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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

Makary, Marty · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system.One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary,...
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Doughty, Caitlin · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space...
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The Anti-Anxiety Cookbook: Calming Plant-Based Recipes to Combat Chronic Anxiety

Browne, Jennifer · Skyhorse
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

If you or someone you know suffers from anxiety, this book can help.What we choose to fuel our bodies with affects us wildly. In today's world of overly processed food and artificial ingredients that almost always include empty calories and stimulants, it's important to educate...
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I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

Ikpi, Bassey · Harper Perennial
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview SelectionA deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi's experiences navigating Bipolar II and anxiety throughout the course of her life.Bassey Ikpi was born in Nigeria in 1976. Four years later, she and her mother...
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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Aronson, Louise · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That...
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The Core 4: Embrace Your Body, Own Your Power

Gaudreau, Stephanie · HarperOne
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

At Last, a No-Bullsh*t, Shame-Free Strength Transformation Program for WomenSince 2011, nutrition and fitness expert Steph Gaudreau has impacted the lives of thousands of women through her fierce-love approach to strength and badassery--what she calls, "The Core 4." The success...
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The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

Leschziner, Guy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night's rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders.For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients,...
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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come

Richard Preston · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever - but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses - from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National...
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A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

BJ Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The first ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying - and living fully until you do. "There is nothing wrong with you for dying," palliative care doctor B.J. Miller and Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner's Guide to the End. "Our ultimate purpose...
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The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning

Long, Litt Woon · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing - hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four...
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