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Series
NIH publication volume no. 10-4637
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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English
Description
Truman Wiley's son is dying, and the only thing that can save him is a heart transplant. All hope seems lost, until Truman learns of a death row inmate who is willing to donate his heart to Truman's son. But right before the time of execution, Truman discovers that the inmate may be innocent. For his son to live, should his innocent man die?
5) The gift
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English
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Given a second chance at life when she receives a donor heart, Jenna uncovers dangerous secrets about a missing girl and her donor’s non-accidental death.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all-marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman who makes...
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Moonglow Cove volume 2
Language
English
Description
It was a story that couldn't possibly be true: identical twins, separated at birth. Anna Drury wouldn't have believed it, but the woman standing before her was physically alike her in every way, and held in her hands a keepsake baby bracelet, the same as Anna had. How could it be? Anna, with her tall, strong husband and two adorable children, grew up loved and secure, and she freely opens her heart to others, so she embraces the idea of her new-found...
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English
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From sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants, this revelatory history of transplant surgery uncovers stories of operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places, exploring how this type of surgery constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal and machine
12) Parasite Eve
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English
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A suspenseful story of biology rebelling against humanity
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English
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A novel about two mothers and one daughter who are linked by tragedy and bound by secrets, from the acclaimed author of Heart Like Mine.
The screech of tires brought Hannah Scott’s world as she knew it to a devastating end. A year after she signed the papers to donate her daughter’s organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose fifteen-year-old daughter, Maddie, survived only...
16) Blood work
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Language
English
Description
Retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb receives a heart transplant, then investigates the death of the woman who donated her heart to him
17) The xeno chronicles: two years on the frontier of medicine inside Harvard's transplant research lab
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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