Most Canadians are familiar with John McCrae through his iconic poem “In Flanders Fields,” which was penned on the battlefields of the First World War and remains a symbol of remembrance to this day. Although he will always be...
Physicians
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Author:Raby-Dunne, SusanSummary: -
Author:Wang, WeikeSummary:Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily...
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Author:Hatch, StevenSummary:Six months after Dr. Steven Hatch came to work at a hospital in Liberia, several physicians he served with were dead, and Ebola was a global crisis. A memoir about fighting a plague, Inferno also explains the science of Ebola: why it...
- Author:Noël-Maw, MartineSummary:
Dr. Emile Murray is the grandson of Fort San’s longtime director and pioneering tuberculosis specialist. Or is he? A late aunt’s diaries and letters suggests otherwise. Reading them, Emile’s wife Sophie is surprised to discover...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
When her fiancé returns to Texas, Deborah Vandermark faces a different future than she expected. She's now plagued with questions and uncertainties--about marriage, motherhood, and her passion to train as a physician. And when an old...
- Author:McElhinney, Ann.Summary:
Journalists present the story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia obstetrician-gynecologist who performed abortions. Gosnell was convicted of the first-degree murders of infants who were born alive during attempted abortion procedures...
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Author:Karp, LarrySummary:The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past. Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad...
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Author:Taylor, PatrickSummary:Fans of Taylor's bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his once long-lost...
- Author:Jackson, BrendaSummary:
Their long-ago affair had ended too abruptly. And Dr. Micah Westmoreland knows Kalina Daniels hasn't forgiven him. But now that they're working side by side, he can't ignore the heat that still burns between them. This time, there will...
- Author:Condé, MaryseSummary:
Babakar est medecin. Il vit seul avec ses souvenirs d'une enfance africaine, d'une mere aux yeux bleus qui vient le visiter en songe, d'un ancien amour, Azelia, disparue elle aussi, et autres reves de jeunesse d'avant son exil en...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Deborah Vandermark plans to assist her family's logging business, but when she meets Dr. Christopher Clayton, Deborah realizes she has a greater interest in medicine and science than the bookkeeping she was trained in.
- Author:MacLennan, HughSummary:
Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father...
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Author:Burden, Arnold, Safer, AndrewSummary:Dr. Arnold Burden's career began unintentionally when he performed his first surgery in the woods following a hunting accident at age 14. As a 20-year-old hospital clerk, he handed battle casualties after D-Day in France and Germany....
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Author:Hough, RobertSummary:Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction Bonus e-book content includes two out-takes from the novel -- how Antonio Garcia got his beautiful horse and how Miguel Orozco...
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Author:Sauvé, Mathieu-RobertSummary:Né d’un père disparu et d’une mère alcoolique, Stanley Vollant est sauvé de l’orphelinat par son grand-père innu, pêcheur de saumons et trappeur de Pessamit, sur la Côte-Nord. Élève brillant doté d’une mémoire prodigieuse, il doit...
- Author:Cook, JudithSummary:
Simon Forman rose to wealth and fame in Elizabethan London as doctor to the giants of the Elizabethan theatre. He was also an astrologer and schemer - and perhaps a spy. His "playbook" contains the first eye-witness accounts...
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Charismatic and ambitious, Simon Forman rose from a poor upbringing in Wiltshire to become one of the wealthiest doctors in London. This account of his life sees him denounced as a quack and an astrologer who used black magic. It covers...
- Author:Selzer, RichardSummary:
Presents an autobiographical account of a doctor coming of age.
- Author:Gordon, RichardSummary:
Dr. Grimsdyke lands a job as ship's doctor on a passenger liner on which his current beloved is also travelling.
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Author:Jam, TeddySummary:Doctor Kiss is quite prepared to say yes when she finds a letter asking her to come to the aid of a young knight who has been injured in battle. She waits until after her usual goodnight kisses and hugs from her parents, and then she...
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