Heart Strain


Book Description

Holden When I get a call that my twin brother's been shot, I'm in shock as I head back to Baltimore to be with him. Seeing him in a coma is the hardest thing I've ever had to do; sitting here not knowing whether he's going to live or die is the worst thing I can imagine. But at least Jameson is with me-he makes it more bearable, and I don't feel like I'm in this alone. With everything going on, I probably shouldn't be checking out my brother's work partner, but I can't seem to help it. Jameson's been so sweet and kind and considerate; not to mention he's so sexy I can't keep my eyes off him. Jameson My partner getting shot and ending up in a coma brings everything in my world to a screeching halt. He's not only my partner on the police force, but my best friend and confidant. When I see his twin brother, Holden, sitting in the waiting room, I'm overwhelmed with gratitude that he neither blames me nor pushes me away. Now I'm doing my best to take care of him and support him; if only I'd stop noticing how his emotions reflect in his eyes and wondering how it would feel to touch him. Will the bonding that takes place during their long bedside vigils become more than they expected? Can they be honest enough with themselves and each other to take it to the next level? And if they do, will Holden be willing to sacrifice the life he loves for the brother he's kept at arm's length for almost ten years and the man who could end up being his everything? Heart Strain is the first book in the Interlocking Fragments series, but is a standalone novel. Each book in the series will feature a different couple, but the couples will show up throughout the whole series. This is a contemporary romance intended for 18+.




Late Fragments


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The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth's learned, elegantly written commentary. He is the perfect guide."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "[These] unfinished works written after 1861 . . . deliver what their titles seem to promise: a soul stripped of guises and illusions."--Ange Mlinko, New York Review of Books While not as well known as his other works, Charles Baudelaire's late poems, drafts of poems, and prose fragments are texts indispensable to the history of modern poetics. This volume brings together Baudelaire's late fragmentary writings, aphoristic in form and radical in thought, into one edited collection for the first time. Substantial introductions to each work by Richard Sieburth combine the literary context with formal analysis and reception history to give readers a comprehensive picture of the genesis of these works and their subsequent fate. Baudelaire's turn toward fragmentary writing involved not only a conscious renunciation of his aesthetics of perfection and unity, but a desertion of the harmonies of the traditional lyric in favor of the disjunctions of prose. These are daring works, often painful to read in their misanthropy and unconventional beauty.













The Tell-Tale Heart


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In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.







Bye-Bye Self-Sabotage!


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Bye Bye SelfSabotage by Tracy Latz & Marion Ross Dr.s Latz and Ross lead you on a wild journey toward your own personal transformation by mindfully applying concepts in neuroscience, quantum physics, and a combination of proven techniques and practices to blast through the obstacles blocking your path. The authors define the shrinks greatest hits (a.k.a. the 12 Keys) - the core issues that create chaos, stress and lack of joy in your relationships, health, career and life. In the opening of the book, Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles, says The lessons to be learned from this book are age-old but re-framed in ways that are easy to incorporate and appropriate to our lifestyle today. They ring true for me. This book gives profound, easy-to-use practices that allow the readers to rapidly transform their lives! Dr.s Latz and Ross are called The Shift Doctors because in this book you will find: The Neuroscience behind Self-Sabotage and why it has been so difficult for you to create lasting change Bulleted, targeted recommendations at the end of each chapter to show the most rapid way to overcome issues that affect your health, emotions, relationships, finances, and career along with real-life examples of how others have shifted their lives using the tools in this book. An intensive personal healing journey allowing you to shift your perception and situation for a jump start in life A reference guide to be consulted one chapter at a time whenever a specific issue or challenge arises and stalls forward momentum in your life. For anyone truly serious about changing any long-established dysfunctional emotional patterns, thoughts or behaviors that have them stuck, Bye Bye Self- Sabotage is the answer!




Echocardiography


Book Description

Now thoroughly expanded and updated, this Second Edition continues to educate readers on the latest trends and technologies, with coverage that includes roles and responsibilities. More than 500 illustrations showing normal and abnormal features are accompanied by summary tables, schematics, and diagrams. Organized by modality and progressing to the use of techniques for specific disease processes, the text has been totally revised to reflect the current use of echocardiography in diagnosing disease. New and expanded chapters cover: M-mode, Doppler and color flow, and transesophageal echocardiography; transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress echo exams; pharmacology; cardiac tumors and masses; and quality assurance.