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81) Mind catcher
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When a thirteen-year-old boy falls victim to an accident that damages his brain, two scientists combine their ground-breaking research to push the boundaries of human consciousness.
82) The Select
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c1994
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Quinn Cleary is delighted to be accepted into the medical school of her dreams, but she begins to worry about the way all of her classmates seem to fall in line with the messianic vision of the school's director. Then she discovers the true mission of this very fine research center.
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In the nation's capital, Kate Livingston's respectable life as a government worker is disrupted by an encounter with the insufferable Trevor McDonough, a man she'd hoped never to see again. The Harvard-trained physician had never shown the tiniest flicker of interest in Kate. But despite her misgivings, Kate agrees to Trevor's risky proposal to join his work to find a cure for tuberculosis. However, a shadowy enemy lies in wait, and soon revelations...
84) Wedded to war
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[2012]
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"This is the first book in a series based on the real life stories of women who lived and worked during the Civil War. The author has done extensive research around the lives of military women during the Civil War for a nonfiction title and became inspired to share their stories in a fictionalized depiction based on her historical research. Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from New York and one of only 100 women chosen for nursing...
85) Vector
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Forensic pathologists Dr. Jack Stapleton and Dr. Laurie Montgomery, investigating two seemingly disparate cases, come to realize that Jack's anthrax victim, and Laurie's tortured skinhead are only a small part of a dangerous plot to unleash a devastating bioweapon on the United States.
86) Outbreak
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When a bizarre disease that attacks only physicians and their patients sweeps the country, Dr. Melissa Blumenthal discovers that sinister forces are behind the threat and finds her life in danger.
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1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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With New Orleans as their destination, Cheney Duvall and her nurse, Shiloh Irons, leave behind the glittering lights of New York City and travel to Charleston, South Carolina, intending to stay for only a short time. But the purpose of their stop immediately draws them into the plight of this war-torn Southern city, in the painful throes of Reconstruction and carpetbagger policies after the Civil War.
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2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Established in the year 2020, The Haven is home to teens who are classed as Terminals, whose education, food, rest, and behavior are strictly monitored to save them from Disease, but Shiloh and Gabriel remember a different kind of life, and are on the verge of rebellion.
91) Double helix
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[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
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"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf...
95) Mindbend
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c1985
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Against the advice of his well-wishers, future doctor Adam Schonberg takes up a job with a giant drug firm. Slowly Adam begins to suspect the hideous evil associated with the company which threatens his own wife's pregnancy.
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Joe O'Brien is a 44-year-old police officer, devoted husband, proud father of four adult children. Joe begins experiencing strange physical and emotional symptoms. The neurologist diagnoses Huntington's Disease. It is a neurodegenerative disease with no cure, and is genetic. As Joe's symptoms worsen, he struggles to maintain his identity and sense of purpose. Each family member must reexamine their values and relationships as they learn to lead lives...
97) The magic bullet
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2008
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Dr. Allan Parker may have found the magic bullet the world has been waiting for all these years-the cure for cancer in the blood of fifteen-year-old Taylor Petersen. But there's only so much blood in Taylor's body, and so many desperate people. One of the most desperate is Frankie Vico, a mobster who faces the death sentence of inoperable, terminal cancer for which there is no reprieve. And with time running out, he's learned of one last hope. Now...
99) Himalayan dhaba
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"In a remote Himalayan village, a widowed American doctor searches for the ghost of her husband, an injured traveler is kidnapped, and the waiter in the local dhaba finds love when he leasts expects it"--Back cover.
100) Of flesh and blood
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[2010]
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A hundred years ago, Dr. Evan McGrath established a hospital in the Pacific Northwest that would never turn away a patient in need. In the process, Evan lost the love of his life while making a powerful enemy of hospital financier Marshall Alfredson. Today, the Alfredson Medical Center is internationally renowned for its care, but devastating family secrets, doomed relationships, and present-day medical disasters threaten not only the Alfredsons and...
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