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Black Harbor novels volume Book 3
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"On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter's best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery--her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace.
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
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A groundbreaking figure in every sense of the word, Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, tending to the wounded soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Afterward, she was a key figure in establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people, opening several dedicated schools in Georgia. Taylor was also one of the first Black women to publish her memoirs....
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What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all? We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive-and hasn't woken up since. Dubbed "Sleeping Beauty" by the tabloids, Anna's condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known...
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Miller Test Prep
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Ace your HESI A2 with Miller Test Prep's comprehensive study guide for the 2023-2024 nursing exams! Tired of drowning in endless pages of irrelevant information? Our HESI A2 study guide is the antidote to information overload, providing you with a clear and concise roadmap to success. Designed with precision and expertise, our study guide is crafted to maximize your score without wasting your valuable study time. Say goodbye to overwhelming, kitchen-sink-style...
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Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Compassionate, groundbreaking, and urgently needed, Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the strength and well-being of these very caregivers-the...
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Rabbit Room Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brother's letters, and did a little writing of his own. Then he got a letter from a stranger on the far side of the world. Over the years that followed, he and Blanche Biggs, a missionary in Papua New Guinea, shared a vibrant correspondence. These conversations encompassed their views on faith, their politics, their humor, the legacy of C. S. Lewis, and their...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners--who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Two sisters come together and reevaluate their priorities when one sister receives a terminal diagnosis"--
Two sisters work to heal lingering childhood wounds and seek a new balance in work, family, marriage, and love when one receives a diagnosis that sets the clock ticking. Determined to save Sherri's life, Kristen drops everything to guide her sister on the harrowing cancer treatment journey. When she's unable to balance the strain of caring...
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North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2015
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The inspiring memoir of a Zulu nurse and healthcare activist who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to lead a life of selfless service
Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, Sister Abegail Ntleko earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse and educator, dedicating her life to those in need. As Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu writes in the forward of...
Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, Sister Abegail Ntleko earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse and educator, dedicating her life to those in need. As Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu writes in the forward of...
16) Big time
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2024.
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
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HighBridge
Pub. Date
2022
Description
When it comes to keeping your brain in tip-top shape, you aren't limited to crossword puzzles, brain games, and Sudoku. The keys to keeping your mind sharp are already in your hands: eleven simple but powerful lifestyle factors often have a greater impact on our health than our genetics. In The Age-Proof Brain, scientist and popular speaker Dr. Marc Milstein shares "complex science in simple (and often humorous) examples, case histories, and 'how-to'...
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"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
20) Monster
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2021, 2008
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Kenzo Tenma, a renowned Japanese neurosurgeon working in post-war Germany, faces a difficult choice: to operate on Johan Liebert, an orphan boy on the verge of death, or on the mayor of Düsseldorf. In the end, Tenma decides to gamble his reputation by saving Johan, effectively leaving the mayor for dead. Disgraced and shunned by his colleagues, Tenma loses all hope of a successful career until the mysterious death of the hospital director gives him...
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