Cheney Duvall, M.D
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Author
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Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Dr. Cheney Duvall, weary of being rejected for jobs simply because she is a woman, jumps at the chance to care for two hundred frontier brides-to-be on a sea voyage from New York to Washington Territory, but with the journey looming before her, Cheney begins to doubt whether she is really prepared for the responsibility.
Author
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Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Cheney receives a letter from a friend pleading that she come to a remote spot in the Ozark Mountains. The friend is having a baby, and there are no doctors available in the primitive wilderness. Though she is warned about the mountain folks, Cheney feels compelled to go and provide medical care to her friend and the community.
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Series
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Cheney Duvall's attempt to help the mountain folks in the primitive wilderness of the Ozark Mountains had proven to be a difficult experience for both her and her nurse, Shiloh Iron. When they return to her home in New York, Cheney determines to go into private practice with Devlin Buchanan, a highly successful physician who had previously asked her to marry him. A cholera outbreak threatens when an infected steamship arrives.
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Series
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
With New Orleans as their destination, Cheney Duvall and her nurse, Shiloh Irons, leave behind the glittering lights of New York City and travel to Charleston, South Carolina, intending to stay for only a short time. But the purpose of their stop immediately draws them into the plight of this war-torn Southern city, in the painful throes of Reconstruction and carpetbagger policies after the Civil War.
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Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
A disturbing letter from her great-aunts has brought Cheney Duvall to their indigo plantation outside of New Orleans, but what she and Shiloh Irons discover is much more serious and dangerous than they imagined. A West Indies cult has begun performing rituals and rites on a high knoll just across the bayou from the plantation, and warnings are sent that La Maison des Chattes Bleues is on spirit ground and the aunts must leave.
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Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Working in the hospital proves to be quite different from Cheney's experience in private practice. One of the conflicts Cheney faces is that of fair and conscientious medical treatment of what are considered unfit persons. San Francisco teems with brothels, criminal gangs, poverty-stricken vagrants, and immigrants. The hospital's board of directors has decreed that none of these people will receive treatment, regardless of their ability to pay. When...
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Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Cheney has discovered some disturbing facts about Bain Winslow and travels to warn Shiloh. The Winslows have refused to acknowledge any kinship to him and believe he is nothing more than a con man bent on stealing the family fortunes.
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Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
After years of growing friendship, Shiloh Irons-Winslow believes he finally has something to offer Cheney Duvall and asks for her hand in marriage. But for Cheney, one insurmountable obstacle stands in the way of their happiness, and it is impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, Bain Winslow has become obsessed with plotting revenge against his newfound cousin, Shiloh, who is the legitimate heir to the vast Winslow holdings and wealth in Hawaii.