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Poison: A Novel

by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 624 pages

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A tour de force about marriage, deceit, and envy, "rich in fairy tale imagery and in vivid metaphors" (Publishers Weekly).The death of flamboyant writer and womanizer Peter Grosvenor sets in motion a series of spiraling events surrounding his legacy and his estate. His bitter third wife, h...

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Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance

by Sara Poole

Published: 2010-08-03

Paperback: 416 pages

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In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover the plot that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge Europe back into medieval darkness.Determi...

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Poisoned Love

by Caitlin Rother

Published: 2011-12-06

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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This new updated edition provides sensational revelations about Kristin Rossum's claim of innocence, including a recent appeals court decision that may reopen the case to new investigations and media attention.Bed Of RosesKristin Rossum was a California golden girl--beautiful, smart, succe...

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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...