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When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless,...
2) 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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Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes...
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Lieutenant Ryan Gallagher has abruptly reappeared in nurse Jenny Bennett's life at the Presidio army base, but he's in an impossible situation. Six years ago he accepted a government mission overseas that caused his reputation to be destroyed and broke her heart. Honor bound never to reveal where he had been during those years, he can't tell Jenny the truth or it will endanger an ongoing mission and put thousands of lives at risk. When a threat from...
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A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned -- they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against...
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"Hospice nurse Stella prefers the night shift after Afghanistan left her veteran husband a changed man, haunted at night by memories he can't bring himself to share. Writing final letters for her hospice patients to their loved ones gives Stella the chance to help others communicate as she cannot. She only has one rule: she mails the letter only once her patient is no longer alive. When she meets a patient with a chance at redemption, she finds herself...
8) Skye fall
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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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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Scholastic
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1995.
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It's another scary day at the Black Lagoon. . . . There's supposed to be a nurse at school, but no one has ever seen her. She's supposed to be a real ghoul! They say she uses a thermometer the size of a flagpole and a surfboard for a tongue depressor! They say that she gives students eye tests and if you don't pass, she uses your eyeballs for billiard balls! Hubie swears to never go see the school nurse...until he gets sick at school one day!
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Franklin Watts, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
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2017.
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"For thousands of years, nurses have tended to the sick and the wounded. Although they don't get the glory, nurses are just as important as doctors. Read all about the eventful history of nursing and marvel at how nurses today take care of us in the hospital or at home, comfort relatives, cheer us up when we have to stay in bed, and help us make a complete recovery, "--Back cover.
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Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. This riveting biography explores the exceptional life of a woman who defied the stifling conventions of Victorian society to pursue what was considered an undesirable vocation. She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, when she vastly improved gruesome and deadly conditions and made nightly rounds to visit patients, becoming...
15) She's not sorry
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Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
16) Scared stiff
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Mattie Winston mystery volume 2
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After discovering the dead body of Shannon Tolliver on Halloween night, Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston and her boss, Izzy, use their razor sharp medical skills to catch a clever killer who is trying to frame Shannon's ex-husband for the crime.
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Love comes softly volume 6
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Belinda, Marty and Clark Davisαs "surprise child," has always had a tender and compassionate heart toward anything hurt and broken. Her parents watch with both misgivings and genuine pride as Belinda's older brother, Doctor Luke, influences her toward nursing. Will she have the inward strength to face the "hurt and broken" people whose bodies, minds, and emotions need mending Belinda's niece, who is also a teenager, comes to live with the Davis family...
18) Nurses
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Bellwether Media, Inc
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[2018]
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces nurses to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
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Sterling
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[2010]
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As death approaches, both patient and family must cope with grief, pain, and seemingly unanswerable questions. It's a time of challenge, of concerns. But, as hospice nurse Karen Whitley Bell reminds us, it also offers an opportunity to explore and rediscover the fuller, richer meaning of life. Drawing on her years of experience, Bell has created a comprehensive, insightful guide to every aspect of hospice care and the final stages of life. She discusses...
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