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A Fever of the Blood

Author : Oscar de Muriel

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 24,92 MB

Release : 2017-04-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1681773937

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New Year's Day, 1889.In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray and Londoner-in-exile Inspector Ian Frey.Before the murder, the suspect was heard in whispered conversation with a fellow patient—a girl who had been mute for years. What made her suddenly break her silence? And why won't she talk again? Could the rumours about black magic be more than superstition?McGray and Frey track a devious psychopath far beyond their jurisdiction, through the worst blizzard in living memory, into the shadow of Pendle Hill—home of the Lancashire witches—where unimaginable danger awaits.



Blood Fever

Author : Charlie Higson

Publisher : Puffin

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,80 MB

Release : 2012-04-05

Category : Bond, James (Fictitious character)

ISBN : 9780141343389

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James Bond has discovered danger. Now it's come looking for him. An Eton boy's family disappears at sea. James uncovers a shadowy society operating in a hidden corner of the school. And far from England, in the bandit-infested interior of Sardinia, a sinister Italian count has built himself a mountain fortress. Is there a connection? Young Bond is about to find out - and face a lethal group of villains beneath the burning Mediterranean sun.



Blood Fever

Author : Kyle Cicero

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 20,94 MB

Release : 2007-09

Category : Erotic stories, American

ISBN : 9781934625194

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A series of tales where tops become bottoms, macho jocks become submissive, the internet holds hidden sexual dangers, mind control rules and players get played. Stars sexy men from sports players to military men to werewolves and vampires.





Bloodfever

Author : Karen Marie Moning

Publisher : Delacorte Press

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 21,70 MB

Release : 2007-10-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0440337224

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In the second book of the Fever series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning, MacKayla Lane plunges into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets. “Delectably dark and sexy.”—Chicago Tribune In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh—a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable that holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins and surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V’lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious. For centuries the world of the Fae has existed with in the shadows of that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them. Karen Marie Moning’s explosive Fever series continues DARKFEVER • BLOODFEVER • FAEFEVER • DREAMFEVER • SHADOWFEVER • ICED • BURNED • FEVERBORN • FEVERSONG • HIGH VOLTAGE • KINGDOM OF SHADOW AND LIGHT



Blood and Germs

Author : Gail Jarrow

Publisher : Astra Publishing House

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 45,31 MB

Release : 2020-10-13

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1635923344

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Acclaimed author Gail Jarrow, recipient of a 2019 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award, explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses. The Civil War took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and left countless others with disabling wounds and chronic illnesses. Bullets and artillery shells shattered soldiers' bodies, while microbes and parasites killed twice as many men as did the battles. Yet from this tragic four-year conflict came innovations that enhanced medical care in the United States. With striking detail, this nonfiction book reveals battlefield rescues, surgical techniques, medicines, and patient care, celebrating the men and women of both the North and South who volunteered to save lives.



Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

Author : Holly Tucker

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 20,22 MB

Release : 2011-03-21

Category : Science

ISBN : 0393080420

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"Excellent…Tucker’s chronicle of the world of 17th-century science in London and Paris is fascinating." —The Economist In December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf’s blood into one of Paris’s most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and Denis was framed for murder. A riveting exposé of the fierce debates, deadly politics, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first transfusion experiments, Blood Work takes us from dissection rooms in palaces to the streets of Paris, providing an unforgettable portrait of an era that wrestled with the same questions about morality and experimentation that haunt medical science today.



Blood of My Blood

Author : Barry Lyga

Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 28,70 MB

Release : 2014-09-09

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0316333492

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The final book in this thrilling, terrifying series by New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga is perfect for fans of Dexter. Jazz Dent has been shot and left to die in New York City. His girlfriend Connie is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy. And his best friend Howie is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod. Somehow, these three must rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy. But then Jazz crosses a line he's never crossed before, and soon the entire country is wondering: "Like father, like son?" Who is the true monster? The chase is on, and beyond Billy there lurks something much, much worse. Prepare to meet...the Crow King.



Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children

Author : World Health Organization

Publisher : World Health Organization

Page : 442 pages

File Size : 30,20 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9241548371

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The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.



Blood of the Dawn

Author : Claudia Salazar Jiménez

Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing

Page : 78 pages

File Size : 34,18 MB

Release : 2016-11-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1941920438

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This novel follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what’s known as “the time of fear” in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the armed conflict in the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.