Oxygen by Carol Cassella (2008)

The main character in Carol Cassella's very readable first novel, Oxygen, is, like Cassella herself, an anesthesiologist in Seattle. Dr. Marie Heaton finds her life gone badly off track when what should have been a pretty routine surgical procedure goes wrong, and eight-year-old Jolene Jansen dies on the operating table. Jolene's mother files a malpractice suit against Marie as well as the hospital, and guilt, grief, and fears about her future as a physician begin to take their toll on Marie. She turns for support and reassurance to her colleague, Dr.

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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier (2007)

Grayson by Lynne Cox (2006)

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H. W. Brands (2003)

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (2007)

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski (2007)

The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett (2007)

Territory by Emma Bull (2007)

Lucky in the Corner by Carol Abshaw (2002)

Nothing But the Truth (And a Few White Lies) by Justina Chen Headley (2007)

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2007)

My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain (2002)

No Angel by Penny Vincenzi (2004)

Hello to the Cannibals by Richard Bausch (2003)

Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming (2001)

Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison (1996)

Icebergs by Rebecca Johns (2007)

A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor (2006)