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1) Sacred trust
Author
Series
Sacred trust volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Tired of the politics at an urban hospital, Dr. Lukas Bower decides to practice medicine in a small town but finds politics in abundance there as well as he strives to do what is best for his patients.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 130
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Madame Bovary became notorious and a bestseller after Gustave Flaubert was acquitted from charges of obscenity in 1856. It details the many adulterous affairs and extravagances of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife. Her behaviour explores the banality and emptiness of rural life.
Flaubert considered himself a perfectionist, which is mirrored in the immaculate style of his writing. Madame Bovary is still considered one of the
...4) Vanguard
Author
Series
Razorland volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tegan signs on as a ship's doctor, hoping for an epic adventure, but soon finds romance with Szarok, the Uroch vanguard, in a relationship that is both alien and forbidden.
5) Fatal
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Returning to his Virginia home to investigate the tragic deaths of his wife and father, a young maverick doctor encounters a series of suspicious accidents that reveal a bizarre syndrome that could place countless lives at risk.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
A physician stranded at the South Pole describes how she discovered a lump in her breast, treated herself with a biopsy and chemotherapy, and was rescued by the Air National Guard, and reflects on her experiences and her colleagues.
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She's always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius -- but she's never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers...
Author
Series
Cheney and Shiloh the inheritance volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Cheney and Shiloh Irons-Winslow return to New York from their honeymoon in the West Indies eager to resume their careers. Cheney is thrilled with the newly opened St. Luke the Physician Hospital, which she helped design and renovate. To her dismay, however, it soon appears that several surgeries have been compromised and patients are contracting new illnesses rather than getting well. As evidence of foul play mounts, Cheney works feverishly to expose...
10) Trace
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that once turned its back on her, and finds that nothing is as she expected. A young girl is dead, and only the smallest pieces of evidence are left behind - traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. It's up to Scarpetta to follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak - and reveal the sad truth that may be more than she can bear.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 17
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast,...
12) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 14
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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.
13) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 12
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaving Virginia in search of peace and quiet, Dr. Kay Scarpetta journeys to Florida, where a series of baffling murders entangles her in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the most unexpected circumstance of her life.
14) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk -- and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the...
15) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of "virtual autopsy" – a revolutionary new procedure. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are indications that he may have been alive when he was locked inside the cooler. When the revolutionary 3D radiology...
16) Red mist
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Against the advice of her FBI Agent husband, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is on her way to a Georgia Prison for Women where she will be meeting an inmate who is the biological mother of a killer. She hopes to learn more about the death of her deputy chief six months earlier and if his death is connected to a string of present day killings.
17) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A portrait of infectious disease expert Dr. Paul Farmer follows the efforts of this unconventional Harvard genius to understand the world's great health, economic, and social problems and to bring healing to humankind.
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