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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
448 pages
Description
"Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 25 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Lindsay Wagner stars as a young physician who is compelled to return to her roots. Although the orphanage where she was raised is abandoned, she sets up a medical practice and discovers that her "new-fangled" medicine is in direct conflict with the home-spun ways and remedies of the area's medical practitioner.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 270 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
Description
"After completing her medical training in New York, Susan Levenstein set off for a one year adventure in Rome. Forty years later, she is still practicing medicine in the Eternal City. In Dottoressa Levenstein writes ... about navigating her career through the renowned Italian tangle of brilliance and ineptitude, sexism and tolerance, rigidity and chaos. Part memoir--starting with her epic quest for an Italian medical license--and part portrait of...
24) Gemini: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A medical mystery wrapped in a contemporary love story, GEMINI is a stand out new novel from the Cassella, a practicing M.D. and author of the national bestseller OXYGEN. Think Jodi Picoult meets Abraham Verghese"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In New York, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, matches wits with a sadistic killer who operates in the subway tunnels. After killing a transit policeman he infiltrates the FBI's computers and sends her taunting messages while continuing to kill.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 652 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Description
"From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York; Dr. Sophie Savard, daughter of free people of color returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician she plans...
35) Livid
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fianč, who...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
©1993
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Trying to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and police lieutenant Pete Marino race against time when Kay is implicated in a second brutal killing.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Pathologist Kay Scarpetta searches for the cause of death in the case of five young couples whose decomposed bodies are found without shoes and socks deep in the woods. Bones, fragments of clothing, and a jack of hearts are all that remain.
40) Cause of death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In Norfolk, Virginia, a reporter is killed while scuba diving in the naval yard. As she investigates, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta uncovers a plot by a fascist militia to take over an atomic power plant.
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