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"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first...
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When the body fails, you've got two choices. Send a doctor in, or send a prayer up. And if neither works? You'll find Dr. Wolfgang Pike at his piano. Music has always been Wolfgang's refuge. It's betraying him now, as he struggles to compose a requiem for his late wife, but surely the right ending will come to him. Certainly it'll come more quickly than a cure for his patients up at Waverly Hills, the tuberculosis hospital, where nearly a body an...
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With beautiful prose and defined characters, England, My England is a collection of ten works of short fiction written by the provocative and controversial author, D.H Lawrence. Many of these stories are set during and revolve around World War â… , such as Wintry Peacock. When her husband goes off to war, a woman finds herself moving in with her in-laws as she eagerly waits for his return. Around the time he is meant to come home, a letter arrives...
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"What do you do when it feels impossible to live up to everything expected of you? When the only person who understands you disappears? When you are young and long for something that seems out of reach? Berta dreams of being an artist, but as a girl growing up in a small Swedish farming village in the 1920s, she has little hope. She finds solace in nature, and in drawing and shaping birds from clay for her mother, the only person who seems to truly...
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Artemesia Publishing, LLC
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2023
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English
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Walter will do anything to help his mother when she' s diagnosed with tuberculosis, but does that include standing up to Al Capone? Twelve-year-old Walter wants to spend the summer of 1927 watching his beloved Chicago Cubs play baseball. Instead, his life is upended when his mother is diagnosed with tuberculosis. Walter must leave everything he knows and loves to accompany his mother to Albuquerque, New Mexico?a place he has never been to live...
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2021
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In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to grow uncontrollably, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors, including the ghost of a little girl--which might not be imaginary after...
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Turner Publishing Company
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2007
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English
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A guided tour through the strange and sometimes dangerous microscopic world Germs are everywhere-in our intestines and on our skin as well as on kitchen counters, public toilets, doorknobs, and just about everything else. Why are there so many microorganisms? Which ones are dangerous? And how can we avoid the ones that will make us sick? This entertaining and informative book provides the answers. Profiling a rogue's gallery of harmful germs-from...
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Kathy Geary Anderson
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2021
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English
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The blood on the handkerchief changed everything. The year 1900 promises to be a good one for Rob and Maddie Skivington. Recently married, they look forward to building a home near family and friends in the busy industrial city of Newark where Rob owns a fledgling jewelry business. Then, an irritating cough that has plagued Rob for months turns out to be something far more insidious: tuberculosis. When Rob's doctor suggests a change in environment...
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Mint Editions
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2021
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English
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The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is a poem by Lewis Carroll. Filled with many of the portmanteau words developed for his poem "Jabberwocky," The Hunting of the Snark is a delightfully strange tale of mystery and adventure. Often read as an allegory for everything from tuberculosis to the endless quest for happiness itself, The Hunting of the Snark, much like the Snark itself, refuses all description. "'Just the place for a Snark!' the Bellman cried,...
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John Bershof, MD
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2022
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English
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In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist's scope, the History of Man Series uses medicine as a jumping off point to explore precisely that, all history, all science, all human activity since the beginning of time. The jumping off style of writing takes the reader, the listener into worlds unknown, always returning to base, only to jump off again. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything....
13. Men in Prison
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PM Press
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2014
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English
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"Everything in this book is fictional and everything is true," wrote Victor Serge in the epigraph to Men in Prison. "I have attempted, through literary creation, to bring out the general meaning and human content of a personal experience." The author of Men in Prison served five years in French penitentiaries (1912-1917) for the crime of "criminal association"-in fact for his courageous refusal to testify against his old comrades, the infamous "Tragic...
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Author's Republic
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2021
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English
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Fighting and Preventing Cancer Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: The Metabolic Approach to Cancer and Cancer Secrets Hearing that you or your loved one has cancer is one of the most terrifying things that can happen to you. According to C 1 in every 6 deaths worldwide was caused by Cancer. This is more than AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria combined. It is the second-leading cause of death worldwide. The numbers are terrifying and I'm sure it makes you want to...
15. 1984
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Auvril Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2021
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Greek, Modern (1453- )
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A world where every human right has been violated and every notion of freedom and individuality is abolished. A world where Big Brother monitors everything through advanced technology devices. A world where the war against an invisible enemy never ends, thoughts go underground and any deviation from the dictates of the regime is punished relentlessly until it is "corrected". A world where those in power have the power to alter the past and deny the...
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Author's Republic
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2021
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English
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According to C 1 in every 6 deaths worldwide was caused by Cancer. This is more than AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria combine. It is the second-leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer is the umbrella name given to hundreds of diseases and disorders. It is a disease characterized by the unchecked division of abnormal cells in your organs. If this type of growth is found in your colon, then this is diagnosed as colon cancer. In the US, Colorectal (colon...
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Savas Beatie
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2019
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English
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"I didn't realize there was another 'hermit' of Walden Pond!" is the usual response author-historian Terry Barkley receives when he tells someone the subject of his new book. Henry David Thoreau's experiment there from 1845-1847 is widely known and immortalized in his classic Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). However, stresses Barkley, "Neither the world nor even most avid Thoreauvians know about Edmond Hotham's six-months at Walden Pond during...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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A candid and surprising memoir of the early life of one of England's most acclaimed and enduring post-WWII writers. Born in 1928 into a poverty-stricken family in working-class Nottingham, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe's childhood was marked by his father's unpredictable and violent rage, as well as a near-certain condemnation to a life of labor on an assembly line. His family relocated frequently to avoid rent collectors, trading in...
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Xlibris UK
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2013
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English
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The poems carry the weight of a million poems, I wrote from my heart. To readers of my writing I hope that the poems take you to places that I have journeyed and beyond. Places where no man would rather go, places where everyone wish that they may get the opportunity to go. These are places in our lives wherein we have lost loved ones, places wherein we have celebrated and been celebrated. Allow yourself to be taken on a journey of discovery, a journey...
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A literary event of the highest order, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates brings together Yates's peerless short fiction in a single volume for the first time. Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate, and technically accomplished writers of America's postwar generation, and his work has inspired such diverse talents as Richard Ford, Ann Beattie, André Dubus, Robert Stone, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. This collection, as...