A professor of surgery and writing at Yale, Selzer opens windows on the world of medical oddities in this collection of candid, introspective essays. His subjects are sometimes grisly but always offer tantalizing insights. Selections...
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Author:Selzer, RichardSummary: - Author:Hill, DonnaSummary:
Jason Tanner, protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been by his mentor's side in New York to spread the message of passive resistance. In Harlem, the epicenter of black culture, poet Anita Hopkins tries to capture the message of...
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Author:Simpson, JohnSummary:The Democratic Party's 2012 nominee for President, David J. Windsor, and America are equally shocked when he is outted by his opponent just six weeks before the Fall election. Following his heart, David chooses honesty over media spin...
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Author:Simpson, JohnSummary:L’America, e il candidato alle presidenziali 2012 del partito democratico, David J. Windsor, sono entrambi sconvolti quando la sua identità gay viene rivelata esattamente sei settimane prima delle elezioni autunnali. Seguendo il suo...
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Author:Simpson, JohnSummary:When former President of the United States David Windsor is appointed the American ambassador to the Court of St. James, it necessitates a move to England. Uprooting his family and moving his staff, David and his husband, ex-Secret...
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Author:Muchnick, IrvinSummary:Inside the controversial and newsworthy issue of concussions in American football — Muchnick’s trademark no-holds-barred investigation reveals the corruption and scandals in real time
Traumatic brain injury in football is not...
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Author:Darcleight, DannerSummary:Darcleight brings us inside a maximum-security prison, introducing a colorful cast of rogues while revealing the day-to-day struggles experienced by millions of Americans now living inside the world's largest prison complex.
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Author:Cash, RosanneSummary:A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriter.
For thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for...
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Author:Seidle, F. LeslieSummary:This book is one of 23 volumes of research commissioned by the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, and one of five volumes within this series dealing specifically with party and election finance. Because the issue...
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This pamphlet, which Paine published in 1776, put into print the word every man was thinking but no man dared say: Independence!
- Author:Renehan, EdwardSummary:
Renehan draws upon previously unreleased documents to deliver the definitive biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th-century transportation tycoon who accumulated the largest private fortune in U.S. history.
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Author:Andersen, SusanSummary:When Priscilla Jayne Morgan, a country music superstar, becomes the talk of the tabloids, her record label hires her ex-crush Jared Hamilton to escort her on her summer tour, causing things to get hot and heavy.
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Coming from a small, rural town in North Carolina, Sawyer grapples with what it means to grow up queer, where the population of queer people was, to the untrained eye, non-existent. Nuanced with the societal constructs of the gender...
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While desperately seeking income as a photographer, Dylan Cooper befriends art gallery assistant Grace MacVicar. So well do the two get along that Dylan begins to harbor hopes for the future. But at the premier of his photographic...
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Author:Wilson, CodySummary:A startling philosophical manifesto for the twenty-first century on freedom of information, Come and Take It is the controversial yet thrilling story of the first ever-3D printable gun, developed by self-described crypto-anarchist and...
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Author:Woods, GeraldineSummary:The competition to get into your college of choice has never been fiercer. Unfortunately, much of the application process is out of your hands. But one major aspect of the admission process is under your control—your personal statement...
- Author:Ouellette-Berkhout, Denise, Therrien, Joanne, Girardin, BrigitteSummary:
À la fin des années 50, dans la petite ville canadienne de Spring Bay, Angèle étouffe. Un jour, son existence bascule lorsqu’un patient lui offre un poste d’infirmière dans une luxueuse résidence américaine. L’ambition et le désir d’...
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Author:Powers, BillSummary:Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger...
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Author:King, ThomasSummary:Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he's living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn't great, and he could...
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Author:Rule, Leslie, Rule, AnnSummary:Ghosts have been the entertaining subject of many works of fiction, but they're even more intriguing (and perhaps even scarier) when they are the focus of real-life hauntings in our own backyard. An employee of the St. James Hotel in...
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