
The Cole Trilogy
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In The Physician, an orphan in eleventh-century London, Robert Cole, becomes a fast-talking swindler. As he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but by claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world's most renowned physician, Avicenna. Cole's journey and love for a woman who must struggle against her only rival-medicine-make The Physician a riveting modern classic.
In Shaman, Dr. Robert Judson Cole, nineteenth-century descendent of the first Robert Cole, travels from his ravaged Scottish homeland, through the operating rooms of antebellum Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich his classical medical education. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness. The Cole family is drawn into the bloody vortex of the Civil War, and their determination to survive in the midst of wilderness and violence will stay with the reader long after the final page.
In Matters of Choice, Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is the latest first-born descendant of Dr. Robert Cole. Favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital, she is married to a surgeon and owns a trophy residence in Cambridge as well as a summer house. But everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to her farmhouse in western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life. How she continues to fight for every woman's right to choose, while acknowledging her own ticking clock and maternal yearning, makes this prize-winning third story of the Cole trilogy relevant and unforgettable.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- The Physician
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Part One: Barber's Boy
- 1: The Devil in London
- 2: A Family of the Guild
- 3: The Parceling
- 4: The Barber-Surgeon
- 5: The Beast in Chelmsford
- 6: The Colored Balls
- 7: The House on Lyme Bay
- 8: The Entertainer
- 9: The Gift
- 10: The North
- 11: The Jew of Tettenhall
- 12: The Fitting
- 13: London
- 14: Lessons
- 15: The Journeyman
- 16: Arms
- 17: A New Arrangement
- 18: Requiescat
- 19: A Woman in the Road
- 20: Caps at Table
- 21: The Old Knight
- Part Two: The Long Journey
- 22: The First Leg
- 23: Stranger in a Strange Land
- 24: Strange Tongues
- 25: The Joining
- 26: Parsi
- 27: The Quiet Sentry
- 28: The Balkans
- 29: Tryavna
- 30: Winter in the Study House
- 31: The Wheat Field
- 32: The Offer
- 33: The Last Christian City
- Part Three: Ispahan
- 34: The Last Leg
- 35: Salt
- 36: The Hunter
- 37: Reb Jesse's City
- 38: The Calaat
- Part Four: The Maristan
- 39: Ibn Sina
- 40: An Invitation
- 41: The Maidan
- 42: The Shah's Entertainment
- 43: The Medical Party
- 44: The Death
- 45: A Murdered Man's Bones
- 46: The Riddle
- 47: The Examination
- 48: A Ride in the Country
- 49: Five Days to the West
- 50: The Chatir
- Part Five: The War Surgeon
- 51: The Confidence
- 52: Shaping Jesse
- 53: Four Friends
- 54: Mary's Expectations
- 55: The Picture of a Limb
- 56: The Command
- 57: The Cameleer
- 58: India
- 59: The Indian Smith
- 60: Four Friends
- Part Six: Hakim
- 61: The Appointment
- 62: An Offer of Reward
- 63: A Clinic in Idhaj
- 64: The Bedoui Girl
- 65: Karim
- 66: The Gray City
- 67: Two Arrivals
- 68: The Diagnosis
- 69: Green Melons
- 70: Qasim's Room
- 71: Ibn Sina's Error
- 72: The Transparent Man
- 73: The House in Hamadhan
- 74: The King of Kings
- Part Seven: The Returned
- 75: London
- 76: The London Lyceum
- 77: The Gray Monk
- 78: The Familiar Journey
- 79: Lambing
- 80: A Kept Promise
- 81: The Circle Completed
- Acknowledgments
- Shaman
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Part One: Coming Home
- 1 Jiggety-Jig
- 2 The Inheritance
- Part Two: Fresh Canvas, New Painting
- 3 The Immigrant
- 4 The Anatomy Lesson
- 5 The God-Cursed District
- 6 Dreams
- 7 The Color of the Painting
- 8 Music
- 9 Two Parcels
- 10 The Raising
- 11 The Recluse
- 12 The Big Indian
- 13 Through the Cold Time
- 14 Ball-and-Stick
- 15 A Present from Stone Dog
- 16 The Doe Hunters
- 17 Daughter of the Mide'Wiwin
- 18 Stones
- 19 A Change
- 20 Sarah's Suitors
- 21 The Great Awakening
- Part Three: Holden's Crossing
- 22 Cursing and Blessings
- 23 Transformations
- 24 Spring Music
- 25 The Quiet Child
- 26 The Binding
- 27 Politics
- 28 The Arrest
- 29 The Last Indians in Illinois
- Part Four: The Deaf Boy
- 30 Lessons
- 31 School Days
- 32 Night Doctoring
- 33 Answers and Questions
- 34 The Return
- 35 The Secret Room
- 36 The First Jew
- 37 Water Marks
- 38 Hearing the Music
- 39 Teachers
- 40 Growing Up
- 41 Winners and Losers
- 42 The Collegian
- 43 The Applicant
- 44 Letters and Notes
- Part Five: A Family Quarrel
- 45 At the Polyclinic
- 46 Heart Sounds
- 47 Cincinnati Days
- 48 The Boat Ride
- 49 The Contract Surgeon
- 50 A Son's Letter
- 51 The Horn Player
- 52 Troop Movements
- 53 The Long Gray Line
- 54 Skirmishing
- 55 "When Did You Meet Ellwood R. Patterson?"
- 56 Across the Rappahannock
- 57 The Full Circle
- Part Six: The Country Doctor
- 58 Advisers
- 59 The Secret Father
- 60 A Child With the Croup
- 61 A Frank Discussion
- 62 Fishing
- 63 The End of the Journal
- 64 Chicago
- 65 A Telegraph Message
- 66 The Elmira Camp
- 67 The House in Wellsburg
- 68 Struggling in the Web
- 69 Alex's Last Name
- 70 A Trip to Nauvoo
- 71 Family Gifts
- 72 Breaking Ground
- 73 Tama
- 74 The Early Riser
- Acknowledgments and Notes
- Matters of Choice
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Part One: The Throwback
- 1 An Appointment
- 2 The House on Brattle Street
- 3 Betts
- 4 Moment of Decision
- 5 An Invitation to the Ball
- 6 The Contender
- 7 Voices
- 8 A Jury of Peers
- 9 Woodfield
- 10 Neighbors
- 11 The Calling
- 12 A Brush with the Law
- 13 The Different Path
- 14 The Last Cowgirl
- Part Two: The House on the Verge
- 15 Metamorphosis
- 16 Office Hours
- 17 David Markus
- 18 A Feline Intimacy
- 19 The House on the Verge
- 20 Snapshots
- 21 Finding Her Way
- 22 The Singers
- 23 A Gift to be Used
- 24 New Friends
- 25 Settling In
- 26 Above the Snow Line
- 27 The Season of Cold
- 28 Rising Sap
- Part Three: Heartrocks
- 29 Sarah's Request
- 30 A Small Trip
- 31 A Ride Down the Mountain
- 32 The Ice Cube
- 33 Inheritances
- 34 Winter Nights
- 35 Hidden Meanings
- 36 On the Trail
- 37 One More Bridge to Cross
- 38 The Reunion
- 39 A Naming
- 40 What Agunah Feared
- 41 Kindred Spirits
- 42 The Ex-Major
- 43 The Red Pickup
- 44 Early Concert
- Part Four: The Country Doctor
- 45 The Breakfast Tale
- 46 Kidron
- 47 Settling In
- 48 The Fossil
- 49 Invitations
- 50 The Three of Them
- 51 A Question Is Answered
- 52 The Calling Card
- 53 Sunshine and Shadows
- 54 The Sowing
- 55 Coming of Snow
- 56 Discoveries
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
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