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Northwind / by Paulsen, Gary.;
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Wilderness survival; Survival; Orphans; Fishing villages; Canoes and canoeing; Diseases;
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Radium girls [videorecording] / by King, Joey,1999-actor.; Mohler, Ginny,film director.; Pilcher, Lydia Dean,film director.; Quinn, Abby,actor.; Seymour, Cara,actor.; Shepherd, Scott,actor.; Juno Films,publisher.;
Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd, Susan Heyward, Neal Huff, Collin Kelly-sordelet, John Bedford Lloyd, Joe Grifasi, Brandon Gill.Based on true events, it follows teen sisters, Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie's world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. She discovers a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming of age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. Based on historical events, the national sensation following the notorious case of the Radium Girls in 1928 ultimately led to a significant and lasting impact in the area of workplace health and safety and the study of radioactivity.PG.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Employee rights; Occupational diseases; Radioactivity; Radium paint; Women employees;
For private home use only.
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Until proven safe : the history and future of quarantine / by Manaugh, Geoff,author.; Twilley, Nicola,1978-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley explore the history and future of quarantine, from the Black Death to Big Data. Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. The authors track the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space-from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. But the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. They also tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world's wheat supply, meet NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections, and introduce us to the corporate tech giants hoping to revolutionize quarantine through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. We live in a disorienting historical moment that can feel both unprecedented and inevitable; Manaugh and Twilley help us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility."--
Subjects: Quarantine; Epidemics; COVID-19 (Disease);
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Stop that virus! / by Emmons, Scott.; Ilic, Nikolas.;
"A virus can make you sick. How can you stop it?"--Provided by publisher.Preschool-Grade 1.LSC
Subjects: Viruses; Virus diseases; Communicable diseases;
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Before the ever after / by Woodson, Jacqueline.;
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Football stories.; Brain; Best friends; Friendship; Fathers and sons; Memory; African Americans;
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Sloth sleuth / by Marko, Cyndi.; Lome, Jess.; Fondriest, Natalie.;
On an island crawling with crime, everyone's a suspect. Luckily, its resident sloth can solve crimes in her sleep (and often does!). Meet Paz, the world's first sloth sleuth. She may be slow . . . but she's always one step ahead of the bad guys.LSC
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Mystery comic books, strips, etc.; Sloths; Private investigators; Foodborne diseases;
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Broken / by Lyons, CJ,1964-;
Attending high school for the first time, chronically ill Scarlet, with the help of her new friends, faces down bullies, endures her school-nurse mother's smothering overprotectiveness, and eventually discovers the truth behind her illness--a truth that puts much more than her life at risk."Ages 12 and up"--P. [2] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Heart; Munchausen syndrome by proxy; Friendship; Truthfulness and falsehood; High schools;
© c2013., Sourcebooks Fire,
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The Wahls protocol : how I beat progressive MS using Paleo principles and functional medicine / by Wahls, Terry L.; Adamson, Eve.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An integrative approach to healing chronic autoimmune conditions by a doctor, researcher, and sufferer of progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) whose TEDx talk is already a web sensation"--
Subjects: Wahls, Terry L.; Multiple sclerosis; Multiple sclerosis; Multiple sclerosis; Physicians;
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Wilder girls / by Power, Rory.;
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.LSC
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Dystopias.; Teenage girls; Quarantine; Diseases; Survival; Boarding schools; Islands;
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Everything Is Tuberculosis The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection [electronic resource] : by Green, John.aut; Green, John.nrt; CloudLibrary;
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. “This highly readable call to action could not be more timely.” –Kirkus, starred review “Mem­orably probes the intersections of medicine and human emotion.” –Bookpage, starred review Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu­manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John be­came fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi­ties that allow this curable, preventable infec­tious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Disease & Health Issues; Infectious Diseases; History;
© 2025., Penguin Random House,
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