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Title:  Welcome to Nursing HELLo Author: Joel Craig First copyright date: 2014 Type of book: Nurses, medical, graphic memoir, art, creativity, life Special features: N/A Price: N/A ISBN/ASIN: 9781493716579 Summary: What happens when all the jobs for movie star have been filled? The next best thing is to become a nurse and that is exactly what Joel Craig did. Follow this RN's rocky rise into nursing. If you are a nurse, nursing student, want to be a nurse or will be going into the hospital anytime soon, check out this story. Joel writes about the things that nurses think but never dare to say out loud. Personal Opinion First of all, I'm not a nurse, and one of the reasons I decided to read and review it is because someone I knew is planning on becoming a nurse, and I hoped it would give me some perspective and understanding of what the person will go through. What's good is that its written as a graphic memoir, which means that it can be a short rea...

Name of Book: Keeping My Hope Author: Christopher Huh ISBN: 9781479348831 Publisher: Self published Christopher Huh? Type of book: graphic novel, middle grades, 1930s-1940s, Holocaust, Poland, family, friendship, Nazi, Germany Year it was published: 2013 Summary: Keeping My Hope is a historical fiction graphic novel that depicts WWII and the Holocaust panoramically and cinematographically through the eyes of a young teenager, Ari. Written by 14-year old Christopher Huh. Ari is a teenager whose entire life is turned upside down by the horrors of the Holocaust. He and his family are torn apart and moved to Auschwitz, where the reader gains an inside look at what prisoners in the concentration camps suffered. However, even with this atrocities, the power of friendship shines through and gives Ari hope to keep surviving through the darkest blizzards of terror. Informative yet touching, Keeping My Hope spreads the message of how powerfully racism and prejudice can affect t...