La Porte County Public Library System

Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his...

Background and Goal of Study: Perioperative period induced hypothermia is a common complication and is usually associated to poor outcomes.In patients submitted to elective surgical procedures, hypothermiau2019s incidence is estimated to be between 26 and 90%. Temperature evaluation is a mandatory component of anesthetic proceduresu2019 standard monitoring. Stable perioperative normothermia is considered to be a quality indicator of the provided...

Describes the 1888 storm on the American plains that came to be known as the School Children's Blizzard, examining its devastating impact on the region's Northern European immigrants.

This inspiring historical narrative tells the story of the Downs family as they struggle against sharks, hypothermia, blinding oil, drowning, and dehydration in their effort to survive the aftermath of a deadly U-boat attack off the American coast in 1942. Provided by publisher.