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Physician's Desk Reference
by betsey.blanche
There’s no better place to get medical information than from a licensed physician. The library and librarians know that of course. But we also know that people can gain a sense of empowerment and comfort from being able to find information on your own when it comes to health conditions and prescribed medications. Being in a doctor’s office can also be pretty overwhelming which makes it hard to take in all the information you’re given.
Eliot Ness and Prohibition
by cory.williams
Eliot Ness, leader of the Untouchables, was born April 19, 1903. It seems appropriate, given the Twenty-First Amendment, to pour up a drink to celebrate the man who kept the nation sober and the gangsters in Chicago on the lam.
The Good with the Bad - New Biographies
by carolyn.rogers
Biography at its best is a good read, it appeals to a natural human instinct for gossip, and it answers a real need within us to understand each other better. And it is a noticeable achievement of the new biographies on our catalog list - Recommended Biographies - that they all begin with the premise that human nature is complex, and as is true with everything else in the world, you have to take the good with the bad.
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