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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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When the mother of a friend unexpectedly dies in the hospital after her condition had been stabilized, and it is discovered that this has happened several times before, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate for themselves. Is there a maniac at work, playing God with people's lives? And has Lindsay somehow made him - or her - even worse?
2) What we find
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Sullivan's Crossing volume 1
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"When a high-risk neurosurgery procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie Sullivan finds herself in the middle of a lawsuit. She knows she needs to slow down before she burns out completely, and the best place she can think to do that is Sullivan's Crossing, the land that now belongs to her eccentric father, Sully. But shortly after arriving, Maggie's world is rocked once again and she must take on more responsibility than she'd planned....
4) Crisis
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When Boston-based Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who has endured grueling years of training and worked continuously in the service of others, he is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice. No longer forced to see more and more patients while spending less and less time with each one just to keep his office door open, he...
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[2009]
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Living on a tiny island entirely surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is so lost to the world that he cuts a hole in the ice every morning and lowers himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is alive. Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to this island and away from a successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete an anthill grows undisturbed in his living room.
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2022.
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The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England...
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2021.
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The story of Brian Tally is one of sacrifice, failure of our system, gross neglect, selflessness, dishonesty, manipulation, and ultimately perseverance against all the odds.
As you read the story about my brother's journey, I hope you can find inspiration that no matter how bad your situation is there are always hope, people who love you, and a chapter yet to be written.
Brian and I started this journey when we were told by the head of the Veterans...
9) Bodily Harm
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On the verge of winning a wrongful death suit against a pediatrician for the death of a child, attorney David Sloane begins to doubt elements of the case when toy designer Kyle Horgan claims he is responsible for the child's death, then vanishes.
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[2018]
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"El doctor Benjamín comete un error en el quirófano, y enfrenta cargos por negligencia médica. Abrumado por la frustración, ocasiona un accidente automovilístico en el que fallece su propia esposa. Es acusado de asesinato y le retiran la custodia de su hija. Al tocar fondo, solo tendrá dos opciones."--Page [4] of cover.
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2020.
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Undercover Epicenter Nurse blows the lid off the COVID-19 pandemic.
What would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were dying because of it?
Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in...
12) Harmful intent
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[1999]
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A medical thriller that touches you where you least expect it
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2021.
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A sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time, the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up, and--more than a decade later--the trial of the teenager's father for murder.
14) Doctor on trial
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c1992
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Doctor Kate Forrester is put on trial for malpractice and manslaughter when a billionaire's daughter dies.
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[2024]
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This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who once seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and his PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona. Volkman was the central figure in a massive "pill mill" scheme in southern Ohio. His pain...
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[2016]
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"Justice Failed is the story of Alton Logan, an African American man who served twenty-six years in prison for a murder he did not commit. In 1983, Logan was falsely convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty Cook County corrections officer, Lloyd M. Wickliffe, at a Chicago-area McDonald?s, and sentenced to life in prison. While serving time for unrelated charges, Andrew Wilson?the true murderer?admitted his guilt to his own lawyers, Dale Coventry...