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Series
Part of your world volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"People expect big things from Alexis Montgomery. She's a thirty-seven-year-old doctor from a wealthy and prestigious family full of world-renowned surgeons. Only, Alexis is tired of living up to her family's dreams for her. Now she's about to take her bravest step yet: start living her life for herself. Daniel Grant is a twenty-eight-year-old small-town carpenter with a heart of gold and a legacy of his own. He may not have gone to college, but he's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance from Ardith's Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them....
Author
Language
English
Description
On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds a charter...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly forty years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching in the freezing cold is Harriet, the only woman he...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All.
Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her "Liarmouth" - until one insane man...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Alison Shaw may not be beautiful, but she doesnt́ really care: Shed́ much rather read a good book than primp in front of a mirror anyway. But Alisonś gorgeous mother, Risa, knows that beauty can be a key to success and wishes only the best for her daughter, especially when Risa marries a widowed plastic surgeon and moves Alison from Santa Monica to Bel Air. Beauty may be only skin deep, but to the denizens of Bel Air it means the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Stone is a brash, newly-minted MD whose cruise toward the medical fast lane of a Beverly Hills plastic surgery practice takes a small-town detour. He ends up in Grady, South Carolina, Squash Capital of the South and home of salt-of-the-earth folks who know it's better to follow your heart than your wallet.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, decides to take one last hunting trip in the Columbia Basin of central Washington where he plans to end his life, but the people he meets and the situations he faces along the way cause him to change his mind.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother's warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie--a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up...
12) Don't go
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Mike Scanlon is called to serve as an army doctor in Afghanistan, he's acutely aware of the dangers he'll face and the hardships it will bring his wife Chloe and newborn baby. And deep inside, he doesn't think of himself as a hero, but a healer. However, in an ironic turn of events, as Mike operates on a wounded soldier in a war-torn country, Chloe dies at home in the suburbs, in an apparently freak household accident. Devastated, he returns...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approx. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An unscrupulous plastic surgeon has spent years cultivating a skin that would have saved his wife who burned to death in a accident years earlier, and now he must find a human guinea pig to test it.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
x, 269 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dafydd Woodruff, who's desperately been trying to conceive a child with his wife, receives a letter: "Dear Doctor Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your daughter..." Suddenly, a relatively innocent past takes over his present life, and that of his wife. It further develops that there isn't just a daughter; this purported "daughter" is actually one of twins, a girl and a boy. Deep in the remote, sub-arctic wilderness where...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, who overcame problems in school and obstacles in life to become a world-renowned neurosurgeon. His lifelong journey led him to become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, a bestselling author, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Includes behind-the-scenes, and featurettes.
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her renowned plastic surgeon husband is accused of murder, expectant mother Jane Killian, in an attempt to prove his innocence, discovers that this crime is linked to an accident that left her near death seventeen years ago.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story: a smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist-an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated. As a self-described "not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man," Chin-Quee...
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