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1) Don't go
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Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.
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Following a tragic accident, two women--Tessa Russo, a renowned pediatric surgeon, and Valerie Anderson, an attorney and single mother--living in the same Boston suburb but with relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children converge in ways no one could have imagined.
3) Turn of mind
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c2011
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Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime.
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While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
5) Code white
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Ali O'Day, a dedicated young neurosurgeon, might have a Nobel Prize in her future-if she can survive the next eleven hours.
Under the glare of live television cameras-and with her lover, Dr. Richard Helvelius, and her estranged husband, Kevin, both looking on-Ali is about to implant a revolutionary mini-computer into the brain of a blind boy. If it works, he will see again. But someone wants to stop her triumph. No sooner has she begun to operate...
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"While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female...
7) The touch
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"Andrew Jones is a young doctor with an amazing gift: his abilities in surgery are astonishing. But when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon's hands, eliminating human error during surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the...
8) The society
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Working diligently at a trauma center, surgeon Will Grant, a member of a group that works against insurance companies to prevent unjust cost-cutting practices, is accused by detective Patty Moriarity of killing managed-care executives.
9) 15 seconds
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Henry Steadman didn't know what was about to hit when he pulled up to a red light. As a successful Florida plastic surgeon, he is in a town just outside Jacksonville, Florida to deliver a keynote address at a conference when suddenly his life becomes an unrelenting chase to stay alive. A random act of violence plunges him into a nightmarish world; he is accused of murdering two people and must clear his name and discover who is trying to destroy...
10) Slowly we die
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Jana Berzelius novels volume 3
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AN ACCIDENTAL SLIP OF A BLADE...
A tragic incident on the operating table leaves a patient damaged for life and leads a young surgeon to abandon his profession as a physician... Now, years later, a series of senseless, gruesome murders are rocking the same medical community.
THEN MURDEROUS REVENGE...
The weapon? A surgical scalpel.
But who exactly is preying on these victims? And why? What does this grisly pattern reveal? And who will...
11) Boston cream
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From Howard Shrier, two time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for excellence in crime fiction, comes a dark story of greed gone wild. When investigator Jonah Geller heads to Boston on a missing person's case, it looks like family friend David Fine might just have burned out: an over-achieving surgeon-in-training who needed a break. But it soon becomes clear that David ran for his life. And before long Jonah and partner Jenn Raudsepp are running for...
12) Ultraviolet
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Jane Kelly mysteries volume 3
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Plastic surgery magnate Roland Hatchmere is murdered just before his daughter's society wedding. The prime suspect is Roland's first wife, Violet "Ultraviolet" Purcell. Violet insists that she is innocent and Oregon's PI-in-training, Jane Kelly and her pug pal, Binky, are sent by Jane's boss Dwayne Durbin to dig out the truth.
13) Doing harm
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"Steve Mitchell, happily married with a wife and two kids, is in line for a coveted position at Boston's University Hospital when his world goes awry. His over-reaching ambition causes him to botch a major surgery, and another of his patients mysteriously dies. Steve's nightmare goes from bad to worse when he learns that the mysterious death was no accident but the act of a sociopath. A sociopath he knows and who has information that could destroy...
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It is not just the living who are prey to 1780s London's criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game - dug up from fresh graves and sold to men of science for dissection. Dr. Thomas Silkstone's unscrupulous rival, Dr. John Hunter, has learned of the imminent death of eight-foot-tall Charles Byrne, known as the "Irish Giant," and is obsessed with obtaining the body for his research. When Dr. Hunter is implicated in the horrific murder of a...
15) The indictment
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Dr. Christopher Dillard becomes a political pawn in the senatorial campaign of the Boston district attorney when a young woman is found dead and Dillard, the last person to see her alive, has no alibi.
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"When Dr. Croft takes in orphan Eleanor Beady, he doesn't realize that he's gained an apprentice. Raised amidst Croft's experiments, "Nora" becomes his most trusted assistant-an unthinkable and unlawful pursuit for a woman. Nora helps Croft's groundbreaking research and his clinic gain recognition, and she finds she doesn't mind working in the background, as long as she can continue to hone her skills. But the arrival of a new surgical resident threatens...
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Dr. Jessie Copeland, having pioneered a tiny robot designed to excise tumors that had previously been considered inoperable, draws the attention of remorseless mercenary Claude Malloche who thinks nothing of threatening the lives of thousands of people in order to get Copeland to use her technology on his brain tumor.
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Dr. Harry Kent novels volume 2
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After a suspended whistle blower at a hospital is found dead in an apparent suicide, medical examiner Dr. Harry Kent and detective Frankie Noble discover that she was actually murdered and try to unlock the secrets that led to her death.
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When a single mom becomes an "empty nester," she spreads her wings to rediscover herself -- and her passions -- in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. After a messy divorce nearly twenty years ago, she raised her two children on her own, juggling motherhood with her beloved job as a Seattle intensive care nurse. Now that Paul and Allie have gone to college and moved...
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