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1) The women
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the...
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January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, she receives word of Freddie's death in combat, along with his personal effects--but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about...
4) Skye fall
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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Isla Montjoy has it all, a new career in nursing and a police officer boyfriend she adores until she stumbles across proof of her boyfriend's corruption. Determined to protect his secrets, he attacks her and leaves her for dead. But against all odds, she lives. On the run for two years, Isla's life is far from assured as her would-be murderer doggedly tracks her across the UK, intent on silencing her forever. On a climbing trip in the Scottish Highlands,...
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A groundbreaking figure in every sense of the word, Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, tending to the wounded soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Afterward, she was a key figure in establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people, opening several dedicated schools in Georgia. Taylor was also one of the first Black women to publish her memoirs....
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When Erin and Will walk into Maggie's office for a marriage counseling session, Maggie believes they are an ordinary couple with ordinary communication, intimacy, the usual. When Erin mentions something connected to Maggie's past that she couldn't possibly know, Maggie is disturbed: Why does Erin know anything about Maggie's long-missing sister? She wants to uncover the truth, but Maggie knows her code of ethics as a therapist should immediately stop...
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2023]
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English
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Geno is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his nursing assistant, Angel, who he sees as being different from him in every way possible, and unable to understand him in any way. Perhaps no one really can, since Geno has been telling everyone who will listen that he's not just Geno--in fact, he's lived many past lives, dating back 1000 years, and since that first life in Seville, Spain, he...
8) Unsinkable
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Harper Muse
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English
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Two unsinkable women--wartime nurse and stewardess Violet Jessop who has survived a shipwreck and two sinkings, one on the infamous Titanic, and Special Operations agent Daphne Chaundanson who faces challenges she never expected during World War II--form a connection that reshapes both their lives forever.
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2023.
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In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...
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