Showing results for "Dream Doctor" in Genre Fiction

Jeanne Thornton's debut novel is a love story unlike any other, featuring Julie Thatch, a tough-as-nails, chainsmoking, wise-cracking 17-year-old Texan. Her idol, her older sister, jogs headlong into the lights of an approaching car, and dies. And Julie falls in love with a girl who both is and isn't an echo of her older sister, a long-limbed Francophone named Patrice - who is also a devotee of the Institute of Temporal Illusions, a Church of Scientology-like cult.

It is 1777, in a colonial America where the internet, social media, and ubiquitous electronic communications are fully woven into the fabric of society. Hours after a top-secret Congressional sub-committee uploads the Articles of Confederation, a mysterious internet plague breaks loose in the cloud, killing any user who accesses a networked device.

München 1898: Lulu, Elsa und Fanny könnten nicht unterschiedlicher sein, doch eines verbindet die drei jungen Frauen: Sie wollen Ärztinnen werden. Aber an der Universität sind Frauen offiziell nicht erwünscht, und von Gleichberechtigung ist die bayerische Hauptstadt nicht nur in der Wissenschaft weit entfernt. Lulus Vater, Direktor des Haunerschen Kinderspitals, will seine Tochter lieber standesgemäß verheiraten.