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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A series of connected personal stories drawn from the author's life and work as an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others"--
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met...
Author
Series
Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill volume 6
Language
English
Description
While on an extended break from college, Cassie Coblenz returns home to her grandparents' Amish farm where she meets a handsome English doctor Zach Reynolds, who she is determined to avoid, but Zach is determined to become a man worthy of her love.
83) The fake mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail-she hasn't had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother's obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she's met someone. That is, until she blurts out...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Go behind the scenes and discover what happens during a typical day at a doctor's office. Learn who works at a doctor's office and tools they use to help people stay healthy." -- cover page 4.
85) Unnatural causes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie LeClair has finally settled down as the new doctor in Baxter, Michigan. After years of moving, schooling, and training, she wants nothing more than to find a place she can call home, and a small town outside of Ann Arbor seems perfect. But that idyllic dream is immediately shattered when one of her patients is found dead.
Author
Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A vulnerable little boy brings together Tinch Turner, a wild rancher who gave up on living after his wife died, and the beautiful new doctor in town, Addison Spencer, while Reagan Truman finds comfort in the makeshift family she's made in Harmony after the death of her beloved uncle.
Author
Series
Love and promises volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Kyle Miller never planned on becoming a country doctor. But when hes offered a medical practice in his sleepy hometown, Kyle knows he must return and face the painful past he left behind. Except the Amish community isnt quite ready for Kyle. Especially the pretty midwife who refuses to compromise her traditions with his modern medicineThe more Leah Stoltzfus works with the handsome English doctor, the more she finds herself caught between the expectations...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tucker Cassidy is going through a slump--both with his curveball and in his dating life. After having a painful altercation involving his ex-girlfriend's knee, the professional baseball player is convinced things couldn't get worse...unntil a gorgeous doctor comes to the rescue at his most embarrassing moment. As the daughter of the owner of the St. Louis Rivers major league baseball team, Dr. Aubry Ross has been around jocks all her life. She knows...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her newest well-tuned, witty, and altogether wonderful novel, bestselling author Elinor Lipman dares to ask: Can an upper-middle-class doctor find love with a shady, fast-talking salesman?
Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, high of I.Q. but low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical, or blunt, but where was she the day they taught Bedside Manner 101? Into Alice’s workaholic and wallflower...
Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, high of I.Q. but low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical, or blunt, but where was she the day they taught Bedside Manner 101? Into Alice’s workaholic and wallflower...
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The beloved character Llama Llama stars in this new Little Golden Book based on his own original series, now airing on Netflix. Inspired by the bestselling picturebooks created by Anna Dewdney, this reassuring story features Llama learning how to be brave when he gets hurt and has to see a doctor"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An evocative new novel set in the medical world about how far one woman will go to save a friendship from acclaimed author and former ER doctor Kimmery Martin. Urologist Georgia Brown's sense of self-preservation is kicked into high gear after she's sexually harassed by a male surgeon at her medical clinic, but her outrage grows when her best doctor friend, Jonah, is dismissed for treating transgender patients. After traveling to Amsterdam to attend...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
Author
Series
Unconditional volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a smart, sexy spin-off from her Unconditional Series, Briana Cole continues to explore unconventional relationships and question all assumptions about love, lust, and monogamy in this tantalizing drama that takes the "what if" of a free pass to a whole new level...--
94) The color of air
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a gorgeous and evocative historical novel about a Japanese-American family set against the backdrop of Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the memories of...
95) Bitter pill
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 32
Language
English
Description
"For the Sisterhood, there's a special satisfaction that comes with helping a friend in need, especially when it's someone as dear as Charlotte Hansen. Myra Rutledge's childhood friend has spent tens of thousands of dollars on remedies to boost longevity. But far from improving her health, the medications seem to be destroying it. Myra becomes suspicious of the trio of doctors in charge of the program, especially once the Sisterhood's investigations...
96) Miracle cure
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Bruce Grey and Dr. Harvey Riker find a cure for AIDS, two young lovers--popular TV journalist Sara Lowell, and Knicks star Michael Silverman--find themselves inextricably caught up in the political double dealings involved in the discovery.
97) Doctor
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
¿Quién puede examinar a un paciente, prescribir medicamentos y ayudarte a sentir mejor cuando estás enfermo? ¡Los doctores! Descubre cómo estos ayudantes hacen de tu comunidad un mejor lugar.
Who can examine a patient, prescribe medicine, and help you feel better when you're sick? The doctors! Find out how these helpers make your community a better place.
Author
Series
Little Hippo stories volume 1
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Hippo loves to pretend that he's all grown up. And playing doctor with all the other animals in the savannah is an excellent game until he tries to examine a ferocious lion. In this playful picture book by the author of the Froggy books.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Lerner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"¡Los doctores saben muchas cosas sobre la salud y el cuerpo humano! Al examinar a los pacientes y recetar medicamentos, los m̌dicos pueden averiguar qǔ est̀ enfermando a una persona y c̤mo hacer que se sienta mejor. Ahora en espąol, este t̕tulo involucra a los lectores j̤venes para aprender c̤mo los m̌dicos sirven a su comunidad. Las preguntas de pensamiento cr̕tico apropiadas para la edad y un glosario de fotos ayudan a desarrollar habilidades...
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