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42) The numbers
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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Description
Ex-homicide detective Thomas Prescott joins an emergency task force to track down a serial killer who carves three-digit numbers into his victims, and uncovers a link to an illegal street lottery known as the Numbers.
Author
Series
My son's wife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tori Henderson is on the fast track in her marketing career in Houston, but her personal life is slow as molasses. So when her beloved Aunt Dottie falls ill, Tori travels back to tiny Bayford to care for her. But when she arrives, she?s faced with more than she bargained for, including Dottie's struggling local store and a troubled little step-cousin, DeAndre. Worse, the nearest Starbucks is twenty miles away?
46) This is the life
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two estranged brothers come together when one of them discovers he has a brain tumor and the other emerges as his caretaker.
47) An Amish harvest
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Nursing His Heart
When Amish carpenter Samuel Bowman is injured in an accident, he fears he'll never see again. He's always provided for his family-;and now that it's harvest season, the Bowmans are needed in the fields, not at his bedside. So when a young Amish widow becomes his nurse, Samuel expects Rebecca Miller to make his life easier. But his caregiver is bossy, outspoken and challenges him to move on with his life. Though Samuel's sight...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Fern Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, the Argentinian novelist Eduardo Berti spent several weeks in a "medico-literary" residency at the University Hospital Centre in Rouen, France, observing and conversing with the staff and volunteers of its palliative care department. From that experience he created this series of lightly fictionalized testimonials from nurses, nursing aides, doctors, administrators, porters, volunteer musicians, and the other people who make the unit tick....
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Marcus Talbott is a soldier through and through, and he's not going to let an injury keep him from his Army unit. Sure, his last mission nearly broke his back, but that's nothing his positive attitude and work ethic can't fix, right? In the meantime, he's got a place on the board at the Big Chance Dog Rescue, and flirting with his friend's sassy sister, Emma, is a welcome distraction. Emma Stern is barely scraping by while working and caring for her...
52) Killing Adonis
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The...
53) An Amish noel
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An Amish Homecoming
Luke Bowman's homecoming is turning Emma Swartzentruber's carefully ordered world upside down. Gone is her rebellious girlhood crush, and in his place is a handsome man who seems committed to serving the community. Luke's even agreed to work for Emma's ill father, whose last wish is to see his daughter wedded to a stable, loving man. But Luke-;a man who flirted with the outside world with disastrous consequences-;is hardly marriage...
54) Goodbye, vitamin
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth, who quits her job and arrives home to find her parents' situation worse than she'd realized. She throws herself into caretaking: cooking dementia-fighting meals (a feast of jellyfish!),...
Author
Series
Brotherhood by fire volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"TURNING UP THE HEAT Relationships. Firefighter Rafe Donovan avoids them whenever possible. He loves dating women, but he makes sure they know up front that he's in it for fun, great sex and nothing more. Fun. As an ER nurse and the official caretaker of her disabled grandfather, Carmen Lewis doesn't have time for fun. But Rafe has been there for Carmen-and her grandfather-time and again, and he's clearly interested in her. She knows he's a player,...
Author
Series
When in Rome volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As caregiver for her autistic brother, Beckett Hayes knows how meaningful a little extra help can be when life happens. Which is why she runs Consider It Done, a personal concierge service in her small town. Her job also gives her the flexibility to follow her passion, being Rome, Rhode Island's unofficial special needs advocate, training emotional support companions in her spare time. There's not much of that, though, and certainly not enough for...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr. Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the disease in the caves beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited...
59) Idealne życie
Author
Series
Publisher
Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Polish
Description
The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, single mother Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news. But privately, there is another story she has kept hidden for years. Blaise's teenage daughter, Salima, was blinded by Type 1 diabetes in childhood. When Salima's boarding school closes after a tragedy, Salima returns to her mother's New York City apartment, and suddenly they face challenges they've never had to deal...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After her mother's sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability, Karen begins to feel consumed by the isolation of her new role. On top of that, she's weighed down with guilt over her years spent keeping Kelli and their independent-to-a-fault...