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"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...
4) Blood work
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Series
Language
English
Description
Gracilea Rivers reveals that her murdered sister was the anonymous donor of Terry McCaleb's heart, and the former FBI agent begins to investigate her death.
5) Pandemic
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second,...
6) 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.
7) 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
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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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.
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.
11) 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.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
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.
15) Airhead
Author
Series
Airhead novel volume 1
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
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.
17) Last Christmas
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In recovery from a life-threatening illness, Kate's work as an elf at a Christmas-themed shop begins to suffer as she keeps the secret from her employer and does not discuss it with her first-generation immigrant parents or her distanced sister. As the holidays draw closer, she encounters the same kind-hearted man repeatedly, and finds herself eventually warming to him despite his unreliable nature, letting his optimistic worldview gradually change...
Author
Series
Angels walking volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third and final novel in an unforgettable series about four friends and the divine intervention that changes their lives forever.
Against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children—especially since she is unable to have children of her own....
Against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children—especially since she is unable to have children of her own....
20) 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.
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