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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Nephrology**Written for fellows, practicing nephrologists, and internists who treat patients with disorders affecting the renal system, Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, 7th Edition, offers a practical approach to this complex field, supported by underlying scientific facts and pathophysiology. World leaders in nephrology provide current information on clinical procedures and conditions, covering everything from fluid and electrolyte disorders to hypertension, diabetes, dialysis, transplantation, and more-all in a single, convenient volume.

Ideal for board preparation or as a concise, authoritative resource in clinical practice, Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, 8th Edition, remains the reference of choice for fellows, practicing nephrologists, and internists who treat patients with disorders affecting the kidney. Global leaders in nephrology offer a practical approach to this complex field, supported by underlying scientific facts and pathophysiology. You’ll find current information on the full spectrum of clinical procedures and conditions, including new and updated content throughout-all in a single, convenient volume.

After cutting short a vacation with difficult relatives, Paul and Cindy Jason take the scenic route home to Chicago. On impulse, they stop at a farm auction where they meet the owners, Melvin and Minnie Link. Cindy admires an old, hand-carved mirror that comes with an eerie history. For a mere ten dollars, Cindy is the new owner of this unusual mirror that Melvin claims is at least 120 years old. But the Jasons quickly discover that the mirror is no bargain.From the moment the mirror is hung in the apartment, a certain pall hangs over themand soon its making them both a little crazy. With the help of Cindys sister and brother-in-law, the four are unwittingly drawn into a frightening and macabre doorway into another worldthe world of the dead, commonly referred to as purgatory. Three decades earlier, a greedy and treacherous character invaded the lives of Minnie and Melvin Link. Unexpectedly granted a supernatural power over the Jasons minds, Minnie attempts to communicate her desperate plight to them with terrifying and unforeseen consequences, and the four find themselves embroiled in an attempt to find justice for the victims of an unsolved thirty-year-old murder.

When forty-eight-year-old Rick Braden gets his first look at the house his wife Elaine wants to buy, he thinks that it looks like a scene out of an old Frankenstein moviedismal and depressing. For Elaine, the 1800s Victorian house has great potential in spite of the fact that the former resident, Sedgwick Burns, disappeared without a trace eight years ago. Rick only hopes they arent making a big mistake buying the mansion in Forest Oak.As Rick talks to his neighbors and learns about the house, he becomes more and more uneasy. Not only does he learn that Burns was a mortician, but Rick continually discovers strange things left behind by the previous tenant.In a misguided attempt to hide this series of bizarre discoveries from his wife, Rick becomes entangled in a sticky web of lies and deception that abruptly intensifies and turns his life into a maze of anguish and intrigue.

The VonKrueger Faction weaves the story of two men who long to do something daring and excitingsomething that is a total secret from everyone. In the summer of 1962, Patrick Collins, an alcoholic, middle-aged real estate broker from Dayton, Ohio, and his friend, Ralph Prinz, decide to take a road trip deep into central Canada. They embark upon a two-week canoeing trip into unchartered northern territory. While deep in the wilderness, Patrick is suddenly and unexpectedly separated from Ralph, who is the experienced canoeist and woodsman. Patrick, who has never been successful in any facet of his life, is then forced to take bold and decisive measures just to survive. After successfully overcoming many basic survival challenges, he is confronted with a faction deeply involved in a diabolical scheme to control and dominate the entire world. Patrick Collins single-handedly musters all of his strength, ingenuity, and cunning to thwart their frighteningly evil and deadly plot. More than four decades later, Patrick Collins, now in rapidly failing health, decides to finally reveal the chilling details behind the story of The VonKrueger Factiona heart-stopping journey that takes many twists and turns in the Canadian wilderness.

The House on Cobblestone Lane is a gripping story of the strange and macabre events experienced by the new owners of an old and depressing mansiona place that had previously been owned by an eccentric mortician who had mysteriously disappeared several years earlierIn a misguided attempt to hide a series of bizarre discoveries from his wife, Rick Braden becomes entangled in a sticky web of lies and deception that abruptly intensifies and turns his life into a maze of anguish and intrigue.If one has ever hesitated to delve into the history of an old house before buying it, he will hesitate no longer after reading about the events that had transpired within the House on Cobblestone Lane.