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2) Miracle cure
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well
“A highly entertaining tale of greed and medicine run amok.”—Chicago Tribune
After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he’s been chosen to join the medical team testing a new...
“A highly entertaining tale of greed and medicine run amok.”—Chicago Tribune
After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he’s been chosen to join the medical team testing a new...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2003
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany
Pub. Date
[c1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Book 6 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Belinda, Marty and Clark Davis's "surprise child," has always had a tender and compassionate heart toward anything hurt and broken. Her parents watch with both misgivings and genuine pride as Belinda's older brother, Doctor Luke, influences her toward nursing. Will she have the inward strength to face the "hurt and broken" people whose bodies, minds, and emotions need mending? Belinda's niece, who...
8) Doctors
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of doctors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bullfrog Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes what veterinarians do to help keep all kinds of animals healthy, including dogs, cats, zoo animals, and farm animals"--
10) Veterinarians
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of veterinarians.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2010
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...
13) Veterinarian
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A small animal veterinarian tells about his job as well as about that of zoo and farm animal doctors.
Publisher
Cinedigm Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With a residency at a top hospital and a boyfriend she adores, Lauren appears to have her entire life figured out. But when she loses both her job and her beau on the same day, Lauren reluctantly accepts a residency position in Alaska. After slowly embracing her simple life up North, Lauren gets the position she originally hoped for and must choose between the life she always wanted and her new life in Alaska"--Container.
16) Downsizing
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul and Audrey Safrane decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
17) Deadpool
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
18) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
19) Lucy
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.