Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Ryan Perry is a successful entrepreneur, who at the young age of 34 finds himself in need of a heart transplant. After a successful operation, he starts to receive heart trinkets in the mail along with strange messages. When a young woman tells him she wants her 'heart back, ' brief doubts about the supernatural pass, and Perry realizes he has a very real situation on his hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOJamieson, Stuart
Summary: Taut, elegantly written, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R. Stuart Jamieson has lived two lives. One began in heat and dust. Born to British ex-pats in colonial Africa, Jamieson was sent at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JAMIESON, STUART JAMJensen, Louise
Summary: The perfect daughter. The perfect girlfriend. The perfect murder? Jenna is given another shot at life when she receives a donor heart from a girl called Callie. Eternally grateful to Callie and her family, Jenna gets closer to them, but she soon discovers that Callie's perfect family is hiding some very dark secrets ... Callie's parents are grieving, yet Jenna knows they're only telling her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P JENScore, Lucy
Summary: Single mom Bristol Quinn is trying desperately to rediscover happiness after the tragic accident that took her younger sister's life. Older sister Savannah's Christmas wedding seems like the perfect time to invite Hope's heart recipient to meet the Quinns and their extended Hope Falls family. But when her letter goes unanswered, Bristol focuses on trying not to ruin her daughter's peewee ice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books 2017
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Summary: While his mother waits for a life-saving heart transplant, eleven-year-old Graham Dodds sets out to find an endangered Snail Kite in the Florida Everglades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILSummary: A young woman, who has been continuously unlucky, accepts a job as a department store elf during the holidays. When Kate meets Tom on the job, her life takes a turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASBlake, Ashley Herring
Summary: When Sunny St. James receives a new heart, she decides to set off on a New Life Plan: 1) do awesome amazing things she could never do before; 2) find a new best friend; and 3) kiss a boy for the first time. Her New Life Plan seems to be racing forward, but when she meets her new best friend Quinn, Sunny questions whether she really wants to kiss a boy at all. With the reemergence of her mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BLASummary: Each of the three programs that make up "The mysterious human heart" focuses on a different aspect of what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we're on the verge of learning about the heart. This material is presented through the real-life dramas of people who suddenly learn that a normal, functioning heart is not something that can be taken for granted. In episode 1 we examine the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video 2007
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYSCook, Robin
Summary: "The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cook 2018Fair, Eric
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem FairClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: When her best childhood friend Natalie goes onto life support after an awful accident, Emily O'Connor, a 34-year-old professor at Boston Layman College, begs the hospital to use her dying friend's heart in a transplant. The transplant recipient? Emily's other best childhood friend, Alice. But with Natalie's death and Alice's heart surgery comes a series of unsettling and complex discoveries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLACook, Robin
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller.</strong> When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOKerangal, Maylis de.
Summary: "Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His heart is still beating.The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding a fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DeKerangal 2016Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: For thirty-four-year-old Ryan Perry, life is good a year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, until he begins to receive strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me," and discovers that he is being stalked by a mysterious woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOOMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: When her niece Cat travels to a wedding in Italy, Isabel agrees to fill in at Cat's delicatessen. She takes note of a customer named Ian, who is avoiding chocolate--doctors say it's bad for the new heart he recently recieved. Ian is haunted by memories he can't quite place, prompting Isabel to wonder if his new heart may be the cause. Always keenly interested in matters of the heart, Isabel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCClarke, Rachel
Summary: "One summer day, nine-year-old Keira Ball was in a terrible car accident and suffered catastrophic brain injuries. As the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira's parents and siblings immediately agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max Johnson had been in a hospital for nearly a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 CLAJones, Chip
Summary: An investigation into how racial inequality has shaped the heart transplant race describes how in 1968 an injured black man checked into a hospital before his heart was removed and donated without his family's knowledge or consent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 JONSilverstein, Amy
Summary: Memoirist Amy Silverstein tells the story of an extraordinary group of women who surrounded and supported her through the long, emotional fight to stay alive as she waited for her second heart transplant in twenty-five years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SILVERSTEIN, AMY SILDev, Sonali
Summary: Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all-marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVKingsbury, Karen
Summary: From bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable, heart-wrenching series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends whose lives could affect the future of the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Kingsbury 2016Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction KinSiple, Joe
Summary: Jason Cashman has reached the goal he spent the last twenty years seeking, but instead of feeling content, he feels empty. When he meets Alexandra Lopez, a ten-year-old America-loving girl facing deportation, he is inspired by his old friend, Murray McBride, to give her five wishes before she must leave. They set out to check off as many wishes as possible, but when Jason's transplanted heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SipleClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC ClaCook, Robin
Summary: After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent case of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: first, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COODahl, Alex
Summary: "Two mothers. Two daughters. One heart. When Alison's beloved daughter Amalie drowns, her world turns impenetrably dark. Alison tries to hold it together throughout the bleak fall, but in the darkest days of the Norwegian winter she completely falls apart. In another family, Amalie's passing is a new beginning. After years of severe health problems, young Kaia receives a new heart on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019