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Learning to pray in the age of technique : Lenz Buchmann's position in the world
\"In a city not quite of any particular era, a distant and calculating man named Lenz Buchmann works as a surgeon, treating his patients as little more than equations to be solved: life and death no more than results to be worked through without the least compassion. Soon, however, Buchmann's ambition is no longer content with medicine, and he finds himself rising through the ranks of his country's ruling party...until a diagnosis transforms this likely future president from a leading player into just another victim.\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Watch that Ends the Night
George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.
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Knife Song Korea
Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction & Literature:
Literary Fiction category of the \"Best Books 2010\" Awards sponsored
by USA Book News 2009 Editor's Choice Award for
Fiction presented by Foreword Magazine Knife
Song Korea chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of Sloane,
a young surgeon in the Korean War. Drafted into the army and
assigned to an artillery unit in a remote rural area on the edges
of the war, Sloane must cope with harsh living conditions, a brutal
workload, and intense feelings of personal isolation. The only
doctor for miles, he is called upon to treat not only U.S. military
personnel but also the local Korean population, for whom he feels
both revulsion and pity. As the strain mounts and the war moves
closer, he comes face to face with questions of identity,
nationality, and personal honor. Originally written during and
shortly after Richard Selzer's own tour of duty in Korea, Knife
Song Korea offers a poetic portrayal of a man stretched to his
limits and beyond, and the tragic toll war takes on the human
psyche.
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A mistake : a novel
\"Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon--the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth's life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding, palpably sexist field. But can she survive a single mistake? A Mistake is a page-turning procedural thriller about powerful women working in challenging spheres. The novel examines how a survivor who has successfully navigated years of a culture of casual sexism and machismo finds herself suddenly in the fight of her life. When a mistake is life-threatening, who should ultimately be held responsible?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Girl in His Shadow
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER!\"An exquisitely detailed journey through the harrowing field of medicine in mid-19th century London.\"--Tracey Enerson Wood, USA Today bestselling author of The Engineer's Wife and The War Nurse An unforgettable historical fiction novel about one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her.
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Flesh and bone and water : a novel
Andrâe is a listless Brazilian teenager and the son of a successful plastic surgeon who lives a life of wealth and privilege, shuttling between the hot sands of Ipanema beach and his familys luxurious penthouse apartment. In 1985, when he is just sixteen, Andrâes mother is killed in a car accident. Clouded with grief, Andrâe, his younger brother Thiago, and his father travel with their domestic help to Belem, a jungle city on the mouth of the Amazon, where the intense heat of the rainforest only serves to heighten their volatile emotions. After they arrive back in Rio, Andrâes father loses himself in his work, while Andrâe spends his evenings in the family apartment with Luana, the beautiful daughter of the familys maid. Three decades later, and now a successful surgeon himself, Andrâe is a middle-aged father, living in London, and recently separated from his British wife. He drinks too much wine and is plagued by recurring dreams. One day he receives an unexpected letter from Luana, which begins to reveal the other side of their story, a story Andrâe has long repressed.
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Without a Trace
An engrossing read in the successful Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon series.Lady Philippa, the wife of Sir Aymer - a knight of the realm - disappears while travelling from her husband's manor to Bampton.She and her maid are travelling in an enclosed wagon, whilst her husband and his grooms and a squire are mounted.
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The Easter Sepulchre
'Sir Hugh is in top form tracking down the wily killer of local clerics while eating his way through a feast of mediaeval dishes.A delightful mystery with an authentic historical touch.' Fiona Veitch Smith, author and scriptwriter 'Time-travel from the safety of your armchair - with a murderous twist.
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