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2) The donor
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English
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You've heard the urban legend about a man who wakes up in a tub of ice in a hotel room with a kidney missing. In fact, organ thefts are a real phenomenon and the occurrence of the crime is on the increase. The legend comes to life in this dramatic and scary story ripped from the headlines of tomorrow's newspaper.
Dennis, a college-age young man and an adoptee, wakes up in a small private hospital in San Francisco after a minor car accident to discover...
5) Boston cream
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English
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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.
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English
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The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: "How can anyone identify a dream of the future?" The answer: "Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love."While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting...
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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.
8) Harvest
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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.
9) Noggin
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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