Tiny Pineapple Nurse Book Collection

Satanic Nurses, The

by J.B. Miller, 2003

In J.B. Miller’s alternative literary universe, Virginia Woolf has a crush on William Powell, Norman Mailer provides “The Rules” for dating, Bridget Jones writes “The Diary of Anais Nin,” and J.D. Salinger sends letters to young starlets inviting them to audition for the movie of “Franny.”

Dave Eggers gives us “A Backbreaking Work of Incredible Thinness,” Philip Roth gets into a fight with Nathan Zuckerman, E. Annie Proulx is guilty of “Vocabulary Crimes,” and we read the missing transcript of Jonathan Franzen on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

We visit Frank McCourt’s disturbing childhood in “Angela’s Eyelashes,” we learn from David Mamet “How It Is To Write,” and go “Trainspitting” with Irvine Welsh. Toni Morrison gets “Belabored,” P.G. Wodehouse admits that “She’s a Right Ho, Jeeves,” Mary McCarthy foils Lillian Hellman’s attempted assassination of Hitler, David Foster Wallace proves an “Infinite Pest,” notes are found for J.R.R. Tolkein’s abandoned opus, “The Lord of the Strings,” and polar explorer Ernest Shackleton gets lost on the London bus system.

These are just some of the forty-four witty and outrageously funny pieces that comprise The Satanic Nurses, a satiric anthology of counterfeit lit.

Donated by: Kathryn Bartholomew

Second Year Nurse

by Margaret McCulloch, 1957

From the hospital window, Jan watches the familiar green car swing around the drive. Moments later Dorinda steps into it and takes her place beside the driver.

“Dr. Bartholomew, wasn’t it?” Jan’s patient asks. “I don’t recognize the nurse.”

So this is what the other nurses are trying to tell her. Dorinda — her friend and roommate — is dating handsome Hank Bartholomew too!

Donated by: Jammie Gomoll-Dennin

Second Year Nurse, Nancy Kimball at City Hospital

by Carli Laklan, 1967

Nancy Kimball and her new friends at City Hospital barely escape being caught forming a secret society after lights-out. Then they win a full grown and gobbling Thanksgiving turkey and secretly keep him, until he escapes, in the baggage room of their dormitory. These are just two of the escapades that provide Nancy with fun and excitement in her second year of nurse’s training.

However, when she learns that two of her new friends have endangered the life of a patient, Nancy’s conscience and training take over and she realizes she must report them, although this will cause trouble between her and her classmates.

Problems mount. How Nancy eventually copes with them makes exciting and enjoyable reading for girls.

Second-Chance Nurse

by Jane Converse, 1961

Guilt haunts a young doctor as he works to save his patient’s life, and the nurse who loves him keeps vigil against the death that must not happen…

CRISIS!

The young doctor’s face was etched with bitter hope and desperate strength. Karen Reese looked from him to the small form stretched on the hospital bed and knew that Dr. Mark Corman needed her at last; needed her skill, her devotion, even her silent, unspoken love. For only love’s valiant faith could win this struggle. Death was groping for the child with cold fingers, but they would not, could not, let him die…

A dedicated doctor and nurse are united in a heart-gripping battle for the life of a child, while a fierce love grows between them as they thwart death with all the courage of their calling.

Settlement Nurse

by Rosie M. Banks, 1959

A mysterious, deranged vagrant in a coma. Isn’t that every young woman’s ideal?

Cindy anxiously watched her delirious patient. Kenneth Randall was a new experience for her. To the older nurses from the settlement house he was just another drifter—a vagrant who moved from one cheap hotel room to another, from one misery to the next

But Cindy saw only a man who needed her as no one ever had. It as her job to save him. But from what? His past was a mystery. And what of his future? Did it depend on the show girl who had left her green stockings in his room?

Suddenly Cindy was shocked to realize that she was actually jealous of a woman she had never seen. It was ridiculous—but it had happened. Cindy was falling in love with a strange man she hadn’t even spoken to!

A mysterious, deranged vagrant in a coma. Isn’t that every young woman’s ideal?

Later on in the book we learn that Mr. Right is really “a handsome but despondent young actor,” but that’s essentially the same thing, isn’t it? Except for the coma part, of course. But after a few dates with a sulking, self-absorbed thespian, she’ll probably look back on those early, speechless days with great fondness.

I love the two hoodlums standing in the background on the cover. They look like two extras from West Side Story waiting for the craft services truck to arrive. The waistline on the brunette’s jeans hits him a good three inches above the belly button, but he probably had to keep them hiked up like that or you couldn’t see his white socks. And that single light in the upstairs bedroom can’t be good. Surely all decent folk went to sleep hours ago…

Sharon Garrison, Clinic Nurse

by Phyllis Taylor Pianka, 1977

Young Sharon Garrison was eager to start work as head of the clinic at KSEA-TV Media Center. She would be responsible for the running of the entire clinic and the care of all those who worked at the center. Her association with Mercy Hospital had ended on a sour note, after her Uncle Elliott Garrison had been named hospital administrator. Suddenly friends and acquaintances treated Sharon with exaggerated caution or as if she could directly influence hospital policy, and the young nurse had felt it best to look for a new position.

Sharon quickly became involved in the center and caught up in its excitement. Charming and capable, she won the respect and affection of Skip Richardson, Production Manager, who was eager to give her a screen test, and Paul Hamilton, the handsome boss of KSEA-TV.

Misunderstandings seem to be the rule rather than the exception in Sharon’s love life, however, and it is not until the exciting climax that the young nurse’s future seems certain.

Ship’s Nurse

by Rosie M. Banks, 1962

Cathy’s carefree cruise is turned into a tour of duty — complicated by too many beaux.

When her aunt, the ship’s senior nurse, breaks her ankle, Cathy volunteers for duty.

There seems to be more than the usual shipboard intrigue —

The ship’s doctor drinks tea, secretly laced with rum, to forget painful memories.

His young assistant yearns to leave the ship to start his own practice.

A stowaway — on a last fling before settling down to responsibility — is discovered.

A raucous Texas dowager drinks too much and her gigolo-husband has a roving eye.

Cathy herself is faced with an oversupply of admirers.

An innocent flirtation and sudden tragedy make Cathy realize the depth of her dedication to nursing — and where her heart is.

Skyscraper Nurse

by Ann Gilmer, 1976

Young blonde Iris Grant had often gazed at the gleam of steel and glass across the park from her apartment, but she never dreamed that she would someday work in the Morris Building. She was quite satisfied with her job as head nurse at Huntsford General Hospital and had a growing fondness for Dr. Harry Marsh, a handsome, gray-eyed young surgeon. Only after she had been unjustly passed over for a promotion at the hospital does Iris accept the offer of an ex-patient — the millionaire James Morris — to become resident nurse of his new skyscraper.

Iris finds her new work quite different from that in the hospital as she treats various tenants of the building, including a young diabetic teller who goes into shock and the wealthy financier Parrish Crown, who has his own reasons for not consulting a doctor. Her friendship with James Morris’s son, George, deepens as she encourages him to return to architecture, the profession that he really loves, rather than continue to work for his father in a job he dislikes but is reluctant to leave. At the same time she feels that she is falling in love with Harry, but is not free to let him know until his divorce from his estranged wife is finalized.

Iris is confident that she will work out her feelings about Harry and George with time, little expecting that she will do so only when the greatest possible disaster strikes the Morris Building and she herself is faced with death.

Small Town Nurse

by Emily Thorne, 1956

Marian Rutledge brought love and happiness to others — but could not find either for herself.

Diagnosis: Loneliness
Prescription: Love

As simple as that, Nurse Marian Rutledge prescribed for the people of Bridgetown.

There was Marian’s brother Clive, who frequently thought that something — or someone — was missing from his life.

And Alberta Thwaits, who withdrew into one small corner of a dusty, rundown mansion.

Or Olive Cressett, a timid spinster, whose domineering mother constantly “protected” her from unhappiness — and men.

For these, Nurse Marian could make quick diagnoses — and find just the right cures.

But for herself, she was as helpless as any other woman in love.

Society Nurse

by Georgia Craig, 1962

From jet set to hospital, Susan worked to rebuild her shattered life.

The heart knows.

Love betrayed Susan Merrill, socialite. Jilted by a fortune hunter, she turned to nursing in hope that hard work would fill the void in her heart and replace her broken dreams.

But love was something she still had a lot to learn about. True love means dedication as well as romance. A new world, new experiences, and a new and deeper kind of love waited for Susan as she crossed the threshold from her luxurious but shallow life to one of noble purpose in serving others.

Special Duty Nurse

by Ann Rush, 1968

The handsome young giant, his head swathed in bandages, was an enigma to the entire staff at County Hospital. With nine thousand dollars in his billfold — and quite the handsomest patient County had had in many a day — they decided that he must be a member of the entertainment world. Not a movie actor — or a night club performer — because most of the nurse would have recognized him; but someone important.

And then when all the nurses had worked themselves up to fever pitch about this stranger who since his admission had seemingly been dead to the world, the patient decided to come back to consciousness. And all their conjectures were blown sky-high. The man who looked so much like a Greek god was a well-known Florida playboy, Tony Cavanaugh, the son of wealthy Anthony Cavanaugh, owner of a chain of hotels.

It was a foregone conclusion that Tony, susceptible to all feminine charms, would fall for his blue-eyed nurse, Ann Cubbedge. But no one — and least of all Ann’s four apartment mates — would have dreamed that Ann would reciprocate. That Ann would even promise to marry Tony.

Their marriage rested on one condition — Tony must start doing something useful in the world. And Tony, who had expressed interest in archeology — and who loved the young nurse enough to change the pattern of his life — decided to go back to school and train for the job he wanted to do.

If Ann, at her parents’ home getting ready for her wedding, hadn’t been listening to the radio that night, the shock of hearing about Tony’s latest escapade might not have been so great…although it would have been devastating under any condition.

Still unable to believe her ears, Ann received a call to come back to work. And knowing that work was the thing she needed most, Ann accepted the assignment.

But how was Ann to know that the lanky, red-haired young man who brought her coffee and a sandwich, when she was unable to get them on the crowded train — and to whom she poured out her whole story of disillusionment — was at that very moment on his way to become the new resident at County Hospital?

Staff Nurse

by Lucy Agnes Hancock, 1942

To Judith Morely, Cranford was more than just a hospital where she made her living at a job she liked. Cranford was a refuge and a haven and Judith had no thought of ever leaving it to face marriage, men, or the world.

Judith had never known her father. Her mother had died when she was very young. She was brought up by her Aunt Hepsie in near-poverty, and it had been drummed into her over and over again that her father had forsaken his wife and child, that men were monsters not to be trusted, that she had a bad heritage and could never expect to amount to anything or live down the stigma. No one at Cranford knew about that past, or cared. Judith was well liked, an efficient nurse, an important part of the staff.

Then young Dr. Larry Booth tried to break down her reserve. He said he loved her. He said he wanted to marry her. She didn’t want to fall in love with him and she didn’t want to believe him. But gradually, she found she was beginning to do both. And Rufus Grant said he loved her and said he wanted to marry her. She felt sure she didn’t want to fall in love with him, but she did believe he was honest. And one evening, when she discovered that Dr. Booth really wasn’t trustworthy, she almost came to believe that Aunt Hepsie had been right. But Rufus Grant showed her why that wasn’t true.

Staff Nurse Sally

by Marjorie Norrell, 1965

If only Staff Nurse Sally Nesbitt could have fallen in love with nice young reporter Mike Amberton, instead of carrying a torch for the surgeon Curtis Palmer, in company with all the other nurses at the General Hospital!

Stand-By Nurse

by Peggy O'More, 1968

A major problem of the staff of the City Core Hospital was saving the lives of would-be suicides; a second problem was keeping the revived patients from trying again — and again. Nurse Iva Loring had an inner drive that had taken her through school and training at top speed — and straight into a nervous breakdown. Now she was being eased back into work as a stand-by nurse.

Clearly she had a special empathy with the depressed and the discouraged, so she was put on the suicide detail. But there was some question as to whether or not she was too understanding, too involved, to be effective; and whether it would not be better for both her and the patients if she gave up her career and married the druggist in the hospital dispensary.

State of Emergency

by Cassie Miles, 2002

Join these brave men and women for edge-of-your-seat suspense and happily-ever-after romance!

Her Fugitive…

Jordan Shane was in a serious bind. And Search and Rescue nurse Emily Foster was the one woman who could help him prove his innocence—and steal his heart right out from under him!

His Hostage…

Emily Foster had had enough danger to last a lifetime. All she wanted was a quiet life in the mountains. Instead, she got an attractive fugitive who had taken her hostage—and made her believe in love. On their hair-raising mountain trek, did she dare risk everything for Jordann’s life—and his love?

We made a trip to D.I. (a local thrift store) last Thursday and while we were there Emma declared that she was going to find a nurse book to add to our collection. I warned her that nurse books were getting harder and harder to find, so the chances of her finding one on that particular trip were pretty slim. Undaunted, she headed to the book section and started scouring the shelves.

About ten minutes later she tracked me down in soft furnishings, handed me this volume and asked, “Does this count?”

A Harlequin Romance (one of a series featuring the brave men and women of the Colorado Search and Rescue team) with a beautiful nurse, a handsome fugitive, Lazy Author Plot Device #5, and a cover depicting Jon Bon Jovi and Carrot Top in a passionate embrace?

Heck yes, it counts! Well found, Emma!

Strange Triangle

by Florence Stuart, 1964

Nurse Carol and Dr. Mike were about to build a life together, but an intruder from their past appeared, intent upon destroying that life before it began.

Nurse Carol Bliss was finally going to marry the man she had loved for years, Dr. Mike Conway. On the eve of their wedding, an evil intruder threw their plans into chaos. Out of the past came Carol’s own sister, beautiful Nurse Beth, suddenly returning to reclaim Dr. Mike, her ex-husband. Greed drove Nurse Beth to infamous schemes. And Dr. Mike, in order to protect his child, fell prey to all these schemes. Can Dr. Mike and his beloved Carol, forced into a strange intrigue, come out with their love intact?

Student Nurse

by Patricia Rae, 1982

Every moment is an emergency when you’re training to be a nurse!

In nursing school, every day was plagued with the constant pressure of life-and-death crises, the unrelenting fear of failing the patient, the frantic pulse of the hospital heartbeat. Student nurse Carol Welles was determined to become a self-assured professional, but she was a woman as well, who wanted her relationship with medical student Duane Duran to become something more permanent.

From Obstetrics to Intensive Care, from her first injection to her first catheterization, Carol tried to cut down on human suffering…and caused her personal life to suffer at the same time. She was in the field of saving lives…could she discover how to save her own life, too?

Studio Nurse

by Virginia Roberts, 1961

Being studio nurse meant for golden-haired Lori Todd sharing all the excitement of Hollywood picture-making, as well as taking care of Producer Mike Lancaster’s ulcer. Mike’s worry was the picture that would never be finished….

Lori had two worries. Handsome Mace Hunter, test pilot for Pacific Aircraft, who persisted in risking his life daily for the sheer adventure of it…and naval lieutenant Dirk Patou. The future that Dirk offered Lori was both stable and secure, and in his white uniform Dirk was every bit as handsome as the test pilot who simply would not listen to reason….

Substitute Nurse

by Anne Maguire, 1978

Jennifer Hanover thought she was the luckiest nurse at General Hospital, for she had won the heart of attractive, dedicated Dr. Larry Johnson. But then her scheming twin sister, Kristi, ruined Jen’s vacation and turned her life inside out — all with one urgent phone call. Overnight Jen was forced to masquerade as Kristi, a nurse at a trailer-park clinic.

Jen lived in her sister’s home, treated her sister’s patients, and fell under the spell of her sister’s ruggedly handsome boss, Ash Hunter. And to top it off, she found herself mothering a slew of trailer park waifs.

Living a double life was difficult enough for Jen. Even more difficult was choosing the one right man to share her life with forever.

Sue Barton, Neighborhood Nurse

by Helen Dore Boylston, 1949

Redheaded Sue Barton left her position as Superintendent of Nurses at the Springdale, New Hampshire, Hospital, in order to raise a family. Now she and Dr. Bill have three children: six-year-old Tabitha and the four-year-old twins, Johnny and Jerry. Sue is happy in her job as wife and mother until she goes to a reunion of her class in nursing school, where the accomplishments of others make her feel as if she is “stagnating.”

This Sue Barton story tells how Sue discovered the importance of her own job. She nurses the neighborhood; she finds work for a crippled farmer; she pinch-hits for the visiting nurse; she helps bring the artist Mona Stuart and her teen-age daughter Cal together. And always something is happening at home for Sue and Bill and their faithful Veazie Ann to cope with — Jerry’s strange tantrums, Johnny’s disappearance in the woods with his little friend Anne, Tabitha’s attempt to run away. Are Sue’s training and abilities wasted on all these daily and personal small problems? Her customary humor and warm good sense help her decide.

Sue Barton, Rural Nurse

by Helen Dore Boylston, 1939

At twenty-three, Sue Barton was a high-spirited and courageous young nurse with a temper that matched her red hair. She had graduated from a great metropolitan hospital, served with distinction in the Henry Street Settlement in New York, and incidentally she had fallen in love with Dr. Bill Barry, whom she had first known as an interne [sic].

Sue loved her work in the wards, the discipline and efficiency of the operating room and the friendships she had won among her patients. When Dr. Bill first proposed, Sue felt that she could not give up her professional life. But Bill was persistent and at last she decided to marry him and to help him with his country practice.

But the marriage has to be postponed, Bill becomes an object of hostility, a typhoid epidemic which he cannot control threatens his reputation, and Sue suddenly finds herself fighting tooth and nail with all the courage and training at her command to save the man she loves. Here is a story of the nursing career, with the excitement, the laughter, and the authenticity which have distinguished the earlier Sue Barton books.

Sue Barton, Senior Nurse

by Helen Dore Boylston, 1937

Here is a refreshing and authentic story of a nurse’s life. In it redheaded, vivacious Sue Barton finishes her training and goes on to the many experiences, both humorous and exciting, that a pretty young nurse can meet in a great modern hospital.

In the very beginning of the book Sue gets mixed up in a minor mystery of the hospital, and we find that although she and her friends are more mature than they were as students, they are still able to get into occasional trouble with the Head Nurse. Exceedingly interesting episodes are those that deal with Sue’s serious work, including her first experience in the operating room, and the operation when she assists the brilliant but fiery-tempered doctor for whom nothing is ever right. Later she has her training in the care of newborn babies and their mothers. Deeply immersed as she is in her work, Sue struggles with the conflict of her love for her career and her growing affection for Dr. Barry, who continues to show as much interest in the pretty young nurse as he did when she was just a student.

This book will be read with enjoyment by all who wish to know the inside story of the exciting dramatic life that goes on in a big hospital.

Sue Barton, Staff Nurse

by Helen Dore Boylston, 1952

That Friday seemed like every other July day and not at all like an end to anything. Great puffs of white cloud drifted innocently across the hazy summit of Mt. Washington, the afternoon was drowsy with the song of insects and the smell of pines. A breeze, fresh and clean from the wooded slopes of New Hampshire’s Presidential Range, brought a pleasant touch of coolness. It was a day to enjoy and there was no hint of trouble in it.

Sue paused halfway up the back-porch steps and turned, a slender figure in white slacks and green blouse. Her copper-red hair was brushed softly back from a vivid face which refused to tan regardless of sun and wind, and her brown eyes were quiet with contentment. She smiled, half in tenderness, half in amusement, as she looked back.

Her five-year-old twins, Johnny and Jerry, with Maxl the dachshund, were entangled in a wriggling heap on the lawn. Her daughter Tabitha, aged seven, was swinging under the big maple, dark pigtails flying as she swooped. From the tool shed came a bass rumble slightly off key — the voice of Sue’s husband, Dr. William Barry, humming Old Man River while he collected his fishing kit. Indoors and somewhat muffled by distance Sue heard a gurgle followed by a prolonged squeak and she laughed. The baby was awake.

The late afternoon sunlight spilled down through the maples, touching into brilliance the red heads of the tumbling little boys, and dappling Tabitha’s happy face.

Sue Barton, Student Nurse

by Helen Dore Boylston, 1936

She began a new life in a big hospital.

Sue looked for a place to escape from the terrible Mrs. Pasquale. There it was — a small door — probably a broom closet. Sue jerked open the door. She stepped in and — dropped!

Down and down she fell. Then she struck bottom — soft, yielding bottom. She had fallen down the laundry chute.

Adventures — comic, exciting, dangerous — mark Sue Barton’s first year as Student Nurse.

Sue Barton, Superintendent of Nurses

by Helen Dore Boylston, 1940

Autumn comes early in New Hampshire. September had scarcely begun, yet already the northern flanks of the White Mountains were touched with crimson, and the worn summits stood out sharply in frosty air. In the valleys, however, the summer still clung in a drowsy blue haze, and the maples shading the little town of Springdale had not yet lost their August green.

Springdale itself lay along the banks of its small river, a scattering of white houses and spacious barns walled in by hills — a sleepy little town in a sleepy little valley, where nothing, it seemed, ever happened.

But something was happening that September afternoon, though not precisely in the village: On a bluff high above it, in the grounds of a small, glaringly new brick hospital, there was a continuous stir of activity. Cars sped around the circular drive, each pausing before the hospital to unload a trunk and passengers — always a hesitant girl with a suitcase, accompanied by relatives. Each time, the group went uncertainly into the hospital to emerge, presently, through the rear door, in the wake of a white-uniformed nurse.

A lank man in overalls, with handlebar moustache, dawdled a lawnmower over the grass as close as possible to the hospital entrance.

“No good’ll come of it!” he muttered darkly from time to time for the benefit of the “up” patients congregated in the sun porches. The patients grinned. They were all natives of the village or surrounding countryside and Nat Delano’s dire predictions were a long-standing community joke.

The hospital janitor and three maids were grouped, ostensibly for conversation, in a basement doorway overlooking the drive. Back among the trees, on the verandah of Edgett Hall, the nurses’ residence, was a gathering of white uniforms whose owners had been seized with a desire for fresh air — and a view of the centre rear door of the hospital.

This was the door through which the new arrivals emerged, an intermittent procession of tall girls and short, thin girls and fat, with assorted parents. But however varied their looks the girls had three things in common: they were all young, all a little scared, and they must all pass that battery of eyes from the hospital to the brick dormitory among the trees.

Sue Barton, Visiting Nurse

by Helen Dore Boylston, 1938

Not many of the houses looked prosperous and most of them were grimy; yet the street had charm, for traces of another era lingered in the crookedness of windows and doors, in the casual little yards, in old-fashioned wooden porches elaborate with scrollwork. New York roared around the street and above it. An icy wind from the harbor swept through it, blowing paper into the faces of pedestrians, and tearing at the “For Rent” sign swinging over the door of the smallest house on the street — a tiny red brick house with green shutters and a white door.

The sign creaked dismally, and the janitor, coming out of the basement of the adjoining house, looked up with an expression of melancholy indifference. Then he glanced along the street and brightened. He could always tell when people were apartment hunting, because they progressed so jerkily, pausing every few steps to appraise house fronts and read signs.

The two girls coming toward him were proceeding after this method, and their faces had the set look of people whose feet are beginning to hurt. They were pretty girls, and smartly dressed, but they were not New Yorkers if the janitor was any judge. New Yorkers always gazed upward, admiring New York, while strangers never did so — for fear of seeming unsophisticated. The Empire State Building was in plain sight, its slender shaft glittering in the sun, yet neither girl gave it a good look, a long, pleased, neck-stretching look, as any New Yorker would have done.

Sugar Bush Nurse

by Virginia Smiley, 1981

Kiley McBride felt she was being drawn along like a magnet as she drove up the winding Vermont road toward Sugar Bush Manor. There she was to begin her new job as nurse-companion to Victoria Grayson, who was confined to a wheelchair. Was Kiley simply relieved to escape the heartbreak of losing Dr. Justin Caldwell to another woman? Was she intrigued by the memory of the deep blue eyes belonging to the man who’d hired her — Lawrence Grayson, her patient’s son? Was she perhaps curious about Mrs. Grayson’s other son, the one who was said to beguile every girl he met?

Kiley wasn’t sure what she really hoped to find at Sugar Bush Manor. She knew only that she could no more turn back than she could stop breathing!

Summer-Camp Nurse

by Mary Lupton, 1985

From the beginning of the season at Camp Custer, Nurse Lisa Jordan knew the likable young camp director, Larry Fenton, would become her friend. She also knew James Wagner, the gruff, good-looking recluse from the castle across the lake, would be her top mystery man. And twelve-year-old Cheryl Briggs would be her most troublesome camper. It wasn’t the girl’s cuts and bruises that Lisa feared. It was Cheryl’s rebellious attitude that kept the whole camp staff on tenterhooks. Meanwhile, after a few brief encounters with James Wagner, Lisa began to wonder if their attractive neighbor across the lake was mentally deranged. But that worrisome question would not be answered till the day Cheryl disappeared and caused total chaos!

Surgeon Calls, A

by Hazel Fisher, 1985

“Adequate.” That is consultant Eliot Richmond’s damning judgment of the new Sister on Women’s Surgical, Selina Harding. But though she is determined to prove to him that she is much more than adequate, hot-tempered Selina soon finds herself beset by problems — not least, how to prevent her growing attraction for the domineering surgeon. For Selina and Mr. Richmond are too much alike; too passionate and quick to jump to conclusions…

Surgeon’s Nurse

by Ann Gilmer, 1969

Working with Dr. Clay Burke was a supreme challenge for any nurse — but for lovely young Jill Rowley, the job meant much more. She was head over heels in love with the brilliant and handsome surgeon, and Clay responded in kind. But he was a widower, with a bitterly jealous teen-aged daughter, and the marriage kept being put off.

Jill felt trapped in a dead-end love, and the attentions of dashing Dr. Greg Bonnel grew hard to resist. Then one wintery night a car accident placed a famous Senator and his young secretary on the operating table — and amid tragedy, scandal and intrigue, Jill painfully discovered where a nurse’s highest loyalty lay, and what were the true needs of her own beleaguered heart.

Surgical Nurse

by Ruth Dorset, 1970

St. Paul’s Hospital

Nurse Kathy Hogan was an operating room nurse at large, modern St. Paul’s. She participated in the daily drama of life and death at the side of the brilliant surgeon, Gregory Martin. She was his trusted assistant, the nurse he called for in the most hazardous operations. A widower, Dr. Martin seemed to have no private life — he was dedicated to his profession.

Kathy wondered if the respect and admiration she felt for him was only that — or did it cover deeper emotions? She had to decide because young Bill Regan wanted to give her an engagement ring.