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2023.
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English
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"Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why."--
"The victims...
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2024.
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English
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"Dr. Emilia McRoy is back on the case in the second book in the Scottish Isle mystery series, perfect for fans of Sheila Connolly and Charlene O’Connor. Something old, something new, something borrowed and someone’s blue… Finally feeling like Sea Isle, Scotland is becoming her new home, American doctor Emilia McRoy is delighted when she is invited to a wedding at Morrigan's Castle. Her friends have warned her that it's a three-day party and...
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"From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Magnolia Palace: A thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they’d have together: a quiet house in the...
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"The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend...
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The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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In order to help her impoverished sister, Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins agrees to help on a mysterious project aiming to go beyond curing the human body of disease to develop a technology capable of solving the riddle of mortality of the soul.
"Caro Soames-Watkins, a talented neurosurgeon whose career has been upended by controversy, is jobless, broke, and the sole supporter of her sister, a single mother with a severely disabled child. When she receives...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"In this memoir Ghada Karmi describes her life, her childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and her struggle to get a university grant to study medicine. The book is set against the backdrop of the continuing crisis in the Middle East.
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When her mom announces she's marrying a man she only just met on a dating app, OB-GYN Dr. Imani Kemp is determined to stop the wedding but met with resistance from her potential stepfather's handsome son to whom she is irresistibly drawn, changing everything.
"An emotional and witty story of love, forgiveness, and second chances as the race to the wedding day begins… It’s been years since Dr. Imani Kemp has returned home to Peachtree Cove, Georgia....
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Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 2
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Ready to leave town and start her life as a doctor-in-training, Louisa Vaughn finds herself stuck in Sweetwater Crossing saving a handsome stranger's life. Little does she know that he'll bring both love and danger into her life"--
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TwoDot
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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"A New York Times Bestseller! "No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great acclaim. These women changed the lives of the patients they came in contact with, as well as their own lives, and helped...
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MIT Kids Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
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2023.
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English
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"Meet Dr. Wu Lien-teh, defeater of the Manchurian plague—in a story authored by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician who relied on his life-saving invention during a pandemic a century later. More than a hundred years before Covid, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it—among them Wu Lien-teh, who had overcome hurdles to be a doctor since his...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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English
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Exploring themes of illness, dying, grief, and joy, universal in its reach, a doctor, expanding on his wildly popular Twitter poems, presents a series of deeply personal essays that provide a glimpse into the ever-changing field of medicine and the special relationship between patients and their doctor.
12) The citadel
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Little, Brown
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[1983]
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English
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"A groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award winner. The Citadel follows the life of Andrew Manson, a young and idealistic Scottish doctor, as he navigates the challenges of practicing medicine across interwar Wales and England. Based on Cronin's own experiences as a physician, The Citadel boldly confronts traditional medical ethics, and has been noted as one of the inspirations for the formation of the National Health Service. The...
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Severn House
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2023.
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English
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"February, 1605. A series of killings shake the quiet life of Devon's Tavy valley. Country doctor Gabriel Taverner, summoned by the coroner to examine the bodies, believes that the murders are somehow connected to a mysterious woman recently discovered inshocking circumstances. Gabriel is determined to solve the mystery, and soon uncovers clues that link his unexpected patient to the brutal killings. Prominent among them is the strange and recurring...
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2018.
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English
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On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in US history. She earned her degree 31 years before women could vote and 35 years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age 26, this fragile but indomitable Indian woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her...
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Mayo Clinic Press
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2023.
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English
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"For all the hospital dramas that dominate the ratings on television or awe-inspiring medical stories we might hear, most of us have no conception of the daily, herculean efforts of trauma surgeons. A good trauma surgeon must be a conductor presiding over an orchestra of healthcare providers as their patients cling to life by a thread. They are also a steely quarterback who can't be rattled when they throw an interception-lingering on a past failure...
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StarDoc novel volume 2
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Roc Book
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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After being declared a "non-sentient" clone by her creator, Dr. Cherijo finds herself the prey of bounty hunters from all over the galaxy AND someone begins to stalk her dreams as well.
After being revealed as a genetically-enhanced clone--legally no more than a lab animal--Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil Torin takes refuge with her late husband's warrior clan until suspicious accidents place everyone at risk.
Dr. Cherijo is living the perfect life—if you...
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Vuelve el fascinante y romántico mundo de la saga best seller “El descubrimiento de las brujas.” ¿Cuál es el verdadero precio de convertirse en vampiro? En el campo de batalla de la Revolución Americana, Matthew de Clermont conoce al joven cirujano Marcus MacNeil. Se trata de un momento de cambio y agitación política en el que parece que el mundo está a un paso de un futuro mejor. Y cuando Matthew le ofrece la oportunidad de ser inmortal...
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Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Today's most groundbreaking experiments in medicine gene editing to correct inherited disorders, immunotherapies to cure cancer, molecularly engineered organs for human transplantation stem from the strides of one visionary Dr. E. Donnall Thomas. In thelast half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease, like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia, forever changing treatment for some of the deadliest...
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Acorn
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[2023]
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English
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As Martin and James wait patiently to see Santa in his Grotto, Martin spots a medical concern that has him shut it down and send Santa packing - until he's sure he isn't infectious. Louisa is determined not to let Martin ruin Christmas
As Martin and James wait patiently to see Santa in his Grotto, Martin spots a medical concern that has him shut it down and send Santa packing - until he's sure he isn't infectious. Louisa is determined not to let...
20) Tahoe flight
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Thriller Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"When a bloodied man stumbles into Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna's office, McKenna realizes the man is Benito Diaz, a teenager he saved from a killer decades earlier in San Francisco. The killer went to prison for murdering Benito Diaz's mother. Decades later, the killer has just been paroled, and he has vowed to kill both Diaz and McKenna as punishment for his years in prison. McKenna learns that Diaz is now a doctor. He and his University of California...
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