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41) A touch of flame
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Series
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English
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Dr. E. Ridley Woodhouse is like no physician Ben Madison has ever met--she's a woman. As the newly elected sheriff of Frost Falls, Colorado, Ben is tasked with welcoming Ridley to the community. But while Ben might be tempted by the new doc's charms, getting the town to accept a big-city, female doctor is no easy feat. To earn their trust she'll have to prove herself and Ben determines to help her ... even if she's the most stubborn woman he's ever...
Author
Series
David Slaton novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
One perfect shot will change the course of history. Christine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, makes an incredible discovery - a man narrowly clinging to his life in the frigid waters. But there is much more to this desperate survivor than meets the eye. David Slaton is a Kidon - a highly-trained, highly-precise, and highly-dangerous assassin. The Kidon is both the hunter and the hunted, and he and Christine are in...
Author
Series
Prescription for trouble series volume 2
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
44) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor.
Author
Series
Prescription for trouble volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
427 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Sara Miles's teenage patient is on the brink of death from a highly resistant infection with Staph luciferus, known as "the killer." Only an experimental antibiotic developed and administered by Sara's ex-husband can save her. But the drug's potentially lethal effects send Sara and colleague Rip Pearson on a hunt for hidden critical data that will let them reverse the effects before it's too late. What is the missing puzzle piece? And who is hiding...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
425 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her comatose husband dies in the ICU while on life support, the whispers about Dr. Elena Gardner begin. Another death during her training puts her under suspicion. When the pattern is repeated in the hospital where she is attempting to start over, the whispers turn into a shout: "mercy killing." What is the dark secret that keeps Elena's lips sealed when she should be defending herself? Despite her move to a new city, the midnight phone calls...
47) Heart and soul
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Language
English
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A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.
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English
Description
"Georgia Brown's profession as a urologist requires her to interact with plenty of naked people, but her romantic prospects have fizzled. The single most important person in her life is her friend, Jonah Tsukada, a funny, empathetic family medicine doctor who works at the same hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, and who has become as close as family to her. Just after Georgia leaves the country for a medical conference, she hears startling news...
Author
Series
Grace Valley trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Here in this peaceful community, folks look out for one another like family, though sometimes a little too well. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secret-- but Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep one heck of a humdinger..."--p.[4] of cover.
50) Gemini: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A medical mystery wrapped in a contemporary love story, Gemini is a stand out new novel from Carol Cassella, a practicing M.D. and author of the national bestseller Oxygen. Think Jodi Picoult meets Abraham Verghese"--
51) Book of the dead
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. But in this thrilling #1 New York Times bestseller, her fresh start ushers in a string of murders more baffling—and terrifying—than any that have come before...
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire...
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire...
52) Pride & puppies
Author
Series
Pine Hollow (Lizzie Shane) volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Dr. Charlotte Rodriguez has a history of dating jerks-and she blames Jane Austen. She made the brooding Darcy types sound so appealing, but when Charlotte is dumped by the latest in a long line of not Darcy-caliber boyfriends she decides to swear off men and convinces her best friends to join her in a Puppy Pact, lavishing all their affection on sweet little puppies who actually deserve it instead of the man-children who most definitely do not. The...
53) Dolly City
Author
Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black pastic bag, and decides to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her son. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the all-too-familiar Jewish mother archetype, forever operating...
Author
Series
Grace Valley trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
"June Hudson grew up in Grace Valley, the daughter of the town doctor. Leaving only to get her medical training, she returned home and followed in her father's footsteps. Some might say she chose the easy, comfortable route ... but June knows better."--p.[4] of cover.
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English
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The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas. He whispered of eternal torment, of endless hunger...of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O'Halloran could feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness, and she ached to heal him, to heal herself.
56) Fair haven
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Liz Trenchard is an experienced pediatrician with a duty to protect all children admitted to her busy emergency room. She has been friends with Jess for a decade and view the stay-at-home mother-of-three as a woman with boundless reserves of patience, energy, and love. Then one moment changes everything. When Jess turns up in the ER one night with her baby girl and a story that doesn't quite add up, Liz is forced to question everything she thought...
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Series
Megan Blair volume 1
Language
English
Description
For as long as she can remember, Megan Blair has tried to silence the voices in her head--voices that tell her things and show her things she'd rather not know. Now, as a successful doctor, Megan has put the past behind her. Until one day, someone tries to kill her. And one day, she discovers the shocking secrets about her life and her mother's death. And now, for Megan Blair, life will never be the same. And she might not live to see the break of...
60) Livid
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who...
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