Dr. Cheney Duvall, finding all doors closed to female physicians in 1865, answers a friend's plea to set up a practice in the primitive wilderness of Wolf County, Arkansas, but she finds herself as equally unwelcome in the mountain community as she was in Philadelphia society.

Moving through the exotic settings of California, Hawaii, and Africa, Barbara Wood weaves a rich and compelling story of three women's lives and the challenges they face in their careers and in their relationships. In the late 1960s, three bright, ambitious women struggling to make a place in a man's world meet in medical school. Each has a past she wants to forget, and each has a dream she needs to fulfill. Mickey Long. Disfigured from birth, Mickey...

Just in the Chinese proverb that says, "Falling leaves return to their roots", Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to paint an authentic portrait of twentieth century China as well as courage and ultimate triumph over dispair.

Dr. Cheney Duvall and Dr. Walker Baird try to convince Shiloh Irons to leave Hawaii and return to San Francisco.

A portrait of a talented and courageous woman physician who stares at her reflection in the glass ceiling, and decides to seek and find a more meaningful life. Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an...

Dr. Jamie Myers has tried outrunning her past, but now someone is stalking her, leaving her deadly messages. Once, she'd trusted the wrong man. So how can she rely on Davis McGuire, the fiercely handsome ex-SEAL she's hired as a bodyguard? And how can she ignore the way his hands-on attention excites her? One of McGuire Securities' best, Davis wants to protect the sexy doc 24/7 and play by the rules. But as Jamie's stalker grows bolder, Davis's desire...

The cholera epidemic of 1866 threatens New York City where Cheney serves as a physician.

In graphic novel format, tells the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

"Josh Calhoun escaped the rat race to run his family's farming operation. But when he returns to Chicago to mediate an inheritance dispute, he's confronted with the past: Dr. Lucinda Wilde. As his best friend's old girlfriend, she's always been off-limits. But his best friend is gone, and now the unavoidable attraction between them makes Josh think it is time to stake his claim... Will being with the rugged cowboy feel like a betrayal of her sweetheart's...

The story of Samantha Hargrove, a woman who dares to dream of becoming one of the first women doctors in America.