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"Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a seminal novel of the 1960s. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants--a counterculture classic that inspired the 1975 film adaptation, widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made"--
2) Life support
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Dr. Toby Harper, attempting to track a patient who disappeared out of the Springer Hospital emergency room, finds herself on the trail of a deadly epidemic.
3) Predator
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team -- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli -- to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the...
4) Scarpetta
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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 as psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most...
5) Midwives
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Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor, but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial.
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Molecular biologist Kay Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, teams up with virus hunter Christopher Dicken and anthropologist Mitch Rafelson in an attempt to trace the ancient source of a flu-like disease that is killing expectant mothers and their offspring and threatening the future of the human race.
8) Intervention
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New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton considers entering alternative medicine and makes contact with two former college classmates, including an archaeologist who is digging beneath Saint Peter's and a cardinal who would suppress the archaeologist's findings.
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Set in small-town Nebraska near the bird-watching spectacle of Platte River, Powers's ninth novel centers on the life of 27-year-old Mark Schluter, who is unable to recognize his sister, Karin, after suffering a near-fatal accident. Desperate for clarity, Karin turns to world-renowned cognitive neurologist and writer Gerald Weber (reminiscent of the real-life Oliver Sacks). Cleverly, this novel isn't simply about Mark's damaged brain (he appears to...
10) Postmortem
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Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta becomes involved in a strange murder mystery when she tries to discover who is committing a string of gruesome murders, but she soon realizes that someone would rather have her dead than completing her investigation.
11) Silent treatment
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When his wife dies suddenly at the hospital the day before her surgery, Dr. Henry Corbett, the primary suspect for her murder, discovers that a dangerous killer is lurking undetected in the hospital.
12) The last surgeon
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Former trauma surgeon Dr. Nick Garrity, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and currently offering medical assistance to the homeless in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, helps nurse Jillian Coates investigate the suspicious suicide of her sister, and, together, they discover links between the woman's death, a CIA cover-up, a professional assassin, and Nick himself.
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The second Kay Scarpetta mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Postmortem. Chief Medical Examiner Scarpetta discovers that an investigation that begins in the lab with microscopes and lasers can quickly veer off into a nightmare realm where no one is safe--not even Kay. (From Barnes & Noble)
14) Arrowsmith
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"The first edition of Arrowsmith consists of 500 copies on handmade paper, numbered and signed by the author. Second printing January, 1925."
15) Bloodstream
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Widowed Dr. Claire Elliot has opened a practice in Tranquility, Maine, in hopes of steering her son away from trouble in Baltimore. But Tranquility proves to be worse. As more and more of the town's teenagers become extremely violent, Claire races to find a medical reason.
16) Cell
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""The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical...
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Patrol officer Joe O'Brien is third-generation Irish in Charlestown. A tough cop with a soft interior, a loving wife and four adult children, Joe is diagnosed with Huntington's disease. As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while his daughter Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.
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Robert Ludlum has been acclaimed as the master of. suspense and international intrigue for over twenty-five years. His many books have thrilled millions of readers, reaching the top of bestsellers lists the world over and setting a standard that has never been surpassed. Now, from the imagination of one of America's greatest storytellers comes Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor. A homeless man in Boston, an Army major in California, and a teenage girl...
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When Dr. Thea Sperelakis' father, Petros, is severely injured in a hit-and-run accident, Thea is forced to battle other relatives for proper treatment, eventually uncovering a potentially sinister plan when Petros looks at his daughter and begins to blink a message.
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