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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Zoologist Bill Schutt delivers a look at the science behind hearts from across the animal kingdom - from insects to whales to humans - in this lively natural history. Millennia ago, when we first began puzzling over the mysteries of the human body, one organ stood out as vital. The heart was warm, it was central, and it moved as it pumped blood. The ancient Egyptians treated it with reverence, mummifying it separately from the body so that the soul...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"DIANE CHAMBERLAIN is the international bestselling author of twenty-three novels. She lives in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole."--
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Two years have passed since the terrible car accident that took the life of John Baxter's daughter, Erin, her husband and three of their four daughters. John has invited a stranger for Christmas Eve dinner - Kendra Bryant, the transplant recipient who now has Erin's heart. Ashley and her brother Luke don't think it is right; they want to protect their ten-year-old niece, Amy - the only surviving member of the accident. Kendra Bryant has been struggling...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
" Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of Americans today, and while most doctors focus on lowering cholesterol and blood pressure they are overlooking the real culprit: glucose levels. With today's overweight population adn dramatic increase in Type II Diabetes, studies now show that sugar, not fat, does most of the heart damage. Plaque reducing statins used to lower high cholesterol treat some symptoms but not the cause of most heart disease...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It's not that he isn't smart. He is. It's just that hard work, the whole legal world, isn't really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down. Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband...
10) The heart disease breakthrough: what even your doctor doesn't know about preventing a heart attack
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
243 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Bring Me Their Hearts volume 1
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Zera is a Heartlessthe immortal, unaging soldier of a witch. Bound to the witch Nightsinger, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger's control, she serves the witch unquestioningly. Until Nightsinger asks Zera for a prince's heart in exchange for her own, with one addendum: if she's discovered infiltrating the court, Nightsinger will destroy Zera's heart rather than see her tortured by the witch-hating...
17) You go first
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
19) Your heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The heart carries oxygen-rich blood to our cells every second of our lives, and we don't even have to do much to keep this muscular organ moving. Incredibly, it only takes about 60 seconds to pump blood to every cell in the entire body! This fun fact and many more are found in this informative volume. Readers will learn about the different chambers of the heart, the path of blood through it, and how it works with blood vessels. Supportive illustrations,...