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The Plague Tales

By: "Benson, Ann"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dell:

Seller ID: 9780440225102

ISBN: 0440225108

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

"Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense."--Entertainment Weekly

It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague.

In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on ...
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Texas-Sized Trouble (Cattlemen Crime Club)

By: "Han, Barb"

Price: $2.85

Publisher: Harlequin:

Seller ID: 9781335720795

ISBN: 1335720790

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A Texas reunion turns old rivals into soon-to-be parents For as long as the O'Briens have run their ranch, their rivals have been the McCabes. So when Ryder O'Brien returns home to his brothers, only one thing can screw things up: getting involved with Faith McCabe. There's no temptation greater in Texas, and Ryder is about to pay the price for their forbidden fling. Because just as their passion ignites, Faith up and leaves...only to return five months later, seeking Ryder's help finding her missing brother--and pregnant with Ryder's baby. Ryder O'Brien may hav...
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For Baby's Sake (Billionaires and Babies)

By: "Maynard, Janice"

Price: $2.60

Publisher: Harlequin:

Seller ID: 9780373734740

ISBN: 0373734743

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

His ex inherited a baby--and she needs his help Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard James Kavanagh is rich and sexy as sin, but his workaholic neighbor Lila Baxter has been there, done that--and has the heartbreak to prove it. They've avoided each other since their affair ended, but now she's brought home a baby. He's clearly the last man Lila wants to ask for help. But she knows nothing about babies, and James is a born family man. When one offer of help leads to another, they're soon under the same roof. Almost...
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Security Surgeon (Operation Secret)

By: "Mitchell, Kerry"

Price: $6.08

Publisher: NY, Dell (#7848): 1970

Seller ID: 53P046

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"A brilliant, young plastic surgeon is drawn in to a top-secret conspiracy. As new, except for slight tilt."
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Extreme Measures: A Novel

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553295771

ISBN: 0553295772

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules.

But Eric has already seen too much. A missing corpse. An unspeakable mutilation. A brutal abduction. It's only the beginning of a plot of terrifying evil. A sinister plan the group will stop at nothing to hide. And if Eric refuses to become their colleague--he wi...
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Flashback

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam Books:

Seller ID: 9780553273298

ISBN: 0553273299

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Miracle Cure

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553576627

ISBN: 0553576623

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well....

After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he's been chosen to join the medical team testing a new miracle drug. The initial results are so promising that Brian pushes to get his father--who suffers from a dangerous heart condition--accepted into the study.

But Brian is beginning to suspect his superiors are hiding something. Why are crucial records disappearing? Why did ...
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Silent Treatment

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam Books:

Seller ID: 9780553572216

ISBN: 0553572210

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill....

With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next day, Dr. Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation. In recent weeks Evie, never qu...
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The Society

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553583625

ISBN: 055358362X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision--a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society.

At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She's not the first to die--nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and th...
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The Second Opinion

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks:

Seller ID: 9780312937768

ISBN: 0312937768

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Struck down by a hit-and-run driver, one of the world's most respected doctors lies comatose in the ICU unit of Boston's Beaumont Clinic. No one thinks he will survive. Two of his children believe treatment should be stopped. But his daughter Thea refuses to give up hope--and begins to suspect a cover-up. As a brilliant physician who left the hospital to work with the poor, Thea knows all too well the hidden agendas and personal conflicts that lurk beneath the surface of an elite medical center. When a late-night hospital intruder is identified as a professional killer, Thea is convinced he...
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The Last Surgeon

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks:

Seller ID: 9780312587505

ISBN: 0312587503

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

Surgeon Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is constantly on the lookout for his best friend who was recruited for a secret military mission four years ago, never to be seen again. Then there's the case of Belle Coates, an ICU nurse who appears to have killed herself...but left a subtle clue for her sister, Jillian, that connects her with Nick.

Now it's up to Nick and Jillian, a psychiatric nurse, to find out what really ha...
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"Final Procedure, The"

By: "Pottinger, Stanley"

Price: $1.75

Seller ID: 9780312997250

ISBN: 0312997256

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Procedure delivers a breathtaking thriller--a story of genetic engineering used for unimaginable evil. Martin's Press.
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"Fourth Procedure, The"

By: "Pottinger, Stanley"

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 9780345402301

ISBN: 0345402308

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Cobra Event

By: "Preston, Richard"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books:

Seller ID: 9780345409973

ISBN: 0345409973

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"A PAGE-TURNER . . . THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENING."
--Newsweek

"ENORMOUSLY ENTERTAINING."
--The New York Times Book Review

"THIS BOOK SCARED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ME. . . . Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility."
--Entertainment Weekly

Five days ago, a homeless man on a subway platform died in agony as startled commuters looked on. Yesterday, a teenager started having violent, uncontrollable spasms in art class. Within minutes, she too was dead.

Dr. Alice Austen is a medical pathologist at t...
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Isolation Ward

By: "Spanogle, Joshua"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Dell:

Seller ID: 9780440242284

ISBN: 0440242282

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Straight out of today's hospitals and labs-and tomorrow's headlines-comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time...as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too late....

In Baltimore's St. Raphael's Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among society's most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimore's group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no...
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Critical Condition (Signet)

By: "Stearn, Martha"

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Signet:

Seller ID: 9780451175854

ISBN: 0451175859

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Implant

By: "Wilson, F. Paul"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Tor Books:

Seller ID: 9780812544701

ISBN: 0812544706

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Young doctor Gina Panzella has known her boss, plastic surgeon Dr. Duncan Lathram, almost her entire life, and respects him deeply. Charming and brilliant, Duncan has invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. Duncan's artistry in the operation room is the salvationof Washington's biggest power players whenever they need touch-ups for C-Span.
But there are a few things about Duncan that Gina can't quite figure out. Why did he trade vascular surgery for the more profitable but less vital plastic surgery, and why won't he accept his patients' medical insura...
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