Product Description: Sean Doran has spent twenty years in third-world war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing his life's purpose: to do good. But when burnout sets in, Sean finds himself drawn home to Belham, Massachusetts. There, he discovers that his steely elderly aunt, dramatic sister, and quirky nephew are having a little natural disaster of their own...read more

Product Description: You don't know me, but I know about you....  I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you  from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as  someone did for me. It's hard for Anne Wingate  and her father to accept the doctors' diagnosis:  Anne is HIV positive...read more

Product Description: Rich and suspenseful with a hair-raising conclusion, this is Nancy Werlin's most dynamic novel yet--one that explores the ethics and amazements of genetic engineering.

Product Description: WOLFE’S CHOICE Author: Richard R. Karlen Date of Publication: October, 2005 Number of pages: 274 text Isbn: 0966083180 Library of Congress Control Number: 2005906940 Printer: King Printing Cover photograph by Kim Karlen Cover design by HM Fotograph/x This book is intended for the adult market to include both college students and the general reading public...read more

Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

Claire McCall is determined to learn if she carries the gene for Huntington's Disease, but in the midst of her search for answers, she runs away from a potentially healthy, life-long relationship because of a misunderstanding. Original.

The first female to graduate from medical school in her home town despite a dysfunctional family, Claire encounters a patient with a rare medical condition whose symptoms remind her of father's own behavior, a discovery that makes her fear for her siblings and her own career. Original.

Canadian eighth-grader Gavin has always found refuge from his abusive father and brother with the neighboring McVeigh family, but even as his own family self-destructs, he discovers that the McVeighs are struggling to deal with a hereditary illness that can strike at any time.Gavin escapes the bullying of his father and older brother by visiting his best friend Trist and Trist's sister Jasey, who must also watch as their family falls apart when a heredity illness leads to their father's suicide.

Thirteen-year-old Melanie feels angry and guilty because she is worried about herself instead of her mother, who has Huntington's chorea, a hereditary condition, until Melanie finds the strength to face her mother's illness and her own uncertain future.

Fifteen-year-old Tina discovers that her mother died of Huntington's chorea, a disease which she has a fifty-fifty chance of inheriting

With her mother hospitalized for a debilitating, genetically transmitted, terminal illness, Bent Roland struggles to cope with her fears for her own health and her feelings about the reappearance of her father eleven years after he abandoned the family