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Cole Family Trilogy Series

This saga chronicles the journey of a man driven by an insatiable thirst for knowledge and healing, despite his orphaned past and challenging fate. Blessed with the foresight of death and a profound desire to cure, he navigates the intricate world of medieval England and Persia. The narrative explores his relentless pursuit of becoming a physician, his battles against disease, and his struggles with societal prejudices in a vibrant and often perilous era. Experience a compelling drama of courage, determination, and the quest for one's true calling.

Matters of Choice
Shaman
The Physician

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  1. 1

    The Physician

    • 713 pages
    • 25 hours of reading
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    In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick- and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healing- a gift that urged him on to become a doctor. So all consuming was his dream, that he made the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, to its Arab universities where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever.

    The Physician
  2. 2

    Shaman

    • 652 pages
    • 23 hours of reading
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    Robert Jeremy Cole, the legendary doctor and hero of THE PHYSICIAN, left an enduring legacy. From the eleventh century on, the eldest son in each generation of the Cole family has borne the same first name and middle initial and many of these men have followed the medical profession. A few have been blessed with their ancestor's diagnostic skill and the 'sixth sense' they call The Gift, the ability to know instinctively when death is impending. The tragedy of Rob J.'s life is the deafness of his son, Robert Jefferson Cole, who is called Shaman by everyone who knows him. Shaman's life is difficult. First, he must learn to speak so that he can take his place in the hearing world, and then he must fight against the prejudices of a society where physical differences matter. As Shaman struggles to achieve his identity, the Coles, along with the rest of America, are drawn into the conflict between the North and the South.

    Shaman
  3. 3

    Matters of Choice

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    With Choices, Noah Gordon brings to a close his great trilogy spanning the generations of the Cole medical dynasty. Beginning with the legendary 11th-century doctor Robert J. Cole, each eldest son has borne the same name and middle initial, and some have possessed the uncanny "sixth sense" known as The Gift: the terrible and instinctive knowledge that someone is about to die. In Choices, it emerges again in the present, but this time in a daughter, Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole, known as R.J. The first time R.J. defies her beloved father is when she is born a female; the second, when she chooses to study law rather than medicine. Yet destiny is to overtake her when R.J. realizes that she has inherited The Gift. As she holds the hands of a sick man, R.J. feels a dreadful certainty that he is going to die; tragically, he is her own lover. Struggling with her grief, R.J. knows she must bow to the inevitable and become a physician. But her life changes when she moves to a small-town practice and is faced with a terrible dilemma -- and an important choice to make.

    Matters of Choice