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62) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where she learns the story of Oscar Bane, an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital?s psychiatric prison ward....
63) Arrowsmith
Author
Series
Signet classic volume CE2225
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
A young doctor must decide between worldly success and his own desire to devote his life to scientific research.
64) Dreamland
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...
66) Bloodstream
Author
Series
Tess Gerritsen novel volume 10
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city, and the lingering memory of his father's death. And she's hopeful that she can earn the trust of the town as she builds a new practice. But all her plans unravel with the first snap of winter, and the news of a shocking incident: a teenage...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners, mother, son and daughter, are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as conflicts of their own. But the Ayreses are haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Season three finds Dr. Zoe Hart fighting to regain her practice from Dr. Brick Breeland, New Yorker Joel struggling to blend in with small-town life, Lemon Breeland and Wade Kinsella becoming unlikely business partners, Mayor Hayes finding happiness with AnnaBeth Nass, and George Tucker suffering yet another broken heart.
71) Book of the dead
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The Book of the Dead is the morgue kg, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning. Starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, seems like the ideal situation for Scarpetta and her colleagues, Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy. But then come the deaths. A sixteen-year-old tennis star, fresh from a tournament...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A body is discovered in a Virginia landfill. The details -- expert removal of head and limbs -- mirror that of a case Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been investigating in Ireland. But for Scarpeita, the game has only just begun. The killer boldly contacts her via the Internet, signing off with the ominous screen name deadoc. As her investigation deepens, Scarpetta discovers that the victim in Virginia was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus before she was...
Author
Language
English
Description
The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this “irrepressibly comic and optimistic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts
Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never...
Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads for his car, his mind on a boat he's restoring at a nearby lake. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the beat-up bread truck careening...
Author
Series
Jackson Brodie novel volume 3
Language
English
Description
The author of One Good Turn presents a mystery of suspense involving the unexpected intersection of three lives, including a woman whose life had been shattered thirty years earlier, an ex-detective on a crowded train, and a teenage girl who is called upon to test her preparedness.
80) The ideal man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals. She is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys, and, as the only person to see the shooter's face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation. After Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case he pledges to protect Ellie until...