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  Black Dagger Brotherhood: Book 9

  Lover Unleashed

  by J. R. Ward

  #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward's thrilling new novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself-only to face a devastating injury. Manuel Manello, M.D., is drafted by the Brotherhood to save her as only he... (more)
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  My Name Is Mary Sutter

  by Robin Oliveira

  An enthralling historical novel about a young woman's struggle to become a doctor during the Civil War In this stunning first novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, head­strong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine-and eager to run away from her recent heartbreak- Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C. to help... (more)
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  Shedrow

  by Dean DeLuke

  From rolling pastures in Lexington, KY to darkened alleyways in Newark, NJ, from Manhattan's posh '21' Club to a peculiar and mysterious landfill in Eastern Kentucky, and from Saratoga Springs, NY to the tiny island of St. Lucia, Shedrow portrays a collision of characters from many divergent worlds. High society and the racing elite, medical and veterinary specialists, mob figures, and Kentucky hill folk become... (more)
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  The Knife Man

  Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

  by Wendy Moore

  In an era when bloodletting was considered a cure for everything from colds to smallpox, surgeon John Hunter was a medical innovator, an eccentric, and the person to whom anyone who has ever had surgery probably owes his or her life. In this sensational and macabre story, we meet the surgeon who counted not only luminaries Benjamin Franklin, Lord Byron, Adam Smith, and Thomas Gainsborough among his patients but... (more)
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  Lucas Davenport: Book 20

  Storm Prey

  by John Sandford

  It was an inside job, and it should have been easy. Rob the pharmacy at Minneapolis’ largest hospital: in, out, wait till things cool down, and then sell the drugs for a half million or so. But the old man had to be a hero. Who knew he’d be on blood thinners and die after he was kicked? A robbery turned murder means Lucas Davenport and his Bureau of Criminal Apprehension team are called in to assist the... (more)
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  Nights in Rodanthe

  by Nicholas Sparks

  From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy, of sacrifice and forgiveness-a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small... (more)
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  Gulliver's Travels

  by Jonathan Swift

  Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a... (more)
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  Complications

  A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

  by Atul Gawande

  In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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  Rizzoli & Isles: Book 2

  The Apprentice

  by Tess Gerritsen

  The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly. THE APPRENTICE It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city’s woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while... (more)
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  Scalpel's Edge, The: The Culture of Surgeons

  by Pearl Katz

  This ethnography about the culture of surgeons describes how and why they differ significantly from other physicians. Historically rising from humble roots as lower-class, uneducated, itinerant barbers, the profession has evolved into one of the most prestigious in America, one that utilizes the most sophisticated technologies in medicine. Surgeons have nonetheless retained many aspects of their historical... (more)
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  Final Exam

  A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

  by Pauline W. Chen

  A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Pauline Chen began medical school twenty years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine’s most profound paradox, that a... (more)
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  Miracle

  by Deborah Smith

  Haunted by a past filled with poverty and abuse, Amy Miracle finds escape and release in the vineyards of Georgia--and in Sebastian de Savin, a brilliant and arrogant surgeon whose own past has hardened his heart. Amy finally breaks through de Savin's shell and teaches him to love and laugh again, and Sebastian helps Amy blossom into a magnificent woman. Original.
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  On Call in Hell

  A Doctor's Iraq War Story

  by Thomas Hayden, Richard Jadick

  A riveting memoir from the Navy doctor praised as "Hero, M.D." on the cover of Newsweek . Cdr. Richard Jadick's story is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the war in Iraq. At thirty-eight, the last place the Navy doctor was expected to be was on the front lines. He was too old to be called up, but not too old to volunteer. In November 2004, with the military reeling from an acute doctor shortage,... (more)
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  Letters to Laura: A Confederate Surgeon's Impressions of Four Years of War

  by Urban Grammar Owen

• The Making of a Woman SurgeonElizabeth Morgan

  

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  The Making of a Woman Surgeon

  by Elizabeth Morgan

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  Star Crossed

  by Linda Collison

  Patricia Kelley has been raised a proper British lady--but she's become a stowaway. Her father is dead, and her future in peril. To claim the estate that is rightfully hers, she must travel across the seas to Barbados, hidden in the belly of merchant ship. It is a daring escapade, and the plan works--for a time. But before she knows it, Patricia's secret is revealed, and she is torn between two worlds. During the... (more)
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  What One Man Said to Another Talks With Richard Selzer: Library Edition

  by Peter Josyph

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  Lucas Davenport: Book 18

  Phantom Prey

  by John Sandford

  Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before— but never one quite like this, in the shocking new Prey novel from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author. John Sandford’s most recent Davenport novel, Invisible Prey , was hailed as “one of his best books in recent memory” ( The Washington Post ); “as fresh and entertaining as ever” ( Chicago Sun-Times ); and “rivetingly readable” ( Richmond Times-Dispatch... (more)
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  Le chirurgien

  by Tess Gerritsen

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  The Information Officer

  by Mark Mills

  Malta, April 1942--Max Chadwick is the military officer charged with managing information and maintaining morale on the tiny Mediterranean island, a strategic lynchpin in the war. Bombs rain from the sky at all hours of the day and night, as the Maltese and their British protectors fiercely cling to the rocky outcropping that is all that stands between the Axis and total dominance of the Mediterranean theater. ... (more)