Allen, Nancy Campbell
Summary: "London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLEDailey, Janet
Summary: "Emotionally ravaged by the loss of his wife and children, former US Army major Logan Hunter heads to Blue Moon to salvage whatever peace he can. Yet settling into his new home is fraught with challenges, especially since Logan's land borders the rival Dollarhide spread, pitting Logan against an adversary who stirs him like no other. From her first encounter with Logan, Dr. Kristin Dollarhide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAISee, Lisa
Summary: The latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China--perfect for fans of Sees classic Snowflower and the Secret Fan and The Island of Sea Women. According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: PA Fiction SeeAnderson, Alison A.
Summary: To keep herself occupied after recently losing her sight, Zinaida begins a diary in the summer of 1888. When a family rents a guesthouse on her family's estate, Zinaida meets and befriends Anton, the middle son, who is a doctor and a writer. As the summer progresses, Zinaida's diary becomes an intimate, intropective narrative of her singular relationship with Anton. More than a century later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDDailey, Janet
Summary: "Battle-scarred and emotionally ravaged by the loss of his wife and children to Spanish Flu, former US Army Major Logan Hunter heads to Blue Moon to salvage whatever peace he can near the only family he has left. Not only does the Calder clan embrace him, but patriarch Webb Calder helps Logan secure a prime piece of ranching property. Yet settling into his new home is fraught with challenges,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIPeterson, Tracie.
Summary: The future should be bright for Deborah Vandermark, who is now pursuing her interest in medicine alongside Dr. Christopher Clayton, who is courting her. But the lumber town is resistant to the idea of a woman physician, and she feels thwarted at every turn. A more devastating blow occurs, however, when Christopher breaks off their relationship to return home to his troubled family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2011Walters, Minette
Summary: Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the king and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances. A rare few choose neutrality. One such is Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist family, who offers her services to both sides in the conflict. Through her dedication to treating the sick and wounded, regardless of belief, Jayne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSchwarz, Liese O'Halloran
Summary: Clare, one of the oldest women in Rhode Island, believes that all the painful secrets of her long life have been laid to rest, until an unexpected encounter with a piece of her past forces her to realize the time has come to tell her story. Ben, a shy, precocious six-year-old being gently raised by a devoted mom, witnesses a terrible crime and is taken to the hospital, bewildered and alone....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCHMukerji, Ritu
Summary: Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of term at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lydia Weston, professor and anatomist, is immersed in teaching her students in the lecture hall and hospital. When the body of a patient, Anna Ward, is dredged out of the Schuylkill River, the young chambermaid's death is deemed a suicide. But Lydia is suspicious and she is soon brought into the police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: "According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SeeWelsh, Kaite
Summary: "Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELDonati, Sara
Summary: The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie--both graduates of the Woman's Medical School--treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DonGable, Michelle
Summary: Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family's Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great grandparents built Cliff House almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once grand home will soon fall into the sea. Though she's purposefully avoided the island, Bess must now pack up the house and deal with her mother, a notorious town rabble rouser, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie--both graduates of the Woman's Medical School--treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DONMcDonough, Patrice
Summary: In 1866 London, Dr. Julia Lewis, when grisly murders happen all over the city, works with Inspector Richard Tennant to understand a killer's dark obsessions and motivations, facing off against a fiendishly calculating opponent who has set his sights on Julia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDSee, Lisa
Summary: "According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian -- born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness -- is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations -- looking, listening, touching,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction SeeSkenandore, Amanda
Summary: Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option--to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SKEFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity ... and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FRAFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: 1176, King Henry II's daughter is set to marry the king of Sicily. But when several wedding guests are murdered during the procession, Adelia must uncover who is behind the killings and who is the killer's real target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAOliveira, Robin
Summary: New York, 1879: After an epic snow storm ravages the city of Albany, Dr. Mary Sutter, a former civil war surgeon, begins a search for two little girls, the daughters of close friends killed by the storm who have vanished without a trace. When what happened to them is revealed, the uproar that ensues tears apart families, reputations, and even the social fabric of the city, exposing dark secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Oliveira 2018Morris, Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION MorrisSlaughter, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLASchwartz, Dana
Summary: When Hazel becomes the personal physician to Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III, she is dragged into the glamor and romance of the British court, but she soon realizes malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and she may be the only one capable of setting things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023