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When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorney's home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom.
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s201
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Lucius, a young Viennese media student, enlists, hoping to serve at a field hospital in the first World War. But he finds a freezing outpost the other doctors have fled. A single nurse remains, and Lucius has never lifted a scalpel. When an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuff with strange drawings Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change lives forever.
4) Wives Of War
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2017
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English
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"London, 1944. Two young women meet at a train station with a common purpose: to join the war effort as nurses ... When the two friends arrive in Normany and encounter the seemingly unflappable Lucy, they're in awe of her courage and competence. But the experienced nurse is well aware of the dangers of the job they've chosen -- and even she is terrified they won't make it home alive."--Container.
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2016
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
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"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...
6) The women
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'Women can be heroes, too.' 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...
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2017.
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"In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
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Caroline Ferriday volume 3
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English
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Georgeanna Georgey Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war...
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