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Women warriors of World War IIMagee, Mike
Summary: The Fascinating, infuriating story of how we built the world's most expensive, least equitable, health care system -- and what we can do to fix it. -- cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368.38 MAGSummary: About the rise and fall of St. Louis, Missouri's premier black hospital that trained the largest number of Black doctors and nurses in the world from 1937 through 1979, before and after desegregation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COLLee, Barbara Coombs
Summary: "...Finish Strong is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick. The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate. This book describes concrete action in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compassion & Choices 2022
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Summary: "From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system--and win. Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. At least,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.28 ALLHsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: "A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money. Social Security provides the bulk of most retirees' income and Medicare guarantees them affordable health insurance. But few people know what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368 MOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368 MOEStarr, Paul
Summary: "Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.961 STAWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.82 WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WALLS, JEANNETTE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSHossain, Anushay
Summary: Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, the concept of women's healthcare hardly existed. Hossain was relieved to deliver her baby in the US. But things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor Hossain ran a fever of 104 degrees, she shook and trembled uncontrollably, and the doctors finally performed an emergency C-section. Her experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HOSSteel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESummary: A film that investigates new and controversial techniques and methods for treating PTSD but more than that, it is a look into the lives of veterans in America today. It is an authentic portrayal of veterans today in America and their bitter combat to overcome drug addiction, criminal issues, and their individual struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Through investigation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILSummary: Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger that needs to go from Colorado to San Fransisco. Shortly after receiving the car, he takes a bet to get it there in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and highway patrol, they start a chase to bring him into custody. Along the way, Kowalski is guided by Supersoul who is a blind DJ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE VANMalone, Sharon
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASMoore, Kate
Summary: "1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PACKARD, E.P.W. MOOSummary: How do wrongful convictions happen, and what are the consequences for the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent? Fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories, while another exoneree's case is explored. They detail every aspect of the experience of wrongful conviction, as well as the remarkable depths of endurance sustained by each exoneree who never lost hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.973 CALO'Brien, Keith
Summary: "A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Stern, Scott W.
Summary: In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Insisting she could not possibly have an STI, Nina was coerced into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.74 STEKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Villarosa, Linda
Summary: "The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1089 VILWilliams, Erin
Summary: "What's Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like: immunodeficiency; cancer; endometriosis; alcoholism; severe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2024
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Summary: "CNN legal analyst Elie Honig analyzes how Attorney General William Barr has demolished norms and destroyed faith in the Department of Justice, turning one of the most apolitical and respected American institutions into a private law firm supporting and protecting its client: Donald Trump"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 353.4 HONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 353.4 HONSummary: For some 25 years, Frontline producer Ken Dornstein has been haunted by the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a terrorist act that killed 270 people, including his older brother David. Now, Dornstein sets out to find the men responsible, hunting for clues to the identities and whereabouts of the suspects in the ruins and chaos of post-Qaddafi Libya in this rare, real-life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYHerndon, Booton.
Summary: The men of the 77th Infantry Division couldn't fathom why Private Desmond T. Doss would venture into the horrors of World War II without a single weapon to defend himself. They called him a coward, but the soft--spoken medic insisted that his mission was to heal, not kill. Herndon shares the story of how Doss became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Remnant Publications 2016