Robin Cook
1) Cure
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Language
English
Description
"New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game." --inside front cover.
2) Intervention
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English
Description
New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton considers entering alternative medicine and makes contact with two former college classmates, including an archeologist who is digging beneath Saint Peter's and a bishop who would suppress the archaeologist'sfindings.
3) Viral
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English
Description
"Brian Murphy and his family are in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City becomes a race to the hospital as she begins seizing in the care. She is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and lethal mosquito-borne disease. Complicating the situation further, Brian and Emma's daughter begins to exhibit alarming symptoms, too. Furious at the shockingly indifferent...
4) Abduction
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English
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The world's bestselling master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook skillfully combines human drama and high-tech thrills with the latest breakthroughs and controversies of modern medicine. Now, in his most daring novel yet, a mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding - a discovery that will change everything we know about life on Earth…...
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English
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Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center’s premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. But when tragedy strikes in the lab, Pia, with the help of classmate George Wilson, launches an investigation into the unforeseen calamity in the hospital’s supposedly secure biosafety...
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Series
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery volume 13
Language
English
Description
Colleagues turned spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. 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 mysteriously in the hospital parking garage, an autopsy is required, which falls squarely under Laurie's purview as newly appointed chief medical examiner. So when Laurie asks Jack to take...
7) Cell
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. George's initial collision with this incredible innovation is devastating. He awakens one morning to find his fiancee dead in bed alongside him, not long after she participated in an iDoc beta test.
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Series
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery volume 14
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After Dr. Jack Stapleton's near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, NYC Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at home and at work. When Laurie insists Dr. Ryan Sullivan--an underperforming senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner's office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies--assist her on a suicide autopsy in the hopes of stimulating his interest...
10) Nano
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English
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Pia takes a year off from her medical studies to work at Nanobots, a lavish nanotechnology institute that is a leader in the construction of microbivores, tiny nano-robots than can gobble up viruses and bacteria. But troubling occurrences cause her to wonder: is the tech giant on the cusp of huge medical discoveries, or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?
11) Critical
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at the age of thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. But her climb to the top was rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy as a primary-care internist. Painfully aware of the role of economics in modern life, particularly in the health-care...
12) Coma
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English
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A third year medical student at a Boston teaching hospital uncovers a medical black market dealing in human organs when she investigates why two young patients have lapsed into comas. They called it minor surgery, but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others; all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. Considered one of the...
13) Foreign body
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
14) Brain
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putman's Sons
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Assistant chief of Neuroradiology Martin Philips and his lover Denise Sanger, a resident, investigate a series of bizarre events that results in a nightmare for both of them.
15) Blindsight
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery volume 1
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
16) Mutation
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Language
English
Description
When a brilliant doctor tries to create the perfect son through genetics the results are horrifying.
18) Terminal
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.
19) Sphinx
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
Young Egyptologist Erica Barton believes that a statue in a Cairo antiques shop is the key to a pharoah's unplundered tomb, but first she must outmaneuver Cairo's dangerous antiquities traffickers.
20) Godplayer
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Working with her husband, a respected cardiac surgeon, at Boston Memorial is a dream come true to Dr. Cassandra Kingsley. Until a series of mysterious deaths rocks the pre-eminent hospital--and Cassandra's most frightening suspicions are realized.