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"A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds...
2) Dr. Knox
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351 pages ; 25 cm
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Adam Knox comes from a long line of patrician Connecticut doctors -- a line he broke to serve with an NGO in the war-torn Central African Republic. His attempt to protect his patients there from a brutal militia ended in disaster and disgrace, and now he runs a clinic near Los Angeles's Skid Row, making ends meet by making house calls -- cash only, no questions asked -- on those too famous or too criminal to seek other medical care. When a young boy...
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Sisterhood volume 31
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"When Alexis Thorn encounters a distraught young woman, Bella Nolan, alone in a restaurant, crying instead of eating, she offers comfort and soon uncovers a mission that will require the very particular skills of the Sisterhood. Alexis learns that the woman's husband was recently killed in action in Afghanistan. Before he reported for duty, they took steps to preserve their chances of having children. But when Bella visits the fertility clinic, she...
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Two teenage boys are missing and their disappearance may be linked to a shady fertility clinic Peter Kelly and Lily Madison visited in college as penniless students. When Pete and Lily learn that one of the missing boys looks exactly like Pete, they set out to discover what really went on at the clinic all those years ago.
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50 pages : illustrations ; cm
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"When school is out, Alisa spends each day with her sister, who works in a medical clinic. But Alisa feels alone and out of place. One day, she sees a new face--a stray cat. After five days, they become friends and she names him Cinco. Together, they get involved in the activities at the medical clinic--and make more friends along the way."--
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"Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist -- an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer -- fully unravels....
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Nacho y Laura volume 4
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Español
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"Nacho y Laura estan creciendo, y ya pueden asumir pequĕnas responsabilidades.En este nuevo titulo, Laura acude a consultar al medico. Las conocidas ilustraciones de Liesbet Slegers y el texto en letra mayuscula facilitaran la lectura de los mas pequĕnos" --http://www.casadellibro.com/busqueda-generica?busqueda=9788426397812&nivel=5&auto=0&maxresultados=-1.
"Young children will easily identify with Laura when she gets sick and has to go to the...
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388 pages ; 25 cm
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Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen...
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