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  Tess Gerritsen

• Publication Details

  Book, Pocket Books, 1996

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  Abby and chief resident Vivian Chao hatch a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match. Then a new heart for Nina Voss suddenly appears, her transplant is completed, and Abby makes a terrible discovery.

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  Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc · Fiction · Women physicians · Medical novels · Horror tales · Gerritsen, Tess

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  John Irving

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  Book, 1st ed, Random House, 2001

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  The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?” The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love.”While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion;

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  Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc · Fiction · Donation of organs, tissues, etc · Television journalists · Transplant surgeons · Hand · Surgery · Psychological fiction · Love stories · Irving, John, 1942

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  Ridley Pearson

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  Book, Delacorte Press, 1993

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  After discovering that a Seattle homeless woman received electroshock treatments, police psychologist Daphne Matthews teams up with her mentor, former police sergeant Lou Boldt, to investigate and uncovers a pattern of murder and mutilation. 65,000 first printing. $65,000 ad/promo.

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  Boldt, Lou (Fictitious character) · Fiction · Matthews, Daphne (Fictitious character) · Police · Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc · Police psychologists · Detective and mystery stories · Pearson, Ridley

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  Michael Palmer

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  Book, 1st ed, St. Martin’s Press, 2007

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  Four thousand miles away, in a jungle hospital in Cameroon, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth.

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  Medical students · Fiction · Medicine · Research · Blood · Collection and preservation · Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc · Secret societies · Medical fiction · Suspense fiction · Palmer, Michael, 1942

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  Meg Cabot

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  Book, Point, 2008

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  EM WATTS IS GONE. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs therealong with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard.

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  Models (Persons) · Fiction · Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc · Identity (Philosophical concept) · Cabot, Meg

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  Meg Cabot

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  Book, Point, 2009

• Description

  Praise for Airhead and Meg Cabot “Cabotdishes up all the story ingredients her fans have come to know and love – romance, humor, believable teen dialogue and even a fantastical twistPure fun, this first series installment will leave readers clamoring for the next.” – Publisher’s Weekly “Meg Cabot is chick-lit royalty.” – Newsweek “The text’s abundant references to current pop culture and Em’s witty character keep this read both grounded and fun.” – Kirkus Reviews

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  Models (Persons) · Fiction · Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc · Identity · Corporations · Families · Cabot, Meg

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  by Jodi Picoult

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  Book, 1st Atria Books hardcover ed, Atria Books, 2008

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  The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and one man’s last chance at gaining salvation. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice.

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  Murderers · Fiction · Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc · Repentance · Picoult, Jodi, 1966

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