McLaughlin, Kathleen
Summary: "Bad Blood meets Dreamland in this kaleidoscopic investigation into the shadowy and vampiric blood business and the dangerous limits of demand for the crucial resource that runs through our very veins. Every year, about twenty million Americans sell blood plasma for cash in a barely regulated market dominated by private industry and off-the-grid trafficking. These commercial efforts prey on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.17 MCLHalvorson, Karin
Summary: Find out what goes on every day Inside the Blood! Detailed illustrations, color photos, and simple text combine to make a fun and easy introduction to how blood works. This book also includes simple activities and crafts like Plasma Soup, Blood Pumpers and Blood-Type Hype with how-to photos to further engage young learners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J612.1 HALAveyard, Victoria
Summary: "Ambientada en un reino imaginario, esta novela nos muestra a una sociedad dividida por el color de la sangre. Por un lado está la gente común que tiene sangre roja; por el otro tenemos a aquellos que poseen sangre plateada y que tienen habilidades sobrenaturales. Estos últimos forman una élite cerrada y llena de privilegios. La protagonista es Mare, una chica de sangre roja que sobrevive en...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Océano 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Provides basic consumer health information about blood and circulatory system function, diseases, and treatments. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 BLOMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: "This funny and fact-filled picture book is all about blood: where it's found, what it does, how it travels, and why vampires shouldn't drink it. From the four chambers of the heart to the platelets that clot your blood when you scrape your knee, everything you want to know about the cardiovascular system is right inside these pages. Just watch out for thirsty vampires"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.1 MCAAveyard, Victoria
Summary: With Mare powerless as a prisoner of Maven Calore, the boy she once loved, her rebel Reds continue to organize and train as they prepare for war, while exiled prince Cal sets out to rescue Maven from captivity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AVESummary: Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Children 2018D'Adamo, Peter
Summary: "If you've ever suspected that not everyone should eat the same thing or do the same exercise, you're right. In fact, what foods we absorb well and how our bodies handle stress differ with each blood type. Your blood type reflects your internal chemistry. It is the key that unlocks the mysteries of disease, longevity, fitness, and emotional strength. It determines your susceptibility to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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Summary: Explores the science, traditions, and myths surrounding blood, from ancient bloodletting practices to the development of mass blood donations during the Blitz and from researchers working on synthetic blood to the lucrative business of plasma transfusions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.1 GEOMcGoogan, Cara
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan follows the twisting trail of tightlipped executives and missing documents to bravely ask if the line of corruption could have been broken, whether people could have been saved, and, ultimately, who is to blame for the thousands of unnecessary deaths. McGoogan not only uncovers the scandal of Factor VIII but also exposes a sweeping blueprint for corporate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books, a division of Diversion Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 616.97 MCGSummary: The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUGuthrie, Julian.
Summary: "In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross, or how they would change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.32 GUTInchauspé, Jessie
Summary: "Improve all areas of your health from your weight, sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, and even slow down aging, with easy-to-implement, science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar levels while still eating the foods you love. Glucose, or blood sugar, is a tiny molecule in our body that has a huge impact on our health. It enters our bloodstream through the starchy or sweet foods we eat....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: "Spanning nearly a century in time, The Vain chronicles the criminal lives of four sinful and stylish blood bank-robbing vampires. Chicago, 1941. A blood bank is held up in a robbery, but no cash is taken--only blood. It's the latest in a string of similar robberies and as the United States prepares to enter World War II, FBI Agent Felix Franklin is certain it's part of a wider plot to weaken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RAHSummary: Enter the fascinating world inside your body where roughly 37.2 trillion cells work hard for you 24 hours a day and 365 days a year! The cell-sational action comedy Cells at Work! that has garnered praises from a wide array of audiences, from casual viewers to professionals in the medical field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME CELSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUEvenson, Brian
Summary: When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice, and its role in a 1902 murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his newly discovered half-brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEWhitehurst, Susan
Summary: Discusses the brief life of an extraordinary young African American doctor whose research with blood left us many legacies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DRERuhl, Jenny
Summary: Based on the award winning Bloodsugar101.com web site, this book explains what peer-reviewed research published in top medical journals has to say about: What is a normal blood sugar? How does diabetes develop? What really causes diabetes? What blood sugar levels cause complications? Must you deteriorate? What diet is right for you? How can you make that diet work? What medications are safe?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Technion Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.4 RuhStine, R. L.
Summary: Evan visits an eerie old toy store and buys a dusty can of Monster Blood. But then he notices something weird about the slimy green ooze. It keeps growing. And growing. And growing. And all that growing has given the blood a monstrous appetite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC STISummary: Childbirth expert Sheri Bayles, RN, covers all aspects of labor and delivery, including pain relieving options, Lamaze training, a breathing technique, natural childbirth, and everything you need to know about cord blood banking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Expect This L.L.C. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.4 LAUAveyard, Victoria
Summary: Aggressively pursued by her royal former friend when she flees the court that would denounce and control her Silver powers, Mare discovers that there are others like her and endeavors to organize a rebellion against their oppressive leaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016