Heavy Reserve Alert — ‘Survivors Club’
I usually ignore flight attendants’ suggestions that I read the safety brochure in the seat pocket in front of me. However, on my way to MidWinter, I found myself studying the brochure carefully as we flew over the Hudson River, where a plane had made an emergency landing just a week before.
In the midst of our heightened awareness that it’s good to know what you’re doing in an emergency, comes the new book, The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life.
An adaptation of the book is featured in this week’s Newsweek (the opening scenario is about a librarian who accidentally stabs herself in the heart with a knitting needle and survives because she did the right things).
Some libraries are showing heavy reserves. The book is also available in large type and audio; most libraries have not ordered it in those formats yet.
The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life
Sherwood, Ben
- Hardcover: $25.99; 400 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (January 26, 2009)
- ISBN-10: 0446580244
- ISBN-13: 978-0446580243
- Large Type, Hardcover: $27.99; 576 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (January 26, 2009)
- ISBN-10: 0446541230
- ISBN-13: 978-0446541237
- Audio CD: Unabridged edition, $34.98
- Publisher: Hachette Audio; (January 26, 2009)
- ISBN-10: 160024145X
- ISBN-13: 978-1600241451