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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was the spark of life as well as somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in [this book], it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and developed the science to change the way we live. Deftly weaving together his own experiences with the defining discoveries...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries --which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously...
5) Heartbeat
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lub-DUB. Lub-DUB. Lub-DUB. The rhythm of every animal's heartbeat is different. Flick-dash flick-dash! Lub-DUB. Lub-DUB. Lub-DUB. From tiny meadow mice to tall giraffes to the octopus with three hearts, each animal's heart has its own beat, in tune with its body's needs"--
Author
Publisher
Humanix Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In his new book, The Simple Heart Cure: The 90-Day Program to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease, you ll find this top doc s groundbreaking, three-pronged approach to prevent and reverse heart disease an approach honed by his study of cultures free of heart disease, and his decades of experience helping thousands of patients achieve a healthier heart at any age.--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
As Christmas nears, John Baxter makes a bold gesture--he invites a stranger to share Christmas Eve dinner with his family. But not just any stranger. This woman is the recipient of his daughter Erin's heart. John knows the invitation will impact each of his adult kids and their families. But will they choose to embrace their guest? And how will the woman's presence affect his granddaughter--the one who feels the loss of her mother most keenly?
Author
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"If America could send a man to the moon, why couldn't its best surgeons build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how hard it can be to replicate nature's greatest creation. Part investigative journalism, part medical mystery, Ticker is a dazzling story of modern innovation, recounting fifty years of false starts, abysmal failures, and miraculous triumphs,...
17) Not in the heart
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Truman Wiley's son is dying, and the only thing that can save him is a heart transplant. All hope seems lost, until Truman learns of a death row inmate who is willing to donate his heart to Truman's son. But right before the time of execution, Truman discovers that the inmate may be innocent. For his son to live, should his innocent man die?
19) Alive
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After finally receiving a heart transplant, seventeen-year-old Stella throws herself into her new life, but her recovery is marred with strange side effects and hallucinations, and when she meets Levi Zin, a mysterious new boy at her Seattle prep school,Stella soon realizes that she and Levi have more in common than she could ever imagine.
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