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562) Natural causes
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"For two decades, Elin has been a regular general practitioner. For at least as long, she has been married to Aksel. But before Aksel there was Bjørn, who a year ago suddenly reached out to her on Facebook, and who has since turned Elin’s world upside down. She’s moved into her office, where her patients march in, all day long, with all their disgusting little infirmities and ailments. And though she likes spending the extra time in her office—even...
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"A biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to obtain an M.D. degree in the United States, with profiles of two prominent individuals, who are associated through the influences they had on one another, the successes they achieved, or the goals they worked toward. Includes recommended readings and web sites"--Provided by publisher.
566) La edad dorada
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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 strived for in jeopardy. Anna's work has placed her in...
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Dr. Lily Robinson novel volume 1
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"Dr. Lily Robinson is a brilliant physician with an encyclopedic knowledge of all toxins and poisons, and a penchant for wearing stilettos. In an unforeseeable twist in her life, the United States government appeals to her patriotism--and her knowledge of how to kill without bloodshed, to rid the world of threats to our nation. Emotionally blunted and flawed, she struggles to move between assassin and healer, yet still able to fulfill her competing...
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"I will always be somebody." This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in recognition of the incomparable medical service Walker rendered during the Civil War. Yet few people today know anything about the woman so well-known -- even notorious -- in her own time. Mary Walker's...
569) Ahora que lo dices
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Bienvenidos a las complicaciones de la vida, a la familia, al amor... Y a la realidad de que, a veces, das un paso adelante... y luego dos atrás. La beca Tuft que puso a Nora Stuart en el camino de convertirse en médico especialista fue un paso adelante. Que la atropellaran y darse cuenta de que su novio flirteaba con la doctora cuando la creyó moribunda fueron dos pasos atrás. Y menudos dos. Destrozada, Nora siente que su vida, esa vida que ha...
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"This cowboy's planned his future...then love gets in the way! Holden Monroe is focused on sending his son off to college until ex-girlfriend Bernadette Carlisle drops the bomb that she's expecting their baby. The cowboy's offer to do the right thing is an empty gesture to Bernadette. The successful doctor doesn't believe Holden capable of settling down--she just wants a custody agreement. But an eventful road trip might just change everyone's expectations!"--...
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"Lydia has been trapped in a warehouse by Rosalie, a dangerous young woman who commands a bogey-beast and wants Edgar all to herself. What's more, Lydia has realized that she is in the storehouse where Edgar was first enslaved as a child. Can she discover the secret of his dark past, or will she fall prey to the bogey-beast's true master?"--Publisher.
577) Amante desatado
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En Caldwell, Nueva York, la guerra continúa entre los vampiros y sus cazadores. Pero hay un grupo secreto de hermanos, seis vampiros-guerreros, defensores de su raza. Ahora el frío corazón de un astuto depredador será calentado en contra de su voluntad. Implacable y brillante, Vishous, hijo del Sanguinario, se encuentra bajo la influencia de una maldición y una aterradora habilidad para ver el futuro. Antes de su transición, creció en el campo...