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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves—which is strange, because she wasn’t...
102) Broken bonds
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When Chris Breck comes to Mercy Hospital in search of answers regarding his family tree, his mother's dear friend Joy is there to help! Chris desperately needs a kidney transplant, but the cousin who volunteered to donate one turns out to be genetically unrelated to him. In fact, even though DNA evidence shows that Chris is his father's biological child, he is not related to his father's parents. Chris's grandmother insists she gave birth to Chris's...
103) Pighearted
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In alternate chapters, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, who has a fatal heart condition, and J6, the pig growing the heart that could save his life, give their own perspectives on being a transplant donor and donee. Includes facts about the research project on which the story is based.
106) Between friends
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Ali Gutierrez, yearning for a second child, asks her friend Cora's permission to use another of her frozen embryos, but discovers a secret that could change her plans for the future and tear her life apart.
107) The secret
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear. Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She...
108) Irreplaceable
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
On a windy April afternoon, a young woman bicycles along a stretch of Iowa highway, hurrying to get home in time for dinner ... So begins this story about two families whose lives intersect forever in the aftermath of a tragic accident.
109) Borrowed: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"As seventeen-year-old Linnea celebrates the first anniversary of her heart transplant, she can't escape the feeling that the wires have been crossed. After a series of unsettling dreams, inked messages mysteriously appear on her body, and she starts to wonder if this new heart belongs to her at all. In another Austin neighborhood, Maxine braces for a heartbreaking anniversary: her sister Harper's death. Between raising her brothers and parenting...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives--what she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart,...
112) Saving Sarah
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"When her daughter desperately needed a lung transplant to survive, Janet Murnaghan rallied against the outdated restrictions in healthcare that would limit her daughter's options. Sarah had been dying of cystic fibrosis since the day she was born. The disease quickly ravaged her lungs and little body bit-by-bit. Fragile and frail, she had only weeks to live, when her mom realized the reality of Sarah's situation: transplant laws, restricting access...
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