Bøger af J L Greger

Dieting is hard. So is fitting into a new job where you aren't wanted. In Murder. A Way to Lose Weight, Dr. Linda Almquist attempts to do both as she investigates two diet doctors who are endangering the lives of their obese patients. When she finds one diet doctor dead, she and the police suspect the other diet doctor but soon learn the dead diet doctor had annoyed many. While Linda fears for her job, the police fear for her life.This insider's view of a medical school will also help you to understand the value of clinical trials and to learn about new research linking obesity and gut bacteria. This mystery won first place in the 2016 Public Safety Writers' Association contest and was a finalist for the 2016 New Mexico/Arizona book awards.

A new flu virus kills half of the residents in an upscale community in New Mexico in one week. Those who survive become virtual prisoners in their homes when a quarantine is imposed. Sara Almquist, a medical epidemiologist, finds promising scientific clues as she pries into the lives of the residents. Unfortunately, she also learns too much about several of them and violence ensues.

The short stories in OTHER'S PEOPLE'S MOTHERS are snapshots of the wisdom, humor, and errors made by women as they interact with their children as youngsters and adults. Mothers in fiction are often reduced to stereotypes of good, like Carol Brady and Claire Huxtable in television programs, or bad, like Mommy Dearest. Even Tolstoy over simplified families and mother when he said, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In practice, no family is always happy, and no mother is perfect. Perhaps that's good. Much of the diversity we treasure in others reflects the quirks of their mothers' personalities. Think how boring life would be if we all had perfect mothers. The mothers in these vignettes certainly are not perfect, and that's why they're intriguing. They made choices. The narrators of the stories often didn't understand the basis of the mothers' decisions because of incomplete information or personal biases. Accordingly, they warped the portraits of the mothers. Think how you and your siblings remember childhood events differently. Perhaps OTHER PEOPLE'S MOTHERS will help you take a fresh look at your mother and gain a more realistic understanding of yourself.

Would you rather be fired or face criminal charges? Dana Richardson faces that dilemma in her new job at a university in New England. A research center, which reports to her, is falsifying data to help industrial clients meet federal pollution standards, and the last woman who tried to investigate the problem died under suspicious circumstances.

In Dirty Holy Water, scientist Sara Almquist loses control of her life when she becomes the chief suspect in a bizarre murder case. She''s frustrated by the slow progress of the investigations, which almost causes her to miss a romantic rendezvous at the Taj Mahal in India. More importantly, she has to reassess her friendships and recognize there''s a thin line between being a victim and being a villain.

In The Flu Is Coming, a new type of flu - the Philippine flu -kills nearly half of the residents in an upscale, gated community near Albuquerque in less than a week. Those who survive become virtual prisoners in their homes when a quarantine is imposed.The Centers of Disease Control recruits Sara Almquist, a resident of the community and a scientist, to apply her skills as an epidemiologist to find ways to limit the spread of the epidemic. As she pries into her neighbors' lives, she finds promising scientific clues. Unfortunately, she also learns too much about several of them and violence ensues when several try to escape the quarantine.

A mysterious source of data on the Iranian nuclear industry sends an email from Tabriz. "Help. Contact Almquist." As Sara Almquist is drawn into the plan to identify and rescue the agent, known only as F, she is forced to remember and re-evaluate characters from her student days at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and from her career as a globe-trotting scientist.1 map of the Middle East with important locations in I Saw You in Beirut.A section on "Science and History Behind the Story" after the novel includes relevant scientific references.

In IGNORE THE PAIN, Sara Almquist couldn't say no when invited to join a public health mission to assess children's health in Bolivia. Soon someone from her past is chasing her through the Witches' Market of La Paz, and she fears her new colleagues, especially the sexy Xave Zack, are controlled by the coca industry of Bolivia.