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2023.
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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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2023.
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English
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The small idyllic town of Sea Isle, Scotland, harbors some dark secrets, and Dr. Emilia McRoy is determined to uncover all of them—no matter what the diagnosis in this charming cozy, sure to enchant fans of Sheila Connolly and Charlene O’Connor. Sea Isle was supposed to be the fresh start Dr. Emilia McRoy dreamed of. Far from the busy emergency room across the Atlantic in Seattle, she hoped to settle down and begin this new chapter...
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2024.
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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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"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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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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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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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
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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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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National Geographic
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"This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Syria"--
"Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a story like Dr. Amani Ballour's. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved her peers from the atrocities of war while contending with the patriarchal conservatism around her. Growing up in Assad's Syria, Ballour knew she wanted to be more than a housewife, even as her siblings...
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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.
11) Against the wind
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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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Kensington Publishing Corporation
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2024.
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English
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In 1866 London, Dr. Julia Lewis, when grisly murders happen all over the city, works with Inspector Richard Tennant to understand a killer’s dark obsessions and motivations, facing off against a fiendishly calculating opponent who has set his sights on Julia.
"As a deadly cholera pandemic burns its way through Victorian London in the winter of 1866, a trailblazing female physician and a skeptical Scotland Yard detective reluctantly team up to stop...
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