Tiny Pineapple Nurse Book Collection

Navy Nurse (Banks)

by Rosie M. Banks, 1960

A romantic, suspense-filled novel about a girl who chose a glamorous and exciting career.

Alice Smith, pretty Navy nurse, had an attack of love at first sight. And she didn’t want to be cured.

The man was tall, good-looking and French. Thrilled by his kisses, Alice longed for the day she would be Mrs. Jacques Stern.

But Jacques never talked of marriage. And he was mysterious about his private life, especially the source of his wealth.

Meanwhile, the Office of Naval Intelligence had rated Jacques “top priority.” And handsome Morgan O’Neill, ONI agent, was making a particularly thorough check. Morgan loved Alice deeply. He’d stop at nothing to save her from the dangers that threatened her happiness — and her life.

Navy Nurse (McCall)

by Virginia McCall, 1968

Trace pulled off her surgical cap and shook out her hair. “The chief nurse wants me? I wonder what for?”

“There is one sure way to find out,” the older nurse said dryly. “Better wear a sweater. The wind was straight off the bay when I came in.”

Tracy nodded and went swiftly down the hall to the nurses’ room. She felt both tired and exhilerated, still keyed up by the drama she had just witnessed in surgery, a race against time to save the life of an elderly patient who had gone into surgical shock. Dr. Catton had been operating, and it was always a learning experience to be on his team.

She was fortunate, she thought, to have O.R. duty in the big naval hospital across the bay from San Francisco for her first permanent assignment as a Navy nurse.

Before the mirror, she dug her comb into her pale red hair. When she was tense like this her freckles stood out sharply, a spatter of pigment high on her cheekbones and across her nose.

“All redheads are hybrids, you know,” Dick Simpson had told her, and ever since she had thought of herself as one of those blotchy camellias that could not decide whether to be pink or white.

Dick and his genetics! Dating the University of California graduate student who had majored in life science and was now doing some sort of study on waterfowl had been another kind of learning experience this past year!

New Nurse, The

by Florence Stuart, 1947

Could her dedication as a nurse conquer the passion of her woman’s heart?

“Kitty, will you marry me?”

For the four years since he had jilted her, Kitty Foster dreamed of hearing those words. And now Dick Dunning was saying them.

Of course, he was still married to Rose. But Dick said they had already planned on a divorce when she had her terrible accident.

“Yes, I married her. I’ve no one to blame but myself. I wasn’t in love with her. I never was. And it isn’t her fault. It’s you I love, Kitty. I’ve always loved you. Kitty, will you be my wife?”

Kitty knew that she should be shocked. But Dick’s eyes brushed hers and it was if his hand had touched her. She felt herself tremble with the surge of longing that poured through her. She knew it was wrong and yet she couldn’t help herself….

Night Nurse

by Rosamund Hunt, 1962

Young and lovely Sheila Hayden had been planning to marry Kenny Jamison for as long as she could remember. but when Sheila became a night nurse at Mercer City Hospital, Kenny showed signs of growing resentment, and asked that she resign.

Sheila, however, had fallen in love with her work. Moreover, a political campaign to smear the hospital made her presence vital to the pressured staff. Vehemently Sheila insisted that Kenny had no cause to be jealous of her job, or of the brilliant young Dr. Joel Alexander, who was so often at her side. It took a mysterious kidnapping and a new and vicious attack on the hospital’s good name to force the lovely nurse to face some painful truths — about Kenny, about Dr. Alexander, and about her own buffeted heart.

Night-Duty Nurse

by Katherine McComb, 1970

Pretty red-haired Karen Hayden was new at the hospital, but already she had a reputation for efficiency and dedication — since work came first in her life…

Then one night a tragic explosion brought scores of emergency patients to the hospital. In the excitement Karen was kissed by Clay Palmer — the handsome, aloof new intern all the nurses were whispering about. After that kiss, sensible as she was, Karen could not wipe the moody Dr. Palmer from her dreams.

It was only when Clay Palmer turned all his attention toward a female patient that Karen agreed to date flirtatious Jack Arlen, an ex-patient of her own, and the son of the most influential man in town. But Jack Arlen was more than an irresponsible playboy, as Karen would soon learn — and Clay Palmer was not a man whose kiss she could easily forget….

North Country Nurse

by Robert Ackworth, 1965

Lovely young Mary Loring, her nurse’s training behind her, came home to the north country for two reasons—one, to help the people in this vast wilderness land; the other, locked in her heart, to work with young Dr. Ken Shannon who was coming back here to start his practice.

But when Ken stepped off the plane, beside him was a beautiful, titian-haired bride. Now Mary wanted only to escape — from this man she could never have, from her beloved north country that would always remind her of him.

It took a startling confession from Ken, and a danger-fulled mercy flight with a devil-may-care pilot named Eddie Garrett, to show Mary that she didn’t have to run away—that a girl doesn’t always know the secrets of her own heart…

There’s a lot to love about this book. First, there’s the cover, with Nurse Mary Loring’s crisp white uniform seemingly unaffected by the ash and soot spewing out of the blazing inferno behind her.

Second, the blurb on the back, which gets extra points for the use of the term “titian-haired bride.” (“Titian,” by the way, means “bright golden auburn.” I had to look it up. And let me tell you, it’s a sad day when can’t read the blurb on the back of a romance novel without having to break out the OED.)

But the absolute best thing about this story of a woman who has dedicated her entire life to improving the health and well-being of others is that deep within its nicotine-stained pages is a full-page foldout advertisement for cancer sticks.

 “Doesn’t it all add up to True?”

North Side Nurse

by Lucy Agnes Hancock, 1941

“I think you’re a very foolish and stubborn girl, “Deborah,” Mrs. Hackett said as she prepared to bid her daughter goodbye. “And why you should wish to keep on messing around with a lot of poor foreign children is a mystery to me. I can’t think how you got that way in the first place. Even though your grandfather Bradley was a surgeon, surely that fact is no reason for devoting your life to nursing. Come on, darling. Christmas is over and you did your full duty by every sick child in your district. The worst three months of winter are still to come. I’ll stay another day. Let’s get away from this bitter northern climate. We’ll have fun down south and you may meet the right man — one often does, you know. I always say Florida is the most romantic spot in the world, and I should know.”

Northwest Nurse

by Arlene Fitzgerald, 1964

Tossed on the winds of emotion.

A torrent of excitement race through her, as his lips met hers in a firm, gentle kiss.

Holly Doran, R.N., had come to Oregon on a temporary assignment, but she found something much more permanent there — a town of people she cared about, and a wonderful young doctor named Key Catrell.

There was only one problem — a handsome psychiatrist back in San Francisco who expected her to return to him, and with good reason — he was her fiance.

Nurse

by Peggy Anderson, 1978

Doctors don’t keep you alive. I do.

Sometimes I help people live.
Sometimes I help them die.
Always, I help them. I’m a nurse.

The shocking, inspiring, surprise bestseller of the year. Nurse is the story of eight weeks in the life of a real nurse in a large urban hospital. It is all here: the joy and pain, the death and drama, the mistakes, successes and secrets. Nurse reads like a novel, but sticks in the memory like a real experience. Because it is.

Nurse Against the Town

by Jane Converse, 1966

Pretty Ellen Whitaker, R.N., faces a choice between the handsome doctor she loves and the dark suspicions that threaten to ruin him.

Why did the people of Barfield avoid their hospital? Why did they whisper “criminal” about its director, Dr. Jerry Sterling, when they talked of the mysterious death of his beautiful wife, Naomi? And what was driving Naomi’s brother, Henry Barfield, to use his membership on the hospital board to ruin Dr. Sterling?

Desperately, pretty Ellen struggled to find the answers. Pitted against her consuming love for Jerry Sterling were the hostility of her neighbors and the terrible suspicions she could not shake free from her own mind. In a story shaken with passion, hiding at its heart a dreadful secret, Ellen Whitaker finds herself all but alone as the nurse against the town.

Nurse Ann’s Fighting Heart

by Lucy Bowdler, 1985

From the start Nurse Ann Persons was glad she’d moved to New York City from her small upstate hometown. She loved working in a big-city hospital with its daily challenges. She loved using her nursing skills to their fullest. She loved Manhattan, with its glamour, excitement, and variety. But Ann was not one to be overwhelmed by the sophisticated city. The new men in her life, flamboyant Dr. Ronald Laing and serious Dr. Craig Downing, both discovered that New York with its fast pace would never change Ann’s old-fashioned ideas about love. And the hospital hierarchy learned that nothing — absolutely nothing — could change the stubborn nurse’s old-fashioned ideas about putting her patients’ welfare above all else.

Nurse Annette

by Rebecca Marsh, 1962

She followed her heart — even though it meant facing danger.

The scream of tortured tires, an echoing crash, an overturned automobile…. Within crowded seconds, the overindulged scion of the prominent Hauser family lay on the brink of death.

Nurse Annette saved his life — and earned first the gratitude and then the wrath of his powerful father. And as she found herself involved in a bitter controversy in which lives as well as principles were at stake, she realized that only her heart could supply the answer to her most vital dilemma….

Nurse Around the World: Alice Fitzgerald

by Iris Noble, 1964

Alice Fitzgerald, a glamorous young debutante, shocked her family when she decided to become a nurse. At the turn of the century nursing was considered a degrading profession, but Alice was drawn to it and spurned her life of idleness among the rich. When she entered the Nurses Training School at Johns Hopkins, she little dreamed that she would achieve worldwide fame. She served as a nurse in the Sicily earthquake area and with the British Army on the front lines in France during World War I. Later she became Chief Nurse for the American Red Cross, fighting disease and starvation among Europe’s homeless millions and organizing modern nursing schools in key cities. She pioneered the work of Public Health Nursing in the United States and then in the Philippines, and established nursing schools in the Far East.

Nurse Barbara

by Adelaide Humphries, 1965

They were marooned in an isolated farmhouse — and not one of them was sure that they would be rescued before the bridge was washed out and the house swept away.

There were:

Barbara Carroll, a beautiful blonde nurse, returning from vacation;

Scott Henderson, young, handsome, and resourceful, a member of the law firm of Blake, Smith and Henderson of Cincinnati, in Florida on business;

Millie and Ted Ashburn, a young couple expecting their first child at any moment;

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Henry Meredith, who arrive in their big black Cadillac — Henry definitely under the thumb of his domineering wife;

Tom Jones, his wife Marge, their small son, Stevie, and Marge’s old and critically ill father.

And last, there were:

Bud and Twitchy, teen-age hitchhikers; Bud was obviously the leader and Twitchy his faithful follower — and Barbara suspected that Bud was hatching up some devilment that boded no good for the rest of them.

Mrs. Humphries has written a gripping story of the ravages of a Southern flood, of a group of helpless people who are forced to share its horrors, and of the changes it brings to the life of each one of them.

Nurse Betrayed

by Jeanne J. Bowman, 1966

Nurse Trudy’s “paid vacation” at a mountain lodge threatened to ruin her career and estrange her from the man she loved!

Nurse Trudy Holmes left Dane Memorial Hospital to care for the post-operative wife of wealthy Dr. Malcolm Morse. Dr. Morse painted a glowing picture of Medicine Mountain as a quiet retreat which would be more of a “paid vacation” than a nursing assignment for Trudy.

Although she hesitated leaving the hospital and the two doctors she loved, Trudy accepted the assignment eagerly, for she had worked so hard for several years putting herself through nursing school and training at the hospital. But Trudy didn’t count on a pampered young debutante and an old country witch doctor complicating her life.

Could Trudy come down from Medicine Mountain with her reputation and her love unscarred? Trudy didn’t know….

Nurse Bryony

by Rhona Trezise, 1984

“I’ve heard the doctor in charge is a tyrant…” Nurse Bryony Sellers remarks to a handsome stranger who gives her a lift from the station to her new home. But soon after starting work at the Highfields Nursing Home in Cornwall she finds herself wishing she had never been so indiscreet. For the handsome stranger turns out to be none other than her new boss, Dr. Ellis Crosland, and he is not amused!

Nurse Called Hope, A

by Peggy Dern, 1963

His fiance was her patient.

Hope Bradshaw found happiness in nursing, because helping others gave her a sense of dignity and purpose. Her life seemed to be complete when the young resident at her hospital, Dr. Ray Shelley, asked her to marry him.

But then came the day when her fiance made a mistake which caused the death of a patient and Hope was faced with a terrible dilemma. Should she confess to his error and thereby save the career of the man she loved — or was her integrity as a nurse more important?

Nurse Camden’s Cavalier

by Louise Ellis, 1967

“Perhaps I’d like to work in the maternity ward because it’s about the one place in the hospital where I won’t run into the new S.S.R.” Camilla Camden confided to her partner at the hospital Fancy Dress Ball.

It was just as well Camilla didn’t realize just who she was talking to!

Nurse Chadwick’s Sorrow

by Diana Douglas, 1967

Two doctors shared Ruth Chadwick’s shameful secret—and and one unforgivable incident would haunt their lives forever.

Till Death Do Us Part

Ruth Chadwick would never forgive Dr. Barry Kade for a night of insanity that changed her life. She would never return to Dr. Graham Chadwick, her husband. The only thing that still tied her to these two men was a bond of pain and hatred.

And now Tracey Norton was involved. Tracey…pretty, talented, very attractive to a man like Dr. Kade. Unable to stop her, Ruth saw Tracey being caught in her own hidden past—in the frightening truth that lay behind Nurse Chadwick’s Sorrow

Nurse Felicity

by Peggy Dern, 1967

Could Nurse Felicity give up her beloved mountain town and childhood sweetheart to marry a young city doctor?

Nurse Felicity grew up in the Georgia hill country and watched her father doctor the sick there. She understood the natives and they trusted her.

But Felicity loved a strong-willed mountain lawyer who resented her work. Could she forget him and start a new life with young Dr. Aleck Potter, somewhere away from “injun medicine and voodoo witchcraft”

Nurse Forrester’s Secret

by Jane Converse, 1965

A lovely young nurse is forced to choose between her love for a brilliant young doctor and her pity for a dying man…

Love…or loyalty?

Such choices had never been a problem for Elaine Forrester. The lovely nurse’s keen sense of integrity had always guided her professional — and her personal — life….But then, she had never been truly in love. Until now.

And now was when Jay Lowell, her dearest friend, needed her most. He was gravely ill, a victim of chronic nephritis. He wanted her near him. He needed her — and her love.

How could she give up everything she so passionately hungered for, in exchange for a future that promised only despair? How could she deny the insistent urgings of the young doctor whom she loved…and the yearnings of her own heart?

Nurse Grace’s Dilemma

by W.E.D. Ross, 1982

Grace Stone was probably the best surgical nurse at Pentland Hospital. Attractive Dr. Mark Briar often told her so. And most of the staff was first-rate. But that could not be said of Dr. Graham Underwood. Though he had a big reputation in the outside world, the hospital staff knew Underwood for the greedy, careless surgeon he was. But no one made a formal complaint against him until young Dr. Richard Moore was ready to do battle with the man. Grace knew that in some ways Richard was right to fight Dr. Underwood publicly. But she also knew the battle could unjustly destroy the good name of their very fine hospital. Would she ever find the wisdom to take the right stand in this complex situation?

Nurse Hilary

by Peggy Gaddis, 1963

Nurse Hilary Westbrook finds romance and other surprises when she learns the meaning of unselfish devotion to others.

Doctor Stuart Marsden was too busy for love…

…until beautiful Hilary Westbrook, R.N. joined him in his uphill fight to better conditions for all the oldsters in the community. Then Doctor Marsden realized his efficient assistant was also a woman — and a lovely one!

Nurse Involved, A

by Peggy O'More, 1968

Nurse Iva gave too much, too rapidly, to her work and found herself confronted with a choice between her career and the man who loved her.

The staff of City Core Hospital was faced daily with the problem of saving the lives of would-be suicides and of keeping these patients from trying again and again. Nurse Iva Loring had an inner drive that had taken her through school and training at top speed. She gave too much, too rapidly, to her work and was on the verge of a nervous collapse when she took time off to regain her perspective on life.

Now she was easing herself back into work as a stand-by nurse. Her special empathy for the depressed and discouraged made her an ideal nurse for the suicide detail. But there was a question of whether or not she was too understanding and too involved to be effective.

Iva, herself, had to examine her values and choose between the career to which she was dedicated and marriage to the devoted young hospital pharmacist who had stood by her without making any demands on her emotions. Could Iva make that choice?

Nurse Janice’s Dream

by W.E.D. Ross, 1984

Janice Hunt, head nurse of the recovery-room unit at Wentworth Hospital, heard quick footsteps coming down the corridor and glanced up from her desk to see the stout figure of Amanda Dilby hurrying toward her. Janice could tell by the troubled look on the older nurse’s face that there was a crisis of some sort.

Resting a plump hand on the desk, Amanda said, “Mr. Forest has suddenly started to hemorrhage!”

Janice stood up at once. “That’s Dr. Dodge’s patient, isn’t it?”

The older woman nodded. “Yes. The doctor operated on him this morning. He checked on him earlier this afternoon, and the patient was fine then.”

“He’ll probably need a transfusion,” Janice said, her blue eyes wide with concern.

Amanda agreed. “Yes. He’s lost a lot of blood. I’ve called the intern, and he’s in there now trying to cope with it all.”

Relief showed on the attractive face of the young head nurse. “Dr. Cairns?” she asked.

“Yes,” Amanda said.

“That’s good. He’s the most experienced.”

“He happened to be on his rounds,” the older nurse said.

Janice said, “I’d better go see what’s happening.”

“I think you’d better.”

The two nurses strode quickly along the corridor to the recovery room, with its complicated equipment. Eleven patients were recovering from various types of surgery. Janice saw that young Dr. Cairns, assisted by one of the room’s several nurses, had already started a transfusion on the critically ill patient.

Janice crossed to the young intern’s side. “How is it going?”

Dr. Cairns, slender with a rakish brown mustache, gave her a reassuring smile. “Everything under control now. But it’s lucky I was here. He lost an incredible amount of blood in a short time.”

Nurse Jean’s Strange Case

by Arlene Hale, 1970

Webb House, a somber old mansion near Shadow Lake, was a house of secrets. To Nurse Jean Reese, the occupants were strange characters indeed — each with a secret life — a private, closely hidden world not to be shared.

In Jean’s life, too, there was a secret: a lost love. Michael was his name. Jean had worn her heart on her sleeve, but Michael would have none of it.

Until one day an exciting stranger appeared at Webb House…and Jean finally had to make a choice.

Nurse Karen Comes Home

by Janet Lane Walters, 1981

After the death of her parents, Karen Saunders was brought up by her sister, Susan and her brother-in-law, John. Because John was overly strict, Karen became a rebellious teenager and often got into trouble. Now, several years later — after working as a nurse in another town — Karen returns to Coving to take a job at a local clinic.

Though her brother-in-law still hasn’t forgiven her for her earlier misdeeds, she proves to be a very mature young woman and extremely competent nurse. But Lennie, the young troublemaker she dated in high school, may pose fresh problems for Karen. And so may the two new men in her life, Steven Dural, the intriguing writer, and handsome, unavailable Dr. Bill Niven.

Nurse Kathryn

by Peggy O'More, 1968

She turned to a brilliant young doctor for help and found true love as well.

HELP YOURSELF TO HEARTACHE…

Psychiatric nurse Kathryn Kilburn could read most people like a book. An emotional problem in someone else was something she could heal.

But when her fiancé constantly avoided marriage, she had to face the hidden truth about herself. And brilliant Dr. Lamont reached out to help her…

Nurse Kay’s Conquest

by Willo Davis Roberts, 1966

Set a white cap for Dr. Hugh.

Armed with their shining diplomas, Nurses Kay Regis and Ginny Attison were out to set the California town of Mayerling on its ear.

Kay was well aware that her best friend possessed more than enough charms and feminine wiles to capture the hearts of the two bachelor-doctors in town. And she was almost willing to let Ginny have the run of the mill — until her own emotions caught up with her and drew her irresistibly into the arms of the one man she was fighting to ignore.

Nurse Kelsey Abroad

by Marjorie Norrell, 1968

Staff Nurse Jane Kelsey went to work in a hospital in a tiny Balkan state — and, behind the Iron Curtain, found all the excitement and intrigue that might be expected!

Nurse Kilmer’s Vow

by Virginia C. Holmgren, 1963

When lovely young Terry Kilmer was left at the altar by her husband-to-be, Dr. Alex Blaine, her life seemed shattered forever. Blinded by anger, she refused to listen to Alex’s explanations. Though she was a dedicated nurse, Terry vowed she would have nothing more to do with the world of medicine.

Accepting an invitation to the island estate of her much-divorced Aunt Cele, Terry plunged into a dizzying, dazzling social whirl. There were parties and yacht trips, gaiety and laughter — and above all, an irresistibly charming young playboy named Hal Symmes. Then disaster struck the island community — and suddenly Terry was a nurse again, working at the side of a brilliant doctor, her heart torn by a choice between two ways of life, two ways of love. And, amid the greatest challenge of her life, Terry found her path to happiness.

Nurse Kristi’s Secret

by Beatrice Warren, 1984

Kristi O’Neil did a fine job as head nurse of the Adventureland Amusement Park first aid department, but her private life was much too quiet. Then she met Keith Chadwick, the hotel executive who turned her whole world into chaos. From the start, Keith was difficult one moment, charming the next. Since he didn’t seem to like children, Kristi did not tell him she was raising her motherless three-year-old brother. Soon Kristi learned that Keith hated deception — of any kind — and she was even more afraid to speak of little Robby, for she did not want to lose this exasperating man. But how much longer could she keep such a secret from him?

Nurse Lambert’s Conflict

by Diana Douglas, 1969

He had kissed her back to life, but did the handsome surgeon really want her love in return?

Michelle as Rick’s scrub nurse, standing beside the surgeon as he worked, pressing the vital tools into his gloved hand. She was beautiful, capable…and she loved him.

Bernice, Rick’s heiress-patient, was beautiful and loving, too. And she had millions to pour into Rick’s hospital.

Could Michelle expect Rick to give up the realization of a dream…for her?

Nurse Laurie’s Cruise

by Adelaide Humphries, 1956

A delightful and intriguing story of a nurse on a luxurious Caribbean cruise.

A nurse-companion on a Caribbean cruise sounded like fun to Laurie Fielding. But to make sure she got the job, Laurie tried to disguise her blonde loveliness before she went for the interview.

The first person Laurie met on the Bianca was Jeff Anderson, so much the picture of the man every girl hopes to meet on a cruise that Laurie was instantly put on guard.

As they cruised the exotic tropical islands, Laurie found herself paired off with the young professor writing a book on the West Indies and her beautiful employer with the attentive Jeff — with Laurie becoming more and more attracted to Jeff.

A delightful and exciting story of a young nurse in search of adventure — with both danger and love lurking for Laurie in the blue waters of the Caribbean.

Nurse Lavinia’s Mistake

by Marjorie Norrell, 1968

A big mistake! That’s what all her friends told Lavinia Bolland when she decided to change from a busy hospital to a girl’s boarding school. Worn out by the responsibilities of being a staff nurse, Lavinia didn’t agree with them. In fact, she found her new life unexpectingly rewarding!

Nurse Lily and Mister X

by Diane Frazer, 1961

Why was her patient so hush-hush he could be referred to only as Mister X?

Who was Mister X?

Her first impression was a huge head with silver-white hair, a bristling mustache and fierce eyes. It was like seeing the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum for the first time after having looked at it hundreds of times in magazines or on post cards. Lily’s professional smile was frozen on her lips.

Usually she would approach a patient briskly, her hand outstretched, and introduce herself. She had been taught how to do it in nursing school — with just the right amount of cheerfulness.

But this was a man who simply didn’t lend himself to this kind of approach. This was a man who had terrorized the White House, a man even the President was said to be afraid of….

Nurse Loreen’s Nightmare

by Merle C. Overholtzer, 1981

When Loreen Tobin left her family’s ranch and became a nurse in San Francisco, she promised herself she’d never go home again. And the memories of her domineering stepfather — and of a heartbreaking tragedy — kept her away for ten years. But then a letter from her Aunt Lutie, full of mysterious pleading, finally convinced Loreen to pay her family a visit. Maybe, she thought, her mother needed her help — or her sister or brother.

Luckily, she met Jeff O’Dell, a handsome young writer, on her way back to the ranch. Without Jeff, her homecoming would have been unbearable. But even with his friendship and comfort, Loreen’s days at the Double T were a torment beyond belief!

Nurse Lucie

by Georgia Craig, 1964

Could Nurse Lucie keep the man she loved from a woman who had suddenly returned from his past?

Was He A Man On The Run?

Nurse Lucie couldn’t help wondering about handsome Dr. Warren. He was the most skilled surgeon she’d ever known, and it seemed strange for a man of his talents to bury himself in a small country clinic.

Everybody at Guale Farms wondered about him. There were fantastic stories, lies and gossip, but nobody knew anything for sure.

And then one day something shocking happened and Nurse Lucie learned the secret Dr. Warren wanted so desperately to hide. But did she find out too late? Was she too much in love with him by then to care?

Nurse Lucie was reprinted a few decades later as Nurse at Guale Farms.

Nurse Made Headlines, The

by Adelaide Humphries, 1962

For lovely Cheryl Lanier, nursing wealthy, elderly Trevor Rutledge at his magnificent estate seemed a routine assignment. But that was before Rutledge’s nephew, Victor Lawson, arrived.

Perhaps Cheryl should have known better than to fall in love with the handsome playboy. Certainly there were those — especially the young lawyer, Carl Drew — who warned her about Victor.

But Victor’s promises drowned out all warnings — until, amid sudden tragedy and scandal, she heard a different voice: that of agonizing doubt. Had she made the greatest mistake of her young life? Had she given her trust to the wrong man? And how could she know for sure before it was too late?

Nurse Maggie’s Dream

by Ruth Burnett, 1982

He was one of the handsomest, wealthiest, most successful men in Florida — and newspaper reporters called him “Garth the Shark.” His world of glamour and excitement was a far cry from the world of Nurse Maggie McCloud, whose biggest fulfillment came from healing those who needed her most.

Yet it was Garth who had built a clinic for Seminole Indians on his ranch, and it was Garth who shared Maggie’s humility and compassion for all people.

Oh, why couldn’t it be Garth Carrington she was engaged to, instead of Dr. Tom Hamilton, whose biggest love was for himself?

Nurse March

by William Neubauer, 1957

A delightful, light romance about a pretty, young County Nurse with a wonderful love of live, a dedicated love for her profession and an unrequited love for an ambitious young doctor.

Dawn March had her future all planned — she would marry handsome Dr. Ken Jones and they would settle in the little seacoast community that she loved and build a happy and beautiful life together. But Dawn hadn’t figured on a couple of interferences that became substantial obstacles to the realization of her dream.

The first was Ken himself. There was a side of his nature that Dawn was slow to recognize, that shocked her when she did. Ken fancied himself a big-time success, and his impatient ambition was such that it left little room for the kind of life that Dawn had hoped they would share.

Another was the entrance of Mrs. Clara Royce, a divorcee of great wealth, considerable beauty and no scruples whatsoever. Clara Royce offered Ken the fulfillment of his dreams — and a short-cut to the success he craved.

Dawn began to realize that even the best-made plans of bright young nurses can sometimes get pretty well upset!

Nurse Marcie’s Island

by Arlene Hale, 1964

Heart adrift on a sea of romance.

Returning home to Barr Island to practice nursing, Marcie Roberts, R.N., dreamed happily of the sunny, lazy island, the joy of being with Pop again, and the pleasure of working as old Dr. John’s office nurse.

But before the end of her first day, Marcie realized that everything had changed. Pop had become a strangely embittered man, and kindly Dr. John was gone. In his place, was the aloof Dr. Ainsworth — handsome, cold and brusque. Marcie knew her job represented a challenge to herself — as a nurse, and as a woman.

Nurse Meg’s Decision

by Hilary Neal, 1966

Meg James of the Freer Memorial Hospital had a strong sense of duty and strong emotions, and somehow she got herself into a situation where she had promised to marry both John Heriot, the doctor, and Lance Curtiss, the patient.

Nurse Misty’s Magic

by Evelyn Martin, 1987

Misty Marshall was between cases when she learned that her friend Suanne Oakland had suffered a nervous breakdown after the mysterious drowning of her husband, Brian. Determined to help Suanne recover, Misty hurried to her side. At the beautiful Georgia plantation that had been in the Oakland family for generations, Misty found her presence bitterly opposed by Clint, Brian’s handsome twin brother, who seemed intent upon keeping Suanne secluded if not imprisoned in her room. Why? Misty wondered.

And then she began to uncover some disturbing answers. Answers that became even more disturbing as she found herself being more and more drawn to the fascinating yet repelling Clint Oakland. Was she falling in love with a murderer?

Nurse Molly

by Marjorie Norrell, 1964

After Molly Patterson was jilted, she was determined never to trust a man again. But she was a very attractive girl, and more than one man was anxious to make her change her mind.

Was Molly going to be able to stick to her decision?

Nurse Molly’s Search

by Polly Mark, 1978

Never once during her growing-up years did Molly Patten feel other than a lovely American girl. She accepted her curly black hair, her golden skin, and her slightly upturned eyes as easily as she accepted the fact that she had no family other than her adoptive aunt Ruth Patten. And although Molly loved Ruth’s stories of missionary life in Singapore, never did she link herself with that romantic city. So it was with much surprise that Molly learned, shortly after her graduation from nursing school, that her parents’ had lived and married in Singapore, and that her father, a Chinese doctor, might be living there still.

After Ruth’s death, Molly decided to leave her hometown in Maine for a visit to exotic Singapore, to try to find out more about the father who had given her up when she was a baby. Little did she know that while she was there she would be called upon to practice her specialty — geriatric nursing — in the home of the much respected Dr. David Lee. Nor did she guess how much she would come to care for the lovely city and the people, especially young Dr. Peter Devon, the handsome ward of Dr. Lee.

Molly’s search for her heritage leads her to adventure and romance in the exotic Orient.

Nurse Overseas

by Mary Curtis Bowers, 1984

Nurse Lori Barnes agreed to work at a Nigerian clinic for the summer partly to help people — and partly to forget an unhappy romance in the States. She did her usual superb job as a nurse and was especially good with the children. But Lori soon learned there was no way of escaping romance problems. Though she’d been determined to avoid all men, she was now intrigued by two of the aggravating creatures: Dr. Fletcher Wilson, who was extremely handsome and knew it, and Grant Evans, a wealthy landowner whose distrust of women was as great as his rugged magnetism. Both of them promised to give her disappointment and heartache. Why couldn’t Lori forget them, ignore them, be sensible? Why?

Donated by: Jennifer Rasmussen

Nurse Paula’s New Look

by Beatrice Warren, 1982

As a surgical nurse in Bay City General, Paula Winters had witnessed a miracle from time to time. But surely Dr. Steven Kramer’s interest in her was more than a miracle. In fact, it was impossible for someone as young and handsome as Dr. Kramer to like a girl as fat as she. Or so she kept telling herself. Then Paula realized Steven was being friendly to her only because her father and brother, both prominent doctors, could help him with his medical career.

Even after she lost her excess pounds and gained some new admirers, she was trapped in a lonely quandary. For Paula still couldn’t accept Steven — and she just wouldn’t settle for anyone else!

Nurse Pro Tem

by Glenna Finley, 1967

The trouble between lively, sandy-haired nurse Jane Chapin and handsome Washington attorney Joshua Blake began when they met at the Continental Broadcasting Studios. It was a simple case of mistaken identity — he thought she was an impudent receptionist and she thought he was an aspiring page boy. But what followed turned out to be an intricate matter of international intrigue that involved them both in a dangerous series of romantic double crosses; curious quirks of fate and terrifying realities that threatened both their lives and their love. The truth was the only thing that could save them — but they would have to ignore their own gnawing doubts long enough to find it.

Nurse Sandra’s Choice

by Lucy Bowdler, 1978

In the five years she had been away from her native New England, young nurse Sandra Colson had adapted quite well to her new life in Minnesota, had made friends, and had become a respected member of the staff at St. James Hospital. And yet, every fall, when the leaves started to turn color and drop from the trees, she could not free herself from the memory of New England and what might have been. What might have been if Dr. Bruce Jennings had been true, if he had meant all those things he had said.

But that was five years ago. Surely Sandy had picked up the pieces of her emotional life since then. Yet how much had she learned from that unhappy experience? Wasn’t she really in the same position with Dr. Rich Harvey, a young obstetrician working at St. James? Oh, it was true, he had never promised anything and their relationship had been strictly professional, but Sandy couldn’t help her feelings. The fact he was engaged to Aileen Gorman, her supervisor, a nurse who worked with clocklike efficiency, made things even worse. Every day Sandy had to face them both, and to see Aileen’s triumph reflected in the engagement ring she wore.

When Dr. Harvey offered her a part-time job in the Lamaze natural-birth clinic he intended to start, Sandy got a chance to use the extra courses in obstetrics she had taken. She also got a chance to see exactly how strong the armor she wore around her heart really was.

Nurse Suzanne’s Bold Journey

by Ethel Bangert, 1975

Nursing in the remote wilderness of northern Canada was a potentially perilous undertaking, but pretty Suzanne Hillard knew only exhilaration as the tiny pontoon plane splashed down on Gold Lake. Her new job as occupational health nurse for the Whiteoak Oil Company released her not only from the humdrum routine of a large general hospital but also from the overprotectiveness of her decorous aunt Geraldine.

Life at the tiny mining camp of Kupark was anything but decorous. Suzanne readily adjusted to living in a rough wooden cabin, taking her meals in the company cookhouse, and nursing out of a breathtakingly well-equipped trailer. The only thing that really bothered her — until she met Mark Bartell — was the knife she glimpsed in Pete Thunderchild’s hand. Resolutely she decided that the lank-jawed old man’s animosity would not inhibit her attempts to befriend his shy, beautiful daughter, Norell, a painter of rare talent.

And then there was the problem of the Mistaseni, the huge granite boulder that was revered as a god by the local Cree Indians. The sacred rock was right in the path of the company’s projected pipeline, and as chief engineer at Kupark, Mark Bartell would have to give the order to blow it up. A clash between him and Indian geologist Angus Bear seemed unavoidable.

Equally unavoidable was the explosive first meeting between the blond engineer and the dark-eyed company nurse, a confrontation that resulted in Suzanne’s being fired on the spot!

Nurse Todd’s Strange Summer

by Zillah K. Macdonald and Vivian J. Ahl, 1960

• Chapter 1: You Are Now Entering Penteath, Maine
• Chapter 2: Quint Loves Me! Loves Me Not!
• Chapter 3: Nature’s Physiotherapy Department
• Chapter 4: Ann Finds a Needed Friend
• Chapter 5: Dr. McNab Offers a Nursing Job
• Chapter 6: Ann Does a Venipuncture
• Chapter 7: Parthie Provokes a Crisis
• Chapter 8: A Sedimentation Rate Spells Trouble
• Chapter 9: Quint Has the answer to Her Question
• Chapter 10: Antibiotics vs. Nursing Care
• Chapter 11: A Growing Comradeship Suffers a Blight
• Chapter 12: Ann Loses Her Job
• Chapter 13: Riders of the Storm
• Chapter 14: Kitchen Turned Hospital
• Chapter 15: Ann Shares a Fateful Moment with “B.M.”
• Chapter 16: “Your Majesty!” Marie Antoinette of Maine
• Chapter 17: A Fright in the Night
• Chapter 18: Ann Is on Her Way!

Nurse Under Fire

by Dorothy Brenner Francis, 1973

Private duty in Marlin Point, Florida, was the last thing Cass Meredith wanted. The month-long assignment had been handed to her by Dr. Wellton, her friend as well as her boss, and he certainly expected her to accept it. The case itself was not what distressed the pretty twenty-two-year-old nurse. The patient was a young girl of fifteen who had epilepsy — certainly a condition with which Cass could sympathize. Cass, too, was an epileptic, and only because she had understanding parents was she able to live a full and normal life.

That life had, until recently, included a lanky young man named Tab Lyon. Handsome, devilish Tab wanted to marry Cass, but she had shied away from such a commitment. She had even suggested a trial separation that had led to his taking a job far from her Miami home — in Marlin Point!

Suffering from inner turmoil, Cass arrived in Marlin Point to discover that her assignment was more a bed of thorns than of roses. The patient, Sue Evans, was a sweet girl whom Cass instantly liked. But Sue’s fearfully overprotective mother had kept her a virtual recluse for years, and she made no attempt to conceal her resentment of Cass. So it was little wonder that Cass found herself leaning on the strong, comforting arm of Mrs. Evan’s’ brother, Max Quigley, a physical therapist who was in complete accord with Cass’s hopes to help Sue lead a free and happy life.

And then Sue experienced a frightening seizure…

Nurse Wayne in the Tropics

by Anne Vinton, 1960

Beatrice Wayne, S.R.N, sat thinking, shivering despite the tropic heat. How far away the clinic seemed and the chatter of the nurses snatching those quick cups of tea in the kitchens. At this hour they would be giving out medicines and tidying dressings before supper, after which the night-staff would take over. And here was she, three thousand miles away spending the night in a locked rest-house with the most dangerous man in the word; the most dangerous to her, at any rate, because she loved him.

How did she get into this compromising situation and what would happen next? It’s all told in this lively, absorbing novel, full of interesting characters and set against the colourful background of the Gold Coast.

Nurse and the Crystal Ball, The

by Florence Stewart, 1969

It would take more than a fortune-teller to solve Nurse Sue Whittier’s dilemma: Should she tell her dying former sweetheart the truth, or should she leave him in peace and let his scheming wife and brother rob him…?

Clouded Future…

When Sue Whittier unpacked her suitcase, 3000 miles away from the nurses’ dormitory in Maryland, she found a fortune-teller’s crystal ball under her nylons. It was a friend’s idea of a joke, but Sue—who didn’t believe in such things—wished it could tell her what she was letting herself in for. She had driven to California to be with Dave Harding, the man she had walked out on seven years ago just before their wedding—a dying man now who had written, begging her to come. And she had…even though seeing Dave would mean seeing his half-brother, Marv, too—the secret reason Sue had broken that engagement. Still, she was prepared for that. What she wasn’t prepared for was finding another old love of Dave’s at his bedside: Gloria, the blonde he had married on the rebound, the wife who had deserted him two months later and has now returned—with a son she claimed was his. But was it true…? Sue didn’t need a crystal ball to tell her that here was a woman who couldn’t be trusted…

When I read “she found a fortune-teller’s crystal ball under her nylons,” my first thought was, “Well, there’s a an anatomical euphemism I’ve never heard before.”

And if I was Dave Harding, and:

1. My bride-to-be ditched me at the altar for my half-brother named Marv.
2. My scheming, blonde ex-wife named Gloria showed up with a snot-nosed kid and a paternity suit.
3. I had cancer.

I’d refuse treatment and pray for a speedy end.