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21) Born to die
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English
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Two women bearing an uncanny resemblance to Dr. Kacey Lambert are dead and Montana detectives Selena Alvarez and her partner Regan Pescoli can find no motive for murder. But Kacey has started to notice ties between the dead women's lives and her own ... and all have links to Trace O'Halleran, the man Kacey just started dating.
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English
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Prof. Brandt Savage -- grandson of the legendary action hero -- is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
Author
Series
Copper Point medical romances volume 1
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Dr. Hong-Wei Wu has come to Copper Point, Wisconsin, after the pressures of a high-powered residency burned him out of his career before he started. Ashamed of letting his family down after all they've done for him, he plans to live a quiet life as a simple surgeon in this tiny northern town. His plans, however, don't include his outgoing, kind, and attractive surgical nurse, Simon Lane. Simon wasn't ready for the new surgeon to be a handsome charmer...
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English
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When Dr. Alex Taylor opens her eyes, she is hooked up to an IV, is bound to an operating table, and her legs are raised in stirrups. A man in the room claiming to be a doctor calmly and methodically tells her how he's about to attack her. Before Alex can even scream for help, she succumbs to another dose of anesthesia, rendering her unable to defend herself. When she wakes up, she immediately reports the attack and rape. The police are skeptical of...
28) Hello stranger
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
The narrator is frightened by a pair of pale green pants with no one inside that seems to be following him, until the two meet and discover that they have nothing to fear. Features illustrations that glow in the dark.
30) Do no harm
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Small-town doctor Katie LeClair is drawn back into an old murder investigation, a mysterious disappearance, and a dark undercurrent of violence --
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English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta...
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Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A personal and professional guide to the latest research on imposterism and psychological flexibility, IMPOSTER NO MORE is the professional's handbook to combating "impostor syndrome" and overcoming self-doubt to achieve career success. Dr. Jill Stoddard is a recovered imposter. For years, she was convinced that the only reason she was accepted into a competitive grad school program was because her father knew the program director. Dr. Stoddard isn't...
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English
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"Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the...
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English
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Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not. A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. Obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes, Charlie desires little else from life, no doubt because when she was sixteen, she herself survived a serial killer's bloodbath : a man murdered the family of Charlie's best friend, Holly, then left the girl's body on a seaside boardwalk one...
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Publisher
Casa Creacion
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"¿QÚ TAL SI PUDIERA RECUPERAR SU JUVENTUD? Despǔs de m̀s de treinta ąos de estudio, el Dr. Don Colbert finalmente ha resuelto el dilema hormonal. Ahora las respuestas que usted necesita est̀n a su alcance; y con la m̀s reciente informaci̤n que el Dr. Colbert proporciona en este libro, ya no tiene que conformarse con simplemente equilibrar sus hormonas; puede OPTIMIZARLAS, para volver a tener la vida saludable, en forma y vigorosa que gozaba...
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Publisher
Editorial Edaf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Envejecer no tiene por qué significar experimentar más dolor y enfermedad, perder movilidad o desarrollar una enfermedad. El renombrado científico investigador cardiovascular y doctor en farmacia Dr. James DiNicolantonio se asocia con el médico líder y autor de bestsellers, el Dr. Jason Fung, para entregar The Longevity Solution, un nuevo libro revolucionario que descubre los secretos del envejecimiento saludable. Utilizando evidencia extraída...
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English
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"Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry...
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Find out all about the unique and beautiful kingdoms of life at a microscopic scale and how every organism meets the challenges of survival no matter its size. The perfect book for people who enjoy photography, nature and biology.--
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 63
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
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