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The Road Taken

By: Rona Jaffe

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The masterful author of Class Reunion offers this ambitious story of choices, chances and fate, spanning four generations of an unforgettable American family. Rose Smith is born in the very beginning of 1900, the year that ushered in the most rapidly changing century in history. At the age of ten, Rose loses her mother and must learn to become independent and adaptable. As she grows up and begins a family of her own, she and her three daughters are a vital part of the country’s rapid growth during a turbulent era. These women—all different, all fiercely-willed—will make courageous, sometimes reckless choices in their lives as they move boldly through a new world. Yet they will be united by an inner strength that will withstand life’s most chaotic demands, helping each to accept tragedy, embrace joy and, ultimately, find redemption. PRAISE FOR RONA JAFFE “Reading Rona Jaffe is like being presented with a Cartier watch: you know exactly what you’re getting and it’s exactly what you want.”—Cosmopolitan “Vivid and trenchant…Wry and very readable…A minor genius.”—New York Times Book Review “Jaffe has not lost her wit, her keen eye for human frailties and her ear for the small but telling remark.”—Publishers Weekly

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0698150937

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After the Reunion

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

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After the Reunion

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

The popular sequel to Class Reunion, Rona Jaffe’s After the Reunion continues the heartwarming story of Daphne, Emily, Chris, and Annabel five years after their class reunion. The affluent quartet, now in their mid-forties, is each coping with romantic and domestic problems at home while trying to outgrow the social and moral codes that controlled them during their Harvard years. After the Reunion is a return to some of Rona Jaffe’s most beloved characters, and readers will undoubtedly embrace their own reunion with these characters on the page.

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Open Road Media

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1504008405

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9781504008402

The Last Chance

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

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The Last Chance

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

Suspenseful, captivating, and ultimately moving, The Last Chance is about four women friends in their late thirties trying to survive the dangerous and fast-paced world of New York City while also battling the subtle violence in their private lives. Each of them has dreams of finding love, success, and adventure in the big city. Each is desperately searching for a last chance. They will make difficult choices and face unbearable consequences, and by the end of the year, one of the women will die an unnatural and uncanny death . . . The Last Chance is a tense and unexpected story about what it takes to survive and find control over your fate when everything seems to be working against you.

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Open Road Media

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1504008375

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9781504008372

Class Reunion

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

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Class Reunion

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

Twenty years after their college graduation, four Radcliffe girls return to their Harvard class reunion with mixed emotions and curiosity. It is the first time they have met since their hopeful student years, when each of them had wonderful dreams of becoming wives, mothers, and successful career women. But much has changed since the fifties, and the former classmates’ lives have been altered by events none of them could have foreseen. Humorous, heartwarming, often poignant and nostalgic, Class Reunion captures the spirit of the fifties brilliantly in contrast to the changing world the four girls have embraced, often with straightforward and pithy commentary on the social conventions of the past.

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Open Road Media

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1504008367

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9781504008365

The Best of Everything

By: Rona Jaffe

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The Best of Everything

By: Rona Jaffe

Rona Jaffe's beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition with an introduction by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme A Penguin Classic When Rona Jaffe’s superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions more were electrified when they saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. Sixty-five years later, The Best of Everything remains touchingly—and sometimes hilariously—true to the personal and professional struggles women face in the city. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office; naïve country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; and Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Jaffe follows their adventures with intelligence, sympathy, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.

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014313731X

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Five Women

By: Rona Jaffe

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Five Women

By: Rona Jaffe

Five stories from five unforgettable characters, brought to life by an author the Washington Post hailed as “contemporary…rewarding…masterful.” Five friends meet weekly at a restaurant called Yellowbird on New York’s Upper East Side, revealing the long-hidden secrets of their pasts and how each, in her fashion, has become a survivor beyond all expectations. The women are Gara, a divorced psychologist and cancer survivor; Felicity, a beautiful attorney married to a rich but controlling man; Kathryn, who is haunted by the brutality of her parents’ marriage; Eve, an unabashedly narcissistic actress; and Billie, a former rock star, now owner of Yellowbird. Told with Jaffe’s signature liveliness and uncanny understanding of female friendship, Five Women invites us to the table to hear stories both familiar and unthinkable, stories of struggle, heartbreak, survival and redemption. PRAISE FOR RONA JAFFE “Reading Rona Jaffe is like being presented with a Cartier watch: you know exactly what you’re getting and it’s exactly what you want.”—Cosmopolitan “Vivid and trenchant…Wry and very readable…A minor genius.”—New York Times Book Review “Jaffe has not lost her wit, her keen eye for human frailties and her ear for the small but telling remark.”—Publishers Weekly

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0698150910

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The Cherry in the Martini

A Memoir

By: Rona Jaffe

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The Cherry in the Martini

A Memoir

By: Rona Jaffe

Rona Jaffe’s memoir is abundant with personal insights on the joys and challenges of childhood and youth. Written in short autobiographical essays, Jaffe shares vivid memories of her first experiences of love and loss in her search to find her voice as both a woman and writer. Straightforward and unsentimental, Rona Jaffe’s memoir explores the complex emotions of adolescence into adulthood with an honesty that all readers will find welcoming and relatable.

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Open Road Media

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1504008391

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9781504008396

Mazes and Monsters

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

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Mazes and Monsters

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

Part thriller, part love story, Mazes and Monsters is a spellbinding novel about a group of college students in the 1980s who use a fantasy game as refuge from their personal, emotional, and social problems. Based loosely on the “steam tunnel incidents” of the 1970s, the four friends—Kate, Jay Jay, Daniel, and Robbie—eventually take their game too far when they decide to live-action role-play in the caverns near their college campus. What follows is terrifying and unexpected, as each character dives deep into the darkest part of their mind, those forbidden places where our most menacing truths lie.

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1504008448

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The Cousins

By: Rona Jaffe

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The Cousins

By: Rona Jaffe

From the “master storyteller”* of The Best of Everything comes a wise and wonderful novel of family loyalties (and disloyalties). Olivia is a twice-divorced New Yorker from a large extended family who grew up together on a magnificent summer estate, Mandelay. Although the cousins have scattered across the country, following sharply divergent paths, memories of their shared childhood continue to resonate, shaping their lives and decisions. When they’re together, they long for a vanished past, but alone Olivia must face a family legacy of lies, infidelity and tragedy. The Cousins is a sweeping saga that richly portrays the secrets we keep from family and from ourselves, from an author who voiced the experience of a generation. PRAISE FOR RONA JAFFE “Reading Rona Jaffe is like being presented with a Cartier watch: you know exactly what you’re getting and it’s exactly what you want.”—*Cosmopolitan “Vivid and trenchant… Wry and very readable… A minor genius.”—New York Times Book Review “Jaffe has not lost her wit, her keen eye for human frailties and her ear for the small but telling remark.”—Publishers Weekly

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0698150929

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9780698150928

The Room-Mating Season

By: Rona Jaffe

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The Room-Mating Season

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The masterful author of The Best of Everything takes us through a season of friendship, discovery, betrayal, and love to tell a story of four friends and the events that shaped their futures. New York in 1963 is a place of infinite possibilities, especially when you’re young and eager for the adventure a big city offers. Leigh, Cady, Vanessa, and Susan meet when they become roommates on the Upper East Side. Nothing can diminish the exhilaration of their newfound freedom and independence—even being crammed together in a single bedroom with a kitchen too small for a table and chairs. A casting assistant at a talent agency, Leigh is the level-headed one. Cady is a prep school teacher, emotional, passionate, and ready for love. Vanessa, a stewardess, craves her independence above all else. Susan is the mercurial, difficult one, and after one confrontation too many, makes a choice that will change the course of all their lives… PRAISE FOR RONA JAFFE “Reading Rona Jaffe is like being presented with a Cartier watch: you know exactly what you’re getting and it’s exactly what you want.”—Cosmopolitan “Vivid and trenchant…Wry and very readable…A minor genius.”—New York Times Book Review “Jaffe has not lost her wit, her keen eye for human frailties and her ear for the small but telling remark.”—Publishers Weekly

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0698150953

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9780698150959

Away from Home

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

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Away from Home

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

Three young and successful couples have come to the exotic shores of Rio, Brazil, to live and work in the late 50s. The new city offers them an escape—a private paradise where the pleasures and customs of a vibrant culture can ease the loneliness, pain, and stress from their former American lifestyles. But as they become swept up in the colorful madness of Carnival, their expatriate dreams quickly begin to disintegrate, and secrets from their past begin to resurface. Now, so far away from home and in a foreign land, they have become strangers to one another and have to find themselves once again. Sophisticated and expertly crafted, Away from Home is an engrossing read about rediscovering one’s identity in unfamiliar cities and circumstances.

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Open Road Media

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1504008421

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9781504008426

Mr. Right Is Dead

Stories

By: Rona Jaffe

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Mr. Right Is Dead

Stories

By: Rona Jaffe

Often regarded as her finest and most literary work, Mr. Right Is Dead is Rona Jaffe’s collection of short stories from 1965. Containing five stories and one novella, each story has the savvy and sharp tone that characterize the best of Rona Jaffe’s writing. The title novella centers on a call girl with “a heart of gold,” who acquires lovers and money with her innocent charm, and closes with “Rima The Bird Girl,” about a woman who assumes a new identity each time she has an affair. Each story carries its own unique and engaging voice; altogether they are about women looking for self-fulfillment and salvation through lovers, money, and fleeting worldly pleasures. Mr. Right Is Dead is about those searching desperately for “the best of everything” and learning a great deal about love, and its falsities, along the way.

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Open Road Media

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150400843X

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9781504008433

The Fame Game

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

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The Fame Game

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

Sam Leo Libra is a fame-maker, living in his own glamorous world of hand-picked celebrities. His carefully selected “Dirty Dozen” are an elite clientele of fame-hungry clients whom he moves and manipulates as he sees fit, and his influence makes them millionaires. Seen through the eyes of Libra’s good-girl assistant, The Fame Game offers a rare glimpse into the world of fashion and Hollywood high-rollers, where those desperate enough can rise to the top, even if it means paying the price through decadence and degradation.

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1504008413

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The Best of Everything

By: Rona Jaffe

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The Best of Everything

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Sixty years later, Jaffe’s classic still strikes a chord, this time eerily prescient regarding so many of the circumstances surrounding sexual harassment that paved the way toward the #MeToo movement." -Buzzfeed When Rona Jaffe’s superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions more were electrified when they saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. Almost sixty years later, The Best of Everything remains touchingly—and sometimes hilariously—true to the personal and professional struggles women face in the city. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office; naïve country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; and Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Jaffe follows their adventures with intelligence, sympathy, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.

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0593511263

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9780593511268

An American Love Story

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

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An American Love Story

A Novel

By: Rona Jaffe

Four smart women . . . and their foolish choice. In love with the same man. The wrong man. Women found him so easy to love. Clay Bowen had it all—charisma, good looks, and power in the glamorous world of television. Laura, the delicate dancer, gave up her dazzling career to marry him and have his child. Nina excelled at everything—except capturing her father’s complete attention. Bambi, his ruthless young “assistant,” thought she was using him. And Susan, a brilliant writer, couldn’t bear to think their twenty-year bicoastal romance was too good to be true. In her most riveting novel since The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe weaves a compelling story of passion and obsession. Moving from the glittering capitals of the world and the epicenter of the TV and movie industries to the darkest depths of the human heart, she holds her readers captive to the very last page. Praise for An American Love Story “Jaffe comprehends the ambivalence of women in love like few other contemporary novelists.”—New Woman “Compelling . . . a novel of growth, despair, destruction and realization—a novel to read and have a daughter read.”—UPI “Savvy and sharp.”—St. Petersburg Times “Thoughtful, provocative.”—San Antonio Express-News

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Dell

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0804154015

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The Room-Mating Season

By: Rona Jaffe

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Five Women

By: Rona Jaffe

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Beauty

The New Basics

By: Rona Berg

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Beauty

The New Basics

By: Rona Berg

Offers step-by-step directions, professional techniques and advice, insider tips, makeovers, and brand and product comparisons in a handbook that emphasizes a simple, healthy, and natural approach to beauty care.

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Workman Publishing

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0761101861

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9780761101864

Complete Candida Yeast Guidebook, Revised 2nd Edition

Everything You Need to Know About Prevention, Treatment & Diet

By: Jeanne Marie Martin,Zoltan P. Rona, M.D.

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Complete Candida Yeast Guidebook, Revised 2nd Edition

Everything You Need to Know About Prevention, Treatment & Diet

By: Jeanne Marie Martin,Zoltan P. Rona, M.D.

Is Candida Yeast Ruining Your Good Health? Have you been told your health problems are all in your head? Do you suffer from low energy, depression, digestive problems, and/or excessive skin irritation? If so, you may have an overgrowth of a common yeast, Candida albicans. Fueled by everything from diet to medication to environmental factors, this hidden epidemic affects as many as 90 percent of Americans and Canadians—men, women, and children alike. Now there are effective alternatives to your suffering. This eye-opening guide will help you conquer Candida and achieve optimal mental, physical, and emotional health. Inside, you will discover: • Holistic, natural, herbal, and vitamin supplements that combat Candida Yeast • Innovative tips for improving your lifestyle and maintaining a healthy mind and body • Wholesome diet and menu options that taste delicious • New medical and nutritional guidelines for asthma, cancer, diabetes, and more • Important help for overcoming: - Frequent headaches - Chronic fatigue - Digestive problems - Weight problems - Depression - Yeast Infections - PMS - Anxiety - Allergies "This comprehensive book will help the countless number of people who have searched in vain for answers." —William G. Crook, M.D., author, The Yeast Connection Handbook "Jeanne Marie Martin and Zoltan Rona, M.D., do a marvelous job of making a complex health concern understandable and preventable." —Ann Louise Gittleman, M.S., C.N.S., author, The Living Beauty Detox Program "The most comprehensive book on Candida ever written." —From the foreword by Carolyn DeMarco, M.D., author of Take Charge of Your Body

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Harmony

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0761527400

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9780761527404

Environmental Permits

A Time-Saving Guide

By: Donna Rona

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Environmental Permits

A Time-Saving Guide

By: Donna Rona

Environmental permits enable regulatory agencies to control the disturbance and degradation of the environment caused by man's activities. Created by governments through legislation, the permit processes are administered by elected officials. Environmental legislation is relatively new as an independent field of the law: the laws themselves are primarily a conglomeration of older legal doctrines from other fields of law, modified and adapted for particular situations (Landau and Rheingold 1971). Like other laws, environmental laws are meant to serve and protect the rights and well-being of the public. However, like other laws, they have created confusion, a proliferation of costly paperwork, and some inequities. Numerous statutes, dealing with most aspects of pollution, exist at every level of government-so many, in fact, that they frequently conflict and overlap. These statutes establish a public policy toward polluters. They also empower the regulatory bodies that issue permits. It would be impossible to compile a list of requirements for each type of permit. Therefore, this book will acquaint the reader with the common aspects of environmental permits: their terminology, components, and application processes. This book covers the permit process from initial agencies/applicant contacts through application parts and procedures, to application approval. Special emphasis has been placed on bringing together copies of laws and lists of agencies as appendices. The appendices give the reader easy access to materials that will help clarify the permit process.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461316693

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9781461316695

The Joy of Health

A Doctor's Guide to Nutrition and Alternative Medicine

By: Zoltan P. Rona

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The Joy of Health

A Doctor's Guide to Nutrition and Alternative Medicine

By: Zoltan P. Rona

Finally, a medical doctor objectively explores the benefits and pitfalls of alternative health care, based on exceptional scholarship, exhaustive study, and long clinical practice. Receive clear-cut answers to the most commonly asked questions about nutrition and preventive medicine, and make informed choices about alternative treatments.

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0875426840

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9780875426846

Women's Health Under 40

By: Caroline Bohme,Caroline J. Böhme,Rona B. Wharton

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Women's Health Under 40

By: Caroline Bohme,Caroline J. Böhme,Rona B. Wharton

A gynecologist and a nutritionist explore a variety of important medical issues affecting the health of women under the age of 40. Treatment and recovery issues are also addressed.

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Betterway Books

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1558705546

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9781558705548

Women's Health Over 40

By: Caroline J. Böhme,Caroline Bohme,Janette C. Gosch-Weisbrodt,Rona B. Wharton

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Women's Health Over 40

By: Caroline J. Böhme,Caroline Bohme,Janette C. Gosch-Weisbrodt,Rona B. Wharton

The "Your Health: What You Should Know" series provides readers with concise, straightforward information about their health concerns. Based upon the ranking of medical claims within major corporations, the titles focus specifically on today's primary health issues. Created by a team of wellness directors, nationally-recognized surgeons, and university specialists, the Your Health: What You Should Know series gives specific explanations for conditions, treatments, and associated terms, and are designed to be open and unintimidating throughout. Each volume contains all the vital information needed to insure doctor-patient-family understanding and communication. Straightforward information about osteoporosis, heart disease and other medical concerns of women over 40. They will also learn about how to prevent and/or treat each issue.

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