Jamieson, Stuart
Summary: Taut, elegantly written, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R. Stuart Jamieson has lived two lives. One began in heat and dust. Born to British ex-pats in colonial Africa, Jamieson was sent at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JAMIESON, STUART JAMSummary: Each of the three programs that make up "The mysterious human heart" focuses on a different aspect of what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we're on the verge of learning about the heart. This material is presented through the real-life dramas of people who suddenly learn that a normal, functioning heart is not something that can be taken for granted. In episode 1 we examine the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video 2007
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYSJones, Chip
Summary: An investigation into how racial inequality has shaped the heart transplant race describes how in 1968 an injured black man checked into a hospital before his heart was removed and donated without his family's knowledge or consent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 JONSilverstein, Amy
Summary: Memoirist Amy Silverstein tells the story of an extraordinary group of women who surrounded and supported her through the long, emotional fight to stay alive as she waited for her second heart transplant in twenty-five years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SILVERSTEIN, AMY SILFair, Eric
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem FairEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDSEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 EDSHeat Moon, William Least
Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEASummary: The cubs are excited about going on a family trip, until they find out the destination is not Grizzlyland, but a tour of Bear Country's National Parks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERMorris, Theresa
Summary: Examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists -- the cesarean section -- and challenges most existing explanations of this unprecedented rise, arguing that there is a new culture within medicine that avoids risk or unpredictable outcomes and instead embraces planning and conservative choices, all in an effort to have perfect births.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.8 MORNoonan Gores, Kelly
Summary: "When we receive diagnoses from medical professionals, we are often so overwhelmed that we give up authority over our own health and well-being. But the truth is, we have more control over our health and life that we have been led to believe, and that belief is at the core of our body's capacity to heal itself. Based on the groundbreaking documentary of the same name, Heal follows two people on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 NOOSummary: (1st work) The teacher from the Black Lagoon: On the first day of school, a young boy expects the worst when he discovers that his new teacher, Mrs. Green, is the "monster." (2nd work) What's under my bed?: Mary Ann and Louie are convinced there is something scary under their beds. (3rd work) By the light of the Halloween moon: A spying cat, a watchful witch, a hobgoblin sprite, all are scary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEARobey, Katherine Crawford
Summary: In Tor & Raven arefriends, Tor, a King shepherd, finds a Petoskey stone on the beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. He hopes that the rare stone will bring him a friend. Meanwhile in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, Raven, too, finds a remarkable stone, a heart-shaped rock, right in the middle of the print of a bear paw. That night a great West Wind arises and blows Raven all the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROBDe Santis, Andy
Summary: Heart healthy cooking is easy and delicious with 5-ingredient recipes. Supporting your heart's health is fast and flavorful with The 5-Ingredient Heart Healthy Cookbook. Find expert guidance for maintaining a heart healthy diet, along with 101 ultra-simple recipes that focus on fresh, whole-food ingredients and enhancing flavor with spices. 5-ingredient dishes: Minimal ingredients mean less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Fuhrman, Joel
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, The End of Diabetes, and The End of Dieting presents a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse heart disease, the leading cause of death in America--coinciding with the author's new medical study revealing headline-making findings. Dr. Joel Fuhrman, one of the country's leading experts on preventative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 FUHSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILBarbo, Maria S.
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing over seventy Pokemon, including Pikachu, Meowth, Aipom, and Rockruff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sequoia Communications 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 917.9478 COFLippincott, Rachael
Summary: Stella y Will tienen la misma enfermedad pulmonar, el el msmo hospital. Cuando se enamoran, recuperan la alegría de vivir, per hay una problema: por el peligro de contagio, no pueden acercarse a menos de cinco pies sin arriesgar sus vidas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nube de Tinta 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH LIPAilor, Edgar I.
Summary: "In 1978, William Least Heat-Moon made a 14,000-mile journey on the back roads of America, visiting 38 states along the way. In 1982, the popular Blue Highways, which chronicled his adventures, was published. Three decades later, Edgar Ailor III and his son, Edgar IV, retraced and photographed Heat-Moon's route, culminating in Blue Highways Revisited, released for publication on the thirtieth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 778 AILShipman, Viola
Summary: "For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside charm of Good Hart, Michigan, waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger she's believed since childhood would one day carry on her legacy -- the Very Cherry General Store. Like generations of Jackson women before her, Cherry Mary,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SHIShiwasu, Yuki
Summary: "A strong-willed high school girl and a hot young scion of a business empire can't help trying to outwit each other every chance they get... But could these opposites be conning themselves out of the perfect match?! After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.L'Heureux, Christine
Summary: A little boy named Caillou gets to play games with his parents and learns about not being afraid in the dark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chouette 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION L'HeureuxAsimov, Isaac
Summary: The Foundation, a colony of psychologists, battles for supreme power in the galaxy, while also struggling to preserve all the accumulated knowledge of humankind in The Foundation, a sanctuary created by Hari Seldon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008