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1) Q&A
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Goldstein, Dr. Walker, and Dr. Hall discuss common vision issues among preemies and how those issues can be avoided and possibly treated.
Series
Language
English
Description
Schizoaffective disorder is a form of psychosis and a mental illness in which a person experiences a combination of schizophrenia symptoms. People affected often have hallucinations or delusions, as well as mood disorder symptoms such as mania or depression. We meet Lynne Fisher, whose life was turned upside down by the onset of this illness, as she battled through five years of symptoms to find a treatment plan that enables her to live a constructive...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began-his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. After a narrow getaway from a blood- thirsty hollow, Jacob and Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Is our dependence on pesticides harming the health of our children? Every day, children are exposed to up to 130 chemical pollutants from pesticides. All around the world, scientists and doctors are raising the alarm, linking increase of child cancers, birth defects and even the explosion of autism with exposure to chemicals in pesticides. Six corporations control the pesticide market: Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, Dow, Basf and DuPont. They rule over...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie's oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie's new friend at school.
10) Invisible
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Nick decides to help his mother fight Fibromyalgia, a widely misunderstood syndrome labeled a woman’s disease, little does he realize that he would have to confront it himself.
12) Red butterfly
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood has been using motion capture technology in the movies for decades, helping animated characters come to life. Michigan State University scientists are using the technology to help identify possible osteoarthritis (OA) related movements in the hands of patients.
14) Gut Revolution
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Melissa, a 26-year-old mother of two, has been battling a painful case of irritable bowel syndrome for the past two years. She's seen all the doctors and had all the examinations, but no one has been able to help her. Can the latest science driving Gut Revolution provide any answers? We follow Melissa over her transformational six-week journey as our team of experts designs an intervention that literally changes her life.
15) Wonder
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
16) Library of souls
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Severe wounds like the ones soldiers suffer are at serious risk for becoming infected. But current methods don't always spot the dangerous bacteria in these injuries that cause the infections. Now a new "infection detection" system being tested on wound samples from soldiers in combat could end up saving limbs and lives.
18) Turtle boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventh-grader Will's Bar Mitzvah community service project, visiting an incurably ill older boy in the hospital, leads to a friendship that is life-changing for both them and those around them.
19) Pighearted
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In alternate chapters, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, who has a fatal heart condition, and J6, the pig growing the heart that could save his life, give their own perspectives on being a transplant donor and donee. Includes facts about the research project on which the story is based.
20) Gloria and Me
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Four days after Gloria Taylor was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, she crafted Plan B—an arrangement for someone to help her die. Gloria was terrified that she would become trapped in her body as her ALS progressed, and she was incensed that other Canadians with serious illnesses were facing the same cruel predicament. She spent the last days of her life tirelessly advocating to change the law that said it was a crime to help someone commit...
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