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Blackstock, Uché

Summary: Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACKSTOCK, UCHE BLA

Syrett, Nicholas L.

Summary: "The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESTELL, MADAME SYR

McFadden, Freida

7 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can't imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there's the devil herself: Jane's senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Freida McFadden 2013

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Higgins, Kristan

Summary: When Lark Smith's life plans go off track, she agrees to a fake date with surgeon Lorenzo Santini, who can help get Lark back into the field of her choice. Teeny problem--she instantly falls for his big, warm family.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC HIG

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Summary: "Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M COR

Higgins, Kristan

Summary: "Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents , pop out a couple of kids and build a rewarding career as an oncologist. Things aren't going so well. For one, the guy didn't work out. Theoretically, she'd love to find someone else, but it hasn't happened. Two, she's just been transferred out of oncology for being too emotional....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HIG

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HIG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Higgins

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

3 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Summary: "In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COR

Obuobi, Shirlene

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: To her countless Instagram followers Josephine Boateng is the dazzling Dr. Jojo, and her opinions on health, growth, and self-love matter. Her message: be smart (she has a medical degree after all), be significant, and do not put up with foolish men. But behind the camera, Jo's story is more complicated, she finds her influencer career underwhelming; her potential career in medicine...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OBU
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Summary: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SMI

Hyde, Catherine Ryan

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Maggie Blount, divorced mother of two and California physician, puts her private practice on hold when disaster strikes. Doctors on Wheels takes her and Alex--Maggie's professional and romantic partner--wherever they're needed. After rolling into rural Louisiana in the wake of a category five hurricane, Maggie immediately bonds with two sisters and their puppy, all orphaned by the storm. It's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2024

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Williams, Emma.

Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WIL

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2023

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Latta, Sara L.

Summary: Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. But she was erased from history, in part because her ideas didn't fit with the mainstream suffrage movement. Latta introduces readers to Walker's remarkable life and accomplishments. She shows how Walker continued to break gender norms and speak out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WAL

See, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: PA Fiction See

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALL

Ballour, Amani

Summary: "This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Syria"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALLOUR, AMANI BAL

Crouch, Sarah

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "One peaceful morning, in the small, Puget Sound town of Point Orchards, the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the property of prodigal son and failed writer, Elijah Leith. Sheriff Jim Godbout's initial investigation points to an obvious suicide, but upon closer inspection, there seem to be clues of foul play when he discovers that the circumstances of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Crouch

Giebink, Patti

Summary: How does a pro-choice doctor who once performed abortions for Planned Parenthood wind up on the opposite side of this embattled issue? Dr. Patricia Giebink was overpowered by God's perspective at a healing conference, becoming a pro-life advocate who repented before millions for doing abortions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIEBINK, PATTI GIE

Marshall, Linda Elovitz

Summary: "The fascinating story of Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and healthcare as we know it"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MAR

Summary: Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUT

Slaughter, Karin

Summary: When the charred body of a woman is found, and Detective Lena Adams is charged with homicide, Grant County's medical examiner/pediatrician Sara Linton joins forces with her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, to uncover the truth about a case that is poisoning a small town with hatred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS SLA

Slaughter, Karin

Summary: Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLA

Riddle, A. G.

Summary: Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RID

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