"Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier. Her father's murder was never properly investigated and it remains unsolved. Kate's life is interrupted once more when she wakes up one night to the sound of...

"Even the Smurfs are having a health care crisis-- not that it matters to Gargamel! It all starts when a Smurf decides that Lazy Smurf is not really lazy, but suffering from a medical condition. "Doctor" Smurf is cooking up illnesses for Smurfs who don't even know they are "sick" until Doctor Smurf tells them so. Soon other Smurfs are trying to get in on the act offering new-fangled cures for various supposed illnesses. While it's all fairly harmless...

"Babies demonstrate what it takes to be a doctor, including listening carefully, working long hours, and looking for clues to find out what's wrong."--

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating....