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By Cabot, Meg2008., Young Adult, Point Call No: YA CAB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
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By Cabot, Meg2009., Young Adult, Point Call No: YA CAB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.
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2008., Adult, Atria Books Call No: FIC PIC Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: June Nealon's life is shattered when Shay Bourne murders her husband and daughter, but when her eleven-year-old daughter, Claire, needs a heart transplant, Bourne decides that his only chance at redemption is to give Claire his heart after he is put to death, leaving June to decide if she wants to let the man who destroyed her life save her daughter's.
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c2001., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC IRV Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion and finds his life forever change when he becomes the first person to receive a hand transplant.
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[2018]., Adults, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC COO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Volume: #11Summary Note: "The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences of young people with this same sudden and rapid illness follow, and Jack fears that this could be the start of an unprecedented pandemic. But the facts aren't adding up. Something is off about these cases, something creepy, and only Jack can figure it out before it's too late. Thus begins a race against time, during which Jack unveils the dark underbelly of the organ-transplant market. His name is Bui Zhao, a businessman and hospital board member who has been cheating the system by using organs and cells from chimeric pigs, via the gene-editing biotechnology CRISPER/CAS9, which allows pig genes to be inserted into living human cells. In a climactic mortal showdown, Jack must face Zhao, the megalomaniac willing to risk the fate of the world to pursue his commercial interests, if he wants to save the future of medicine"--
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By Cabot, Meg2010., Point Call No: YA CAB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Airhead Volume: bk. 3Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.