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Author
Series
Sparrow sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When her herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, and Granite Point is consumed by a long-buried fear, healer Patience Sparrow must find a way to turn the tide and return life to this seaside New England hamlet with the help of the town's women.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1910, rural healer Perliett VanHilton is targeted by a superstitious killer and must rely on the local doctor and an intriguing newcomer for help. Over a century later, Molly Wasziak is pulled into a web of deception surrounding an old farmhouse. Will these women's voices be heard, or will time silence their truths forever?"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia....
6) The outsider
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Living on a tiny island, Summer Van Vorn takes on the role of healer, much as her mother and grandmother did before her, until the arrival of Cameron Divine, a mysterious man of extraordinary ability, intrudes into her peaceful and solitary existence.
Author
Series
Healer novels volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan absorbs their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Fifteen Realms, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos. Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture....
Author
Series
Healer novels volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Coming out of hiding to find her sister and repair their estrangement, and to stop King Tohon from winning control of the Realms, Avry of Kazan, the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, must support Tohon's opponents by teaching them forest skills and destroying an army of the walking dead.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Two-thousand years ago, there was a great bay and a peaceful land filled with sage, citrus trees, and pine. And, there was a tribe called the Topaa. Marimi, a healer in her tribe, is unprepared for what fate holds in store for her. Without her knowledge, her actions place her under the watchful, suspicious gaze of a rival...and Marimi's family is placed under a curse that impacts how their legacy unfolds. From prehistoric California to the days of...
Author
Series
Healer novels volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Skeleton King plots to claim the Fifteen Realms for his own. With armies in disarray and the dead not staying down, Avry's healing powers are needed now more than ever. But now her heart-mate, Kerrick, is missing, and Avry fears he's gone forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable heroine of The hummingbird's daughter returns in this epic novel of love and loss in a restless America. Teresita's passage will take her across the nation as she comes to terms with her place in a new world. She must finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?
12) Bohemian Gospel
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an angel. Even Mouse doesn't know who -- or what -- she is. But she means to find out. When young King Ottakar shows up at the Abbey wounded by a traitor's arrow, Mouse breaks church law to save him and then agrees to accompany him back to Prague as his personal healer....
13) Cypress Point
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Joelle's best friend Mara Summers suffers a brain damaging aneurysm while giving birth. Joelle helps Mara's spouse Liam cope but soon falls in love with him. One night they lose control and make love. To her shock, after failing to become pregnant with her former husband who has since sired a baby with another woman, Joelle is expecting.
14) Hallowed bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Booth Delaney is both a Southern lady and a skilled detective, but her latest case takes her into the murky world of New Orleans where motives for murder, and a list of suspects, are numerous.
Author
Publisher
Worthy Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a cholera epidemic sweeps through London, Irish healer and accused murderer Rachel Dunne feels compelled to nurse the dying daughter of the enigmatic physician she has come to love. James Edmunds, wearied by the deaths of too many patients, has his own doubts about God's grace. Together, they will have to face their darkest fears ... and learn what it means to have real faith.
16) Healer
Author
Series
Brides of Alba volume 1
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Her mother's dying prophecy to the chieftain Tarlach O'Byrne sentenced Brenna of Gowrys to twenty years of hiding. Twenty years of being hunted--by the O'Byrnes, who fear the prophecy, and by her kinsmen, who expect her to lead them against their oppressors. But Brenna is a trained and gifted healer, not a warrior queen, so she lives alone in the wilderness with only her pet wolf for company. When she rescues a man badly wounded from an ambush, she...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: An illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner's tyrannical laws. Nathaniel Fremont, the Commissioner's son, has never had to fear the law. Determined to earn his father's respect, Nathaniel sets out to capture the Technician. But the more he learns about the outlaw, the more...
18) Witches: a novel
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma.
Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and...
20) Pleasured
Author
Series
Secrets of the loch volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When his daughter falls gravely ill, Damon, the Earl of Mardoun, turns to the village healer, Meg, for help, and as she nurses his beloved daughter back to health, he loses his heart to the proud beauty and must choose between marrying for duty and marrying for love.
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