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Wednesday novels volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
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English
Description
From their first meeting during the turbulent summer of 1968, five young California mothers--Frankie, Linda, Brett, Ali, and Kath--form a sister-like bond as they confront the ups and downs of life and pursue their mutual dreams of becoming writers.
2) Knife music
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English
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Six months after saving the life of teenage accident victim Kristen Kroiter, emergency room surgeon Ted Cogan is shocked when he is questioned by police in the wake of her baffling suicide, which causes the womanizing Cogan to be wrongly accused of rape.
Author
Series
Wednesday novels volume 2
Publisher
Not Supplied
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Language
English
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It is early evening when Hope Tantry arrives at the small cottage in Englands pastoral Lake District where her mother, Ally, spent the last years of her life. Ally-one of a close-knit group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters-had used the cottage as a writers retreat, yet Hope knows little about her mothers time there. Traveling with Hope are friends Anna Page and Julie, first introduced as little girls in The Wednesday Sisters, now...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In 1991 The world was electrified by the chance discovery of the body of a man trapped in a glacier in the Otztaler Alps on the Austrian-Italian border. The corpse was almost perfectly preserved. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who died some 5,300 years ago. The results of further investigations have been awaited with great excitement throughout the world. In The Man in the Ice, Dr. Konrad Spindler, the leader...
5) The iceman
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
" ... Lessem describes the excavation and study of this unique archaeological specimen--thought by many to be the most dramatic and important find since the open of Tutankhamen's tomb. With the body were the remains of clothes, including a grass cape and size-six lace-up shoes; a longbow, arrows, and a copper-bladed ax; and intriguing accessories such as mushrooms ... The Iceman and his possessions paint a vivid and unprecedented picture of life in...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called microaggressions, in addition to blunt-force insults, can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts....
7) Frozen man
Author
Publisher
H. Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1996, c1994
Language
English
Description
Recounts the discovery of a man's remains found frozen in the Alps, and describes how scientists determined that he had died five thousand years earlier.
8) Lucky fools
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old David Ellison, a senior at Oak Fields Preparatory School which is only a few miles away from the Stanford University campus, tries to reconcile his desire to attend Juillard instead of an Ivy League university as is expected of him, while also wondering why he seems dissatisfied with his long-term girlfriend after being cast opposite an interesting new student in the school play.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the discovery and examination of a 5,300-year-old man whose remains were found by hikers in the Alps in 1991 and explores how this discovery provides clues about the everyday life of our ancestors.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called "micro" aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp...