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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1230L
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English
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"For two thousand years, cadavers some willingly, some unwittingly have been involved in sciences boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Theyve tested Frances first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A gothic tale full of mystery and romance. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Royal Edinburgh Anatomists' Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham's lectures for being the wrong gender,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Edimburgo, 1817. En una época en la que el mayor objetivo de las mujeres es casarse, el sueño de Hazel Sinnett es convertirse en cirujana. Para Jack Currer la vida tampoco es fácil: sobrevive saqueando tumbas y vendiendo lo que encuentra en ellas en una ciudad llena de peligros. Sus caminos se cruzarán cuando, para formarse académicamente, Hazel hace un trato con un reconocido médico: si supera el examen de acceso, podrá estudiar en la universidad....
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This is a hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open.Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class, preparing herself for what was to come. Entering a room with stainless-steel tables topped by corpses in body bags is shocking no matter how long you've prepared yourself, but a strange thing happened...
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