If you or someone you love suffers from heartburn you know that it can be very disruptive to your daily life. Most heartburn sufferers say it stops them from enjoying food. Others say it keeps them from getting a good nights sleep it makes it hard to concentrate at work & it interferes with family activities. Sound familiar? Dont worry. Heartburn is a pain but it can be helped. Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies" is the plain-English guide to relief for you if youve been recently diagnosed with heartburn or reflux if you suspect you may suffer from it or if youre concerned about your loved ones. This comprehensive book shows you how to recognize symptoms get an accurate diagnosis & work with a physician to receive the most effective treatment available. In this book youll see how to: get your symptoms under control; find the right physician; reduce stress & fine-tune your diet; avoid medicines that trigger upset; & decide if surgery is right for you. This friendly guide explains what the various forms of reflux are as all too often reflux is either self-treated or mistreated & followed by serious complications. Theres detailed information on building a comfortable lifestyle by reducing stress improving your diet controlling portions & timing your meals to minimize heartburn & reflux. Plus this sensitive guide even covers heartburn in infants children & the elderly. With the help of this book youll also discover: how to heal the esophagus of inflammation or injury as well as manage or prevent complications; the latest information on prescription medications & side effects; healthy habits to adopt to reduce your pain triggers; helpful home remedies & alternative medicine; the special risks & remedies for heartburn during pregnancy; & the side effects & complications associated with surgery. Complete with a catalog of heartburn medicines & a list of reliable Web sites for people with digestive disorders " Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies" is your one-stop guide to stopping the hurt starting to heal & enjoying food again!" ...

Four gorgeous girls are telling very ugly stories. First Emily Aria Hanna & Spencer claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencers house only to have it vanish without a trace. Then when the same woods went up in flames they swore they saw someone whos supposed to be dead rise from the ashes. & even after all that the pretty little liars are still playing with fire. Call me heartless but its about time someone shut these liars up for good. After all nobody likes a girl who cries wolf-least of all me... ...

Lady Alexia Maccon soulless is at it again only this time the trouble in the air is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen Alexia is on the case following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!) Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention & a plague of zombie porcupines
- & Alexia barely has time to remember she just happens to be eight months pregnant. Will Alexia be able to figure out who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it's too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? & do they really have to take up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best closet? *** Also available as a manga adaptation***
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Saturday 23 October 1954 was a dank & dreary wet afternoon in the city of Glasgow. Dismal it may have been but not for the thousands of Hearts fans standing on the vast slopes of Hampden Park who had just witnessed their team defeat Motherwell 4-2 in the final of the Scottish League Cup the first major trophy the club had won since defeating Third Lanark 1-0 in the 1905/06 Scottish Cup final. As Captain Bobby Parker held the trophy aloft to the resounding cheers of the Hearts support within Hampden little did the fans back then know that this was to be the beginning of the most successful period in the club's history 1954 to 1963 in which Hearts would go on to win the League championship twice 1957/58 & 1959/60 the League Cup on three more occasions 1958/59 1959/60 1962/63 & the Scottish Cup in 1955/56. They would also be runners-up in the League twice 1956/57 & 1958/59 & finalists in the 1961/62 League Cup. European football would also come to Tynecastle in seasons 1958/59 1960/61 & 1961/62. This is the story of Heart of Midlothian's glory years of 1954
- 1963.
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Rich or poor five people seemingly very different find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York jilted & miserable as a dogsbody at a political magazine & fifteen-year-old Anna trafficked into sexual slavery. Polly Noble an overworked human rights lawyer knows better than most how easy it is to fall through the cracks into the abyss. Yet when her au pair Iryna disappears Polly's own needs & beliefs drag her family into a world of danger deceit & terror. Riveting humane engaging HEARTS & MINDS is a novel that is both entertaining & prepared to ask the most serious questions about the way we live. ...

He thinks he sees a flash of emotion in her eyes. Sympathy? Then its gone. Whatever you think this is going to be like she whispers its going to be worse. When beautiful serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim -- the man in charge of hunting her down -- she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation. So why after ten days of horrifying physical & mental torture did she release Detective Archie Sheridan from the brink of death & hand herself in? Two years on Archie now returns to lead the search for a new killer whose recent attacks on teenage girls have left the city of Portland reeling. Shadowed by vulnerable young reporter Susan Ward Archie knows that only one person can help him climb into the mind of this psychopath. But can Archie finally manage to confront the demons of his past without being consumed by them? Dark distressing & disturbing.. . Just pray you never meet Gretchen Val Mc Dermid What may be the creepiest serial killer ever created. This is an addictive read! Tess Gerritsen Move over Thomas Harris theres a new kid on the block.. . Compelling highly believable & very sexy Daily Mirror ...

Summer 1545. England is at war. Henry VIIIs invasion of France has gone badly wrong & a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel.. . Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of monstrous wrongs committed against his young ward Hugh Curteys by Sir Nicholas Hobbey Shardlake & his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth. There Shardlake also intends to investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. Once in Portsmouth Shardlake & Barak find themselves in a city preparing for war. The mysteries surrounding the Hobbey family & the events that destroyed Ellens family nineteen years before involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend & an old enemy close to the throne. Soon events will converge on board one of the kings great warships gathered in Portsmouth harbour waiting to sail out & confront the approaching French fleet... ...

It's Summer 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong & a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel.. . Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed against his young ward Hugh Curteys by Sir Nicholas Hobbey Shardlake & his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth. There Shardlake also intends to investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. Once in Portsmouth Shardlake & Barak find themselves in a city preparing for war. The mysteries surrounding the Hobbey family & the events that destroyed Ellen's family nineteen years before involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend & an old enemy close to the throne. Soon events will converge on board one of the king's great warships gathered in Portsmouth harbour waiting to sail out & confront the approaching French fleet... ...

Wholesome & filling yet low in calories & cholesterol these tempting soups & stews are made with a cornucopia of fresh vegetables whole grains legumes & zesty herbs & spices. There are recipes for hot soups chilled soups & hearty stews all made with vegetarian soup stocks so delicious youll never miss the meat. Theres a complete shopping guide an ingredient substitution chart & lists of tasty alternatives to meat dairy products & wheat for allergies or special diets. ...

Homicide Detective Virgil Flowers doesnt think much can surprise him anymore. Hes wrong. Its a hot humid summer night in Minnesota & Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives when the phone rings. Its Lucas Davenport. Theres a body in Stillwater two shots to the head found near a veterans memorial. & the victim has a lemon in his mouth. Exactly like the body they found last week. The more Flowers works the murders the more convinced he is that someones keeping a list
- & that list could have a lot more names on it. If he could only find out what connects them all.. . But when he does start to piece the clues together he discovers that this case leads down a lot more trails than he thought it did
- & every one of them is booby-trapped.

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