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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The world's bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell presents the extraordinary eighteenth novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally and personally.
Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long...
Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long...
2) Cure
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Series
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English
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With her son's illness in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work-and finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzle of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start- up biotech companies caught in a zero-sum game...
3) Viral
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Language
English
Description
A family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the center of a terrifying danger to mankind--and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by greed and corruption.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly
A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian
"Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking
5) The bone bed
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.
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Series
If I stay volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
9) Scarpetta
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel.
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. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically...
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. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When two kidnappings and a stabbing occur on her watch in a Manhattan university hospital, a fearless senior midwife teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to investigate rumors that shift from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network.
12) Gemini
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Caring for an anonymous coma patient whose baffling condition is turning critical, Seattle ICU doctor Charlotte Reese and her science journalist boyfriend, Eric, find their relationship tested when the case forces them to confront respective feelings about death, love and marriage.
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 27
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Eve Duncan puts her happily-ever-after with Joe on hold when his ex-wife shows up, on the run with enough secrets to get them all killed.
15) The call
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After receiving a call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, a veteran 911 operator realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl.
16) Resistant
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Delivering a speech for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, Dr. Lou Welcome takes an exclusive tour of the Centers for Disease Control and learns about the development of biological weapons before becoming enmeshed in a case involving the abduction of a leading scientist.
Author
Series
Ice sequence volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Follows the transformations of a confiscated, mysterious technology, hidden in a bunker lab below the grounds of Lakehurst Naval Air Station on the edge of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, that has been slowly changing the world throughout the decades since World War II.
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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It is April 17, 1861-the day Virginia secedes from the Union and the sixteenth birthday of John Alan Muro. As the Commonwealth erupts in celebration, young Muro sees his dream of attending medical school in Philadelphia shattered by the sudden reality of war. Muro's father, believing that the Disagreement will pass, sends his son instead to Charlottesville. Jefferson's forty-year-old University of Virginia has become a haven of rogues and dilettantes,...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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Uses the author's family experience to explore the human aspect of mutations on the BRCA gene, known as the "breast cancer" gene, discussing the decision of many patients to have preventative masectomies after testing positive for the mutation.
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