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81) Doctors
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the career of doctor, describing the education and training required, different kinds of work they do, and their value to the community.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c 2010
Language
English
Description
Struggling to find meaning in a sordid and humiliating youth from which he emerged a doctor through the help of a surrogate father figure, Berl Pickett is charged with negligent homicide in the death of a former lover before finding strength in the human connections he made throughout the years. By the author of Gallatin Canyon.
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With crime rates down, Lafferton has been quiet, until one night when a couple opens their front door to a distressing scene. Serrailler makes a serious error in judgment when handling the incident, and the stress of this, combined with the ongoing trauma of losing his arm, takes its toll. Meanwhile, Serrailler's sister, Cat, has begun a new role as a private GP, and terrible and unexpected events at the homes of two of her patients test her medical...
Author
Language
English
Description
SheReads Best Historical Fiction Of Summer 2022!
"This is an intense, suspenseful, and insightful read about the challenges both women and doctors faced in the 19th century...Our heroine rises to the challenge with courage and determination." —Historical Novel Society
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow comes a riveting historical fiction novel about the women in
...88) A double life
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
London. Nearly thirty years ago, while Claire and her infant brother slept upstairs, a brutal crime was committed in her family's townhouse. Her father's car was found abandoned near the English Channel the next morning, with bloodstains on the front seat. Her mother insisted she'd seen him in the house that night, but his powerful, privileged friends maintained his innocence. The first lord accused of murder in more than a century, he has been missing...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Before he was Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci was a curious boy in Brooklyn, delivering prescriptions from his father's pharmacy on his blue Schwinn bicycle. His father and immigrant grandfather taught Anthony to ask questions, consider all the data, and never give up-and Anthony's ability to stay curious and to communicate with people would serve him his entire life. This engaging narrative,...
90) The jury
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Incriminating evidence links Paul Madriani's client, Dr. Crone, to a murder. Then a key witness dies, leaving behind a note that seems to clear Crone -- until Madriani hits upon a damning loose end that implicates the good doctor after all.
91) Dead silent
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A single, hard working and dedicated young doctor suddenly finds herself the guardian of her young niece whose parents were murdered execution-style. It soon becomes apparent that the killers are now after her niece, Amanda, who holds the key to a terrible secret.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
"John Irving's best novel . . . He is among the very best storytellers." - Philadelphia Inquirer
From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another.
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94) Main Street
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carol Milford is an exuberant, liberal-hearted woman who marries a man from a small town. After they marry they settle in his home-town, Gopher Prairie, which Carol finds narrow and ugly. She throws herself into reforming the town, but is met only with derision by her own class. She decides to leave, but finds that the world outside is just as flawed as Gopher Prairie. She remains uncowed, however, declaring I do not admit that dish-washing is enough...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?...
98) Waiting
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne ; an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable, entertaining, and inspiring memoir of the activist, teacher, entrepreneur, and spiritual leader that illuminates some of the most revolutionary events of a generation, many of the legendary people who defined it, and a towering figure at the center of it. Larry Brilliant's life journey has led him on a purposeful path across continents and countercultural movements, marching arm-in-arm with the men and women who defined a generation....
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