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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.
2) Life support
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A medical mystery on a racket to rejuvenate the old. It features Toby Harper, a doctor in a retirement community in Boston which caters to the rich. Toby's suspicion is aroused when patients admitted to her hospital exhibit symptoms of a rare disease. By the author of Harvest.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
From Publishers Weekly A mad doctor invades a motel in Arizona, injects both itinerant artist Dylan O'Connor and struggling comic Jillian Jackson (strangers to one another) with an unknown substance that, he says, is his life's work and will have some unknown effect, then warns them to flee before his enemies kill them; soon after, the doctor is slain by heavily armed assailants. The rest of the story is an extended chase, as Dylan and Jillian, along...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Dare to face the most terrifying heights of suspense. From hospital murders to explosive court battles, the Women's Murder Club takes on their most harrowing challenge yet.
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths-and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation...
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths-and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation...
5) Foreign body
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton / Laurie Montgomery volume 8
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
6) The surgeon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A top trauma surgeon helps to solve a mystery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
8) Fatal
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...
10) The bone bed
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician and medical researcher, may have been murdered instead of his twin brother, Charles. Her search for the truth plunges her into life-threatening danger which is only increased when she crosses the path of Henry Patton, a criminologist, who is on a search of his own, the truth behind a long-ago scandal involving his grandmother that must now...
12) Vector
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton / Laurie Montgomery volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A forensic pathologist solves a mystery involving the anthrax virus.
13) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
15) Handle with care
Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, Charlotte O'Keefe must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what constitutes a valuable life.
16) The lake house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Six kids on the run must face a villain who threatens the future of human existence . . . but winning comes at a high price.
Six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering...
Six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering...
17) Cadaver & Queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein meets Marissa Meyer's Cinder in this tightly paced historical thriller packed with secrets, betrayal and steamy romance.
When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn't have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she'll have to go above and beyond to prove herself.
So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-Mechanical-one of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.Then, Dr. Alexanders own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion-and in essence makes us human-shut down completely....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every...