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Offit, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, presents a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry. He acknowledges that the placebo response makes some popular therapies helpful, while debunking the treatments that don't work and deriding celebrities who promote alternative medicine.
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In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's alternate history classic, the United States has lost World War II and subsequently been divided between the Germans in the east and the Japanese in the west. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the beauracracy and of...
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"Dr. Davis wants you to understand that conventional medicine is no longer working in your favor. He will expose how millions of people are prescribed unnecessary medications, given dietary recommendations crafted by big business, and undergo unnecessary procedures recommended by healthcare practitioners to feed revenue-hungry healthcare systems. The results of Dr. Davis' 6-week program are superior to solutions provided by the conventional healthcare...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death.
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Alchemy wars volume 1
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"The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster, and the Netherlands became the world's sole superpower. Three centuries later,...
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"It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young Black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known...
10) Weezer
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Weezer's self-titled tenth studio album. The first track from the highly anticipated album, Thank God for Girls, has charted across multiple genres and is currently sitting in the top ten on alternative radio.
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The number of adults and children with chronic health conditions continues to grow at an alarming rate. Saeed offers easy-to-follow evidence-based approaches to healing their ailments by targeting inflammation and its underlying root causes. She covers the foundations of good health like digestive health and detoxification, and the Four Big S's (stress management, sleep strategies, social and spiritual health), along with disease-specific alternative...
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"New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith returns with the follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges. THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. It will be an expansive journey that will first send him...
14) The rising
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Alchemy wars volume 2
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2015.
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"Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he finally makes it across the border to New France. There he begins his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster for the King of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony, has been banished from her homeland and captured by...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 27
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An alternative history in which Robert E. Lee, having won the victory at Gettysburg, prepares for a final assault on Washington, while President Lincoln, vowing to preserve the Union, calls Ulysses S. Grant to join the fray, and General Dan Sickles reorganizes the Army of the Potomac for another strike at Lee.
16) Restoring your digestive health: a proven plan to conquer Crohn's, colitis, and digestive diseases
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Includes material on a "wellness program based on a more historically and biologically correct diet, including the use of fermented foods and homeostatic soil organisms (HSOs)" used for "Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), acid reflux, chronic candida, food allergies" or other ailments.
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"Two days before Christmas and at just 26-years-old, Chris Wark found himself diagnosed with stage-3 colon cancer. Before he knew it, he was wheeled into surgery, where a golf ball-sized tumor and a third of his colon were removed. Doctors told Wark that as soon as he recovered from surgery, he would need 9 to 12 months of chemotherapy in order to prevent a recurrence. But when the first meal he was served in the hospital was a cafeteria-style sloppy...
19) Ghost stories
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The iconic British alternative rock group returns with their sixth release. The first tracks off their release are Magic and Midnight. Adele's producer Paul Epworth works with the band for the first time.
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"Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past fifty years, and over-the counter drug use has risen just as dramatically. In addition to the dozens of medications we take to treat serious illnesses, we take drugs to help us sleep, to keep us awake, to stop our noses from running, our backs from aching, and our minds from racing. Name a symptom, there's a pill to suppress it. Modern drugs can be miraculously life saving, and many...
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