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1) Pandemic
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"The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second,...
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Truman Wiley's son is dying, and the only thing that can save him is a heart transplant. All hope seems lost, until Truman learns of a death row inmate who is willing to donate his heart to Truman's son. But right before the time of execution, Truman discovers that the inmate may be innocent. For his son to live, should this innocent man die?
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Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all-marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman who makes...
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2023 Read Widely: Central & South Asia
AAPI Fiction
OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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AAPI Fiction
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Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
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Georgie Kendrick wakes up after a heart transplant, but the organ beating in her chest does not seem to be in tune with the rest of her body, and after she discovers her heart belonged to a girl her own age who fell out of the foster care system and into a rough life on the streets, Georgie is compelled to find the truth before she loses herself completely.
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Indigo realm volume 1
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"The Kaleidoscope Sisters is the first novel in a young adult series hinging on the indomitable spirit of young women. it centers on fifteen-year-old Quinn and her younger sister, Riley, who is dying from a degenerative heart defect. As the novel opens, Riley is weeks away from her seventh birthday, and her decline is obvious. Years in and out of hospitals have left the family with no support system, but Quinn is determined to save her younger sister....
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"Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It's not that he isn't smart. He is. It's just that hard work, the whole legal world, isn't really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down. Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband...
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Single mom Bristol Quinn is trying desperately to rediscover happiness after the tragic accident that took her younger sister's life. Older sister Savannah's Christmas wedding seems like the perfect time to invite Hope's heart recipient to meet the Quinns and their extended Hope Falls family. But when her letter goes unanswered, Bristol focuses on trying not to ruin her daughter's peewee ice hockey team's season with her pathetic lack of knowledge....
10) Rare birds
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While his mother waits for a life-saving heart transplant, eleven-year-old Graham Dodds sets out to find an endangered Snail Kite in the Florida Everglades.
11) Pandemia
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El nuevo y explosivo thriller médico del autor superventas del New York Times, Robin Cook. Después de que una mujer joven aparentemente sana colapsa repentinamente en el metro de Nueva York y muere cuando llega al hospital, su caso se atribuye inicialmente a una virulenta cepa de influenza. Es decir, hasta que termina en la mesa de autopsias del Dr. Jack Stapleton, donde Jack descubre algo inquietantemente sospechoso: primero, que la joven ha tenido...
16) Pandemia
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"Przenieś się w świat najnowszych odkryć genetyki, które dają człowiekowi możliwości, o jakich dotychczas nie mógł nawet marzyć. Młoda kobieta traci przytomność w nowojorskim metrze i umiera w karetce wiozącej ją do szpitala. Istnieje podejrzenie, że zmarła była nosicielką niebezpiecznego wirusa. Podczas sekcji zwłok Jack Stapleton odkrywa, że kobieta miała przeszczepione serce, którego DNA, wbrew wszelkiemu prawdopodobieństwu,...
17) Wrócę po Ciebie
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Przewrotna powieść z morałem i zaskakującym zakończeniem. Współczesna bajka o tym, jak naprawić krzywdy, które człowiek uczynił sobie i innym. Jej bohaterowie to troje ludzi, kobieta, mężczyzna i dziecko, połączonych skomplikowanymi więzami miłości. Przeznaczenie doprowadzi ich na krawędż życia i śmierci...Ethan jest znanym psychoterapeutą, człowiekiem sukcesu. Bogaty i szczęśliwy, dla kariery poświęcił życie rodzinne...
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