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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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Description
Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the...
Author
Series
Windy City saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose much more than just their store.The sisters become separated from their father, and after Meg burns her hands in an attempt to save a family heirloom, they make a harrowing escape from the flames...
Author
Publisher
Dorrance
Pub. Date
©1979.
Language
English
Description
"Murder in the orthopedics department of a university hospital is the subject of a mystery by Carmelita Calderwood, once a nurse in The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and coauthor of the textbook, Orthopedic Nursing. She was the first wife of James Hearst, distinguished Cedar Falls poet. After her death and Hearst's later remarriage, the second Mrs. Hearst found the manuscript of Carmelita's novel and it was completed for publication by...
9) The select
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Quinn Cleary is delighted to be accepted into the medical school of her dreams, but she begins to worry about the way all of her classmates seem to fall in line with the messianic vision of the school's director. Then she discovers the true mission of this very fine research center.
Author
Publisher
Droemer
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A missing child - a desperate father - a hellish trip into the interior of psychiatry. He has already confessed to two horrendous child murders and led the Berlin police to the cruelly disfigured corpses. But now mentally ill prisoner Guido T. is silent on the advice of his lawyer. The police are certain: he is also the kidnapper of six-year-old Max, who has disappeared without a trace for three months. The investigators, however, have no reliable...
Author
Publisher
Waking Lion Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.' Twenty-three-year-old journalist Nellie Bly, describing New York City's most notorious mental institution, wrote those words in 1887 after getting herself committed to the asylum. After her release she wrote a shocking exposé called Ten Days in a Madhouse, launching her career as a world-famous investigative reporter and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will...
16) MASH
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
During the Korean War, three U.S. Army surgeons defy military authority when they are not performing their duties.
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The body found in a muddy grave across the street is just the latest horror threatening to tear Ali McGovern's life apart seam by seam. She knows Angelo, her brooding teenage son, is keeping secrets. She fears he's in danger, too. But her new job at the psychiatric hospital, the job her husband pushed her into, is using up everything she's got every day. She can try to ignore the sounds that surely can't really be there. And she can try to trust the...
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