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1) Don't go
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter, and a downsizing in his medical practice.
Author
Series
Danger never sleeps volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When former field surgeon Heather Fontaine returns from a party to find that someone has broken into her house-and threatened her friends-she assumes it is the stalker who has been creeping her out. She hopes to find safety and piece of mind by leaving the city and hiding out in a small town. But trouble follows here even there. Luckily, a stalker isn't the only one observing heather. Travis Walker has been secretly watching out for her for weeks....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low. Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zalmani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
9) Do No Harm
Author
Series
Lucas Page novel volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually well-disguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern and discern the truth that no one else believes. Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of five adopted children, bestselling author, and ex-FBI agent-emphasis on "ex." Severely wounded after being caught in an explosion, Page left the FBI...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a "fallen angel" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emerald Books
Pub. Date
[2014], 2014
Physical Desc
192 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a child growing up in Detroit, Ben Carson (1951-) has a dream of becoming a physician, a dream that rose out of struggles with poverty, racism, and poor grades. As Ben persevered and strove for academic excellence, his life became one of compassion and service"--Amazon.com.