Lamar Public Library

When two children find an injured duck and take it to a veterinarian at an animal hospital, they learn about the work of the hospital and of the doctor as she cares for the duck and other animals.

Three young doctor--their hopes, their dreams, their unexpected de-sires. Each one is confronted by something which challenges them to look inside, at themselves and their beliefs.

After the conclusion of the film Split, David Dunn pursues the Beast, which is Kevin Crumb's superhuman personality. The encounters with the Beast escalate as Elijah Price materializes as an orchestrator who knows critical secrets about both Dunn and Crumb.

Jennifer Hernandez is a medical student who hears a news report on medical tourism: first-world citizens traveling to third-world countries for surgery. Then she hears her grandmother's name: Maria Hernandez has died after a hip replacement in New Delhi. That Maria traveled to India is a shock to Jennifer, until she realizes it was the only viable option for the uninsured woman. Jennifer heads to India and presses for more information. With two more...

Reminiscent of "Cold Mountain" and "Enemy Women," Robert Hicks' gripping debut novel, based on the incredible true story of Carrie McGavock--a woman whose life was forever changed by the Civil War--is exquisitely packaged with endpapers and compelling interior photographs.

"Through a happy song and positive illustrations, kids learn that medical professionals are there to help them feel better and stay healthy""--

Honour Langtry, a nurse in a World War II mental ward, becomes attracted to one of her patients with devastating results.

A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.

In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees, while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.

Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.