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Best friends Fiction Donation of organs, tissues, etc Fiction Friendship Fiction Heart Transplantation Fiction Life on other planets Comic books, strips, etc Sale of organs, tissues, etc Fiction Science fiction Space warfare Comic books, strips, etc Star Wars fiction Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc FictionWright, John C. (John Charles)
Summary: Texas gunslinger and genius Menelaus Illation Montrose is awakened from cryo-suspension to harness developing forces of evolution and social engineering to counter a threat against another historical period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GENECO, a biotech company that offer organ transplants-- for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession-- and hunted by the Repo man!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR REPDimaline, Cherie
Summary: "In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dancing Cat Books 2017
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DIMCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMSolomon, Rachel Lynn
Summary: Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein, eighteen, wonders if seventeen-year-old Peter Rosenthal-Porter, gifted pianist, best friend, and secret crush, will love her back after receiving her kidney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SOLSoyinka, Wole
Summary: "A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison) In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SOYReed, Jaime
Summary: Janelle Pruitt is into activism and causes, her former best friend Alyssa is just into herself and her "group" of self-absorbed teenagers; but then Alyssa collapses, and it turns out that diabetes has ravaged her body as badly as the recent hurricane ravaged their town and now she is in urgent need of a kidney transplant--Janelle signs up for the donor program, but when it turns out that she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: When a New York journalist suffers a horrible accident--his left hand eaten by a lion while reporting on a story from India--witnessed by millions on television, viewers rally to help him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRVIshiguro, Kazuo
Summary: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: While the federal government is launching a national investigation on the equity of organ distribution, a female tech CEO flies across the country to get a liver transplant. Soon, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend, Jackie, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEEWhaley, John Corey.
Summary: After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WHAIshiguro, Kazuo
Summary: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ISHDimaline, Cherie
Summary: French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DIMSummary: Ken Kaneki is a loner. In a world where ghouls, human-like creatures who survive on human flesh, and people are at war, his biggest concern is which novel to pick up next. But when a date with the mysterious Rize turns deadly, a life-saving operation horrifyingly transforms him into a human-ghoul hybrid. Can he find his place in a society where it₂s hunt or be hunted?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME TOKMunson, Ronald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.25 MUNCleave, Paul
Summary: "Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. It's taken loved ones from him, it's robbed him of his eyesight, and it's the reason why his father is killed while investigating the homicide of a young woman. Joshua is handed an opportunity he can't refuse: an operation that will allow him to see the world through his father's eyes. As Joshua navigates a world of sight, he gets glimpses of what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEMezrich, Joshua D.
Summary: A transplant surgeon discusses the pioneers, science, and ethical challenges of organ transplantation as well as the ways that organ transplants have revolutionized medical care, and offers illuminating stories of his own patients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEZRICH, JOSHUA D MEZSharpe, Tess
Summary: Penny and Tate have often clashed, despite their mothers' epic friendship; but now that they are living in the same house, beset by medical crises and Penny's problems dealing with the trauma of her father's death, they have to come to terms with their true feelings for each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHAMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MacHatvany, Amy
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PALDavis, Tanita S.
Summary: "After her best friend, JC, has a kidney transplant, Serena feels that they are falling out of touch, especially as JC makes a new best friend in the hospital"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAVPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Shay Bourne shattered June Nealon's life when he murdered her husband and daughter. Now, as New Hampshire's first death row inmate in 58 years, his last request is one he believes might bring him salvation. Shay wants to donate his heart to June's other, ailing daughter. But since he is scheduled for lethal injection, this not possible. Further complications arise when Shay begins performing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICCook, Robin
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller.</strong> When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOAaron, Jason
Summary: Although the rebels successfully completed their mission on Cymoon 1, Luke Skywalker now recognizes the power of the Force and realizes he has much more to learn before becoming a true Jedi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO/Spotlight 2017