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Series
Enlightenment Project volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon, with an impressive success record. He has a happy home, with his beloved wife Moira, their two adopted sons, and a dog who's a very good girl. But Noah keeps a dark secret, shared only with his old friend Father Perry Cavanaugh. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon - and it was only thanks to the exorcist priest that he survived. Now, Noah works at the cutting of edge of medical science and religion,...
Author
Series
The Rajes volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep. Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco's most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that's not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who's achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules. Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. But now she has a chance to redeem herself. So long as she doesn't...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011], c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson tells the story of his childhood in inner-city Detroit, his rise through ROTC and medical school, his appointment at Johns Hopkins at the age of thirty-three, and the life-saving breakthrough neurogsurgeries he has performed.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Love is in the clear mountain air of Everwood. Back from Juilliard, Ephram commits himself to his music and to Amy, Dr. Jake Hartman moves to town and starts eating lots of pancakes, as long as Nina's serving them, and Hannah Rogers flips over Bright. But love can't conquer all, especially when the secret Andy kept from Ephram comes spilling out.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The final season of the series set in a welcoming town in the Rockies is all about finding oneself, and finding each other. Drawn by his feelings for Amy, Ephram returns home and mentors a troubled piano prodigy. When Nina chooses Jake over him, Andy struggles to remain friends with the woman he loves. Bright and Hannah make their unlikely romance work. The Abbotts open their arms to a new child. Intriguing characters arrive and beloved characters...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience. As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating...
28) Observer
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Caro Soames-Watkins, a talented neurosurgeon whose career has been upended by controversy, is jobless, broke, and the sole supporter of her sister, a single mother with a severely disabled child. When she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, desperation forces her to take it in spite of serious suspicions. Watkins has built a mysterious medical facility in the Caribbean to conduct...
29) You have a brain
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Throughout his life, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson has needed to overcome many obstacles: his father leaving the family, being considered stupid by his classmates in grade school, growing up in inner-city Detroit, and having a violent temper. But Dr. Carson didn't let his circumstances control him and instead discovered eight principles that helped shape his future... Dr. Carson unpacks the eight important parts of Thinking Big: Talent,...
31) Elysium tide
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"When the Royal London Hospital orders a top neurosurgeon and workaholic to take a week off in Maui, he stumbles upon a murder and becomes obsessed with finding the killer. His efforts confound and irritate local detective Lisa Kealoha, but once they join forces, they uncover a destructive plot that runs far deeper than either of them could have imagined"--
33) The scalpel and the soul: encounters with surgery, the supernatural, and the healing power of hope
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"Based on thirty years of medical experience, The Scalpel and the Soul tells the unspoken stories behind remarkable patients and strange events, and shares the moral and spiritual lessons found in them." "For physicians, supernatural inklings and intrusions are disturbing. Doctors often cannot be candid with colleagues and patients about anomalous events because they are trained to disregard the inexplicable and unbelievable. They are taught to discount...
34) Perfect killer
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Neurosurgeon Bradford Stone, after finding himself targeted by a presidential candidate who would use an experimental drug to transform soldiers into ruthless killers, tries to unravel the conspiracy behind the drug.
35) Quiet teacher
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"Torn by memories of a warrior life in ancient China, by voices in his head that he's not sure are real and by unresolved urges, celebrated neurosurgeon Xenon Pearl struggles with a serial killer in some of South Florida's grittiest cityscapes"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.
39) The hunting dark
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In the Amish countryside of Kentucky, there is a house. Everyone knows about it. They whisper about the things that happen there. Creepy things. Terrible things. It would be better if they shouted: Run. Six weeks ago, fragile mother of two Pammie LaRue moved in with her beloved partner Conor. They ignored the knocks on the walls. Whispering voices. Water pooling, with no obvious leak. Eight days ago, Conor went missing, without a trace. Unless you...