The Girl in Building C: The True Story of a Teenage Tuberculosis Patient, Paperback - Mary Krugerud

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DescriptionThrough the story of Tamara, an abused Native American girl, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan tells the story of the many children livi...

A teenager trapped in a world of abuse and coercion, desperately searching for a way out.

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Reducere. DescriptionMary's StoryOctober 21, 1949, in the bucolic little town of around 2, 000 souls, Beaver, Utah, all seemed right in my world. World War I...

Reducere. Pioneer Girl is the true story of Grace McCance Snyder. In 1885, when Grace was three, she and her family became homesteaders on the windswept prai...

Reducere. I feel that I have been sleeping all my life and I have woken up and opened my eyes to the world. A beautiful worldBut impossible to live in.These ...

Reducere. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery; it's the only life she has ever known. Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be giv...

Description A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's parents love the house, but Jules is frightened and feels a sense of foreboding. W...

Cory Friedman was an ordinary fun-loving little boy. before long, overtaken by physical urges, tics and compulsions, his body became a volatile, ex...

Reducere. This book is more than just a children's book. It's a book that validates and empowers all those who read it. It's a book that teaches the power of...

Reducere. This true story of a dog that faithfully waited for his owner at a Tokyo train station is now the basis for an upcoming feature film starring Richa...

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A lively and accessible history of humanity's greatest - and strangest - creation: money.

This is an inspiring story of an ordinary woman's spirited fight against cancer which defied all the odds. But it is also a signpost for anyone who...

Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely survivi...

Pierre grows up in a family still scarred by the Great War. When the Second World War breaks out, the Germans invade Belgium. Pierre's yearning for...

Readers will be entranced by the true story of a cat that becomes separated from his family when they flee Iraq and become refugees in Europe. Thei...

The story of the brutal murders committed in 1946 by wartime RAF pilot and playboy Neville Heath.

Sinking deep into debt, and encountering everything from a lost rudder to freak storms, Vann is on the verge of losing everything - including his l...

Reducere. He was the friendly, baby-faced, Canadian boy next door. He came from a loving, caring, and well-respected family. Blessed with good looks and back...

Reducere. The subject of the award-winning documentary The Eagle Huntress tells the true story of how she became the first girl to compete in--and win--one o...

Intr-un slow-motion perpetuu, adolescenta din San Francisco, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley), mediteaza asupra unei lumi a placerilor pe care tocmai ce ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rod SadlerA Slayer Waits In September, 1955, Nealy Buchanan, a trustee at the State Prison of Southern Michigan, was denied...

EDMUND KEMPER: The True Story of a Brutal American Serial KillerTerrible childhoods do not excuse murderous behavior. But it is worth noting that a...

Once a skinny and weak child, Italian Gino Bartali rose to become a Tour de France champion and one of cycling's greatest stars. Bartali might have...

Reducere. She was considered the greatest warship of its day. The Stonewell's problem was finding a war to go to or even a navy that wanted her. This story i...

'The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate...'The Netherlands, World War IIWhen the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's cle...

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Reducere. Investigators and Central Florida residents were horrified when 16-year-old vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell was arrested and charged with bludgeoni...

Reducere. Mary Anning is probably the world's best-known fossil-hunter. As a little girl, she found a fossilised sea monster, the most important prehistoric ...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryAutiobiography/Memoir 3Not all wounds are visible.Dan Sheehan is a third-generation naval ...

Reducere. In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware...

Reducere. A story of a baby dolphin named Hope is rescued against all odds. Exactly 5 years and 1 day after Winter, the tailless dolphin who inspired a major...

Reducere. "In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the dom...

Reducere. In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware...

Reducere. Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Chri...