Fiction - Medical

We ought to know about the deadly virus and thatit will kill people if you do not get treated for it. Recently, they found a cure for the H1N1 (swine flu), which is also known as a deadly virus. This flu is killing people...

When her fiancé's dangerous secrets turn her work upside down, a beautiful doctor must choose between her own safety and the man she loves--and thought she knew. Dr. Carrie Markham's heart was broken by the death of her husband two years ago. Now, just...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman knows the nature of evil. His incisive explorations of the dark recesses of the criminal mind have challenged our traditional notions of crime and justice, hunter and prey. Now he heads an all-star line-up of contemporary...

On paper, Viive McBroom lives the perfect life--a key player in a fast-paced, technical field, one promotion away from real success--but that's only if you ignore one little problem.Sandwiched between one migraine and the next, Viive's life is like those choose-your-own-adventure books you read...

A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK... The most lethal virus in history has begun its spread to the mainland United States. Fast-spreading and with the ability to take over the host's immune system, the pathogen seems unstoppable. A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL... Dr. Samantha Bower of...

When Downeast local Annette Fiorno is found at the bottom of a ravine, outsider and relapsed drug addict Jimmy Sedgwick is accused of murder. Unassuming Maine lawyer Rob Hanston and big shot attorney Shawn Marks form an unlikely legal team as they attempt to...

Unlike other fields of medicine, with their occasional "oddities," the Intensive Care Unit sets the stage for a steady stream of unique medical challenges and patients who don't fit a standard profile. Fainting Pulse is a compelling compilation of stories based on these real-life...

The colored lights on the snow gave it a holiday appearance, but the dead woman's body in the yard added a grisly touch. How did Ina Bell Patrick die? Who killed her? And why?The dead woman had no direct heirs, so two nephews and...

"Incredibly charming...Suzanne Davis Gets a Life has an emotional honesty and moments of real wisdom."--Philadelphia InquirerCohen "portrays timeless and universal challenges through a buoyant combination of humor, pathos, and gumption."--Booklist"Suzanne Davis Gets a Life isn't just seriously entertaining, it's entertainingly serious...I want my romantic...

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking...

Dr. Tyler Gentry had it all planned out, but the death of his parents in a plane crash changed everything. When he discovered his father had left him a mountain of debt, piled on top of his own student debt, the offer from Dr....

A well-respected transplant nurse and her best friend meet the corrupt world of organ transplants in a wild roller coaster ride through lifestyles of the rich and famous.Author: Amy S. PeeleISBN-10: 1631521845ISBN-13: 9781631521843Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2017Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w...

Saving Jane Doe is an inspiring story about women dealing with the consequences of abortion, both legal and illegal, and it highlights our universal need for love and forgiveness.Author: Carolyn PurcellISBN-10: 1630476862ISBN-13: 9781630476861Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2016Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

As a physician in the ER of a rural South Carolina hospital, Dr. Rhea Lynch is a dedicated healer, a woman of science, and to some degree, a skeptic. But her most fundamental beliefs are put to the test with the arrival of a...

From Publishers Weekly: "In Grace's fast-paced sixth thriller featuring former Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny (after 2007's The Secret Cardinal), Nolan is about to donate a piece of his liver to Zeke Oakley, a two-year-old adopted boy whose parentage is unknown, when a doctor informs...

"A POWERFUL WORK OF FICTION THAT AUTHENTICALLY EVOKES THE BAD AND THE GOOD."--Eric Goosby, MD, US Global AIDS Coordinator, 2009-13 "A MOVING STORY OF DOCTORS NAVIGATING THE INTERSECTIONS OF SUFFERING, AMBITION AND DISCOVERY."--Krista Bremer, My Accidental Jihad This breakout book by Mark A. Jacobson,...

A hallucinatory, fragmentary, and tragic fictional telling of one of the most fa- mous psychotherapy cases in history, A lex Pheby's Playthings offers a visceral and darkly comic portrait of paranoid schizophrenia. Based on the true story of nineteenth-century German judge Daniel Paul Schreber,...

The history of the O'Brien family is as rich and complex as the land that bore them. They are as fierce as they are loyal, but when a horrific tragedy casts a shadow over their tight-knit clan, it leaves an empty seat at their...

Black Velvet Band weaves together the experiences of three women, their friends, and their colleagues, during one of the most critical periods of 20th century American history. Nursing student Alice Denny and her classmates face the pleasures and pains that young women like them...

Dr. Ben Merrick and his fianc , Rachel Gardner, can't get her divorced parents to stay in the same room, much less attend their wedding together. He is already looking over his shoulder expecting more trouble from a very senior surgeon who has shown...

Addie Engel is a small-town girl who wants nothing more than to leave her family farm, venture out in the wider world of 1913 Georgia and become a successful nurse. But the times aren't so friendly to a young woman determined to buck society's...

This New Year's resolution? Stay alive.... "Harrowing...irresistible." New York Times bestselling author Susan WiggsWith Pittsburgh snarled by a New Year's Eve blizzard and Angels of Mercy Hospital cut off from the outside world, staff and patients are at the mercy of armed gunmen. Their...

The five women sitting in the circle of chairs all had great dreams of motherhood. Then their babies died. Melinda sees blood on the floor every day after her loss. Dot believes the wrath of God caused her baby to die. Teenage Tina is...

The Ovary Wars involves terrorism at its best, more powerful than a suicide bomber, and more effective than a nuclear bomb. How does a terrorist kill four million people? He stops them from being born. For no apparent reason, pregnancies in the United States...

Dr. Hope Sze rolls into Montreal with three simple goals: 1) survive her family medicine residency, 2) try pain au chocolate, 3) go on a date sometime in the next two years. Then she discovers a doctor's body in the locker room.When she tries...

Number Neighbor-A social media game in which a person texts the phone number one digit higher or lower than their own.After watching, stalking, obsessing over Ivy-the raven-haired beauty with eyes as green as the clinging vine she's named after-it's the perfect opportunity for Owen...

Risk madness, or let the killings continue? Jackson sees patterns - the sway of trees, the flow of traffic, the design of the human body. His condition makes him a brilliant massage therapist, but also once put him in a locked psych ward. Now...

It starts as a fever.A debilitating virus emerges in India and quickly burns its way through the densely populated areas of Asia. The victims suffer for days even weeks on end until finally succumbing. Streets are empty and major cities are mere graveyards.Because of...

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...

PTSD has been documented throughout history since man first began clubbing each other with rocks. Our understanding of this debilitation has only increased or become more visible in our digital age. In the past it was seen as a source of shame and embarrassment,...

A novel of love, war and kindness, inspired by a true story of medical genius and betrayal. Sydney, 1948. Brilliant German surgeon, Hugo Winter, is dead, and his prot g , Lucy Brynne, is tasked with sorting his papers. Among them, Lucy finds glimpses...

Ernie Kippett never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, so he took his sorry soul back to his little hometown. And hallelujah It was just in time for the state marijuana laws to change. But the commercial production of medical marijuana doesn't come without...

As Escape from Extinction opens, the last Neanderthal dies in a cave on the Iberian Peninsula. 30,000 years later, the naturalist Muir O'Brien, hunting deep in the Oregon wilderness, spots a fern believed to be extinct since the end of the last ice age....

'Project Day Lily" Summary(186 words) The Project Day Lily story chronicles the events surrounding what the public knows as "Gulf War Syndrome." To this day, the public perception of that tragedy is very limited, but now there are over 150,000 veterans of that conflict...

He just wanted to kiss her. Now he's locked in the tool trailer with his brother's best friend...After ignoring his feelings for Ainsley for years, emergency room doctor Kyle Durand finally decides it's time to act. But the same day he makes his move,...

It's been six years since fourteen-year-old Marvel Trustrom went missing. DS Zed Willard believes that Jonah Kobi, a serial killer, is responsible for Marvel's disappearance - but with no evidence or witnesses, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is Willard's last hope. Can Claire find...

Without a shot being fired, any country with a little know-how could cripple the world economy by spreading a virus. A century ago, the Spanish influenza caused millions of deaths in over two years. COVID-19 has spread much more rapidly thanks to air travel....

Magic? Dr. Hope Sze steers clear of magic. But when "Elvis the Escape King" chains and nails himself inside a coffin and lowers himself into Montreal's St. Lawrence River, he can't break free. So Hope restarts his heart and saves his life. But now...

"Lucky Girl is the profoundly moving story of a woman who with brilliance, passion, and support from an extraordinary family overcomes common barriers that long kept most women out of high-powered science. I had to stop several times and remind myself that this is...

This "brutal and brave" (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation--physical, spiritual, or both. A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student...

NOBODY HAS IT EASY.A single fading memory is all that remains of a life torn away. A passion holds a child through his mother's addiction. The complexity of a fractured psyche is assessed through literature.Doctors losing their way, patients losing their faith. From perspectives...

St Anslem's Hospital has an excellent reputation. It is owned by the Archdiocese and administered by the Poor Sisters of Charity. However, the continuing changes in hospital care caused the hospital to care more about money than patient care. The hospital's deficits as a...

In this mystery series sequel, Dr. Cal Boyd is a former gastroenterologist who has recovered from his conflicts at North Valley Hospital, having won a large settlement for damages. His enemies are dead or in jail, and his managerial career with Encuentro Medical Group...

In an amazing coincidence, three lives intersect in a race against the clock, to find a cure for a deadly brain tumor. Meanwhile, one man and his family come together in hopes of a miracle. "Parallel Lives reads like a detective novel. There was...

From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet...

Body of evidenceAfter months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her...

A gripping and powerful new thriller -- the debut of a stunning new voice in suspense fiction -- and the first appearance of a tough and remarkable investigator, pathologist, and forensic physician, Dr. Anya Crichton.The only female freelancer in the male-dominated field, pathologist Dr....

Edward Finlay recalls his life's odyssey beginning in the 1890s on his family ranch in rural Montana. His childhood revolves around three people: his father, a cattle rancher; his mother, who is determined for her son to receive a modern education; and his best...

It is Sunday, June 20, 1756, in Calcutta. Fort William has been overtaken, and most of its occupants have fled or been killed. Only 145 denizens remain, and nothing could prepare them for the horrors that await them in the Black Hole, a minuscule...

The blistering, compulsively readable new novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Dinner.When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After...