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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... -
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 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 Godfather of Kathmandu - John Burdett
SUMMARY: Sonchai Jitpleecheep—John Burdett’s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul—is summoned to the most shocking and intrigu... -
The Gendarme - M. T. Mustian
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never r... -
The Confession of Brother Halui - Ellis Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: On his deathbed, Brother Haluin confesses to a shocking act in his past--and then recovers. To atone, Haluin determines to make a journey of expiation with Brothe... -
The Burglar in the Closet - Lawrence Block
Review Secrecy and a deft touch are the hallmarks of every successful burglar. Or so thinks Bernie Rhodenbarr before he gets a shocking proposal from his dentist. Sitting back in t... -
The Appeal - John Grisham
30 SUMMARY: Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused ...