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Cancer and Vitamin C: A Discussion of the Nature, Causes, Prevention, and Treatment of Cancer with Special Reference to the Value of Vitamin C

by Ewan Cameron Linus Pauling

This book weighs the value and limitations of various modes of treatment: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormones, immunotherapy, and a number of unorthodox therapies, including Laetrile.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 (8th edition)

by Stephen Greenblatt M. H. Abrams

This volume is comprised of The Romantic Period, The Victorian Age, and The Twentieth Century and After.

Inventing America: A History of the United States, Volume 1 (2nd Edition)

by Pauline Maier Merritt Roe Smith Alexander Keyssar Daniel J. Kevles

A textbook that includes study plans, outline quizzes, research projects and progress reports

Queen Victoria

by Cecil Woodham-Smith

Not only a biography, this book places Victoria in full historical context, making vivid the great political events and figures of the Victorian era.

Six Men

by Alistair Cooke

Cooke looks at Charlie Chaplin, H. L. Mencken, Humphrey Bogart, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell, and Edward VIII.

Nickel Mountain

by John Gardner

A moving story of 2 people: a fat, gentle, middle-aged man who runs a rural diner, and a young, plain girl who drifts into his life and becomes part of it.

Myron

by Gore Vidal

The followup novel to Vidal's Myra Breckinridge.

Composers on Music: An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland

by Sam Morgenstern

88 composers talk about music, ranging from the 1500s to the 1900s.

Baby Love

by Joyce Maynard

Maynard's first work of fiction, about a small New England town and a group of young women, married and unmarried, wanting babies, having babies, raising or losing babies...

Dolly and the Bird of Paradise (Johnson Johnson #6)

by Dorothy Dunnett

Johnson Johnson, portrait painter (and secret agent for British Intelligence), and his yacht Dolly gets tangled up in international intrigue with a beautiful bird named Rita Geddes.

The Other Side of Silence: Sign Language and the Deaf Community in America

by Arden Neisser

The history of the struggle to legitimize sign language against the pressure of a hearing educational establishment intent on forcing upon the deaf the almost impossible task of learning lipreading and speech.

Making Peace With Your Parents: The Key to Enriching Your Life and All Your Relationships

by Harold H. Bloomfield

Whatever your age, to become a fulfilled and creative person, you must resolve the issues in your life that derive from your relationship with your parents, whether they be dead or alive.

Dvorak in Love

by Josef Skvorecky Paul Wilson

Fictionalized account of Dvorak's utterly requited love affair with America, when he came to live in the US in 1892, the anthem of which is his most famous piece, "From the New World."

Life and Death in Shanghai

by Nien Cheng

Autobiography of a woman who spent 7 years in solitary confinement during the Chinese revolution of the late 60s, insisting on her innocence despite the torture.

Angel

by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Romance

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love, but she marries another. Will the lovers reunite after more than 50 years apart?

Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories

by Jeanne Tai

Short stories by 10 of China's foremost writers

The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream

by Studs Terkel

Here is the America of the 1980s: the yuppies, right-wing fundamentalists, along with the sixties activists, and real estate speculators. How has America changed since then?

The Gift of Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok

Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought he had left behind forever. From the Paperback edition.

The Titan Game

by Niven Busch

The rules of the Titan Game are as deadly as gas and as devious as fog: torturers can become esteemed customers, bystanders are seldom innocent, a man's worst enemy is often himself...

Bernard Shaw: Volume 2, 1898-1918, The Pursuit of Power

by Michael Holroyd

Biography of George Bernard Shaw from age 42 to age 62, at the height of his career.

Bernard Shaw: Volume 3, 1918-1951, The Lure of Fantasy

by Michael Holroyd

Biography of George Bernard Shaw, from World War I to his death at age 94.

Jacob the Baker

by Noah Benshea

"Well, will he do it?" she asked Samuel, as if Jacob weren't there. Samuel turned to Jacob. "Well, will you do it? Will you let us have some of your ideas for the bread?" Jacob grinned. "Only arrogance guards what it doesn't own!" Samuel nodded to the lady. "He'll do it." The lady returned her focus to Jacob. "Thank you," she said. ... Jacob traced his path to work on the way home. He traveled within. A small, frozen puddle of water, caught by a rock, huddled next to a curb and drew his attention. "An eternity is any moment opened with patience," he reminded himself. Then he raised the tip of his boot and pushed down on the layers of ice. He could feel the pressure of the lady's request that morning in the bakery. (from the book)

Latin for All Occasions: Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus

by Henry Beard

Hundreds of everyday English expressions rendered into grammatically accurate, idiomatically correct classical Latin, with pronunciation guide.

The Secret Pilgrim

by John Le Carré

To train new agents, one of the old veteran agents recounts his 40 years in the spy game.

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