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Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' life with progeria

by Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines

Published: 2012-03-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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The extraordinary life of Britain's 100-year-old teenager Hayley Okines is like no other 13-year-old schoolgirl. Born with the rare genetic condition progeria, she ages eight times faster than the average person. In medical terms her body is like that of a 100-year-old woman. Yet she faces her condition...

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Old Bones (Book Four in the Gideon Oliver series)

by Aaron Elkins

Published: 2010-08-26

Paperback: 212 pages

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"The Skeleton Detective" is called to a French isle soon after an aristocrat drowns. But he soon finds that the case is eerily connected to another murder--way back during the Nazi Occupation of World War II France.In the flood tides off Mont St. Michel, revered Resistance-hero Guillaume ...

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The Old Buzzard Had It Coming: An Alafair Tucker Mystery

by Donis Casey

Published: 2006-09-01

Paperback: 216 pages

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One winter evening in 1912, in the woods outside of Boynton, Oklahoma, abusive and drunken Harley Day surprises his son John Lee and the neighbor girl Phoebe Tucker in a lovers' tryst. An hour later, when John Lee walks his beloved home, Phoebe's mother, Alafair Tucker, suspects that somet...

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The Old Curiosity Shop (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2003-07-15

Paperback: 416 pages

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The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2001-07-01

Paperback: 608 pages

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The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a daz...

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* * * Slow,
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Old Filth

by Jane Gardam

Published: 2006-06-01

Kindle Edition: 289 pages

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Book One in Jane Gardam's Old Filth TrilogySir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at...

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Old Jules

by Mari Sandoz

Published: 2005-04-01

Paperback: 425 pages

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First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of ?the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of ...

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The Old Man & The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Published: 2007-11-06

Paperback: 104 pages

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It is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed. So conspicuously unlucky is he that the parents of his young devoted apprentice and friend,...

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* * * Pointless,
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The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Published: 1995-05-05

Paperback: 128 pages

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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemi...

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The Old Man in the Corner (Fingerprint Classics)

by Baroness Orczy

Published: 2009-03

Paperback: 192 pages

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Reporter Polly Burton accepts the fact that many crimes will always be unsolved. She calls them mysteries. But the old man in the tea shop claims that there are no mysteries. All it takes to solve a crime is a quick mind and an unbiased view of the facts. The old man gives Polly a detailed account of...