Medical doctor Marie Levant--descendant of the legendary Voodoo Queen Mari Laveau--is tired of seeing blood-drained corpses arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their ghosts. To protect herself and her loved...
Women physicians
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Author:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary: - Author:Campbell, Olivia M.Summary:
For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care. In the...
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Author:Morris, LynnSummary:Newlyweds Cheney Duvall and Shiloh Irons-Winslow are enjoying an idyllic honeymoon aboard a ship in the West Indies. But when a fierce storm interrupts their carefree days, Cheney and Shiloh find themselves on a small island facing a...
- Author:Kalla, DanielSummary:
The plague has hit Italy. Can Alana find the source in time to save the world? NATO infectious diseases expert Alana Vaughn receives an urgent message from an ex-lover, summoning her to Genoa to examine a critically ill patient. She...
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Author:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSummary:Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago, now four have been discovered in Virginia. For Dr Kay Scarpetta, a lecture stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders are connected....
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Five years after being sacked as Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, and she is back with a vengeance. Her return, as consultant pathologist in the mysterious death of a teenage girl, ruffles a few...
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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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A daring young woman risks everything to pursue a career as a doctor on the front lines in France during World War I, and learns the true meaning of hope, love, and resilience in the darkest of times. When Eleanor Atherton graduates...
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When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London's esteemed Harley Street. Driven and idealistic...
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Author:Brockmann, SuzanneSummary:After a near-fatal head injury, Navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti spies an international terrorist in his hometown. In a desperate attempt to prevent disaster, he creates his own makeshift counterterrorist team, which includes Dr. Kelly...
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Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the king and Parliament, Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist family, offers her services to both sides in the conflict, regardless of belief. Her recurring companion at...
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Author:Patricia CornwellSummary:Kay Scarpetta--now a senior forensic analyst for CNN--becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems...
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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:Edge, FredSummary:
Charlotte Ross (1843-1916) belonged to the first generation of women to practice medicine in Canada and was Manitoba’s first qualified woman doctor.
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Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, The Heart Specialist is the epic story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the "wrong" things—microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more...
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Author:Donati, SaraSummary:In 1883, young Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie have become successful physicians but have never recovered from the losses they suffered as children. So when Anna encounters a child in need, she must decide whether or not she's willing...
- Author:Nimura, Janice P.Summary:
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and...
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Author:McNeil, JeanSummary:A lushly imagined novel that asks, “When do we ever really know ourselves?”
When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the...
- Author:Cornwell, Patricia DanielsSummary:
An eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. She just may be on her own this time--against an...
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Author:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSummary:A sleepy little town in North Carolina seems hardly the place for a serial killer to be stalking but Dr Kay Scarpetta is called in to use her forensic skills on the corpse of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner, found with a bullet wound and...
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