Author: Pat Smith
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450263666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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When a prominent Ann Arbor physician receives a call to meet someone who may have information about her missing daughter, she jumps at the chance. After she parks her car in a remote area, she does not see the gun until it is too late. Dr. Meredith Ivanoff is dead. When Detective Nadine Willis of the Washtenaw County Sheriffs Department begins to investigate the murder, she discovers that the family had already hired Cletus Macintyre, a local PI, to look for their daughter. After she and Macintyre agree to reluctantly team up to search for the missing undergrad and to solve her mothers murder, deputies find themselves investigating a gruesome scene at a Portage Lake. Nicholas Baker, Ivanoffs estranged husband and father of the missing girl, is found murdered. As Willis and Macintyre immerse themselves in a world of corporate greed, murder, and academic politics, they encounter unethical doctors, a corrupt university official, a professor with something to hide, and a hedonistic villain. Willis and Macintyre are about to uncover a dangerous tangle of deceit and corruption and must rely on their intuition, connections, and experience to solve the case.
Author: Tiffany Gholar
Publisher: Tiffany Gholar
ISBN: 1508096058
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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On the edge of the Chicago medical district, the Harrison School for Exceptional Youth looks like a castle in a snow globe. Janina has been there since she was ten years old, and now she's fourteen. She feels so safe inside its walls that she's afraid to leave. Devante's parents bring him there after a tragedy leaves him depressed and suicidal. Even though he's in a different place, he can't escape the memories that come flooding back when he least expects them. Dr. Gail Thomas comes to work there after quitting her medical residency. Frustrated and on the verge of giving up on her dreams, she sees becoming a counselor as her last chance to put her skills to the test. When he founded the school, Dr. Lutkin designed its unique environment to be a place that would change the students' lives. He works hard as the keeper of other people's secrets, though he never shares any of his own. But everything changes late in the winter of 1994 when these four characters' lives intersect in unexpected ways. None of them will ever be the same.
Author: Katrina Hartwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781098043889
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Forgiveness: A Hard Pill to Swallow releases you from the struggle with unforgiveness. In this book, you are forced to take a retrospective look from within and make rational decisions about your choice to not forgive those who have offended you. On the other hand, it will guide you into seeing the big picture and the long-lasting benefits of forgiving. In the end, you will experience a peace of mind, healing, deliverance, and freedom.
Author: Teresa D. Patterson
Publisher: Teresa D Patterson
ISBN: 1499601980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Ravyn Knight’s career as a successful porn star goes down in flames after she is diagnosed with HIV. To make ends meet she becomes an erotic dancer and uses her former fame to build a side business as a high-profiled prostitute. She is the first victim of a vicious killer who leaves her body with multiple stab wounds. John Friendly, recently promoted as a detective, is still learning the ropes when he and his veteran partner, Wade Russell, are assigned the case of investigating Knight’s murder. Their uneasy partnership is strained even further by personal troubles in both their lives: Russell is drunk most of the time to help him forget about his son’s recent suicide, and Friendly’s rocky relationship with his girlfriend has him eyeing another woman. The detectives have conflicting theories, but the one thing they both agree on is that the killer is not yet done. When a second stripper is found dead, Friendly and Russell struggle to connect the pieces of the puzzle before a third body turns up. Can they put their personal differences aside before it’s too late?
Author: Shannon Branch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985511913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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"THE TRUTH IS THE HARDEST PILL TO SWALLOW" is a brutally honest, truthful, and accurate guide to relationships, marriages, dating, and sex from the perspective of a single black male who has experienced a lot as well as witnessed much from life. NO sugar coating, NO fairy tales, NO feminist or sexist nonsense. Just telling it how it is. The way it should be told.
Author: John Sloan
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1553654552
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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"Medical treatment of elderly people is not working. Worse, it is often harmful. Clear, hard-hitting, and authoritative, A Bitter Pill investigates why the medical system - from its one-size-fits-all prevention strategy to hospital stays that don't benefit anyone - is failing old people who are in fragile health and what we can do about it." --Book Jacket.
Author: Cornell Graham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971594913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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A Bitter Pill To Swallow is an engaging novel that takes readers inside the business and personal lives of three African-American women who, along with the arduous task of trying to build a billion dollar advertising agency, find themselves having to confront unsettling personal issues as well. Issues that teach them when to let go and when to move on. And issues that will force each of them to deal with some complicated truths.
Author: Steven Brill
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812996968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking.”—The New York Times America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. But by chance America’s Bitter Pill ends up being much more—because as Brill was completing this book, he had to undergo urgent open-heart surgery. Thus, this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about healthcare “policy” rethinks it from a hospital gurney—and combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising new vision of how we can fix American healthcare so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our families and our businesses, and the federal treasury. Praise for America’s Bitter Pill “An energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has happened in the last seven years of health policy . . . [Brill] has pulled off something extraordinary.”—The New York Times Book Review “A thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the ‘toxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.’ ”—Los Angeles Times “A sweeping and spirited new book [that] chronicles the surprisingly juicy tale of reform.”—The Daily Beast “One of the most important books of our time.”—Walter Isaacson “Superb . . . Brill has achieved the seemingly impossible—written an exciting book about the American health system.”—The New York Review of Books
Author: Andreas Langlotz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902722370X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into idiomatic creativity the complex cognitive processing and representation of these heterogeneous linguistic constructions. Idiomatic creativity therefore raises two challenging questions: What are the cognitive mechanisms that underlie and shape idiom-representation? How do these mechanisms define the scope and limits of systematic idiom-variation in actual discourse? The book approaches these problems by means of a comprehensive cognitive-linguistic architecture of meaning and language and analyses them on the basis of corpus-data from the British National Corpus (BNC). Therefore, Idiomatic Creativity should be of great interest to cognitive linguists, phraseologists, corpus linguists, advanced students of linguistics, and all readers who are interested in the fascinating interplay of language and cognitive processing.This book has a companion website: www.idiomatic-creativity.ch.
Author:
Publisher: Peter Bengelsdorf
ISBN: 1476309353
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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