"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze"--

"Nurse Nellie Lester can’t escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother’s murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she’s haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister? When the frozen...

"Andrew "Ace" Braddock is a player in every sense of the word. The center fielder for the Austin Lone Stars, he's also been at the center of numerous sports scandals involving beer, bars, and baseball bunnies. But when he takes the fall for a teammate, Ace wakes up in the hospital, injured and in serious trouble. He's sent to lie low and recover at his family ranch in Silverlake, Texas, where he's saddled with his worst nightmare: his high school...

"Carly Colton doesn't know whether to be elated that Micha Harrison is still alive or furious that it took him two years to let her know. Profound grief once tore Carly's life apart and now she's finally moving on. But the wounded warrior is determined to win her back...and to protect her from the deadly stalker threatening her life"--

"From single surgeon... ...to family man? Dr. William Cooper has been truly thrown in at the deep end... His eleven-month-old half sister has been placed into his care and he needs to figure out how to be a surrogate father -- quick! So when nurse Hannah Reeves offers to help, William couldn't be more thankful. He just didn't imagine that the minute Hannah entered his life, he'd find himself wanting her to be the final piece in his unexpected family!"...

"Pecca Gallegos moved to the tiny town of Walton, Georgia, to protect her son and escape the dangerous lifestyle that once defined her. When a series of strange circumstances evolve into threats, Pecca finds herself confiding in an unlikely ally--her stubborn patient. Army veteran Colton Crawford is desperate to recover from the undiagnosed disorder that is ruining his life, and his instincts are on high alert when threats against his nurse and her...

"When Londoner and pediatric nurse Kyra Fowler decides to sell the town she inherited from her father, she finds resistance in the form of ex-Navy SEAL Aiden Steele who launches an all-out campaign to save Star Valley, Wyoming, and win her heart."--

Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain's health care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family. Born to an adoring...

As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating room again--this time as a trainee nurse. She learns to care for her patients, sharing not only their pain, but also life-affirming moments of hope. In doing so, she offers a compelling account of the processes that keep them alive, from respiratory examinations to surgical prep. But when Molly's father is admitted to the...

"Una historia de alta tensión en la ciudad siria de Raqa" --Back cover.