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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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This 1962 novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and depicts the chaos when McMurphy, a rebellious prison inmate who has faked insanity in order to finish his sentence in the hospital, incites the other patients to disobey the feared Nurse Ratched. An escalating series of incidents leads to a tragic conclusion.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
3) Cell
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"George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. George's initial collision...
5) Moloka'i
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Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family's 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.
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Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos, must investigate the death of a man who was run down by a logging truck. Was it merely an accident or something sinister? When he discovers a cryptic message in the victim's pocket, Dr. Paiboun believes in the latter.
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When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath before he turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and fought hard for his license to be restored. Lou is in shock over the news,...
8) Toxin
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Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, crazed that cost-cutting procedures at the hospital are keeping his daughter from getting the care he believes she needs to recover from E.coli bacterial poisoning, launches his own investigation into how and why the child got sick.
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When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. An accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg. Surgeons save the leg, but the open wound becomes a breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader. Hundreds of miles away, a teenaged girl is fighting against the same bacteria. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic, and the government scientist tasked with finding...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car...or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected that...
11) Silent treatment
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A medical thriller on a health insurance scam to murder patients who cost too much money. It features Dr. Harry Corbett, a Vietnam War vet, whose wife has died mysteriously. When he discovers that, unknown to him, she was investigating such a racket, he starts a probe of his own and immediately his life is in danger. By the author of Natural Causes.
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"Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States." "One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe's Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request. His personal physician...
13) Double helix
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[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
14) Emergency Room
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c1994
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Teenaged pre-medical students Diana and Seth volunteer to work in the emergency room of a city hospital and become caught up in a maelstrom of excitement, horror, hope, and despair.
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c1994
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Cheney receives a letter from a friend pleading that she come to a remote spot in the Ozark Mountains. The friend is having a baby, and there are no doctors available in the primitive wilderness. Though she is warned about the mountain folks, Cheney feels compelled to go and provide medical care to her friend and the community.
16) Fever
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c1982
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Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it.
17) Darwin's radio
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Darwin series volume 1
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Molecular biologist Kay Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, teams up with virus hunter Christopher Dicken and anthropologist Mitch Rafelson in an attempt to trace the ancient source of a flu-like disease that is killing expectant mothers and their offspring and threatening the future of the human race.
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c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Dr. Cheney Duvall, weary of being rejected for jobs simply because she is a woman, jumps at the chance to care for two hundred frontier brides-to-be on a sea voyage from New York to Washington Territory, but with the journey looming before her, Cheney begins to doubt whether she is really prepared for the responsibility.
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"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf...
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c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
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After years of growing friendship, Shiloh Irons-Winslow believes he finally has something to offer Cheney Duvall and asks for her hand in marriage. But for Cheney, one insurmountable obstacle stands in the way of their happiness, and it is impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, Bain Winslow has become obsessed with plotting revenge against his newfound cousin, Shiloh, who is the legitimate heir to the vast Winslow holdings and wealth in Hawaii.