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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1840s, a young man named Silas Weir begins practicing medicine in Pennsylvania. Though he is considered inept by family, neighbors, and even his mentor, Dr. Weir discovers he has a gift for phlebotomy, treating patients by bleeding them to purify their bodies. But when an experimental procedure goes horribly wrong, Dr. Weir is forced to start over, relocating his family to Trenton, New Jersey, and taking a position at the New Jersey State...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Just days after the Liberation of Paris, Billy and Kaz are brought to Saint Albans Convalescent Hospital in the English countryside. Kaz has been diagnosed with a heart condition, and Billy is dealing with emotional exhaustion and his recent methamphetamine abuse. Meanwhile, Billy's love, Diana Seaton, has been taken to Ravensbruck, the Nazi concentration camp for women, and Kaz's sister, Angelika, who he recently learned was alive and working with...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life is gone. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ricardo Nuila takes us inside the Harris Health System and Ben Taub Hospital, where he has practiced medicine for more than a decade. He shares the experiences of five of his patients, braiding their stories into a single narrative that tears down the notion that good healthcare in America is only available to the well insured. Despite the massive challenges, Ben Taub, a publicly funded hospital, provides affordable, accessible healthcare for...
6) Bunny call
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into a video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live....
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Me costó poco trabajo imaginar los gritos que se debieron proferir en aquel lugar. El sonido que calaba los muros reblandecidos por la humedad estaba ahí, atrapado entre el yeso. Fui hacia el centro de la habitación. No llegué muy lejos: di dos pasos, resbalé y caí de rodillas, con las manos en el suelo y el candelabro a unos metros de mí. El piso estaba mojado, pero sin luz no podía ver si era agua o sangre. Es 1901, las calles de la ciudad...
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