Set in an AIDs hospital in an undisclosed African nation, Tea With the Tiger concerns itself with medicine and ethics. The novel explores the corrupt alliance between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry in developing countries. The...
Medical fiction
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Author:Unsworth, NathanSummary: - Author:Cook, RobinSummary:
“Like a runaway locomotive—a manically entertaining thriller. Robin Cook knows how to make the pages fly.”—Kirkus Reviews At a prestigious Florida medical center, brain cancer patients are treated with a 100% success rate. Sean Murphy,...
- Author:Pearson, MarySummary:
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling...
- Author:Morten, ChristopherSummary:
The gripping tale of a brilliant war orphan forced to use his genius to repay a debt to a mysterious benefactor . The goal is to radically curb the world's soaring population - setting in motion genocide on an unimaginable scale....
- Author:Galgut, DamonSummary:
When Laurence Waters arrives at his post in a rural hospital in new South Africa, and convinces Dr. Ruth Ngema, head of the hospital, to set up clinics in the villages, the crime and corruption that follow put everyone involved in...
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
Portland, Maine, 1910. An assembly gathers to listen to a fundraising lecture by the esteemed medical missionary Doctor Wilfred Grenfell. Grenfell has been working for eighteen years with trappers, fishermen, and their families on...
- Author:Calvert, CandaceSummary:
This collection bundles all three novels from author Candace Calvert's exciting Grace Medical series into one e-book for a great value!Trauma PlanSidelined by injuries from a vicious assault, chaplain Riley Hale is determined to...
- Author:Kerangal, Maylis deSummary:
Driving back home from an early-morning surfing trip with two friends, Simon Limbres is involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted country road. Framed within the twenty-four hours following the crash, this novel describes the...
- Author:Kalla, DanielSummary:
Instant National Bestseller. In this riveting novel from international bestselling author Daniel Kalla, a Vancouver doctor and a detective face the deadly consequences of the opioid crisis as they track down the supplier of fentanyl...
- Author:Durcan, LiamSummary:
Martin, an acclaimed architect, emerges from a coma after a roadside accident to find his world transformed: not only has the commission of a lifetime been taken from him, but his injury has left him with a loss of spatial awareness...
- Author:Calvert, CandaceSummary:
This collection bundles all three titles from Candace Calvert's exciting Mercy Hospital series into one e-book, for a great value!#1 Critical CareAfter her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER...
- Author:DiLallo, Richard, Patterson, JamesSummary:
When two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen in a university hospital, something has to be done, and Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan is fearless enough to try.
- Author:Morris, LynnSummary:
Book 2 of Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance. Cheney and Shiloh Irons-Winslow return to New York from their honeymoon and enthusiastically begin work-Shiloh at Winslow Brothers Shipping and Cheney in her medical career. But their...
- Author:Burstow, BonnieSummary:
This novel traces the life experiences of a once highly successful woman who falls prey to electroshock and subsequently struggles, partly successfully, partly in vain, to piece back together her life. Naomi Cohan Smith suffers enormous...
- Author:Talton, JonSummary:
Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctor's husband, a surgeon, and this makes her a person of...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder...
- Author:Endo, ShusakuSummary:
Set in a Japanese hospital during the last days of World War II, the story centers on the medical staff who offer to assist in a series of vivisections—experimental operations on live U.S. prisoners of war. The Sea and Poison won the...
- Author:Wilk, LucieSummary:
At the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He'll send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB. Another patient rolled to the ward. And the round swellings,...
- Author:Forest, Susan, Law, Lucas KSummary:
Twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors explore the depth and breadth of caring and of giving. They find insight, joy, devastation, and heroism in grand sweeps and in tiny niches. And, like wasps made of stinging words, there...
- Author:Morris, LynnSummary:
Hoping to escape a brutal New York winter, Cheney and Shiloh travel with a group of friends to Sangria House, a small citrus plantation in Florida. But when they arrive, all is not as they expected. Though the place seems deserted, with...
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