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Author
Language
English
Description
"Tella Grant likes to be in control--even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn't...
3) Pulse
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1998.
Language
English
Description
"Frank Douglas is lucky to be alive. His heart transplant was a success, and the 45-year-old businessman is healthy again. But Frank's tastes have changed and his dreams are disturbing. Something is driving him to find out who the organ donor was" --container.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, Ryan Perry receives strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me," and discovers that he is being stalked by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
5) Alive
Author
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After finally receiving a heart transplant, seventeen-year-old Stella throws herself into her new life, but her recovery is marred with strange side effects and hallucinations, and when she meets Levi Zin, a mysterious new boy at her Seattle prep school, Stella soon realizes that she and Levi have more in common than she could ever imagine.
7) Transplants
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of medical transplants, including the different types of organ and tissue transplants performed throughout history and famous innovators in the field.
8) The heart
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken...
9) Soar
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A year after losing her boyfriend, Trent, in an unexpected accident, Quinn Sullivan secretly tracks down the recipient of his donated heart in an attempt to heal, but ends up falling for him.
12) Harvest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spurred by the death of a younger sibling to pursue a medical career, surgical resident Abby DiMatteo is delighted by her recruitment into a cardiac transplant team, until she is forced to choose between two patients.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
"After 18 years of blindness, 20 year-old Mun's eyesight is restored following a corneal transplant. Immediately, mysterious black-clad figures in Mun's field of vision seem to foreshadow sudden deaths, and disfigured denizens haunt her daily. Mun slowly learns that she has inherited her donor's particular fate: the ability to see into the future and the terror that comes with it." --container.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a remote island in Lake Superior, scientists struggle to solve the problem of xenotransplantation -- using animal tissue to replace failing human organs. Funded by the biotech firm Genada, Dr. Claus Rhumkorrf seeks to recreate the ancestor of all mammals. By getting back to the root of our creation, Rhumkorrf hopes to create an animal with human internal organs. Rhumkorrf discovers the ancestor, but it is not the small, harmless creature he envisions....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves, which is strange, because she wasn't interested...
17) John Q
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. It's taken loved ones from him, it's robbed him of his eyesight, and it's the reason why his father is killed while investigating the homicide of a young woman. Joshua is handed an opportunity he can't refuse: an operation that will allow him to see the world through his father's eyes. As Joshua navigates a world of sight, he gets glimpses of what these eyes might have witnessed in their previous life....
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