Showing results for "Doctors" in Christian Fiction

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man.

Honorably discharged from the Army after an explosion nearly killed her, former military psychiatrist Brooke Adams has set up shop to help others - but her days of helping military personnel are over. She's got her own battles to fight from her time overseas, and she's not equipped to take on more. Former Army Special Ops Sergeant First Class Asher James could handle anything war sent his way - terrorists, bombs, bullets. The only thing that scares him now is sleep. Finally convinced that he needs help, Asher makes an appointment with a counselor.

The Only Answer to Success contains a proven formula for changing your mind-set to that of a true “champion”. Based on thousands of hours of research and personal experience, Dr. Leonard Coldwell has come up with a proven way to retrain your mind to achieve any goal or get through any challenge with zero stress. He will systematically show you how to change the subconscious negative mind programming that is eating away your drive and enthusiasm.

Priscilla White knows she'll never be a wife or mother and feels God's call to the mission field in India. Dr. Eli Ernest is back from Oregon Country only long enough to raise awareness of missions to the natives before heading out West once more. But then Priscilla and Eli both receive news from the mission board: No longer will they send unmarried men and women into the field. Left scrambling for options, the two realize the other might be the answer to their needs.

As a successful neurosurgeon about to propose to his gorgeous girlfriend, Ryan Harper has the perfect life. When his sister and brother-in-law die in a tragic car accident, he suddenly becomes a single dad to his orphaned niece and nephews. A 60-hour workweek with a houseful of children is a lot to juggle, and he desperately needs help. When Destiny Brown finds herself out of work, she takes a job as a temporary live-in nanny. Despite her lack of experience, she’s certain she can handle four kids. Fighting her attraction to her boss, however, is going to require some extra training.

As a midwife running her own home birth practice, Audrey Novak deals with pressure like a superhuman. Until, that is, she meets her handsome and arrogant neighbor, Dr. Ammon Parker. Ammon, who believes only in modern medicine, is just as unprepared for the infuriating - and inconveniently beautiful - midwife. When the two are repeatedly called to the same labor and delivery unit, their clashing ideals and fiercely independent personalities threaten to derail both their professional goals and their pride.

Unlike other women her age, Anna MacDonald has never set much hope on finding herself a husband. Far more important is the task of finding a position of employment...in a society that is untrusting of female doctors, that has proven challenging so far, to say the least. So, Anna resigns herself to replying to a collection of advertisements from men seeking mail-order brides. Who knows? Maybe one of them might even live in a town that would welcome her as a doctor. But what man would ever want a wife who places her career above family?

Cowboy Maxwell White has dreamed of being a doctor for years. But with two years to go on his medical degree and with no money to continue his education, he's back in Bear Creek, Wyoming, working part-time for the local doc. He's drawn to the doctor's beautiful, intelligent daughter, but she doesn't seem to want anything to do with him - and the shyness he's never quite overcome has him tongue-tied.

Nurse practitioner Cesca Ampah has a strict no men, no relationships, no marriage policy. That is why she moved 500 miles away from home to a new city. She is focused on building her career and putting her life back on track. She needs life to get back to the way it was before her high school sweetheart ended their long engagement and broke her heart. The last thing she wants is romance! Dr. Zadok Cho is a handsome surgeon and a hopeless romantic. He's also Cesca's new co-worker and he’s convinced Cesca is the woman he's been looking for.

HEROES CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. Mike seems to fail at everything, feels useless, and is finally sinking into despair. To avoid dragging his wife into the abyss he sees before him, he leaves her, planning to separate from his former life. Knocked out during a fight in an alley, he wakes up to find himself in a strange new world -- a world that desperately needs him. Renamed Richard, a legendary hero from their histories, he must try to save an entire world by finding the effective, powerful man that he was meant to be.

Miriam Bryant has always dreamed of leaving the never-ending work of her family's remote mountain ranch to travel abroad as a genteel lady. She's thrilled when the opportunity finally arises, but a gruesome hunting accident crushes her plans, leaving her stranded for weeks in a mining town. The single bright spot in her disappointment comes in the form of this mountain town's newest doctor. Fresh out of medical school, Alex Donaghue is excited to join his brother's practice and prove himself in the mining town of Butte, in Montana Territory.

A doctor stumbling through life. A North Korean bioterrorist plot. The two collide in an unforgettable tale. Dr. Nicklaus Hart, a gifted trauma surgeon, searches for meaning in his life. His self-reliant spirit is broken with the death of his missionary best friend, found sacrificed at the base of a Maya Temple. Going to Guatemala to fill the shoes of his friend at the mission hospital, he discovers God’s redemption and peace in the smiles of the children he cares for. But his own life is in danger as he and his team stumble onto a deadly North Korean plot.

Po' Man Ain't Got Not Much Say explores the life of fictional character, Mr. Silas Riverton, whose moral roots were bound by the teachings of the church. Unbeknownst to him and many years later, it will be proven how those teachings were not so well received in his heart. As he journeys through life, what he had heard in church countless times throughout his life thus far will now be tested against an ultimate revelation that exposes something totally unexpected, and even more so unbelievable about his personal walk of faith.

As the oddball in the family and the eldest daughter of a renowned doctor, Gina has always wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. The men around her refuse to accept her ambitions and hard-earned qualifications, and Gina knows she will never achieve her dream in a small-minded society like Richmond, Virginia.

When Dr. Kellan Webb is offered the opportunity to trade in his job at a fancy city hospital and take over the small practice in his hometown, he's overjoyed. Working one-on-one with patients and raising his son close to his family will more than make up for the pay cut. And Kellan always has a plan for the future. Sure, his brothers might tease him for being so serious all the time, but Kellan knows there's nothing funny about shouldering his responsibilities like a man. Then, a beautiful young pregnant woman arrives at his house in the middle of the night.

As leader of a special military unit charged with stopping potential pandemics before they spread, Haggerty has a front-row seat for the sharp increase in natural disasters that precede the Rapture--including plagues, earthquakes, famines, wars, and rumors of war. And each crisis is becoming more intense.

What could be more pleasant than a short break on the Algarve with a group of friends? But, when the wheelchair on which he depends is damaged in flight, DCI Jonah Porter wishes that he had never come. Relationships are stretched to breaking point as his frustrations mount. Then a guest falls from the balcony of a neighboring apartment and foul play is suspected. With a puzzling case to solve, Jonah is back in his element.

As a female doctor in a world where superstition is common, Greta has had to fight against the ignorance of both strangers and her family in order to fulfill her dreams. From being dubbed a witch doctor who practices voodoo to facing the disapproval of her parents—even after she has earned her degree and established a medical practice of her own, Greta knows that her only chance to be taken seriously will come from starting over someplace new. So, when she finds Nate’s advertisement for a mail-order bride, Greta is hopeful that she may have finally found that chance.

When the bursar of Lichfield College is found strangled in an Oxford hotel, detective chief inspector Jonah Porter rapidly concludes that the killer is one of the nine college staff attending a meeting there, but who is the most likely suspect? Is it mathematics fellow, Tom Carrington, who found the body? Or was it the Master, who was the last to see him alive? Was the bursar blackmailing one of his colleagues? Or could it be a crime of passion committed by his former mistress?

Meet Haddy Abrams, a fearless warrior whose resolve is matched only by her inner demons. After a daring sniper shot in the treacherous Hadhramaut Mountains of Yemen, Haddy becomes the target of a nefarious Eastern European oligarch known only as “X.” Surviving an assassination attempt only fuels her determination to bring justice to those who seek to destroy her world. But as she battles her personal demons, she's haunted by a mysterious man from her past, a man who seems more like a ghost than a memory.