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The explosive new thriller from "New York Times-"bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with "Coma" what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical "incubators" against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine...
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In Death series volume 21
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New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her partner Peabody enter the hallowed walls of the Wilfred B. Icove Center for Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery on a case. A hugely popular vid star has been beaten to a bloody pulp - and has killed her attacker in the process. After a post-op interview, Dallas and Peabody confirm for themselves that it's a clear-cut case of self-defense, but before they can leave the building, another case falls into...
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2012
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She has a new look, a new man, and a past that's not her own. The New York Times–bestselling author delivers a chilling romantic thriller.
After her estranged brother dies, Lauren Stevenson inherits his substantial legacy, allowing her to finally fix a medical condition that's plagued her all her life. The results of the plastic surgery are nothing less than astounding. In the mirror, Lauren sees a whole new person.
But that's just the...
5) Dietland
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Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed: when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. With her job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls' magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery, so her true life as a thin person can finally begin. When a mysterious woman starts following her, Plum finds herself facing a series of challenges that force her to deal with her past, her doubts, and the real costs of becoming "beautiful."...
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2011
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A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request. Each chapter focuses on a specific case, opening with a detailed description of the patient's diagnosis and the procedure that will need to be performed,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration,...
10) The eye
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2008
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Sydney is a young, blind violinist who is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjust to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death which captures the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney is convinced that her anonymous eye donor has opened the door to a terrifying...
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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.
12) If she only knew
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She Woke Up With A New Face. . . Not only has Marla Cahill survived a deadly car accident, but her beautiful features have been restored through plastic surgery. She should be grateful. Instead, she's consumed by confusion. . .and panic. For the people gathered at her bedside--her family--are strangers. And so is the woman whose haunted eyes stare back from the mirror. . . She Woke Up With No Memories. . . Secluded at the magnificent Cahill mansion,...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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In the office of a plastic surgeon, lawyer Kerry McGrath is shocked to see two patients resembling a woman who was murdered. McGrath is familiar with the woman, having prosecuted the murderer who is now on death row. She reopens the case and gets a shock. By the author of Remember Me.
17) Sawbones
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On the blood-stained battlefields of a divided nation, Dr. Samuel Knight used his surgical skills to treat wounded Confederate soldiers. In the brutal prison camps of the Union Army, he offered his healing services to fellow captives who'd given up Hope. But now, with the war over and the South in ruins, the good doctor faces his hardest challenge yet: to save himself. Penniless and hungry, Knight has to beg, borrow and steal to survive in a post-war...
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Alison's new stepfather, the charismatic plastic surgeon Peter Dunn, is certain he can turn Alison into a vision of loveliness. Reluctantly, Alison agrees to undergo the first procedure, and her transformation begins. But soon Alison discovers a picture of Peter's first wife. To Alison's horror, she notices a resemblance between the image in the photo and the work her stepfather is doing on her.--From publisher description.
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When Pru Bonner falls off the wagon, "the girls" stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act. As the women confront their pasts along with their hazardous adventure, they discover surprising strength in themselves and their friendships.
20) Brain
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[1981]
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A young girl arrives at Hobson University Medical Center to obtain her medical records and is never seen again... Inexplicably, another woman dies a horrible and agonzing death during brain surgery while under local anesthesia... Hidden in a drawer deep in the hospital morgue lies a female cadaver whose organs are intact, but whose brain is missing... When Assistant Chief of Neuroradiology Martin Philips and Denise Sanger, the beautiful young resident...
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