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Author
Series
Monster MASH series volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the heat of battle ... The hard-won cease-fire between the battling immortals doesn't last long. In the blink of an eye, human surgeon Dr. Petra Robichaud is back on the front lines, and starring in yet another of the oracle's prophecies. As the only healer who can talk to the dead, Petra doesn't have much choice about her role -- even when her breathtaking ex-lover shows up at exactly the wrong time ... Two hearts fight to survive .... Petra may...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When he traded a comfortable if demanding practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone, Warren was already reeling from months of personal struggle. At the 332nd Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, he realized his experience with trauma was just beginning. In his 120 days in a tent hospital, he was trained in a different specialty-- surviving over a hundred mortar attacks and trying desperately to repair...
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Claiming King's baby: "Their last meeting to sign divorce papers goes wrong when passion overtakes Maggie and Justice King. Still, she walks away with a legal decree--and a pregnancy. Justice had always refused to have children, so this is one fact she won't reveal to him. But when Maggie ends up back at the King ranch, her secret must come out!"--Page [4] of cover.
Claiming King's baby: It was supposed to be a last meeting to sign divorce papers....
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother working on the front lines as the COVID-19 pandemic hit one of New York City's busiest hospitals. In the spring of 2020, many of us were sequestered in our homes, attempting to teach our children and learn to bake while the pings of news alerts and wails of sirens reminded us of the devastation outside. Dr. Cornelia Griggs's experience was nothing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Surgeon Gabriel Taverner finds it difficult to gain the locals' trust as he attempts to reestablish himself as a country physician in rural Devon, England. A series of disturbing incidents convinces him that at least one person does not welcome his presence. Called out to examine a partially decomposed body found beside the river, Gabriel discovers that he has a personal connection to the dead man. Teaming up with Coroner Theophilus Davey to find...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"In Iraq, as a combat physician and officer, Jon Kerstetter balanced two impossibly conflicting imperatives - to heal and to kill. When he suffered an injury and then a stroke during his third tour, he wound up back home in Iowa, no longer able to be either a doctor or a soldier. In this gorgeous memoir that moves from his impoverished upbringing on an Oneida reservation, to his harrowing stints as a volunteer medic in Kosovo and Bosnia, through the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Barbara Binns presents the inspiring story of one man in his struggle for racial equality in the field of battle and the field of medicine. The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I-and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war, female doctors...
Author
Publisher
Independent Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer tells the remarkable story of one of the early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A renaissance man, T. R. M. Howard (1908-1976) was a respected surgeon, important black community leader, and successful businessman. Howard's story reveals the importance of the black middle class, their endurance and entrepreneurship in the midst of Jim Crow, and their critical role in the early Civil...
114) The perfect child
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that's missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own. But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"What starts out as a fake wedding date turns into something these childhood enemies never expected in The Plus One, a sparkling romantic comedy by Mazey Eddings. She's not looking to fix him. She's looking to love him, if he'll let her in. Some facts areindisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exits. Indira doesn't like Jude. Jude doesn't like Indira. But what happens when these childhood enemies find the only thing they...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. This book lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mad love: A renowned plastic surgeon is obsessed with an actress. When her husband's hands are crushed, the surgeon secretly replaces them with those of a guillotined murderer - hoping that his operation will send her rushing into his arms as the hands take on a life of their own.
Devil-doll: An escaped convict uses a mad scientist's shrinking serum to create tiny people. He then disguises himself as a kindly old lady running a toy store, so he can...
118) A polluted font
Author
Series
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 16
Publisher
Lion Fiction
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mel Starr's latest novel is a thoroughly enjoyable medieval crime mystery. It may be enjoyed as complete in itself, or as part of the Hugh de Singleton series. When Hugh and Kate's new-born son is taken to the church to be baptized, they are astounded to find that the locked font is completely dry. The possibility of a leak is quickly ruled out, and just as Hugh is beginning to wonder if there may be a sinister explanation for the stolen holy water,...
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