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The Death and Life of August SweeneyLegendary chef August Sweeney has served his final meal, dying in the middle of service in the very restaurant he built to secure his legacy. When Dr. Maya Zhu, a guarded, intense autopsist, is summoned to investigate, she discovers she must operate under strict...
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The DecisionWhen is doing the right thing the wrong answer?Jonathan Silverman is a well-respected attorney who finds himself drawn into the tumultuous worlds of pharmaceutical research and criminal enterprise when he's approached by a small start-up that developed a revolutionary dementia treatment seeking his help...
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The Gifts of the BodyAn emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."--New York Times Book ReviewAuthor: Rebecca BrownPublisher:...
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The Glass House: Menzies Mental Health 1'A masterfully told, character-driven that will have you laughing and crying in equal measures' THE AUSTRALIAN 'A deeply empathetic, humanising portrait of a mental health facility, and the souls that pass through it' THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY 'Stunning . . . [A] unique that's...
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The HeartOne of Bill Gates' "Five Best Summer Reads" The basis for the critically-acclaimed film, Heal the Living, directed by Katell Quillévéré and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner Albertine Prize Finalist Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize Just...
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The Hill of DreamsOften compared to Huysmans' A Rebours, The Hill of Dreams is a meditation on alienation and the lure of the fantasticalFrom his earliest literary experimentation, Arthur Machen refused to sit in his own time, clawing his way back to a past inhabited by false...
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The House of GodBy turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor. "The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling...brutally honest."--The New York Times...
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The Kill Code CollectiveSierra Bauer, an aircraft mechanic, aids Alice Holmgren during her collapse at the airport. Alice's ICD (implanted cardiac device), made by Voyageur Cardiac Systems (VCS), fails catastrophically. Alice's daughter, a VCS employee, questions the ICD failure. She shows Sierra an internal report, not shared...
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The Last Body PartA woman discovers she has a rogue body part, one she's never heard of. As sheprepares herself for surgery to remove the offense, she travels to London andfinds answers to her questions in unexpected places. This is the story of thelast body part discovered--the...
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The Leg in QuestionWhat if the body, your own body, or someone else's, became the most unreliable narrator you've ever met?From post-World War I New York to pandemic-era Savannah, from the quiet kitchens of Maine to the heat-soaked streets of Malaysia, THE LEG IN QUESTION unravels the...
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The Mapping of Love and Death: A Maisie Dobbs NovelIn this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs is hired to unravel a case of wartime love and death, an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.August 1914. As...
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The Medicine Woman of GalvestonIn a uniquely vivid story of women in medicine, found family, and conquering fear for readers of Kristin Hannah, Ellen Marie Wiseman, and Audrey Blake, an impoverished former doctor and her disabled son join a traveling medicine show and its family of strangers on...
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The Midwife of Hope RiverA remarkable new voice in American fiction enchants readers with a moving and uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle of life. In The Midwife of Hope River, first-time novelist Patricia Harmon transports us to poverty stricken Appalachia during the Great Depression years of the...
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The Nurse's Lie: An utterly addictive and page-turning psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twistNurse. Mother. Wife. Killer...? Only a few months ago, my life was simple. I spent most of my time caring for patients in brightly lit hospital wards. Then I'd pick up my son from kindergarten before cooking a meal for my husband. I'd drink...
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The Painted Veil"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode." -Kitty, The Painted Veil (1925) by Somerset Maugham The Painted Veil (1925)...
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The Perfect Nurse: A totally addictive and unputdownable psychological thriller'My name is Darcy, I'm your nurse and I'm here to help you.' I repeat the words I've said so many times. Except this time, I don't mean it...If you saw me walking down the street, you'd think I was pretty ordinary - I...
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The Perfect Nurse: A Totally Addictive and Unputdownable Psychological Thriller'My name is Darcy, I'm your nurse. I'm here to help you.' I repeat the words I've said so many times. Except this time, I don't mean it... If you saw me, you'd think I was pretty ordinary - I wear a crisp, white...
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The PhysicianAn orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this "rich" and "vivid" historical novel from a New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking...
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The Pull of the StarsIn Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews). In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power...
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The Reluctant Midwife: A Hope River NovelThe USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit.The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of...
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