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English
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Truman Wiley used to report news from around the world, but now the troubling headlines are his own. He's out of work, out of touch with his family, out of his home, and his son's heart is failing. The situation seems hopeless, until he's given the chance to write the story of a death row inmate who wants to donate his heart to Truman's son. But as the execution clock ticks down, Truman uncovers evidence that may point to the man's innocence.
2) Tin heart
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Marlowe hopes that meeting the family of her heart donor will help her move on from being 'the dying girl,' but family, neighborhood, and other complications hold her back."
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Leah MacKenzie is heartless. An artificial heart in a backpack is keeping her alive. However, this route only offers her a few years. And with her rare blood type, a transplant isn't likely. Living like you are dying isn't all it's cracked up to be. But when a heart becomes available, she's given a second chance at life.
Author
Series
Bollywood volume 4
Language
English
Description
Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
7) Pandemic
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Language
English
Description
After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table. Jack discovers that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences of young people with this same sudden and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all--marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman who makes...
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