This is the long-awaited third edition of the bestselling book for patients on two mysterious and little-understood inflammatory conditions, polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis. They attack older people, PMR causing pain and stiffness that can massively affect mobility, and GCA causing irreversible damage to vision in cases that aren't diagnosed and treated in time. For both, standard treatment has been up to two years on steroid drugs (prednisolone or prednisone), and it is no...

With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that...

With the arrival of six senior reading group members at the Merry Ghost Inn, the long-awaited grand opening week has finally begun for Melanie West and her grandmother Liza. All is well with the Oregon coast-side B&B until Melanie’s dog, Max, finds the dead body of one of their guests.Everyone at the inn immediately falls under suspicion, including the innkeepers themselves. Melanie and Liza are not sure who they can trust, and the idea of cohabitating with a murde...

If bed-and-breakfast owners Melanie and Liza, along with their laughing ghost tenant, can’t find a real estate developer’s killer, their own estate will end up with their next of kin.The Merry Ghost Inn is well and truly open for business. Melanie West, her grandmother, Liza, and their beloved sheepdog and wolfhound mix, Max, are rapidly getting the hang of running their charming bed-and-breakfast inn on the rocky Oregon coast. Not that business goes without a hitch―when your hoste...

Melanie West is getting her life back on track after a messy divorce when her grandmother, Liza Harris, asks her to join her in opening a bed-and-breakfast inn. Together, Liza and Melanie purchase a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast and jump right into clearing out the cobwebs. But while attempting to remove wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, the new B&B owners stumble upon a very real skeleton in their closet.The police suspect the skeleton is that of the wife of the ...

In "Left Guard Gilbert," Ralph Henry Barbour likely tells the story of a young protagonist named Gilbert who plays the position of left guard on a football team. The title suggests that football and sports may be central themes of the novel.The plot of the book may revolve around Gilbert's experiences as a member of the football team, including his struggles, triumphs, and personal growth both on and off the field. The narrative may also explore themes of teamwork, friendship, and determin...

People fall in love with people all the time. People fall in love with books, too. And some people fall in love with books about people falling in love.Contents:Readers love a good love story such as in this collection:Malachi's Cove by Anthony TrollopeThe Lady with the Dog by Anton ChekhovVerotchka by Anton ChekhovThe Storm by Kate ChopinThe Horse Dealer's Daughter by D. H. LawrenceThe Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar WildeTh...

After the oracle's prediction of Ben's fate, what options does the Novak have left?Will he attempt to fight his destiny? Can such a battle even be won?Jeramiah still lurks in The Shade like a shadow. Why is he still on the island? Why did he even come in the first place?

"Love. It's a flickering flame. So easily swayed by doubt..." ?Unwilling to even grant the two white witches a reception, Derek orders Mona to expel them from the island the moment he hears of their arrival.But will that be enough to rid themselves of their presence?Meanwhile, Rose and Caleb have met with an unexpected hurdle in returning to The Shade. A hurdle that could threaten to crush Rose's dreams into dust.Who will Caleb choose?

Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining ‘Big Data’, this book charts the recent explosion in sources of data, including those precipitated by global developments and technological change. It sets out changes and controversies related to data harvesting and construction, dissemination and data analytics by a range of private, governmental and social organisations in multiple settings.Analysing the power of data ...

From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness.“To taste fully is to live fully.” For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and world—“a subterranean conduit to sensuality, memory, desire.” Her appetites run deep; in her own words, she spent much of her life as “a hun...

Lainey's been told a lot about Prospector's Rest--but she isn't ready for her boyfriend to go missing there. Okay, even if he's not actually her boyfriend yet.As the sister of one of the Men Who Stitch, Lainey feels lucky that she and her brother have scored places in the town's first crafts intern program. Now, instead of just hearing about Di, Mac, and all the other fun people in Prospector's Rest, North Carolina (a small mountain town which survives entirely on ...