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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

by Deborah Blum

Published: 2010-02-18

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover a fascinating Jazz Age story of chemistry and detection, poison and murder. Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very...

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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)

by Barbara Kingsolver

Published: 2008-06-10

Paperback: 576 pages

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The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garde...

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The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West

by Christopher Corbett

Published: 2010-02-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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When gold rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese immigrants came through San Francisco on their way to seek their fortunes. They were called sojourners, for they never intended to stay. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a little-known legend from Idaho lore a...

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Poland

by James A. Michener

Published: 1984-09-12

Mass Market Paperback: 616 pages

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Like the heroic land that is its subject, James Michener's POLAND teems with vivid events and unforgettble characters. In the sweeping span of eight tumultuous centuries, three Polish families live out their destinies and the drama of a nation--in the grand tradition of a great James Miche...

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The Polar Express

by Chris Van Allsburg

Published: 1985-10-28

Hardcover: 32 pages

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For twenty years, The Polar Express has been a worldwide bestseller and Christmas classic. A perfect keepsake for any family, this beautiful edition can be handed down to each new generation of readers. In 1986 The Polar Express was awarded the prestigious Caldecott Medal and hit the New Y...

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Polio: An American Story

by David M. Oshinsky

Published: 2006-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky pai...

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The Polish Woman: A Novel

by Eva Mekler

Published: 2007-02-25

Hardcover: 264 pages

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"A meticulous, raw study of the uneasy relationship between Catholic and Jewish Poles....Told without artifice or irony, Mekler's story of intergenerational immigration [is a] cooly composed novel... Despite its literary trappings, 'The Polish Woman' is also a straightforward mystery, litt...

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The Polished Hoe: A Novel

by Austin Clarke

Published: 2004-05-25

Paperback: 480 pages

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When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women of the island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados) calls the police to confess to a crime, the result is a shattering all-night vigil that brings together elements of the island's African past and the tragic legacy of colonialism in one e...

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Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season

by James Finn Garner

Published: 1995-10

Hardcover: 99 pages

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The Politically Incorrect Wife: God's Plan for Marriage Still Works Today

by Connie Grigsby, Nancy Cobb

Published: 2003-01-01

Paperback: 300 pages

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Just what is a politically incorrect wife? She is a woman who is married to her husband and not to popular American culture. The politically incorrect wife does not buy into the stifling modern-day thinking that says, "Look out for number one. Treat your husband no better than he treats you." Instead,...