Fiction - Medical

Why does Jenny Black keep having near death experiences? Some people who return from the edge of death report strange things. A life review, floating through a tunnel filled with a golden light, dead relatives waiting in a loving welcome, an ecstatic feeling of...

A "heart-wrenching and humorous" (Publishers Weekly) love story for anyone who's ever wanted something--or someone--just out of reach, Colleen Oakley's Close Enough to Touch will delight fans of Jojo Moyes's One Plus One and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project.Can you miss something you never...

"Heartbreaking yet hopeful, this astute exploration of the bonds and limitations of family is a perfect book club pick." - New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson A Most Anticipated by Goodreads * SheReads * E! News * Frolic Jessica Strawser's A Million Reasons...

With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak--before it destroys...

America is in trouble--at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn't lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there's just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike....

Readers of Patrick Taylor's books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled town doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. A trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, it often seems as though Kinky...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one...

Set over the course of one summer, this perfect beach read follows a mother and her two daughters as they grapple with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of family secrets.Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling...

Can a place change a person? Especially a place where the magical sediments of an ancient sea run in seams below the shifting sands of a desert? Three medical doctors, who find themselves in a desolate outback South Australia, are about to find out....

Marc Diodato is living in New Jersey as a wealthy real estate developer when a devastating health diagnosis alters the course of his life. In an effort to escape his new reality, he leaves everything behind and flees to Rome, which unwittingly sets him...

Patrick Taylor's New York Times and USA Today besteller, An Irish Country Christmas celebrates the season in this third novel of his beloved series. Barry Laverty, M.B., is looking forward to his first Christmas in the cozy village of Ballybucklebo, at least until he...

'Frank has but one duty before him. He must marry money.' The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor's niece, Mary Thorne, a girl with...

Dr. Maya Summer works at Arizona Public Health, overseeing and researching a myriad of public health issues. A passionate advocate for a motorcycle helmet law, she also monitors disease-bearing mosquitoes, rabid bobcats, and the opioid epidemic--along with many other concerns. To maintain her clinical...

"Every Third Night" is an eye-opening yet poignant story that is set in a busy, dehumanizing and unyielding New York City residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1984. It brings the reader into the real world of medicine at a time of limited...

Set in the wake of COVID-19 and based on true events, a bizarre new syndrome is emerging, particularly in the US. People are falling ill with extreme salivation, foaming at the mouth, hemorrhagic red dots in their eyes and on their limbs, confusion, muscle...

The fragility of life. The persistence of hope. The marvels of medicine.Doctors are our modern saviors. And, yet who is the surgeon behind the mask or the doctor behind the stethoscope?In sixteen literary short stories, Daly Walker reveals the great weight that falls on...

The birthing of a new baby is one of life's great medical and human dramas. When it goes well, it is a loud and joyful mess. But when it goes badly, it is a travesty, devastating not only to hopeful mothers, but also to...

Doctor O'Reilly experiences both love and loss during World War II in this new novel in Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, young Surgeon-lieutenant O'Reilly answered the call of duty...

Future doctor Adam Schonberg loved his wife. That was why he took a job with the giant drug firm Arolen, for the money he needed for their coming baby. His wife, Jennifer, felt she would get the best of care at the Julian Clinic...

An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world. 1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway...

The second three volumes of James White's Sector General SF saga, in a single omnibus edition. Sector General: A vast hospital complex in the depths of outer space. The thousands who work there, human and alien both, have a single mission: To care for...

A missing girl. A dark secret. Dr Claire Roget is drawn into a deadly game to find the truth behind a young girl's disappearance in this chilling mystery. It's been six years since fourteen-year-old Marvel Trustrom went missing - six long years for Marvel's...

She held her baby in her arms and she knew in that moment that he'd be coming for her. She couldn't tell anyone her name, she couldn't let him find her. She had to keep her child safe. In the summer heat at the...

Frederick Manfred was the author of Lord Grizzly, finalist for the National Book Award, as well as twenty-six other novels and short story collections, many of which explore nuanced struggles with death and other life challenges which demand toughness and resilience. Although a work...

In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career... In a hospital four thousand miles away, a reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on...

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles--the inspiration for the hit TNT series--continue their bestselling crime-solving streak. For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum. Dubbed "Madam X," the recently rediscovered mummy is, to all appearances,...

Dr. Phineas Mann has come a long way from the darkness in his past. He has a loving wife, two bright children, a lively interest in beekeeping, and a rewarding career in intensive care medicine.And then a challenging case presents: an elderly man in...

Finding Grace intersects the journeys of many characters that brings gales of laughter and tissue-filled tears, weaving its way to a heart-warming, satisfying conclusion.Author: Gary Lee MillerISBN-10: 1631956590ISBN-13: 9781631956591Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2022Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d

A conspiracy theory no one would have guessed.It's 2168 and expiration dates have been a part of the human genome for the last hundred years. Society has grown accustomed to these birthmark dates, revealing the day you will expire. But suddenly, an exponential number...

City Detective, Sergeant James Jordan, experiences, tragic, adversity and turmoil as his life revolves around a fast pace investigation. To add insult to his injuries, Jordan is assigned to a partner who is less than colorful in his ethics as a police officer. The...

America is in trouble--at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn't lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there's just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike.Set...

At Sector General, anything can happen-and frequently does. In this vast hospital in the depths of space, the thousands of staff, human and alien both, have a single mission: to care for all patients, of all species. For decades, these dramas of humanity and...

Steve Earle does everything he does with intelligence, creativity, passion, and integrity. In music, these strengths have earned him comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, the ardent devotion of his fans, and the admiration of the media. And Earle does a lot: he is singer, songwriter,...

New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook's "pressure cooker of a thriller" (Booklist) takes medical technology into a new realm, where everything we know about the human body--and the universe we live in--is about to be challenged. Everyone assumes it's just the flu--but when...

It's "Call the Midwife" set in the U.S. homefront during World War II. If you loved Patricia Harman's Midwife of Hope River you'll love Once a Midwife! Named Best Midwife Book of the Year from the American College of Nurse MidwivesThe women of Hope...

In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome--a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child--eminent scientist Frank...

A compelling story of nonlinear relationships, well-intentioned secrets, and difficult questions about what we owe our families "I don't even know what to say. I got an email last night saying that Mom isn't my mother and my real mother needs a kidney transplant...

What does it take to realize that you need to talk to someone? Is it an anxiety attack... maybe several anxiety attacks? But you're fine, going to a shrink is ridiculous. Is it feeling really high, then crashing to a low? You didn't wake...

Roberta Gately's lyrical and authentic debut novel--inspired by her own experiences as a nurse in third world war zones--is one woman's moving story of offering help and finding hope in the last place she expected. Gripped by haunting magazine images of starving refugees, Elsa...

When Dr. Cyrus Mills returned home after inheriting his estranged father's veterinary practice, The Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, the last thing he wanted was to stay in Eden Falls, Vermont, a moment longer than absolutely necessary. However, the previously reclusive veterinarian pathologist quickly...

"A first-rate choice for fans of intelligent historical romances."--Library Journal, starred review Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy is put on trial by her husband, convicted of madness, and sent to Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a compliant Virginia plantation...

Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of any conceivable alien patient--though that capacity is always being strained as...

W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, international bestselling authors of Dissolution, present a gripping, thought-provoking contemporary thriller in the tradition of Michael Chrichton's Jurassic Park. Here a project of cutting-edge genetics might lead to a better world-or a waking nightmare.For thirteen years-since he...

We all have an inheritance to leave...only some leave more than what is required. There is no greater gift of inheritance than the gift of words; whether written or spoken, they remain someone's memory, and our legacy, forever. I do not ascribe to chance...

The Premier's adult daughter begins to behave with an utter absence of wherewithal and insight. An Admiral's dreamboat son engages in five years of profligate behavior after his sterling, top-of-his-class Academy graduation.A doctor called in to examine both scions determines they're mutaclones. Her wife...

A screaming snowman plummets from the top floor of Cleveland Mercy Hospital-a decaying relic built before the first pandemic-and disappears into the snow drifts below. By the time his thawed corpse is discovered the following spring, a body count of incompetents, frauds, and crooks...

Civil rights activist Lucy Greene becomes embroiled in a web of mystery at the Traverse City State Hospital, where, in 1963, she serves as patient advocate for her ailing friend. In conflict with an influential doctor's infatuation with the new "wonder drugs," she investigates...

What do politics, living donor kidney transplants, and the current opioid crisis all have in common? Sarah Golden and Jackie Larsen, best friends since nursing school, could never have imagined that they'd end up as amateur sleuths searching to find a killer--for the second...

Please Read This Leaflet Carefully, the debut novel from Norwegian writer and translator Karen Havelin, is the story of a woman whose body has become her enemy. We meet Laura Fjellstad first as she works and cares for her young daughter, while struggling with...

A family tries to reach a comatose man in this lyrical exploration of love, grief, and the nature of consciousness.Author: Pascale QuivigerISBN-10: 1771962712ISBN-13: 9781771962711Publisher: BiblioasisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2020Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.20d