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1) Return to me
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In Chicago, a widower falls in love again, only to realize that his new love had a heart transplant and received his late wife's heart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shay Bourne shattered June Nealon's life when he murdered her husband and daughter. Now, as New Hampshire's first death row inmate in 58 years, his last request is one he believes might bring him salvation. Shay wants to donate his heart to June's other, ailing daughter. But since he is scheduled for lethal injection, this not possible. Further complications arise when Shay begins performing miracles in full view of witnesses--including his Catholic...
3) Repo men
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property, with no concern for your comfort or survival.
4) Harvest
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Second year surgical resident Abby DiMatteo stumbles onto a horrifying conspiracy when a wealthy patient who has just had a heart transplant becomes ill and Abby, in trying to treat the woman, discovers the donor records have been falsified.
5) Boston cream
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonah Geller private investigator, heads to Boston on the trail of a family friend's son, but it soon becomes clear that surgeon-in-training David Fine had a real reason to run as he had been forced to perform organ transplants by a Boston crime boss, and getting him back endangers Jonah's partner Jenn Raudsepp and requires help from a former hit man and two wise guys.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The lives of a medical student who lost a lung while undergoing treatment at a Brazilian hospital, a private eye investigating the death of a man who seems to have been an involuntary bone marrow donor, and a scientist suffering from an incurable disease are linked by their unknown ties to an illegal transplant organ trade.
11) Donor
Author
Series
Publisher
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
First in the series featuring the ex-Special Forces medic: "His medical thrillers out-chill both Michael Crichton and Robin Cook." -Daily Telegraph
When seven-year-old Amanda Chapman is admitted to the hospital with acute renal failure, her parents are in despair. Their hope is renewed when Amanda is accepted for treatment in a pioneering, state-of-the-art dialysis unit in an exclusive private hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
But behind the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosie "Aunty" Lee, the feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant, is back in another delectable, witty mystery involving scandal and murder among the city's elite. Few know more about what goes on in Singapore than Aunty Lee. When a scandal over illegal organ donation involving prominent citizens makes news, she already has a list of suspects. There's no time to snoop, though-Aunty Lee's Delights...
13) Noggin
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.
14) Pandemic
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second,...
15) A distant heart
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
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