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A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting...
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2020.
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"To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The feisty single mom teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective...
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"In this exhilarating medical mystery-thriller by Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lured into the dark underbelly of hospital dangers when an internist is murdered"--
Colleagues-turned-spouses Doctor Laurie Montgomery and Doctor Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with crazy work schedules and family pressures. The last thing they need is a murder. When Laurie's longtime friend, by all accounts healthy Dr. Sue Passero dies...
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Irish Country books volume 9
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Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. planning to marry midwife Dierdre Mawhinney. Until the outbreak of World War II. Surgeon Lieutenant O'Reilly soon found himself face-to-face with the hardships of war, tending to the HMS Warspite's crew of 1,200 as well as to the many casualties brought aboard. But over two decades later, O'Reilly and still has plenty of challenges.
65) Partials
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Partials sequence volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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"In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--
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"A compelling new crime thriller featuring Copehhagen-based police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner, who work to solve a series of sordid murders that have roots in the care of vulnerable hospital patients and at-risk children -- and to expose a murderer who who specializes in cold, cold blood..."--
67) Harvest
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For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the road to Boston's Bayside Hospital began with a tragic accident - and the desperate, awful weeks that followed as she watched her little brother, Pete, lose his battle to live. Despite her small- town roots and lack of money, Abby pushed through college and medical school, each achievement strengthening her ambition to reach higher. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she's elated...
68) Under the knife
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A malpractice case is not so open-and-shut as attorney David Ransom learns.
69) Life Support
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Dr. Toby Harper, attempting to track a patient who disappeared out of the Springer Hospital emergency room, finds herself on the trail of a deadly epidemic.
70) Madeline
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Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.
71) Viral
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2021.
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Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer vacation when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their leisurely return home to New York City quickly turns into a race to the ER when her condition dramatically deteriorates. At the hospital, she is diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease caught during one of their evening cookouts. Worse still, Brian and Emma's...
72) The touch
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"Andrew Jones is a young doctor with an amazing gift: his abilities in surgery are astonishing. But when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon's hands, eliminating human error during surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the...
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"Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States." "One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe's Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request. His personal physician...
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"Dr. Lou Welcome has been supervising Dr. Gary McHugh, formerly a black-out drinker, through his work with the Physician Wellness Office. McHugh has been found unconscious in his wrecked car after visiting a patient of his, Congressman Elias Colston, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Soon after McHugh awakens in the hospital, Colston's wife returns home to find her husband shot dead. She then admits that she has just broken off a...
75) Purple Heart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
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Poison diaries trilogy volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton and the mysterious Weed uncover the horrible secrets of poisons growing in Thomas Luxton's apothecary garden.
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When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. An accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg. Surgeons save the leg, but the open wound becomes a breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader. Hundreds of miles away, a teenaged girl is fighting against the same bacteria. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic, and the government scientist tasked with finding...
78) Doctor Ted
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Ted books (Andrea Beaty) volume 1
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c2008
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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After bumping his knee one morning, Ted decides to become a doctor, but he has only one problem--he has no patients!