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1) Don't go
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter, and a downsizing in his medical practice.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ben Carson tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland at age 33.
Author
Series
Danger never sleeps volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When former field surgeon Heather Fontaine returns from a party to find that someone has broken into her house-and threatened her friends-she assumes it is the stalker who has been creeping her out. She hopes to find safety and piece of mind by leaving the city and hiding out in a small town. But trouble follows here even there. Luckily, a stalker isn't the only one observing heather. Travis Walker has been secretly watching out for her for weeks....
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When surgeon Sean O'Neil returns to his Vermont hometown for a family visit and encounters French chef Élise Philippe, with whom he had a one-night stand the previous summer, they are both tempted to pick up where they left off.
Author
Series
Part of your world volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"People expect big things from Alexis Montgomery. She's a thirty-seven-year-old doctor from a wealthy and prestigious family full of world-renowned surgeons. Only, Alexis is tired of living up to her family's dreams for her. Now she's about to take her bravest step yet: start living her life for herself. Daniel Grant is a twenty-eight-year-old small-town carpenter with a heart of gold and a legacy of his own. He may not have gone to college, but he's...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Lucy Peterman was not built for a messy life. A well-respected surgeon whose patients rely on her warmth, compassion, and fierce support, Lucy has always worked hard and trusted in the system. She's not the sort of person who ends up in a twelve-step program after being caught stealing supplies from her hospital. But that was Lucy before the accident-before her husband and unborn baby were ripped away from her in an instant, before her future...
Author
Publisher
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine and describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.
12) The locked door
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
315 pages
Language
English
Description
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The Freeman Field Mutiny, as it became known, would eventually...
