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See What's New at CHL!
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Find out more about featured new books, audiobooks, and DVDs.  Request these items in person, by phone, or click on the title to place a hold right now!
 
 
 
 
Books:
Take Charge of Your Chronic Pain: The Latest Research, Cutting-Edge Tools, and Alternative Treatments for Feeling Better 

By Peter Abaci, M.D.

With many years of experience treating its sufferers, Dr. Peter Abaci has developed innovative treatments that have helped thousands better their lives in dramatic ways - techniques he now offers in this book.
Sound of Hope: Recognizing, Coping with, and Treating Your Child's Auditory Processing Disorder

By Lois Kam Heymann, M.A., C.C.C.-S.L.P

This veteran speech-language pathologist offers the first practical guide to help parents dramatically improve the listening and language skills of their children, whether they have a diagnosed auditory processing disorder, slow language development, or simply need practice listening. 
Type 2 Diabetes: Tips, Techniques, and Practical Advice for Living Well with Diabetes
By the American Diabetes Association

Completely reworked from the ground up, this new edition is better than ever. Rewritten with the help of a team of diabetes experts, this ADA bestseller is now friendlier, easier-to-read, better designed, and more comprehensive.
Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant

By Debra Fulghum Bruce, Ph.D., and Samuel Thatcher, M.D., Ph.D., and with Britt Berg, M.S.

Now with even more tips on the best ways to prepare the body to get pregnant, this invaluable book, in a newly revised and updated edition, reveals how to protect, increase, and extend your fertility.
Understanding Dyspraxia: A Guide for Parents and Teachers

By Maureen Boon

This is a concise yet comprehensive handbook for parents and teachers. Its clear structure and practical, positive advice will make it an invaluable resource for anyone involved with a dyspraxic child.

 
By Robert N. Butler

A baby boomer turns 60 every 7.6 seconds, but many of America's graying millions approach the later years of life with fear and trepidation. Emphasizing clear-cut research findings that balance physical health with emotional wellbeing, Butler and his colleagues offer a definitive path to whole-life happiness.
 
 
 
Cleveland Clinic Guide to Heart Attacks

By Curtis Rimmerman, M.D., M.B.A.

In this book, you'll find advice to help you understand the risk factors, discover the best possible methods for managing heart problems, get the facts about diet and exercise, learn about the latest breakthrough studies, and find inspiration and encouragement.
Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy

By Hope S. Warshaw, M.M.S.c., R.D., C.D.E., B.C.-A.D.M.

This new edition of the meal-planning bestseller includes the latest recommendations from the American Diabetes Association, as well as the USDA's Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 
Diabetes A to Z

By the American Diabetes Association

If you want to know the ins and outs of diabetes without confusing jargon, then this is your go-to resource. In this updated 6th edition, get all the information you need - from understanding A1C to getting your ZZZs, and everything in between.
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

By Cynthia Kuhn, Ph.D., Scott Swartzwelder, Ph.D., and Wilkie Wilson, Ph.D.

This no-nonsense handbook includes the most recent discoveries about drugs, including new information on the energy-drinks craze, prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Ambien, the date-rape drug GHB, and the unique effects of some drugs on the adolescent brain.
I'm Pregnant!: A Week-by-Week Guide from Conception to Birth

By Lesley Regan, M.D.

Pregnancy and childbirth will bring about changes in every aspect of your life and you will have many questions along the way. This book offers detailed information, advice, and answers to your questions so you can make the right choices for you and your baby.
New Heart Disease Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Effectively Reverse and Manage Heart Disease

By Christopher P. Cannon, M.D. and Elizabeth Vierck

If you are one of the millions of Americans living with heart disease you need to be proactive to protect your heart. This book is your beat-the-odds guide to increasing your chances of survival and living longer and healthier.

 
 
 

Audiobooks:

 
Anxiety Relief: Relax the Body, Calm the Mind, Manage Fear & Worry, and Cultivate Positive Energy

By Martin L. Rossman, M.D.

The author presents proven guided imagery techniques to help you relax, restore inner balance, and get off the treadmill of worry. 

  
Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep: Relax Into Sleep, Sleep Through the Night, Awaken Refreshed

By Martin L. Rossman, M.D.

This CD presents simple sleep hygiene tips and powerful, guided visualizations proven to help counteract the most common causes of sleeping problems.


 
Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong

By David Shenk
Ready by Mark Deakins

With his signature blend of facts, reason, and great storytelling, the author presents dazzling new scientific research showing how the potential for greatness is not restricted to an elite few, but is instead a universal part of the human code. 
 
 
 
Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think

By Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Read by Kimberly Farr

Over the course of a lifetime, a male's brain will be shaped and reshaped by genes and sex hormones, resulting in the behaviors that alternately attract and exasperate, intrigue and baffle women - and that remain equally mysterious to men themselves. 
Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

By Deborah Blum
Read  by Coleen Marlo

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover a fascinating Jazz Age story of chemistry and detection, poison and murder.


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 DVDs:

  

 
Watch this comprehensive program from the Cleveland Clinic on the patient's perspective, learning disabilites, and the new genetics of NF1.
 
 
This Cleveland Clinic Health Talk includes the sections "Osteoporosis, Fatigue and Kidney Stones: What is My Parathyroid Doing?," "Is it Really Your Thyroid?," "and "Treatment Options for Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism." 
 
  
 
 

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