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1) The women
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...
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Literature and medicine volume 26
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again and provide historical context for how nursing education has changed and yet remained the same? In brave, revealing, and often humorous poetry and prose,...
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Everyone has days, weeks, even months they wish they could do over--but what about an entire year? After living through the worst twelve months of her life, intensive care nurse Olive Watson is given a second chance to relive her past and attempt to discover where she went wrong... After a year of hardships, including a messy breakup with her longtime boyfriend Phil, the prospect of her mother's remarriage, and heartbreaking patient losses at the...
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"No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist,...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Laura is a nurse in a pediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely fragile bodies, and carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep themalive. Laura may be burnt out. Her hands have been raw from washing as long as she can remember. When she sleeps, she dreams of water; when she wakes, she finds herself lying next to a man who doesn't...
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Park Row Books
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English
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Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
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ABC Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Stories and memories that capture the experience of nursing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories and Great Australian Police Stories . I've been a trained nurse for almost sixty years now and I've never once gone to work thinking, I don't want to do this. In fact, I've always said how it's been a privilege to be a nurse in areas where there were no counsellors, no...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The “timing and gothic atmosphere are second to none” in this classic mystery where “the suspense steadily builds . . . until the satisfying denouement” ( Publishers Weekly ). From the moment nurse Sarah Keate arrives at the gloomy mansion of Adolph Federie, she senses trouble afoot, from the mysterious occupants of the house to the penetrating stare of a black cat named Genevieve. But Mr. Federie has just suffered a stroke and needs a live-in...
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A newly-engaged nurse searches for a killer among the passengers on her fiancé’s yacht, in this locked-room mystery from an Edgar Award winner. When nurse Sue Gates agreed to join Monty Montgomery on his yacht, she knew he intended to ask her to marry him. She also knew she didn’t love him but that a marriage to the wealthy entrepreneur would give her and her aunt, whose under her care, some financial security. But when Sue’s new fiancé...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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His shocking revelation… …for the single mom! For nurse Willow Thompson, taking on parenthood alone certainly wasn't easy, but her daughter, Maisie, is her world…and life on St. Victoria is near perfect. Only, everything changes when jaw-droppingly handsome Dr. Theo Moore strolls along the beach and into their lives--to tell Willow that he's her daughter's biological father! And now that he's able, he's determined to be there…for them both....
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A Ghostly Window Into the Past
Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister?
When...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Doctor Off-Limits: The father of her baby! Doctor Fraser is the last man nurse Briana should be attracted to--she's kept her feelings for him under wraps for years. When he moves to her Lake District village with his troubled teenage daughter, Bri wants desperately to help them. But after her chemistry with Fraser flares out of control, Bri must tell him the most shocking news of all… " A Puppy and a Christmas Proposal by Louisa George is a heartwarming...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A second chance at finding home A Cold Creek Homecoming by New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne When Quinn Southerland discovers his foster mom's hospice nurse is Tess Claybourne, he's surprised--and not in a good way! He still hasn't forgiven the former high school queen bee for how she treated him. But recently widowed Tess has learned a lot about life--and herself. And Quinn starts to wonder if he could be wrong about her. Is there...
17) Touched
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Scott's life was a fulfilling one. He loved his son and his job. When an accident takes the life of his son and puts Scott in a coma, the loss leaves him without the ability to feel. Only a nurse who has also felt pain can help him...and herself.
18) With a vengeance
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Fantasy Retribution Becomes Harsh Reality in With a Vengeance, a Medical Thriller from Eileen DreyerTrauma nurse and SWAT medic Maggie O'Brien has spent years trying to get out from under the shadow of her father, the most infamous cop in St. Louis. Her SWAT team is now her family, and the Blymire Memorial ER staff her friends.But when people in her care start turning up dead, Maggie fears one of her ER friends is enacting a fantasy retribution by...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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From single surgeon… …to family man? Dr. William Cooper has been truly thrown in at the deep end… His eleven-month-old half sister has been placed into his care and he needs to figure out how to be a surrogate father--quick! So when nurse Hannah Reeves offers to help, William couldn't be more thankful. He just didn't imagine that the minute Hannah entered his life, he'd find himself wanting her to be the final piece in his unexpected family!...
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