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1) Shock
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Graduate students and best friends Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner are shocked by what they find when they investigate the fate of the eggs they donated to a Boston fertility clinic shrouded in secrecy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
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A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car ... or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected...
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Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, left the states to work with the poor. A sudden accident that puts her father, a celebrated internal medicine specialist, into a coma, brings her back to Boston. The truth about the accident is unknown until her father looks at her and begins slowly to blink a terrifying message.
4) Fatal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
900L
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A young doctor returns to his hometown, determined to find the cause of the deaths of his wife and father. But a series of accidents at the local mine soon has him tracking a bizarre syndrome leading to deformity, madness and death. Joining him is a Boston-based pathologist, herself in town for the funeral of her best friend. With countless lives at stake, the two doctors race against the clock for answers.
5) Random winds
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The Farrells are a proud American family and Random Winds is the forceful saga of their ambitious and love-torn lives from the days of the Depression to the present. Enoch, a poor country doctor, is succeeded by his son Martin, a young med student whose ambition is to rise above the role of rural physician. WHen Martin meets Mary Fern, love and ambition are united. Mary's wealthy family has the means to launch Martin's career as a surgeon. But Martin's...
6) Toxin
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Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, crazed that cost-cutting procedures at the hospital are keeping his daughter from getting the care he believes she needs to recover from E.coli bacterial poisoning, launches his own investigation into how and why the child got sick.
7) Mortal fear
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When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Christmas Eve in Central Park-Temple Brooks Gault stands over his latest victim, washing his bloody hands in the snow. Pleased with his new kill, he lifts the heavy steel door of an emergency exit and disappears into the fetid tunnels of the New York subway system.
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Dr. Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from PTSD, spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. Psych nurse Gillian Coates wants to find her sister's killer. She does not believe that Belle Coates, an ICU nurse, took her own life, even though every bit of evidence indicates that she did, every bit save one. Together, Nick and Gillian determine that one-by-one, each...
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Guy Carlson, a scientist at a biotechnology company, volunteers to work at a secret facility where researchers are working on a cure for the flu, but it does not take him long to discover that something is terribly wrong with the project, and the results could be deadly.
11) Brain
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Lexile measure
900L
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The disappearance of a patient's brain and a rash of unexplained bizarre behavior prompts two doctors to investigate the medical research facility that employs both of them. Two doctors suspect something is very wrong at the enormous medical center where they work. And soon they will put their careers and their lives in deadly jeopardy, as they penetrate the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young...
12) Moloka'i
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Moloka'i volume 01
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"Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. In her exile she finds a family of friends...
13) Harvest
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620L
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Second year surgical resident Abby DiMatteo stumbles onto a horrifying conspiracy when a wealthy patient who has just had a heart transplant becomes ill and Abby, in trying to treat the woman, discovers the donor records have been falsified.
15) Oath of office
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"What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Merriman years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor...
16) Contagion
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Dr. John Stapleton, who became a pathologist after he lost his job and his family, investigates a series of extremely lethal illnesses that seem to originate in hospitals owned by a giant medical corporation.
17) Harmful intent
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Boston anesthesiologist Dr. Jeffrey Rhodes's life turns upside-down when a mother and her newborn die as a result of the anesthetic he administered. The malpractice suit destroys him financially. He is convicted of a second-degree murder, and awaits being sentenced to a probable prison term.
18) Nano
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Pia Grazdani volume 02
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Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding.
19) Intervention
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It's been over thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton's college days and almost as long since he'd been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Now a renowned archeologist and biblical scholar, Shawn has made a discovery with startling implications. And when Kevin, now Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, gets wind of it, he asks Jack to help him keep Shawn's findings from the public.
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