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In the blood : how two outsiders solved a centuries-old medical mystery and took on the US Army / by Barber, Charles,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once in a generation lifesaving product--and were persecuted for it by the U.S. Army. At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died bled to death before they could even reach an operating table. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could transform trauma medicine. So, when Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong--who had no medical or military experience--discovered that a cheap, crushed rock called zeolite had blood clotting properties, they brought it to the military's attention. The Marines and the Navy adopted the resulting product, QuikClot, immediately. The Army, however, resisted. It had two products of its own being developed to prevent excessive bleeds, one of which had already cost eighty million dollars. The other, "Factor Seven," had a more dangerous complication: its side effects could be deadly. Unwilling to let its efforts end in failure--and led by the highly influential surgeon Major John Holcomb--the Army set out to smear the reputations of the inventors whose product, they claimed, had its own risk. Over the course of six years, Hursey and Gullong engaged in an epic struggle with Holcomb for recognition--until a whistle blower inside the Army exposed Holcomb's financial ties to the pharmaceutical company that produced Factor Seven, a discovery that led to a massive lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. By withholding QuikClot--which would later become the medical miracle of the Iraq War--and using Factor Seven with its known, life threatening risks, Holcomb imperiled countless American lives. Using deep reportage and riveting prose, In the Blood recounts this little known David and Goliath story of corruption, greed, and power within the military--and the devastating, fatal consequences of unchecked institutional arrogance"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Gullong, Bart.; Hursey, Frank.; Hemorrhage; Medicine, Military; Surgical dressings; Wound treatment equipment industry;
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Pug the prince / by May, Kyla.;
Bub the pug's human, Bella, is going to be queen of the shelter's Adopt-an-Animal parade! It's Bella's job to find forever homes for the shelter pups and kitties, and Prince Bub wants to help. But being royal isn't as easy as it looks! Will Bella and Bub ever feel at home on the throne?
Subjects: Animal fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Pug; Dogs; Dogs; Animals; Human-animal relationships; Diaries;
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Woman enough : how a boy became a woman and changed the world of sport / by Worley, Kristen,author.; Schneller, Johanna,author.;
"From a high-performance Canadian cyclist and transgender woman comes a powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity. Kristen Worley, a world-class cyclist, aspired to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Having begun her transition in 1998, she became the first athlete in the world to submit to the International Olympic Committee's Stockholm Consensus, a gender verification process that would allow her to engage in sport as the person she knew she was meant to be. An all-male jury determined she fit their biological criteria. Three decades earlier, Kristen was Chris, a male baby adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto family. From early childhood, Chris felt ill-at-ease as a boy and like an outsider in his conservative family. An obsession with sports -- running, waterskiing, and cycling -- helped him survive what he would eventually understand to be a profound disconnect between his anatomical sexual identity and his gender identity. In his twenties, with the support of newfound friends and family and the medical community, Chris became Kristen. Sport had always been her means of escape, and now she wanted to compete for her country and herself. Though she passed the hurdle of gender verification, the IOC, international and local cycling associations and the World Anti-Doping Agency insisted that transitioned male-to-female athletes should not receive testosterone supplements. They viewed such supplements as performance-enhancing, failing to recognize that women produce varying levels of the hormone too. Kristen's transitioned body had stopped producing any hormones at all -- she needed hormone support to stay healthy and to compete. So Kristen fought back on behalf of all female athletes. She filed a complaint against the IOC and the other sports bodies standing in her way with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. And she won. Born to Be Kristen is the account of a human rights battle with global repercussions for the world of sport; it's a challenge to rethink fixed ideas about gender; and it's the extraordinary story of a boy who was rejected for who he wasn't, and who fought back until she found out who she is"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Worley, Kristen.; Women cyclists; Transgender athletes; Gender identity in sports.; Sports;
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Instant family [videorecording] / by Byrne, Rose,actor.; Gamiz, Julianna,actor.; Anders, Sean,1969-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Moner, Isabela,actor.; Notaro, Tig,actor.; Quiroz, Gustavo,actor.; Wahlberg, Mark,1971-actor,film producer.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner, Gustavo Quiroz, Julianna Gamiz, Tig Notaro.When Pete and Ellie choose to start a family, they stumble headfirst into the world of foster care adoption. After they learn their perfect foster child comes with two other siblings, Pete and Ellie find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight and must hilariously learn the ropes of instant parenthood if they hope to become a real family.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Foster parents; Foster children; Parenthood; Married people; Families;
For private home use only.
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Bunnicula. [videorecording] / by Warner Bros. Entertainment,production company,publisher.;
An all-new animated comedy series based on the bestselling children's book of the same name. The series follows the paranormal comedy adventures of Bunnicula the vampire rabbit who, instead of drinking blood, drains the juice of carrots and other vegetables to boost his supernatural abilities. Upon moving to the mysterious Orlock Apartment building in New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Mina discovers Bunnicula locked away in a chamber way down in the basement.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Bunnicula (Fictitious character); Vampires; Rabbits; Supernatural;
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This is us. [videorecording] / by Brown, Sterling K.,actor.; Hartley, Justin,1977-actor.; Metz, Chrissy,1980-actor.; Moore, Mandy,1984-actor.; Ventimiglia, Milo,1977-actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.;
Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley.When one of their triplets is stillborn, Caucasian couple Jack and Rebecca Pearson adopt an African-American baby born on the same day. Debuting in 2016, this acclaimed and offbeat NBC drama series jumps between past and present as it tells the moving story of the Pearsons and their children Randall, Kate, and Kevin over the course of many years.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Families; Man-woman relationships;
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Her Amish springtime miracle / by Griggs, Winnie.;
When Hannah Eicher discovered sweet baby Grace in her barn last spring, the adorable infant seemed like the answer to her prayers. The young Amish baker has always wanted a family of her own and now that she's fostered Grace for nearly a year, her adoption application is almost certain to be approved. But an unexpected visitor to Hope's Haven could change everything...
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Amish; Single women;
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Anne of Green Gables [videorecording] / by Ballentine, Ella,actor.; Botsford, Sara,1951-actor.; Harrison, John Kent,television director.; Lalonde, Julia,actor.; Sheen, Martin,actor.; Television adaptation of (work) :Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of Green Gables.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Ella Ballentine, Martin Sheen, Sara Botsford, Julia Lalonde, Amelia Byrnes-lewis, Jaime Feggi.A new adaptation of the classic series, the film is set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.G.DVD, region 1, widescreen (16x9); stereophonic.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Made-for-TV movies.; Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character); Country life; Orphans;
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Arthur. [videorecording] / by Altro, Melissa,voice actor.; Ansell, Cameron,voice actor.; Ball, Sonja,voice actor.; Brochu, Danny,voice actor.; Crowder, Steven,voice actor.; Dinsmore, Bruce,voice actor.; Kozlov, Tamar,voice actor.; Naylor, Robert,1996-voice actor.; Resther, Jodie,1978-voice actor.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Voices: Cameron Ansell, Robert Naylor, Bruce Dinsmore, Sonja Ball, Daniel Brochu, Jodie Resther, Steven Crowder, Melissa Altro, Tamar Kozlov.Arthur and his friends have helped kids learn important life lessons for over 25 years! Celebrate the longest running children's animated series on television with this special collection of 30 Arthur stories that covers topics including divorce, adoption, dealing with physical disabilities, citizenship, death, and more. This set also includes all four episodes from Arthur's 25th anniversary season.G.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; full screen and wide screen presentations ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Arthur (Fictitious character from Brown); Aardvark; Brothers and sisters; Families;
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The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words / by Chandler, Raymond,1888-1959.; Day, Barry (Playwright),editor of compilation.;
"Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating commentary, gives us the life of "the man with no home," a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable values and that of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War, with its resulting changing vernacular. Through his fiction and letters, brilliantly woven together, Chandler reveals what it was like to be a writer, and in particular what it was to be a writer of "hard-boiled" fiction in what was for him "another language." Along the way, he discusses the work of his contemporaries: Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Somerset Maugham, among others. Here is Chandler's Los Angeles, a city he adopted and which adopted him in the post-World War I period ... Chandler on his Hollywood, working with Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and others...Chandler ... organized crime and on his alter ego, Philip Marlowe, private eye, the incorruptible knight with little armour who walks the "mean streets" in a world not made for knights ... on drinking (his life in the end was in a race with alcohol -- and loneliness) ... and here are Chandler's women -- the Little Sisters; the dames -- in his fiction -- and his life"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.; Authors, American; Detective and mystery stories;
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