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"Richly detailed, expertly paced saga of the only female student attending a prestigious medical school in Italy...a truly captivating heroine, for then and for now." --Sally Cabot Gunning, author of The Widow's Warand Painting the Light From the USA Todaybestselling author of The Girl in His Shadowcomes a riveting historical fiction novel about the women in medicine who changed the world forever. Women's work is a matter of life and death. Nora Beady,...
2) Foreign body
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
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"For the very driven medical student Caitlyn Winters, catching the bridal bouquet at a Christmas wedding has set off a chain reaction that she's sure is more curse than blessing. Not only has she fallen in love with family medicine resident Noah McIlroy, but an unexpected pregnancy threatens her well-laid plans for the future. It doesn't help that Noah--with a whole lot of help from her O'Brien relatives--is completely on board with the prospect of...
4) Host
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Lynn, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Lynn searches for answers and she uses all her resources at Mason Dixon, including her initially reluctant lab partner, Edward, to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice. What she uncovers,...
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Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked...
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"Ghanaian-American Angela Appiah has checked off all the boxes for the "Perfect Immigrant Daughter." Enroll in an elite medical school; Snag a suitable lawyer/doctor/engineer boyfriend; Surround self with a gaggle of successful and/or loyal friends. But then it quickly all falls apart: her boyfriend dumps her, she bombs the most important exam of her medical career, and her best friend pulls away. And her parents, whose approval seems to hinge on...
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Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund, studying medicine under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Bjorklund, leaves the town of Blessing and her boyfriend Joshua Landsverk behind to get additional training in Chicago, but when Joshua fails to write and she learns he has left town, she makes an impetus decision she may soon regret.
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"When Elizabeth, a young premed student, happens upon Damien, a dog being used in laboratory research on her campus, she has no way of knowing how drastically her life - and her beliefs - will be changed. Without meaning to, she slowly becomes drawn into the dog's fate and is soon torn between the love and respect she has come to feel for Damien and the sense of loyalty and obligation she feels for the medical profession as well as her father and...
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The perfect candidate to carry their child...with the perfect opportunity to destroy their lives.
When Kyle Dolan convinces his wife, Bethany, to hire a surrogate for their last surviving embryo, they allow themselves to hope once again. A med school student, Laurel Bergin seems perfect in every way. Problem is—Laurel Bergin is really Sable Lynde.
As the pregnancy progresses, Sable's dark secrets surface, and her inner demons
...11) Cadaver & queen
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn't have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she'll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-Mechanical--one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school--she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program.
12) Sacred serenity
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Lotus House volume 2
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Twenty-two-year-old Amber St. James's focus is on her education. Her plan is clear-finish the elite San Francisco/Berkeley Medical School program early and become a pediatrician. She hasn't given much thought to dating or to men in general, until she enrolls in the required human sexuality course...a subject foreign to her for religious and personal reasons. Tantric yoga practitioner Dash Alexander is Lotus House Yoga's most sought after sensual teacher....
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"Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others in an age where we are so often lost in our own minds"--
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2022.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"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,...
15) Ward D
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Medical student Amy Brenner has dreaded her required overnight rotation assigned to Ward D, the hospital's locked inpatient mental health unit, so when patients and staff begin to disappear during her shift, Amy is convinced her worst fears are coming true.
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"Sarah Gilchrist finds herself trying to prove her fiancé's innocence in the midst of his murder trial. Edinburgh, 1893. Sarah Gilchrist has no intention of marrying her dull fiancé Miles, the man her family hopes will restore her reputation and put an end to her dreams of becoming a doctor, but when he is arrested for a murder she is sure he didn't commit, she finds herself his reluctant ally. Beneath the genteel façade of upper class Edinburgh...
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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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London beginnings volume 2
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Strong-minded and independent Julia Bernay comes to London to study medicine and become a doctor--a profession that has only just opened up to women. She witnesses a serious accident, and through her quick actions saves the life of an ambitious young barrister named Michael Stephenson. Coming from a family that long ago lost its money and its respectability, Michael Stephenson has achieved what many would have thought was impossible. Hard work and...
20) The wages of sin
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"Despite numerous barriers, Sarah Gilchrist is determined to become a doctor in 1882, the first year the University of Edinburgh admitted women, but is drawn into a murder mystery when a former acquaintance turns up as a corpse in the dissecting room"--
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