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21) Trace
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia from freelancing in South Florida at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner to solve the murder of a 14-year-old girl, but she finds that nothing is as she left it. Her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case.
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When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men -- a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town -- have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteenth-month old baby boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state so violent it has...
23) The bone bed
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
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"In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind...
24) BLOOD MEMORY
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"Forensics expert "Cat" Ferry is suspended from an FBI task force when she inexplicably stricken with panic attacks and blackouts while investigating a chain of brutal murders. Returning to her Mississippi hometown, Cat finds herself battling with alcohol, plagued by nightmares, and entangled with a married detective. Then, in her childhood bedroom, some spilled chemicals reveal two bloody footprints ... and the trauma of her father's murder years...
25) Predator
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
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Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor.
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"June Hudson is the town's doctor, a caring, capable woman who now has a bit of explaining to do. People are beginning to notice the bloom in her cheeks-- and the swell of her belly. Happily, DEA agent Jim Post is back in June's arms for good, newly retired from undercover work and ready for new beginnings here in Grace Valley."--Page 4 of cover.
27) Seizure
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In a novel as timely as it is terrifying, New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook explores the controversial clash of politics and biotechnology.
When Dr. Daniel Lowell and his partner, Dr. Stephanie D’Agostino, discover a new cloning procedure that utilizes stem cells to treat otherwise incurable and degenerative diseases, they know they’ve hit the medical jackpot. But with their cutting-edge method
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In the peaceful community of Grace Valley, California, folks look out for one another like family. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secret - but Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep a humdinger. Visits from her secret lover, undercover DEA agent Jim Post, are as clandestine as they are passionate. They somehow fit with her demanding schedule as the town's doctor. But how can a secret lover compete with a flesh-and-blood heartthrob from her...
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1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?...
30) The ideal man
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Dr. Ellie Sullivan is the primary witness in the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The Landrys have been captured, and she'll be called to testify. But they've been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-- or disappear before they can take the stand.
31) Undone
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As Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Faith Mitchell and Will Trent try to connect two murders to a hit-and-run victim, Atlanta physician Sara Linton becomes more involved in the investigation--an investigation which soon culminates in the hunt for a sadistic serial killer.
32) Found money
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Two people are joined romantically by a windfall of money. One is Ryan Duffy, a doctor who inherits $2 million--blackmail money, his father tells him before dying. The other is Amy Parkens who receives $200,000 anonymously. She traces the money to Duffy's father and together Ryan and Amy discover that the blackmail was in revenge for being framed for rape. By the author of The Abduction.
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It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta - despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN - to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who...
34) Afterglow
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter delivers a novel of an author finding her own real-life hero…
As a writer, Chelsea Lattimer is an expert at putting romantic heroes on paper. They’re masterful, gentle, gorgeous, and great lovers. What they are not is David Winter, a serious, stuffed-shirt doctor with a blue-blood pedigree.
Chelsea can’t blame her friends for trying to fix her up. And...
As a writer, Chelsea Lattimer is an expert at putting romantic heroes on paper. They’re masterful, gentle, gorgeous, and great lovers. What they are not is David Winter, a serious, stuffed-shirt doctor with a blue-blood pedigree.
Chelsea can’t blame her friends for trying to fix her up. And...
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Eisenhower Public Library Staff Picks: Historical Fiction
Let It Snow (SCPL)
Life in the White Coat
OLPL: Hello, Winter
Let It Snow (SCPL)
Life in the White Coat
OLPL: Hello, Winter
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"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse...
36) The last surgeon
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Dr. Nick Garrity and psych nurse Gillian Coates determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room for a fatally botched case is dying. Their discoveries pit them against genius Franz Koller--the highly-paid master of the "non-kill." As doctor and nurse move closer to finding the terrifying secret behind these killings, Koller has been given a new directive: his mission will not be complete until Gillian and Garrity, the last surgeon,...
37) Arrowsmith
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Signet books
Harbrace modern classics
Signet classic volume CE2225
Signet classic volume CE 2691
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Harbrace modern classics
Signet classic volume CE2225
Signet classic volume CE 2691
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel recounts the story of a Midwestern physician who is forced to give up his profession due to the ignorance, corruption, and greed of society.
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In eighteenth-century England, the murder of Sir Edward Crick sends a torrent of gossip through Oxfordshire; although, aside from his sister, Lady Lydia Farrell, few mourn the young man. When Lady Farrell's husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder, she enlists the help of Dr. Thomas Silkstone -- an anatomist and pioneering forensic detective -- to solve the murder and prove his innocence.
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One postwar summer, in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline. Its owners- mother, son and daughter- are struggling to keep pace with a changing society. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how...
40) Book of the dead
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself and her colleagues--Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy--confronted by a horrifying series of crimes that may have an underlying link.
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