women physicians

Alice Thrift, an intelligent surgical intern who is sorely lacking in social skills, gets a little help from her friends when she is drawn into a relationship with Ray Russo, a loud-mouthed fairground food vendor.

An alien world comes alive with mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal when the paths of Dr. Vosill, the King's physician, and the chief bodyguard to the Protector General cross.

When eight-year-old Havaa's father is abducted for supposedly aiding Chechen rebels, she is taken in by her neighbor, Akhmed. Seeking refuge in an abandoned hospital, the pair encounters a doctor, Sonja, and together they discover the ties that bind them together and will decide their fate.

Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.

Looks at eight significant women in the field of medicine.

A biography of the first female Surgeon General of the United States.

A biography of the first female Surgeon General of the United States.

Maya, having been convinced by her sister Rebecca and husband Adam to help with a relief effort after a devastating hurricane in North Carolina, is the victim of a helicopter crash, and while she struggles to stay alive in the wilderness, Rebecca and Adam, believing Maya is dead, find comfort in the arms of one another.

Catania Olsen works as a doctor and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great wall of ice in what was once Colorado, and as she struggles to help her group survive the New Ice Age, she risks both her life and her place in society.