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641) Protecting her heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told. She turns...
642) Where's the Doctor?
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Five beautifully illustrated spreads show a series of people you might see in a hospital that include a nurse, a paramedic, an orderly, and a doctor all hiding behind bright felt flaps. With a mirror on the final page, this is the perfect book to share with very little ones."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
644) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
645) Hither, Page
Author
Series
Page and Sommers volume 1
Publisher
Cat Sebastian
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A jaded spy and a shell shocked country doctor team up to solve a murder in postwar England.
646) One step behind
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jenna is a wife, a mother, a doctor. She's also the victim of a stalker. Frightening "gifts" are left on her doorstep, her home is broken into, and when she leaves her house to take her children to school, he's waiting. She feels powerless, and the police are unable to help. Then her stalker is brought into the emergency room after a terrible accident, and Jenna has to treat the man who's been tormenting her for months. With her stalker in a coma,...
647) Doctor's Helper
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Doc has two mysteries to solve: what's wrong with this new toy, and who does she belong to?
648) The patient: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Rachel, a married and well-respected doctor living in a picturesque and affluent English village, embarks on a dangerous affair with a French painter who has a mental disorder, she finds her life blown wide open when he is accused of murdering one of her colleagues.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of New York's Columbia University, Dr. Joel Fleischman is looking forward to his comfortable position in Alaska's largest city. He has to repay his medical intern money by serving four years as a doctor there. Upon his arrival, Joel finds himself a fish-out-of-water as he's instead reassigned to the tiny village of Cicely, Alaska where the offbeat locals would love for him to stay forever.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II -- and a heroic career that hid a secret past. Over the span of fifty years, Dr. Anne Spoerry, French by birth, treated hundreds of thousands of individuals across rural Kenya. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Spoerry earned the cherished nickname "Mama Daktari"--"Mother Doctor"--the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa....
652) Winter vows
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Cowboy and the New Year's Baby - Inveterate rancher Hardy Jones never could turn down a beautiful woman, so when single, independent-minded mother-to-be Trish Delacourt went into labor on the side of a snowy road, he helped deliver her sweet baby girl. But what was to become of Hardy's no-strings-attached policy? One look at Trish--and her adorable daughter--and he felt a most unfamiliar pull....Dylan and the Baby Doctor - Private detective Dylan...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's People Who Help Us day at playgroup so Peppa and her friends get a very special visit from Dr Brown Bear and Nurse Fox. They've come to show the children how to keep fit, eat healthy snacks and, most importantly, always remember to wash their hands! Then the children get to have a go at playing doctors and nurses.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A lo largo de la historia, a las mujeres les hand dicho que la ciencia no es parar ellas porque no son suficientemente inteligentes, o porque sus cerebros simplemente no son capaces de ese tipo de estudio. En este libro, Chelsea Clinton nos presenta a varias mujeres científicas que no prestaron atención a los que les dijeron que no y optaron por utilizar su ingenio, sus hablidades y su persistencia para descubrir, inventar, crear y explicar."--
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657) Unnatural exposure
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.
658) What's up, Doc?
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From dentist to doctor, kids will get to explore what it's like to clean teeth, take care of newborns, perform different medical procedures, nurture animals, and so much more."--
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