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American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest

Hannah Nordhaus · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper's Lament attempts to uncover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia--whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe - in this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West.The dark-eyed...
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Ending Back Pain: 5 Powerful Steps to Diagnose, Understand, and Treat Your Ailing Back
Ending Back Pain: 5 Powerful Steps to Diagnose, Understand, and Treat Your Ailing Back

Dr. Jack Stern M.D. Ph.D. · Avery; 1 edition
Format: Book

A totally new paradigm for treating back pain Virtually every American will suffer from back pain at some point. Dr. Jack Stern, a neurosurgeon and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, brings relief to these millions of sufferers (including himself) who literally ache for help....
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Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead

David J Casarett · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

Not too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication. As a young medical student, Dr. David Casarett was inspired by the story of a two-year-old girl named Michelle Funk. Michelle fell into...
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What You Must Know About Memory Loss & How You Can Stop It: A Guide to Proven Techniques and Supplements to Maintain, Strengthen, or Regain Memory
What You Must Know About Memory Loss & How You Can Stop It: A Guide to Proven Techniques and Supplements to Maintain, Strengthen, or Regain Memory

Pamela Wartian Smith · Square One Publishers
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback

Leave it to one of America's best-selling physician/authors to tackle one of the country's fastest-growing health concerns. With over 77 million baby boomers living in the U.S., memory loss is quickly becoming a major issue. Although the common belief is that these irritating lapses...
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Prescription Alternatives:Hundreds of Safe, Natural, Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health, Fourth Edition
Prescription Alternatives:Hundreds of Safe, Natural, Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health, Fourth Edition

Earl Mindell · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 440
Format: Print book

"For those who need to know what doctors and pharmaceutical companies are doing to people's health . . . this belongs in the library of every home." -- Lendon H. Smith, M.D., author of Feed Your Body Right Prescription Alternatives is an easy-to-use, immediate reference...
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Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love
Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love

Clancy Martin · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A provocative and unsettling look at the nature of love and deceptionIs it possible to love well without lying? At least since Socratess discourse on love in Platos Symposium, philosophers have argued that love can lead us to the truth--about ourselves and the ones we love. But in the practical...
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The Complete Aromatherapy and Essential Oils Handbook for Everyday Wellness
The Complete Aromatherapy and Essential Oils Handbook for Everyday Wellness

Nerys Purchon · Robert Rose Inc
Pages: 480
Format: Book

Aromatherapy is a method of employing essential oils to protect, heal and beautify. Essential oils are described as the "life force" or "essence" of plants. The most wonderful thing about essential oils is that they are available to everyone, and they are very simple...
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The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family
The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family

Leslie Morgan Steiner · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love comes a riveting new narrative about surrogate pregnancy from both sides of the equation--the parents and the gestational carrier.Once considered a desperate, even morally suspect option, surrogacy is now sweeping headlines, transforming...
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The Lupus Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Families
The Lupus Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Families

Donald E. Thomas Jr. MD FACP FACR · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease that can affect any system and organ in the body. For the 1.4 million people in the United States who have lupus, an overactive immune system senses that different parts of the body do not belong, and it attacks these parts. The immune...
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Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer
Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer

Eva M.D. Selhub · HarperOne; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental...
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The High-Protein Vegetarian Cookbook: Hearty Dishes that Even Carnivores Will Love
The High-Protein Vegetarian Cookbook: Hearty Dishes that Even Carnivores Will Love

Kristen Smith · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Satisfying vegetarian recipes from Veggie and the Beast Where do vegetarians get their protein? From delicious plant-based foods, including beans, nuts, quinoa, raw cocoa, and even dairy. These ingredients are used to their best advantage in this new cookbook. As a vegetarian living with...
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What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives
What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives

Bruce Grierson · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 241
Format: Print book

A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the processIn What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-four-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-four-year-old....
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American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America
American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America

Linda S Godfrey · Tarcher, 2014.
Pages: 367
Format: Paperback

From pre-Columbian legends to modern-day eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive guide covers the history, sightings and lore surrounding the most mysterious monsters in America - including Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, and more.Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and thunderbirds aren't just figments...
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End the Insomnia Struggle: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Get to Sleep and Stay Asleep
End the Insomnia Struggle: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Get to Sleep and Stay Asleep

Colleen Ehrnstrom PhD ABPP · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 221
Format: Print book

Insomnia is all too common in our modern culture, and can be devastating to your mental and physical health. Packed with research-based strategies and practical tools, this fully customizable book will show anyone who suffers with insomnia how to get a good night's sleep - night after night...
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8 Keys to Raising the Quirky Child: How to Help a Kid Who Doesn't
8 Keys to Raising the Quirky Child: How to Help a Kid Who Doesn't

Mark Bowers · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Tips and strategies for parents of kids who are "different" than all the rest. A quirky child experiences difficulty fitting in and connecting with others usually due to an interpersonal style or behavior that stands out from the other kids. Maybe they are obsessed with a topic...
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