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Annotation:Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells-taken without her knowledge-became one of the most important tools in medicine.
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Annotation:The Joads are forced from their family farm and travel to the promised land of California. Upon arrival, they find little hope of making a decent wage.
Annotation: Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. Between themselves they develop an almost telepathic trust that sees them through their wanderings from Florida to a small town in Washington State.
Annotation:After escaping the last of a long string of abusive boyfriends, Jean Gilkyson and her ten-year-old daughter Griff have nowhere left to go. Nowhere except Ishawooa, Wyoming, where Jean's estranged father-in-law, Einar, still blames her for the death of his son
Annotation:"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." -- Seymour Hersh.
Annotation:At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. There is a tape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
Annotation:This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
Annotation:Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder.
Annotation:Drawing on recent cognitive research, Gladwell concludes that those who quickly filter out extraneous information generally make better decisions than those who discount their first impressions.
Annotation: It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening.
Annotation:Biography of John Adams portraying him as a brilliant, fiercely independent Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution and then rose to become the second president of the United States.
Annotation:Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination--both physical and emotional--of a generation of Japanese Americans held in camps during World War II.
Annotation:Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife and tried to escape London on a ship to America in the early twentieth century. He was caught in part due to the new invention of the wireless by Guglielmo Marconi, which was used on the ship.
Annotation:Ethan Frome, a poor farmer, is torn between his sickly wife and young Mattie Silver.
Annotation:Dinesen describes the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom,primitive festivals, big game that were her near neighbors,and Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her.
Annotation:This deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women is based on the author's family history.
Annotation:Resting one night on a boat on the River Thames, Charlie Marlow tells his friends about his experiences as a steamboat captain on the River Congo. There, in the heart of Africa, his search for the extraordinary Mr. Kurtz caused him to question his own nature and values-- and the nature and values of his society.
Annotation:The first contact between human beings and intelligent extraterrestrial life--begins with a small mistake and ends in a horrible catastrophe.
Annotation:BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside.
Annotation:Manhunt describes the hour--by--hour details of the twelve days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination when various factions within the U.S. government -- and even some outside it -- hunted for the President's killer, John Wilkes Booth.
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