Frank Carlson Library

Plastic surgeon Gareth Lloyd splits his time between repairing accident victims at local hospitals and trying-largely in vain-to persuade his private patients in a Los Angeles suburb to have the kind of expensive nips and tucks so popular in Beverly Hills. Divorced, behind in his support payments for his two daughters, and about to turn 40, Lloyd's main connection to the glamorous side of plastic surgery is the affair he has just ended with the wife...

Doctor Peter Branstead's neurology department at St. Mark's Hospital in New York's picturesque Greenwich Village is flooded with a series of critically ill vagrants exhibiting identical symptoms. Confused and agitated upon admission, they rapidly progress into convulsions, cardiac arrest, and death. The deaths are too methodical to be a coincidence, but how-and why-are they being killed? Peter's investigation leads him into a dark underworld of...

Virus Thirteen is an irreverent and contagious thriller from debut author Joshua Alan Parry. Scientists James Logan and his wife, Linda, have their dream careers at the world's leading biotech company, GeneFirm, Inc. But, their happiness is interrupted by a devastating bioterrorist attack: a deadly superflu that quickly becomes a global pandemic. The GeneFirm complex goes into lockdown and Linda's research team is sent to high-security underground...

Hard-working, second year pediatric resident Dr. Egan is chronically exhausted, as are most residents at Malloy Medical Center, a very busy New York CIty hospital that is humming with activity 24 hours a day and renowned for both its transplant service and in vitro fertilization clinic. One day Egan is woken at 3 AM to see a baby who has arrived in the emergency room with early signs of bacterial meningitis. Despite Egan's frantic efforts, the baby...

Washington DC-and terror in an isolated government-sanctioned medical laboratory as the potential of medicine goes horrifyingly wrong. When Susan, a young researcher, loses her fiancée in a terrible accident, she is seduced by Michael, a friend and the head doctor on a top-secret neurometric project backed by the White House and the famed Borg-Harrison Foundation. Joining Michael's team, Susan is unaware of the terrible danger she faces in the high-security...

Angela, Bill's lover, is acutely ill in the emergency department at the academic hospital where they both work. He is the successful and influential academic surgeon with the aristocratic family pedigree. She is the nurse from an immigrant Italian family. She knows too much, and she could ruin his reputation. She needs emergency surgery. She has no choice but to trust him with her life. What if something were to happen during her surgery? What...

Destroyed Lives. A Mysterious Death. And a Cover-Up That Impacts the World The daughter of drug-addicted parents, Amy Spenser has amazingly grown into an intelligent, compassionate, and drug-free young woman. Her passion is helping those in need, in-between checking on her welfare abusing parents to be sure they haven't died from an overdose. Her research to find new ways of treating illnesses using the "God-given" properties of plants takes a...

"A mysterious illness with disturbing symptoms is plaguing women across the United States. It begins with memory loss and confusion and ends with the patient falling into a coma. Medical professionals are at a loss for the cause, but one thing remains constant: All of the victims are pregnant. Called in to consult on the case of his best friend's wife, neurologist Jack Wyatt has never seen anything like it. Now, with the nation on the brink of panic,...