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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Edinburgh, late nineteenth century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife replaces his heart with a cuckoo-clock. It will work, as long as Jack follows the rules, mainly not falling in love. But his encounter with a fiery-eyed girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her will test the resistance of his makeshift heart to the breaking point.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Artificial hearts are seductive devices. Their promissory nature as a cure for heart failure aligned neatly with the twentieth-century American medical community's view of the body as an entity of replacement parts. In Artificial Hearts, Shelley McKellar traces the controversial history of this imperfect technology beginning in the 1950s and leading up to the present day. McKellar profiles generations of researchers and devices as she traces the heart's...
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Chev Chelios returns to track down a ruthless Chinese mobster who has stolen his most prized possession: his heart. As he hunts down his enemy in Los Angeles, his battery-operated ticker requires regular jolts of electricity in order to work. Chev is determined to get his real heart back and wreak vengeance on whoever stole it.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In 1874 Scotland, Jack, born with a frozen heart and abandoned by his mother, only survived infancy thanks in part to Dr. Madeleine, who replaced his heart with a cuckoo clock. Now, as Jack matures, Dr. Madeleine teaches him how to control his emotions and warns the boy never to fall in love. However, when he falls for street performer Miss Acacia, subsequently beating up a bully in her honor, Jack is forced to flee through the streets of Edinburgh....