Orphaned eleven-year-old Joe lives in a hospital due to his autoimmune disease, interacting only with his sister, an American boy with the same illness, and medical staff while dreaming of being a superhero.
When Claude, a small, plump dog, and his friend, Sir Bobblysock, visit the city, Claude heroically, if accidentally, stops a thief. Then, when Sir Bobblysock becomes ill, Claude rushes him to a hospital and is mistaken for a doctor.
Simple text and photographs introduce young readers to a hospital. Includes eBook with print content as well as audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.
Simon, a respected doctor, and Emily, a partner in a public relations firm, appear to have it all, but they have never come to grips with the death of their firstborn son years earlier, and that failure is causing a gap in their marriage, as well as an inability to connect with their teenage daughter, that is exacerbated by the arrival of a lover from Emily's past.
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Kate Denby, a research scientist, is on the verge of achieving a major medical breakthrough only to discover that someone wants her work stopped even to the extent of killing her.
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
