Catalog Search Results
2) Life flight
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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 skills and her nerve to the limit. She survives with FBI Special Agent Holt Satterfield's help. But she's not out of the woods yet. In the ensuing days, Penny finds herself under attack. And when news reaches Holt that he may not have gotten his man after...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries through the crowd in London's historic Russell Square. Someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later, Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When detectives Duncan Kincaid and Doug Cullen are called to the scene, they discover that she's been stabbed. Kincaid immediately calls his detective wife, Gemma Jones, who is on the task force for knife crimes. Along with Gemma's partner, the team works to unravel the...
4) Arrowsmith
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Noelle Perkins just got a second chance at life, and she intends to make the most of it. That's why she's opening her own store in Fool's Gold, California. The Christmas Attic celebrates everything that's magical about her favorite season. Business is booming, and as a bonus, gorgeous army doctor Gabriel Boylan has offered to help out during the holiday rush. Gabriel's memories of Christmas past contain more sour grapes than sugarplums, thanks to...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
EMT Anne Lundstrom is running from her past. But it's about to catch up. She thought she'd escaped it when she moved out of the city and into the quiet town of Deep Haven. She certainly never expected to get roped into helping Noah Standing Bear run his summer camp for inner-city kids. Yet Noah has a charisma she can't ignore, and romance is in the air. But when the very danger she was trying to escape threatens her peaceful haven—and her life—Anne...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Spencer, the director of the medical company Gen-stone, disappears in a plane crash en route to Puerto Rico days before the FDA denies approval for the company's promising new cancer therapy. It is then discovered that he had looted the company of huge sums of money. Despite her dislike for Spencer's wife, Lynn, who also happens to be her stepsister, reporter Marcia "Carly" DeCarlo uses her investigative skills to uncover a sinister and fraudulent...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A joyous, rhyming celebration of all the essential workers who help us everyday! From healthcare workers, to delivery people, grocery workers, teachers, and more, readers can cheer for these heroes!
11) Murder in red
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Fletcher's favorite gin rummy partner, Mimi Van Dorn, checks into the brand-new Clifton Care Partners, a private hospital that's just opened up shop in town, for a simple procedure--one that leads tragically, and inexplicably, to her death. Seeking justice in her inimitable fashion, Jessica decides to pursue her own investigation on the hospital and its shadowy business dealings. On the trail of what initially appears to be medical malpractice,...
12) Hacksaw Ridge
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the bloodiest battle of WWII, in Okinawa, Desmond Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss...
13) Over the edge
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Janessa McNeil's husband, Dr. Brock McNeil, a researcher and professor at Stanford University's Department of Medicine, specializes in tick-borne diseases--especially Lyme. For years he has insisted that Chronic Lyme Disease doesn't exist. Even as patients across the country are getting sicker, the committee Brock chairs is about to announce its latest findings--which will further seal the door shut for Lyme treatment. One embittered man sets out...
14) Hospital
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows a little boy as he visits the hospital to get x-rays and a little girl who will stay overnight for an operation.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Serb terrorist has been dispatched from Russia to spirit hazardous vials of deadly bacteria into the USA. However, the unknown American government agent receiving the vials and the Russian agent are both murdered and the vials stolen. Now Smith and Russuel, CIA agents, must track the vials down and stop the world from being held hostage.
16) An angel's work
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
England, 1941. After three nights of relentess bombing from German aircraft, trained nurse Jo Brooks is told to report to the basement theatre of Mill Road Hospital. She goes with a heavy heart, not wanting to leave behind her best friend Moira, who is desperately soothing new mothers on the maternity ward. As Jo arrives safely underground, the ward takes a direct hit. Pulling herself from the rubble, Jo's first priority must be her patients...but...
Author
Series
Harlequin special edition volume 2274
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Grady never planned to return to Whispering Oaks. But when family duty called, the prodigal son arrived like the good soldier he'd been for years. And with him came the unfulfilled expectations of the past--expectations his neighbor, Jocelyn Howard, knew all too well. Jocelyn had been in love with the rebel next door since she was a little girl. But she couldn't shake those old insecurities that she'd never be good enough, for Lucas or for...
18) Running the maze
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Marine Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is sent into Pakistan, where an international team of medical workers has been executed in order to cover up a deadly terrorist secret.
19) What kingdom
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Physical Desc
146 pages : frontíspíece ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"I'm not inarticulate, but I leave language to the room around me," says the nameless narrator as she dreams of furniture flickering to life in the room she occupies at a temporary psychiatric care unit for young adults. A chair that greets you, or shiny tiles of floor that follow a peculiar grammar of their own. Our narrator is obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming personalities and private motives. She also cannot...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Grace, April, and Poppy join the US Army Nurse Corps, they see it as little more than an adventure, one made all the better by their first station: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Joined at the hip, idealistic Grace, exuberant Poppy, and brave but haunted April frolic in the sun, attending parties, flirting with the handsome soldiers, and becoming fast friends with seasoned nurse Eva. Like the Hawaiian sun, their future seems warm and bright--until the...