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4) Overkill
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English
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"Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for years--not since their volatile marriage imploded--so he's shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he--despite their divorce--has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the...
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English
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Surgeon Bernie S. Siegel gives an inspirational, first-hand account of how patients can participate in their own recovery. Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day-patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.
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English
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The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. Physician Michael Greger examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America -- heart disease, cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more -- and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives....
9) Lawn boy
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English
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Things get out of hand when a stockbroker neighbor convinces a twelve-year-old boy to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
10) Daddy day care
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
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When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious childrens academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
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Series
Animal ark volume 24
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
When twin foals are born on Drysdale Farm, their owner asks Mandy and James to help care for his sick horses.
19) At the doctor
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Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
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Text and pictures describe what might happen during a visit to the doctor's office and during a chest X ray.
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Publisher
Quotidian Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A follow up to her well-received memoir The Long Good Night, this collection of essays offers a seasoned and uplifting perspective about the unexpected benefits that come to caregivers over time. For her, they are the gifts that Al (short for Alzheimer's) left behind and which, she asserts, no one talks about but should. What Al Left Behind will encourage anyone presently involved in the care of a chronically ill patient or one afflicted with Alzheimer's...