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The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

Tommy Tomlinson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Roxane Gay's Hunger, a searing, honest, and candid exploration of what it's like to live as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who decided he had to change his life as he neared the age of fifty weighing in at 460 pounds.When he was almost...
 
 
Nail Art Sourcebook: Over 500 Designs for Fingertip Fashions

Pansy Alexander-Potter · Carlton Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

This popular guide to nail art features the coolest trends in fingertip fashion! Nail art is a fabulous way to make your own personal statement, and turn your nails into the hottest fashion accessory around. From stripes, chevrons, and flowers to glitter, gemstones, foils, and trompe l'oeil...
 
 
Keto Diet: Your 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Reverse Disease

Josh Axe · Little, Brown Spark
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the national bestseller Eat Dirt, a 30-day plan -- including more than 80 delicious recipes -- to burn fat, fight inflammation, and reverse disease using the keto diet. Today, the ketogenic diet is the world's fastest growing diet, and with good reason. When practiced...
 
 
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

Alisa Roth · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons...
 
 
The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer

CHARLES GRAEBER · Twelve
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of The Good Nurse, Charles Graeber details the discovery of cancer's secret weakness, and how a new generation of scientists finally cracked the code on how the human immune system can fight -- and beat -- the disease. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font:...
 
 
Stop Spilling Your Soup!: The Complete Essential Tremor Solution

Dr. Darlene A Mayo MD FAANS · Dr. Mayo's Books
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback

Do you shake and don't know why? Have a family member with tremors? Board certified neurosurgeon Dr. Darlene A. Mayo explains in this book the most common causes of tremor and the symptoms you most often see with each condition. She wrote this book based on years and years of experience...
 
 
The Complete Mental Resource Guide 2018/2019

Grey House Publishing · Grey House Pub
Pages: 565
Format: Paperback

This updated edition of the Mental Health Resource Directory includes comprehensive coverage of 22 major mental health disorder categories, from ADHD to Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders, with over 100 subcategories and specific disorders. Users will find a variety of disorder-specific...
 
 
The Forks Over Knives Plan: How to Transition to the Life-Saving, Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet

Alona Pulde M.D. · Touchstone
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback

From the creators of the groundbreaking documentary comes the New York Times bestselling diet plan Sanjay Gupta called "the prescription you need to live a long, healthy life" - a plan to transition to a delicious whole-foods, plant-based diet in just twenty-eight days.The trailblazing...
 
 
The Black Woman's Breast Cancer Survival Guide: Understanding and Healing in the Face of a Nationwide Crisis

Cheryl D. Holloway · Praeger
Pages: 203
Format: Hardcover

Breast cancer is reaching epidemic levels, especially among Black women. This survival guide provides tools that women -- Black women in particular -- can use to identify and combat this all-too-common threat.* Speaks from the perspective of a Black woman who has had breast cancer and is also...