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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island. Bethan and her friends are environmental activists, determined to protect the land. But Dean's group's exploitation of rare earth minerals deep in the caves unleashes an horrific contagion that has rested frozen and undisturbed for many millennia. Fleeing the terrors emerging from the caves, Dean and Bethan and their rival...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ellie, a high schooler with a rare genetic condition, navigates the divide between her "hospital-life" and "home-life," as a hospital stay brings her closer to Ryan, who challenges her perspective and makes her consider the extraordinary possibilities of her life.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"IBS affects 45 million Americans; it's also a tricky disease -- hard to diagnose, miserable to live with. With the advent of the low FODMAP diet, nutrition is one of the primary treatments -- but most folks don't know how to connect the dots between our brain and our gut health. Enter world renowned digestive health specialist and registered dietitian Kate Scarlata, and prominent GI psychologist Dr. Megan Riehl; their Mind Your Gut: The Whole Body...
Author
Publisher
Harperwave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An empowering, soul-baring personal account and guide from a two-time cancer survivor and healthcare disrupter that shows anyone how to deal with a frightening medical diagnosis in America today, providing the knowledge necessary to take ownership of personal wellbeing and maximize the chances for survival. More than twenty-five years ago, Kathryn Giusti was diagnosed with multiple myeloma at age thirty-seven and given three years to live. With...
5) The autoimmune cure: healing the trauma and other triggers that have turned your body against you
Author
Publisher
Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Reveals how trauma can rewire your body to trigger autoimmune diseases-and provides a comprehensive plan for readers to reset their immune system and finally heal.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Your liver plays a key role in your health, affecting chronic inflammation, heart health, mental health, cognitive health, and metabolic health (including type 2 diabetes). Yet most people aren’t aware of its power—and are unknowingly sabotaging their liver health. Medical understanding has evolved to reveal that metabolic health is the best indicator of fatty liver risk, meaning that treating fatty liver disease is less about losing weight (and...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two teen girls, Mara and Rory, navigate a complex web of love, infection, and survival as they reunite in an experimental resettlement program, grappling with their pasts and the looming threat of the virus that once transformed Mara into a monster.
Author
Series
Bride of the Shadow king volume 1
Publisher
FireWyrm Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Though she is the oldest daughter, Princess Faraine lives in the background, shunned from court and kept out of sight. Her chronic illness makes her a liability to the crown, and she has learned to give place to her beautiful, favored younger sister in all things. When the handsome and enigmatic Shadow King comes seeking a bride, Faraine is not surprised that her sister is his choice. Though not eager to take a human bride, King Vor is willing to...
Author
Series
Dream keeper saga volume 2
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lily is pulled back into the Realm, together with Adam and Keisha, because the dreamworld is being threatened by the blight, and her friends there need her help--but first she has to discover its origin, a quest that will not be easy, or safe.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading Ob/Gyn and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health. The medical system today is increasingly complicated and impersonal, and unfortunately, it is not going to be less so in the future. The rules of engagement have changed in medicine, but no one has bothered to inform patients. Much is written about Black women...
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sex Cells is the tale of scientific stonewalling, intrepid advocacy, and the still-pitched battle to get the scientific and medical world to recognize that women are not small men. Phyllis Greenberger has been working in the field of biological sex differences for more than 30 years, and she continues to be struck by the lack of understanding about this topic, even among medical professionals. After all, it's a fundamental aspect of human life: males...
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