Audrey Schulman

This novel interweaves the perspectives of Jeremy, an engineer who leaves small-town Maine in 1899 to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa, and finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions killing his men in nightly attacks; and Max, an American ethnobotanist who travels to Rwanda in 2000 in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical, but finds herself shadowing a family of gorillas whose survival...

"Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing ability to walk across a room without assistance. And it's being offered a placement at a prestigious research institute where she can put to good use her recent award money. With the Foundation's advanced technological resources and a group...

A rich man's daughter who cannot get into a medical school in the U.S. because she was caught cheating obtains a place in an Asian medical school after her father pays $83,000, just for the first year. Located on an island in Indonesia, the school is run on military lines and the novel describes the way Jane Guy and other rejected medical students adapt. By the author of The Cage.