Frauen melden sich: Margarete, Klara und Katharina - alle sind schlaflos.