Author: Gloria Paris
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786460156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This dramatic memoir recounts one woman's experience with skeletal tuberculosis, which she contracted at the age of five in the 1930s. It recounts her next nine years living in tuberculosis sanatoriums where she underwent many treatments for the disease and was finally released when she was 14. Despite her subsequent disablement, she went on to marry and have three children, work as a micro-biologist, perform as a comedienne, and serve as an advocate for minority groups. By turns deeply affecting and hilarious, this memoir provides a glimpse into a still-dangerous disease and is a testament to the power of human perseverance and hope.
A Child of Sanitariums
Author: Gloria Paris
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786460156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This dramatic memoir recounts one woman's experience with skeletal tuberculosis, which she contracted at the age of five in the 1930s. It recounts her next nine years living in tuberculosis sanatoriums where she underwent many treatments for the disease and was finally released when she was 14. Despite her subsequent disablement, she went on to marry and have three children, work as a micro-biologist, perform as a comedienne, and serve as an advocate for minority groups. By turns deeply affecting and hilarious, this memoir provides a glimpse into a still-dangerous disease and is a testament to the power of human perseverance and hope.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786460156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This dramatic memoir recounts one woman's experience with skeletal tuberculosis, which she contracted at the age of five in the 1930s. It recounts her next nine years living in tuberculosis sanatoriums where she underwent many treatments for the disease and was finally released when she was 14. Despite her subsequent disablement, she went on to marry and have three children, work as a micro-biologist, perform as a comedienne, and serve as an advocate for minority groups. By turns deeply affecting and hilarious, this memoir provides a glimpse into a still-dangerous disease and is a testament to the power of human perseverance and hope.
The Sanatorium
Author: Sarah Pearse
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593296680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat." --Reese Witherspoon You won't want to leave. . . until you can't. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge--there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic. Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. . .
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593296680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat." --Reese Witherspoon You won't want to leave. . . until you can't. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge--there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic. Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. . .
What She Left Behind
Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 1496730038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Includes discussion questions and an excerpt from The orphan collector.
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 1496730038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Includes discussion questions and an excerpt from The orphan collector.
District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1931, Hearings Before ... 71-2, on H.R. 10813
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1931
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Digest of Laws Relating to Local Parks and Recreation as of January 2, 1940
Author: United States. National Park Service
Publisher:
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Category : Community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
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Category : Community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The American Year Book
Author:
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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Publisher:
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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Maryland, Its Resources, Industries and Institutions
Author: Maryland. Board of World's Fair Managers
Publisher:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Pacific Reporter
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description