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Strange Medicine A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages - Nathan Belofsky
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. ReviewPublishers Weekly-Belofsky (The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities) conjures... -
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Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, <i>Future Shock</i>, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in toda... -
Villain - Shuichi Yoshida; Philip Gabriel
SUMMARY: A young insurance saleswoman is found strangled at Mitsuse Pass. Her family and friends are shocked and terrified. The pass-which tunnels through a mountainous region of s... -
Tom Clancy's op-center_ State o - Tom Clancy; Steve R. Pieczenik
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Driven by greed, a group of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers called "Keepers" devises a shocking scheme to get the world's attention ... -
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse - Charlaine Harris
SUMMARY: It's a simple if shocking question, and former librarian Aurora Teagarden is just the person to find the answer. Basking in an inheritance that makes her financially indep... -
The Summons - John Grisham
SUMMARY:Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a you... -
The Street Philosopher - Matthew Plampin
SUMMARY: There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home ā the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused ā and the first on which the media had a m... -
The Race Beat - Gene Roberts; Hank Klibanoff; R
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indi... -
The Pilot's Wife_ A Novel - Anita Shreve
Amazon.com ReviewWith five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness: ... -
The Little Prisoner_ A Memoir - Jane Elliott; Andrew Crofts
From Publishers WeeklyThe charts are full of stories of childhood abuse now, Elliott writes, and speculates that fans of childhood abuse literature want to be shocked at the start ...