In these Red Cross memoirs, thirty women tell their stories of volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps in overseas postings during World War Two and the Korean War. These dramatic narratives take us across oceans infested with...
Nurses
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Author:Day, Francis Martin, Spence, Phyllis, Ladouceur, BarbaraSummary: -
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Author:Harold, HughinaSummary:Hughina Harold paints a powerful picture of a world that no longer exists in this compelling account of her experiences as a young teacher and nurse on the remote Broughton Archipelago on British Columbia’s coast in the 1930s. Fresh...
- Author:Jarvis, Muriel, Vandergoot, Mary EllenSummary:
Health care has changed a great deal since Muriel Jarvis was a young nurse in Saskatoon in the 1940s; nursing has been transformed, and the status of women revolutionized. The inspiring story of a girl from Kenaston, Saskatchewan, who...
- Author:Preston, RachaelSummary:
In her highly anticipated second novel, Rachael Preston tells a vibrant, compelling story of 20th century piracy. Exploring the complex struggle for freedom against a backdrop of passion and repression, The Wind Seller is the story of...
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If life is cheap, how much is love worth' It's 1914 and young Rose Courtenay has a decision to make. Please her wealthy parents by marrying the man of their choice - or play her part in the war effort' After escaping to...
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Author:Brown, TheresaSummary:Practicing nurse and regular contributor to the New York Times Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a busy teaching hospital's cancer ward.
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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...
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Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:A lyrical, heartbreaking story of ardour and devastation
In this powerful novel of love and family, a doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does break...
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Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:In 1919, Kitty Weekes obtains a nursing position at a remote hospital for soldiers shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. But something more is going on at Portis House; the former occupants left abruptly, and all the patients...
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Author:Inman, JohnSummary:Welcome to the Belladonna Arms, a rundown little apartment building perched atop a hill in downtown San Diego, home to the city’s lost and lovelorn. Shy archaeology student Stanley Sternbaum has just moved in and fills his time quietly...
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Author:Talton, JonSummary:Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He’s lucky to be alive. He’s lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the department. But when a star cop is...
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Author:NUNN, JudySummary:On location in Vanuatu, young Australian actor Samantha Lindsay plays a character based on the life of 'Mamma Tack', a World War II heroine who was invaluable to both the US forces and the New Hebridean natives. Uncanny...
- Author:Sinclair, Eleanor A.Summary:
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Author:Gutman, Dan.Summary:Mrs. Cooney, the school nurse, is so beautiful that A.J. has a crush on her--even though he suspects she might be an international spy!
- Author:Thifault, Marie-ClaudeSummary:
Sages-femmes, religieuses, sœurs hospitalières, bénévoles, infirmières de la Croix-Rouge, de colonie, militaires, en psychiatrie, assistantes sociales et professionnelles de la santé sont ici sujets de l’histoire dans le large champ des...
- Author:Chekirou, SalahSummary:
L’otage est l’histoire d’une jeune infirmière Québécoise qui s’extirpe difficilement d’une grosse dépression suite à une douloureuse rupture avec l’amour de sa vie. Suzanne, c’est d’elle qu’il s’agit intègre le service des...
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Author:Kaaberbøl, Lene, Friis, AgneteSummary:Red Cross nurse Nina Borg's life is at a turning point. Her husband, Morten, has pleaded with her not to get involved in any more dangerous projects with her network of volunteers who assist illegal immigrants and refugees. But when...
- Author:Alers, RochelleSummary:
Super Bowl MVP Brandt Wainwright's good fortune runs out when he crashes his SUV into a tree. During the long recuperation, the fun-loving quarterback becomes cranky and sullen--until private nurse Ciara Dennison shows up for duty...
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Author:Brady, KiraSummary:For nurse Kayla Friday, Seattle is a place of eerie loss and frightening memories. Now the only clue to her sister's murder reveals a secret battle between two ancient mythologies--and puts Kayla in the sights of lethally sexy werewolf-...
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