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43) Grimus
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing-and ultimately the burden-of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and sets out to scale the island's peak, from which the mysterious...
Series
NIH publication ; no. 99-4564
Publisher
National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Language
English
Description
"Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?"--...
Author
Publisher
Signature Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1974 Robert E. Kleasen invited two young missionaries to his house in Austin, Texas, for deer steaks. Though apprehensive, they felt compelled to go. They should have bolted. Though convicted of homicide, Kleason would later be released from death row on a technicality. Upon hearing of the murders, then-LDS president Spencer W. Kimball was so disturbed that a physician had to be summoned to his home.
Author
Publisher
Loyola Press, a Jesuit ministry
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At age 29, Matt Weber was newly married to Nell, the girl of his dreams. They had bought their first house, adopted a dog, and looked forward to a blissful first year together. But shortly after his honeymoon, Matts recurring, severe stomach troubles send him to the emergency roomand after a five-hour, life-saving surgery in which a third of his stomach is removed, Matt and Nells plans for their new life are dramatically altered. Forced to undergo...
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"2020 saw a spike in deaths in America, smaller than you might imagine during a pandemic, some of which could be attributed to COVID and to initial treatment strategies that were not effective. But then, in 2021, the stats people expected went off the rails. The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, death in people of working age (18-64) was 40 percent higher than it was before...
Publisher
The Nature Conservancy
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Worcester, MA could be almost anywhere in America. But when a foreign invasive pest -- the Asian longhorned beetle -- was discovered to be killing Worcester's maple trees, the city took decisive action to halt the spread of the beetle, protecting trees across New England from certain death.
Publisher
First Run/Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Afghanistan today has the second highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. Filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi reveals the extent of this tragedy by documenting the 2003 return to Afghanistan of her father, Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi (an OB/GYN who emigrated to the U.S. in 1972) as he attempts to rehabilitate Kabul's Rabia Balkhi Hospital with the promised support of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. The film focuses on Dr. Mojadidi's emergency...
60) Gray's anatomy
Series
Criterion collection ; 618
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen comes together with one of cinema's boldest image makers, Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh for Gray's Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which he chronicles his journey from diagnosis to treatment of a rare ocular condition.
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