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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 medicine, offers his science-backed nutritional plan that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Years after the fatal car accident of John?s daughter Eric, an organ transplant recipient who received Erin?s heart joins the Baxters for Christmas with her husband. Kendra and Moe are atheists whom none of the Baxters have met before. So, John?s inviting them to join the family for their special holiday gathering is too much for some individuals to bear. Would it be too much for ten-year-old Amy, whose mother?s heart Kendra has?
Author
Series
Angels walking volume 3
Language
English
Description
Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children -- especially since there will be no children of her own. The only problem is Major League Baseball player Marcus Dillinger, the man she never meant to fall in love with. Neither Marcus nor Mary Catherine's other friends -- Tyler Ames and Sami...
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 hearts from across the animal kingdom, from insects to whales to humans. Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Truman Wiley used to report news from around the world, but now the troubling headlines are his own. He's out of work, out of touch with his family, out of his home, and his son's heart is failing. The situation seems hopeless, until he's given the chance to write the story of a death row inmate who wants to donate his heart to Truman's son. But as the execution clock ticks down, Truman uncovers evidence that may point to the man's innocence.
Publisher
Time Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 286 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides up-to-date, clinically proven information that addresses the key causes of heart disease and provides advice for creating a customized program to help maintain life-long heart health.
Author
Language
English
Description
For thirty-four-year-old Ryan Perry, life is good a year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, until he begins to receive strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me, " and discovers that he is being stalked by a mysterious woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
Series
Language
English
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Description
Heart disease poses the greatest health threat that women in the United States face: One in every three women will die from it each year. But that doesn't have to be the case. Heart disease is not an inevitable part of growing older. In fact, if you reach the age of 50 without developing the major risk factors for heart disease, you can live your entire life without it, and your chances of dying from it decrease from 50 percent to a strikingly
...12) Heart: a history
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was the spark of life, as well as, somehow, the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in [this book], it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and developed the science to change the way we live. Deftly weaving together his own experiences with the defining discoveries...
14) Hear your heart
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
33 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simple explanation of the structure of the heart and how it works.
19) One life
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1970]
Edition
[first American edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before -- and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in secrets, Hunter embraced the Sears family and never looked...
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