Noah Gordon
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A portrait of a talented and courageous woman physician who stares at her reflection in the glass ceiling, and decides to seek and find a more meaningful life. Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an...
3) The rabbi
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Traces into middle age the career of a rabbi from New York who marries the daughter of a Protestant minister, and tells of his varying degrees of success in his calling.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Eleventh-century England and Persia are the backgrounds of this story of an orphan named Rob Cole, who is apprenticed to a travelling barber-surgeon and, discovering in himself a gift for healing, decides to study medicine with the legendary Avicenna.
5) The last Jew
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The Great Expulsion of 1492 provides the backdrop for this novel of holocaust that follows a thirteen-year-old Spanish Jew named Yonah as he tries to avoid the Inquisition.
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
20200130
Language
English
Description
At Suffolk County General Hospital, three brilliant young men are brought together by their ambition and dedication to life. But they work in the shadow of the Death Committee, a formidable hospital tribunal where doctors sit in judgment of their peers, deciding who is to blame for preventable deaths.