When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines...
Medical fiction
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary: -
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....
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Author:Pennie, RossSummary:In an affluent city perched on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment, residents begin turning up on the pathologist’s autopsy table with what looks like epidemic mad cow disease. Zol Szabo, a public–health doctor and former chef, and Hamish...
- Author:CRONIN, A. JSummary:
Robert Shannon, now a young doctor, puts medical research above all else, but has to face many obstacles of his own making.
- Author:COOK, RobinSummary:
A taut novel of a young doctor, Marissa Blumenthal, who uncovers a terrifying plot to deliberately spread disease for profit.
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Author:Christopher, LucySummary:While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to...
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Author:Yates, SerenaSummary:Modern Battles: Book Two Danny McBrae is a super-rich playboy, but his devil-may-care lifestyle hides an artist with a sensitive heart who gave up on love after years of hurt. When his beloved great-grandfather, the eccentric Sir...
- Author:RAYNER, ClaireSummary:
Medical decisions can kill or cure, and this book documents one month in a hospital where staff are challenged by such decisions. Problems are faced daily by people like Kate Sayers, a surgeon whose dedication to her work makes any...
- Author:NEELS, BettySummary:
Julia Mitchell had worked on Women's Medical alongside Professor van der Wagema for three years and had never seen the warmth underneath his crisp professional exterior. And why should she be interested anyway - she had Nigel after...
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Author:Harrison, KimSummary:Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the Federal Inderland Bureau (FIB), former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a...
