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"Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life--and Atlas Corrigan is the...
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Delve into The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's meditation on human alienation and its effect on the soul in this story set in seventeenth-century Massachusetts and be dazzled by literature.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's dark novel, The Scarlet Letter, a single sinful act ruins the lives of three people. None more so than Hester Prynne, a young, beautiful, and dignified woman, who conceived a child out of wedlock and receives the public punishment...
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Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.
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Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
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"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse...
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The „Dr. Kildare" series is written by Max Brand, which was the pen name of prolific author Frederick Faust, and is from the medical genre. This series is about the many exploits of Dr. Kildare, who starts out the series as a medical intern as he works to try and become a doctor. The stories follow Dr. James „Jimmy" Kildare, an aspiring surgeon, who leaves the simple life of his parents' farm to practice medicine at a big-city hospital. Brand...
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"When Alec asks Jess out, she knows it won't work. Is Alec charming? Of course. Attractive? Definitely. Can she not stop thinking about him...yes, but that's also the problem. Because Jess has rules. And the first? Don't fall in love. What no one knows is that Jess has inherited Huntington's disease from the mother that she cares for. And while witnessing her own future play out, Jess has learnt to keep everyone and everything at arm's length. But...
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Thomas Hardy's "The Woodlanders" was first published serially in 1887. The tale takes place in the woodland village of Little Hintock and is centers around the romantic dramas of its inhabitants. The story begins with Giles Winterborne, an honest woodsman, who wishes to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. While the two have been informally betrothed to each other since they were young, Grace gains an education through her father's persistent...
9) Do Me Doctor
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Dr. Joel Lockhart.
The world-famous plastic surgeon.
Incredibly talented, and utterly irresistible.
I can't imagine the things he could do with those hands.
His breath on my neck, his lips on my lips…
It's enough to drive a girl crazy.
I want him.
Bad.
But my twin sister has other ideas…
She's on the run from the FBI, and has implicated me too.
We both need new identities, new faces, and there's only one man who can do it.
Make me beautiful doctor.
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Piper Dawson has spent a lifetime living by other people's rules.
She's worked hard to get what she wants-a residency at her first choice hospital-and no one will ever tie her down again, not even her severe yet incredibly sexy supervisor, Dr. Alexander "Ace" Lennox.
Ace is done with love. He's had his heart shattered, and he never wants to go there again. But when he's inexplicably enticed by the sexy, tattooed woman with blue streaks in her hair...
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Hot, Southampton doctor, Carson Reynolds isn't the kind of man Gemma Carr should be playing with. But his offer of a fake engagement comes with sexy, late-night house calls, and despite her bad-girl reputation, it's been far too long since she's taken two and called anyone in the morning.
When Carson sees Gemma at a charity event, he knows he has to have her. It's been ten years since he's had her in his arms, but that hasn't lessened his intense...
12) Percy
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It was Aaron who convinced Percy to take a chance on Hathaway House. Yet, when he arrives, Aaron is back at school, and Percy's alone after all. The place is everything Aaron said it was, but the trip getting here set his progress back, from slow to nonexistent.Giada has worked at the center for several years and always went home happily to her brother at the end of the day. Only now her brother is engaged and planning to marry in six months. Change...
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The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She's always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius -- but she's never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers...
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Dr. Lucy Tremayne's title is about to change from doctor to mother! She knows she must tell Ben Carter he's going to be a daddy by Christmas, but she's running out of time... and stalling. She also realizes that when her secret gets out, it will destroy her father. As head of E. R. at St. Piran's Hospital, Dr. Ben Carter hasn't seen Lucy since that wonderful, perfect night they shared together. He's been warned to stay away, but now, as he arrives...
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Having landed a temporary job at an exclusive Harley Street practice, shy nurse Rose Taylor is stunned when her playboy boss, the Hon. Dr. Jonathan Cavendish, expresses an interest. Sensible Rose tries to ignore his outrageous charm-until some shocking news makes her seize the day and risk her heart on her glamorous bachelor boss! Soon Rose's bookish glasses come off, and she is swept off into Jonathan's high-society existence of yacht parties and...
16) This Is Us Now
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Ella and Theo's relationship is young and evolving and so are they. Their lives are going mostly to plan until a sudden cancer diagnosis changes everything. Nerves about meeting each other's parents and living together turn to anxieties about survival. Easy becomes hard. Hard becomes impossible. Their lives cannot remain the same and now every moment is coloured by illness and the challenges that come with it.
This Is Us Now is the story of...
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In a world where true love is hard to find and women are often pressured to get married before their biological clock stops, Tessy, a medical doctor who clocks 35 in a few months, finds herself on the verge of experiencing what could be described as the 21st century woman's worst nightmare - being single and lonely at 35.
In a bid to avert this potentially difficult situation, she embarks on a mission to find true love before her 35th birthday. She...
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When Meagan starts her stint as a doctor on Scotland's Western Isles, the last person she expects to see is the man who broke her heart six years earlier, Dr. Cameron Stuart. Or, as the locals know him, Lord Grimsay!
Meagan is still reeling from that discovery when she finds out that not only is Cameron a lord, he's also a single father! In the past Cameron was forced to do his duty. Now fate has given him a chance to follow his heart and build a...
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Every doctor dreaded recognizing someone in the emergency room-even coolheaded consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he had been asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!
Dr. Lorna McClelland hated being ill, hated being stuck in a hospital bed and, above all, hated having to rely on James. But as she recovered, all the wonderful things about their marriage came flooding back...
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Nicknamed "the ice maiden," Francesca Scott has kept men at arm's length--ever since bad-boy Luke Devlin walked out of her life.
Tarnished by the reputation of his family, Luke left Strathlochan for a fresh start. Now a surgeon, he's back and determined to put his rebellious past behind him.
But a chance meeting with Francesca sparks old feelings, and Luke realizes this beautiful woman is the best thing that ever happened to him. Now more than anything...
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