The Doctor S Daughter

Author : Hilma Wolitzer
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307417008

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The Doctor's Daughter by Hilma Wolitzer Pdf

In her first work of fiction in more than a decade, award-winning novelist Hilma Wolitzer brilliantly renders the intimate details of ordinary life and exposes a host of hidden truths. The Doctor’s Daughter is a haunting portrait of a woman coming to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory. One morning, Alice Brill awakes with a sudden awareness that something is wrong. There’s a hollowness in her chest, and a sensation of dread that she can’t identify or shake. Was it something she’s done, or forgotten to do? As she scours her mind for the source of her unease, she confronts an array of disturbing possibilities. First, there is her marriage, a once vibrant relationship that now languishes stasis. Then there’s her idle, misdirected younger son, who always needs bailing out of some difficulty. Or perhaps Alice’s trepidation is caused by the loss of her career as an editor at a large publishing house, and the new path she’s paved for herself as a freelance book doctor. Or it might be the real doctor in her life: her father. Formerly one of New York’s top surgeons, he now rests in a nursing home, his mind gripped by dementia. And the Eden that was Alice’s childhood–the material benefits and reflected glory of being a successful doctor’s daughter, the romance of her parents’ famously perfect marriage–makes her own domestic life seem fatally flawed. While struggling to find the root of her restlessness, Alice is buoyed by her discovery of a talented new writer, a man who works by day as a machinist in Michigan. Soon their interactions and feelings intensify, and Alice realizes that the mystery she’s been trying to solve lies not in the present, as she had assumed, but in the past–and in the secrets of a marriage that was never as perfect as it appeared. Like the best works of Anne Tyler, Sue Miller, and Gail Godwin, The Doctor’s Daughter is private yet universal, luminous and revelatory–and marks the reemergence of a singular talent in American writing.

Author : Allan Ahlberg
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0140323465

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Illustrated by Faith Jaques

Author : Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593355343

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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. “This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy reimagining of a classic story with vivid descriptions of lush jungles and feminist themes. Some light romance threads through the heavier ethical questions concerning humanity.”—Library Journal (starred review) “The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder, restless and romantic, fearless in the face of genre, embracing the polarities of storytelling—the sleek and the bizarre, wild passions and deep hatreds—with cool equanimity.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Polygon, Tordotcom, Paste, CrimeReads, Booklist Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. The hybrids: The fruits of the doctor’s labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. A motley group of part human, part animal monstrosities. All of them live in a perfectly balanced and static world, which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Dr. Moreau’s patron, who will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction. For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and, in the sweltering heat of the jungle, passions may ignite. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is both a dazzling historical novel and a daring science fiction journey.

Author : Sophie May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Children of physicians
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1LVF

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The Doctor's Daughter by Sophie May Pdf

This first novel in the author's "Quinnebasset Girls" series, set in Quinnebasset, Maine, follows the trials and tribulations of high-spirited Marian (the titular doctor's daughter) and her more melancholy friend Judith.

Author : Audrey Blake
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728228761

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The Surgeon's Daughter by Audrey Blake Pdf

SheReads Best Historical Fiction Of Summer 2022! "This is an intense, suspenseful, and insightful read about the challenges both women and doctors faced in the 19th century...Our heroine rises to the challenge with courage and determination." —Historical Novel Society From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow comes a riveting historical fiction novel about the women in medicine who changed the world forever. Women's work is a matter of life and death. Nora Beady, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna, is a rarity. In the 19th century women are expected to remain at home and raise children, so her unconventional, indelicate ambitions to become a licensed surgeon offend the men around her. Everything changes when she allies herself with Magdalena Morenco, the sole female doctor on-staff. Together the two women develop new techniques to improve a groundbreaking surgery: the Cesarean section. It's a highly dangerous procedure and the research is grueling, but even worse is the vitriolic response from men. Most don't trust the findings of women, and many can choose to deny their wives medical care. Already facing resistance on all sides, Nora is shaken when she meets a patient who will die without the surgery. If the procedure is successful, her work could change the world. But a failure could cost everything: precious lives, Nora's career, and the role women will be allowed to play in medicine. Perfect for book clubs and for fans of Marie Benedict, Tracey Enerson Wood, and Sarah Penner comes a captivating celebration of women healthcare workers throughout history.

Author : James Bow
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fantasy fiction, Canadian
ISBN : 9781443139137

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Icarus Down by James Bow Pdf

Earth's survivors cling to life on an unforgiving, distant planet, next to the sun! Three generations after the crash of the colony ship Icarus, Iapyx is barely hanging on: one of thirteen cities suspended halfway down deep chasms. The sun on the diamond lands above will kill a man in less than five minutes. The ticktock monsters in the fog forest below are a little slower -- but quite a bit smarter. An electromagnetic wash has disabled the computers, the radios, even the lightbulbs. It's the steam and clockwork age reborn: a careful society, rationed and stratified. Which suits Simon Daud just fine. Simon likes the rules, and knows his place -- in the shadow of his older brother, Isaac. All he wants is to earn his wings as an ornithopter pilot and get to work in the flight bays. But on his final test flight, something goes wrong. Isaac is killed. Simon is burned; his body will never be the same. Neither will his world. Not everything in Iapyx is quite as it seems, and through his rehabilitation Simon falls into the middle of a conspiracy that will bring everything he's ever known to the ground. Down in the fog forest, monsters await -- but so does the truth . . . if Simon can survive long enough to find it.

Author : Diana Walstad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0967377390

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Family History (1860-1950) of a Doctor's Daughter by Diana Walstad Pdf

This non-fiction, family history narrative should appeal to a general audience. Story begins with the emigration of my eight great-grandparents from northern Europe and ends with my parents during World War II. It intertwines highlights from each character's life story against a historical backdrop--immigration in general, homesteading in Nebraska, oil drilling in 1915 Burma, the 1946 shipping of "war brides" to America, etc. In describing the lives of my ancestors, I bring up sociological and public health topics--maternal mortality, pre-marital sex, tuberculosis, alcoholism, sibling rivalry, dating in the 1920s, problems of stepmothers, etc. I have used family members to illustrate the human condition and produce a riveting story. I believe it will inspire, educate, and entertain.

Author : Rebecca Sophia Clarke,Sophie May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : OCLC:191236146

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The Doctor's Daughter by Rebecca Sophia Clarke,Sophie May Pdf

Author : Lilian Garis
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066060923

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Barbara Hale: A Doctor's Daughter by Lilian Garis Pdf

A teenage girl is fascinated by science like her doctor father. He wants her to spend some time having a 'girly' summer before she starts serious study. He sends her to Italy and there Barbara's adventure begins.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429931113

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Pdf

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.

Author : Miho Tomoi,CATHERINE SPENCER
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596023452

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THE DOCTOR'S SECRET CHILD by Miho Tomoi,CATHERINE SPENCER Pdf

What will become of this unwanted reunion? She never thought she’d ever meet the man who broke her heart eleven years ago again… After Dan broke up with her and her father abandoned her, Molly left her hometown and raised her daughter alone in Seattle. But when she receives news of her father’s death and her mother’s injury, she returns home. When she visits her mother in the hospital, she’s shocked to find out that Dan is her mother’s doctor! Can Molly hide the truth about her daughter from him?

Author : Janice P. Nimura
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780393635553

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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."

Author : Judith Bowen
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459253421

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The Doctor's Daughter by Judith Bowen Pdf

MEN OF GLORY A cowboy town in a cowboy country. This is a place a woman could love. These are men a woman could love! Virginia Lake left town more than a decade ago—after a memorable night with a man her parents forbade her to see. Lucas Yellowfly, they said, was a troublemaker. Off-limits. Half-Native American and from the wrong side of town, he wasn't good enough for Dr. and Mrs. Lake. But now…everything's changed. Now Lucas is a successful lawyer in Glory. Practically a pillar of society. And now Virginia's back, a single mother with a five-year-old son. She's looking for a job—and Lucas finds he needs someone with exactly her qualifications. Because he's always been half in love with the doctor's daughter. He's finally got the chance to convince her that this man from Glory will make a good husband…and a good father. Her reasons for marrying him might have more to do with need than with love, but things can change. Who knows that better than Lucas Yellowfly.

Author : '''Vera''
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1437852793

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The Doctor's Daughter by '''Vera'' Pdf

Author : Disha Mangal
Publisher : StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789391116156

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The Doctor's Daughter by Disha Mangal Pdf

The story of the pandemic narrated by a doctor's daughter. For the common people, the pandemic meant being locked in their rooms, houseful homes, family time, and news getting worse, but for a family of doctors, it was totally different. From knowing scary stories from the inside of the hospitals to the risk of getting exposed to the virus, from prayers to no family time, from being denied proper weapons for the war to staying compassionate. The pandemic surely hit the families of the "Corona Warriors" in a different manner. Illustrating the same is the narrative of a child from a family of warriors.