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2) Snowfall
Author
Series
Snowfall trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Snowfall features another sharp-tongued, uncompromising heroine, Catania Olsen. She is the doctor for and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great Wall of ice in what was once Colorado. In the country of the Trappers, books are hand-copied so that knowledge may be preserved, but the technology described in their precious pages is mostly lost to their fur-clad readers, despite Catania's attempts at scientific treatment...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
As a teenager, Mary Edwards Walker determined she would no longer wear the confining corsets and long skirts society dictated women wear at the time and instead opted for pants with a short skirt, setting the stage for her lifelong controversial efforts to change expectations. One of the first women to earn a degree in medicine, Walker championed women’s rights, social justice, and access to health care. She became a Civil War surgeon and a spy,...
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Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Author
Series
Chinese Cinderella volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xv, 205 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 300 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Roman physician Arcturus and his wife Gwyna arrive at Bath for a holiday to find a dead body floating in the sacred spring. It turns out that the murdered man is a curse-maker whose curses actually come true, and, as murder follows murder, it looks like there's now a curse on Arcturus.
10) The physician
Author
Publisher
Barcelona Editions
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
765 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In eleventh-century London, a child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift -- an acute sensitivity to impending death -- never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Sixteen linked stories explore the marginalized humanity in communities, hospitals, and nursing homes in San Francisco, including an elderly Chinese immigrant who is forced to make a painful sacrifice and a young veteran whose injuries symbolize the restof his life.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the world, Koven's "Letter to a Young Female Physician" has...
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Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of a local apothecary, is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside to save the family legacy at a time when women are forbidden to work as apothecaries and the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her.
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