There have been nine files - seven made for TV movies and three major motion pictures that were adapted from Patterson novels. His books have sold approximately 300 million copies worldwide and he is the first author to achieve ten million eBook sales.
In fact, he holds the New York Times AND Guinness records for most best-selling, hardcover, fiction titles by a single author, an astonishing accomplishment of 76! Patterson is possible best known for his Alex Cross series, which has held the top selling detective series for the past ten years. Sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes frightening, give this book to someone who is thinking of being a nurse or is one already.James Patterson is a world-renowned mystery writer that has dominated the New York Times Bestseller list for decades. "James Patterson and Matt Eversmann have captured the essence and drama of what it takes to be a nurse. “Thriller legend James Patterson has compiled hundreds of interviews for his poignant and timely nonfiction recounting of the dramatic, dangerous, and professional lives of America’s nurses.”- Parade From the heartfelt to the tragic, this book displays the nursing profession in all its unsung glory. A timely tribute to the modern-day heroes of medicine, conveyed in their own words.”- Kirkus “These readable bite-sized snippets represent a significant caregiver demographic of women and men who exhibit the labor-intensive focus, compassion, dedication, and passion necessary to be an emergency nurse. Readers will be stunned and moved by this no-holds-barred portrait of nurses' essential and deeply meaningful work.”- Theresa Brown, PhD, RN, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives Nurses captures the beating heart of nursing: the lives lost and saved, the hard tragedies and unbelievable miracles, and how every day nurses show up, give their all for patients, and then do it over and over and over again, all while holding onto their empathy and humanity.
In their own bullet-straight words, these heroes describe the pain, the love, and the brutally hard work of trying to save people's lives. I could not stop reading it and when I was done I felt like I was changed forever." - Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom, Tribe, War, Fire, and The Perfect Storm
"James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read. Nurses.”- Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN Their stories are given the respect they deserve and are captured beautifully in E.R. They save our lives every day and represent the true life blood of any hospital. “As a trauma neurosurgeon, I have witnessed the compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of our nurses in countless situations.
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