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1) Foreign body
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Medical student Jennifer Hernandez watches a news report about people who travel to foreign countries for medical care. She is shocked when her grandmother is mentioned in the story, and even more shocked to learn about her death. Jennifer travels to the hospital in New Delhi, India in a search for answers, asking Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton to come along for help. Soon the trio discovers a horrific plan that is being carried out...
2) Host
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Devastated by Carl's death, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason Dixon--including...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the 19th century, women rarely study medicine. This means that Nora Beady, the only woman in her medical school, constantly feels like an outsider. And when she is chosen to work with the only female professor to develop the caesarian section, Nora draws the wrath of her male peers and professors. It's a dangerous-and divisive-procedure that could save countless lives and revolutionize women's health. But most doctors think it's too risky, many...
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them-but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births, sudden deaths, and a budding relationship with a seminarian. In the troubled world of the hospital, where the language of blood tests and organ systems so often hides the heart of the matter, she works her way from one bed to another, from a man...
Author
Series
Sarah Gilchrist series volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Gilchrist tres to prove her fiancé's innocence when he is arrected for a murder she is sure he did not commit.
Author
Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 11
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"For the very driven medical student Caitlyn Winters, catching the bridal bouquet at a Christmas wedding has set off a chain reaction that she's sure is more curse than blessing. Not only has she fallen in love with family medicine resident Noah McIlroy, but an unexpected pregnancy threatens her well-laid plans for the future. It doesn't help that Noah--with a whole lot of help from her O'Brien relatives--is completely on board with the prospect of...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, a young woman finds her mother’s body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students―living through a drought and at the edge of the war―as they create a new way of existence to help the people around them. In the process, the translator’s...
Author
Language
English
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Barnes & Noble Book Club
Read with Jenna
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
Women's Prize for Fiction
Read with Jenna
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
Women's Prize for Fiction
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Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Estudiante de doctorado en neurociencia, Gifty explora la conducta en ratones para investigar el funcionamiento de los circuitos neuronales de la depresion y la adiccion, dos enfermedades que han causado estragos entre sus seres mas queridos: su hermano, Nana, era una promesa del atletismo que murio hace anos a causa de una sobredosis de heroina tras una lesion de tobillo y la dependencia al OxyContin, mientras que su madre ha vuelto a caer en una...
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