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1) Every breath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Nobel Peace Summit Award-winning actress, activist, and humanitarian chronicles her efforts to recover and rebuild after a massive stroke, discussing how her health challenges were also shaped by industry standards, childhood traumas, and family bonds.
4) The Stand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 per cent of the world's population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer; Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and almost as quickly find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial artist. But Kenneth is losing his eyesight, and when...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency-wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating from medical school. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author's medical training concludes her residency three years later.
During...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author, a young reporter at a major New York newspaper, describes her month-long descent into madness from a rare autoimmune disorder that nearly killed her. The account draws from hospital records, surveillance video, interviews with family and friends, and excerpts from a journal her father kept during her illness.
10) Seaview Inn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods proves home can be found where you least expect it. Hannah Matthews is undeniably tough--a single mom, a top-tier PR exec, a breast cancer survivor. She prides herself on being go-to Hannah, who can handle any crisis. But with her grandmother balking at going into a retirement home, her daughter unexpectedly pregnant and an old flame suddenly underfoot, Hannah is facing a few crises of her own. And being...
11) Life flight
Author
Series
Extreme measures volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to stress, but an emergency landing in a raging storm with a critical patient on board would test the limits of the best of pilots. When news of a serial killer reaches her, it's clear the stress has just begun"--
EMS helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to high stress situations, but being forced to land on a mountain in a raging storm with a critical patient-- and a serial killer on the loose-- tests her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.
13) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
14) Waiting for Eden
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A veteran enduring life trapped in his own mind begins to find a way to communicate before troubling realities about his marriage come to the surface.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Helping out her friend Detective Sergeant Dirk Coulter, voluptuous P.I. Savannah Reid is on the trail of a shady weight loss therapist who tricked his patients into losing their money instead of their weight, and who supposedly killed his wife.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam--a thirteen-year old synesthete with an...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country, and by the end of the shift, we have...