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1) Amazonia
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English
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When the lone survivor of a scientific expedition into the Amazon stumbles out of the jungle to die mysteriously in a small village--a man who had only one arm when he went in but two when he came out--the government asks Nathan Rand, the son of the expedition's leader, to try and retrace his father's footsteps and discover what happened.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Thomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test. What Wicked doesn't know is that something's happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas...
3) Thyroid connection: why you feel tired, brain-fogged, and overweight-- and how to get your life back
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Are you exhausted all the time, plagued by brain fog, and unable to lose weight? Do you struggle with insomnia, panic attacks, and tremors? But does your doctor insist that your labs are normal, and that you just need to eat less and exercise more? As anyone who has been there knows, nothing is more frustrating, stressful, and emotionally draining than feeling unwell and being told you're fine by the very person who is supposed to heal you. The truth...
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English
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"A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history-from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism-have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social...
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English
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Based in part on a study that researched the relationship between diet and disease in 65 counties of rural China. Also draws on scientific research from around the world that documents the connection between diet and disease, especially "diseases of influence." Provides advice on how to eat derived from evidence presented earlier in the book and critiques the public health information system.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The thyroid is the new hot topic in health. Across age groups, from baby boomers and their parents to millennials and even children, more and more people — women especially — are hearing that their thyroids are to blame for their fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, memory issues, aches and pains, tingles and numbness, insomnia, hair loss, hot flashes, sensitivity to cold, constipation, bloating, anxiety, depression, heart palpitations, loss of libido,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The Fever Code is the book that holds all the answers. How did WICKED find the Gladers? Who are Group B? And what side are Thomas and Teresa really on? Lies will be exposed. Secrets will be uncovered. Loyalties will be proven. Fans will never see the truth coming. Before there was the Maze, there was The Fever Code.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
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English
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'It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.' First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear --...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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This history of mankind's battles against infectious diseases looks at how epidemics shaped empires and economies and how medical revolutions freed us from these cycles until new threats arose caused by changes in global trade and climate.
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition but one that veterinarians called by a different name — and treated in innovative ways. This remarkable...
12) A heart revealed
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English
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Amber Marie Sterlington, the Rage of the Season in Regency-era London, has her pick of men and she knows what she wants most in a husband: a title and a fortune. Why would she ever marry for something as fickle as love? And why would she ever look twice at Thomas Richards, a third son of a country lord? But Amber's social standing is shattered by a rare disorder which causes the loss of her hair. Publicly humiliated and estranged from her shamed family,...
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142 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Step into a powerful memoir that illuminates one woman's fight against rat lungworm disease. As a raw and deeply authentic account of one family's battle with the little-known rat lungworm disease, The Year of the Rat is a heartfelt memoir that seeks to raise awareness and shine an illuminating light on the perils of a disease that has lurked almost under the radar of medical science for decades. Seen through the eyes of author and researcher Kay...
14) Guts
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away--and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
15) Bat superpowers
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Examines how bats could not only carry deadly diseases but may also hold secrets to longevity and health.
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young...
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English
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A pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street -- aka Zone One -- but pockets of plague-ridden...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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They thought the end came in a flash. Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth, killing most of the population. The worst is yet to come. Mark and Trina were there when it happened. They survived. But now a virus is spreading. A virus that fills humans with murderous rage. There is no cure. No escape. They’re convinced that there’s a way to save those who are left — if they...
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