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"An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will...
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"In 1947 Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion." The book describes how the Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware,...
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Ken Burns: Here & There is a rare look at the over four decade intimate relationship Ken Burns has with his America and beloved community of Walpole, NH - and the importance that a "sense of place" and belonging has in one's life. That the essential American fabric of patriotism and goodness are woven through each of us - and often, the road less traveled is a good decision.
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Someone is kidnapping people and wiping their memories of the experience. The kidnapped are claiming they've been abducted by aliens. But the real question is, have they? A secret military group denies knowing anything about it. Are there really aliens or is it something more sinister and closer to home.
The God Matrix is a spiritual thriller that blends mystery, suspense, military intrigue and maybe even Alien abductions, with spiritual principles...
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"Waiting for the Real World to Catch Up" is the story of Scottrick, a crazed inventor, who goes to extreme lengths to find success. In the book, he champions one spurious idea after another and becomes enraged when his million-dollar idea for a newfangled colostomy bag is snatched away by greedy and jealous co-workers. A spiteful boss fires him, but his patent lives on and is the subject of a costly infringement suit. The company desperately needs...
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How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors surrounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing decisions we'll ever make, are unconsciously driven by a few molecules in our brains. How does love begin? How can two strangers come to the conclusion that it would not only be pleasant to share their lives, but that they must share them? How can a man say...
10) Genesis
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A life sentence of boredom, that's what most people get out of retirement.
For Colonel Petros Arkansas, it's the wildest ride he's ever been on, and as an Ex Navy SEAL he's been on quite a few.
The Aliens who abduct him try to bend him to their ways.
The shadow military force he joins tries to make him a better man. The mythical trainers try to shake him to his core...
... but he has ideas of his own.
Then, when the enemy forces try to take him,...