<div>An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this &ldquo;rich&rdquo; and &ldquo;vivid&rdquo; historical novel from a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift&mdash;an acute sensitivity to impending death&mdash;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 claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world&rsquo;s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival&mdash;medicine&mdash;makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician is the first book in New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Noah Gordon&rsquo;s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.</div>

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The Physician

<div>New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: In 19th-century Spain, the son of a vineyard owner builds a life for himself, but a dangerous plot threatens it all . . . Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa Eul&aacute;lia, in northern Spain, where his father grows black grapes that are turned into cheap vinegar. Joseph loves the agricultural life, but he is the second son, and his father&rsquo;s vineyard will be inherited by his brother Donat, the firstborn. Josep needs to keep his hands in the soil. He yearns for a job growing grapes and for an opportunity to marry Teresa Gallego.In Madrid, an assassination plot, conceived against the political leader of Spain by men of wealth and power, creates a storm of intrigue that sucks into its vortex a group of innocent young farm workers in Santa Eul&aacute;lia. How Josep&rsquo;s life is changed drastically by these events, and how, ironically, they gradually turn him into an inspired vintner with an evolving vision of life, is the fascinating story of The Winemaker.</div>

The Winemaker

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author delivers &ldquo;a big, authentic novel&rdquo; of the professional and personal challenges of three young doctors (The New York Times).Three young men from different backgrounds have graduated from medical schools and become surgical fellows at a leading teaching hospital in Boston. They learn to become surgeons, to communicate with patients and families, and to be observed and appraised by their peers and professors on daily rounds. And each month&mdash;sometimes with dry mouth and rapid pulse&mdash;each attends the meeting of the Mortality Conference, known to all as the Death Committee, which examines every patient loss for possible human error, in order to prevent it from happening again. How the Death Committee affects and is affected by the lives, loves, and ambitions of three new doctors is the theme of this intriguing and profoundly moving novel.</div>

The Death Committee

<div>A woman physician confronts the moral issues of her time in the third novel in the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s historical medical trilogy. Roberta Jeanne d&rsquo;Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to the farmhouse in Western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life. How she continues to fight for every woman&rsquo;s right to choose, while acknowledging her own ticking clock and maternal yearning, makes this prize-winning third story of the Cole trilogy as relevant as tomorrow.</div>

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Matters of Choice

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling novel that follows the life and career of a rabbi as he journeys through America: &ldquo;A rewarding reading experience.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles TimesMichael Kind is raised in the Jewish cauldron of 1920s New York, familiar with the stresses and materialism of metropolitan life. Turning to the ancient set of ethics of his Orthodox grandfather, with a modern twist, he becomes a Reform rabbi. As insecure and sexually needy as any other young male, he serves as a circuit-rider rabbi in the Ozarks, and then as a temple rabbi in the racially ugly South, in a San Francisco suburb, in a Pennsylvania college town, and finally, in a New England community west of Boston. Along the way he falls deeply in love with and marries the daughter of a Congregational minister; she converts to Judaism and they have two complex, interesting children. Noah Gordon&rsquo;s picture of a brilliant and talented religious counselor&mdash;who at times is as bereft and uncertain as any of his congregants&mdash;is a deeply moving and very satisfying novel.</div>

The Rabbi

<div>A man travels to Israel to uncover a diamond&rsquo;s remarkable past in this vivid historical saga from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Physician. A diamond cutter and seller from a long, respected line of precious-gem dealers, New Yorker Harry Hopeman is intrigued by the story of the so-called &ldquo;Jerusalem Diamond,&rdquo; a magnificent yellow jewel rumored to date back to the biblical time of King Solomon. So when he&rsquo;s asked to broker a deal that will return the legendary gemstone to Israel, he eagerly accepts. Arriving in the volatile Middle East, Hopeman soon discovers that his assignment will be anything but easy. Representatives of the Holy Land&rsquo;s three major religions&mdash;Judaism, Christianity, and Islam&mdash;are all laying claim to the priceless jewel that once adorned the miter of Pope Gregory, and they will do anything to possess it. Partnering with Israeli government agent Tamar Strauss&mdash;a beautiful and courageous Yemenite war widow who inspires the visiting American&rsquo;s passion as well as his respect&mdash;Hopeman is soon entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue that crosses continents and stretches back thousands of years. As the duo follows the twisting travels of the gem and the bloody conflicts it has ignited throughout its extraordinary past&mdash;a history that intertwines with Hopeman&rsquo;s own family saga&mdash;the story of a breathtaking land and its people unfolds in all its drama and glory. International-bestselling author Noah Gordon&mdash;whose acclaimed historical novel The Physician was the inspiration for the major motion picture of the same name starring Ben Kingsley&mdash; &ldquo;has packed a suspense tale with religious, historical and archeological underpinnings, along with fascinating insights into an industry whose conduct is generally shrouded from outside scrutiny&rdquo; (The Philadelphia Inquirer).</div>

The Jerusalem Diamond

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s historical saga of a family of healers&mdash;from Dark Ages London to Civil War America to modern-day Boston. In The Physician, an orphan in eleventh-century London, Robert Cole, becomes a fast-talking swindler. As he matures, his strange gift&mdash;an acute sensitivity to impending death&mdash;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&rsquo;s most renowned physician, Avicenna. Cole&rsquo;s journey and love for a woman who must struggle against her only rival&mdash;medicine&mdash;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.</div>

The Cole Trilogy

<div>This New York Times Notable Book is a &ldquo;sweeping historical drama&rdquo; of a physician and his family on the Illinois frontier in the nineteenth century (The New York Times Book Review).Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of 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 the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness. The details of how their deaf son manages to become a physician also, despite his handicap, and the story of how the Cole family is sucked into the bloody vortex of the Civil War and survives, makes an exceptional reading experience.</div>

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Books By Noah Gordon (8 Books)

The Physician

The Winemaker

The Death Committee

Matters of Choice

The Rabbi

The Jerusalem Diamond

The Cole Trilogy

Shaman

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