Author : Philip Reilly
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781621821373
"This book is about the struggle to save the lives of children who, because of a roll of the genetic dice, are born with any one of more than several thousand rare genetic disorders. It recounts the now century long effort of small groups of physicians and scientists to take on some of these genetic diseases. In many cases just a few physician-scie
Author : L. A. Muse
Publisher : Innovo Publishing LLC
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613141663
About the Book: A young child, orphaned by addiction and isolated from her siblings, dreams of reuniting her family after decades of separation. She begins a quest and gains more than she ever dreamed possible along the way. A Forest of Doors is a powerful true story of loss, love, spirituality, coping, and redemption. **** About the Author: L. A. Muse devotes much of her time as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children. Her life and presence is representative of the best hopes of children thrown into the child welfare system by the actions of their parents. L. A. Muse continues her quest in her next work, Carver Road. As the mystery of her lost family unfolds, she explores the depths of her past and how her life continues to be shaped. She currently lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Author : Adam Johnson
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812992792
The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2001-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375412654
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
Author : Morgan Rice
Publisher : Morgan Rice
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1640291857
Author : N.W. Harris
Publisher : Clean Teen Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2014-10-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1634220110
Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429915633
John C. Wright burst onto the SF scene with the Golden Age trilogy. His next project was the ambitious fantasy sequence, The Last Guardians of Everness. Wright's new fantasy is a tale about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. The children begin to make sinister discoveries about themselves. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls where none had previously been; Colin is a psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe: and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. Why is it that they can? The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings no more human than they are: pagan gods or fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger than this. The children must experiment with, and learn to control, their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Dedria Humphries Barker
Publisher : 2leaf Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781940939780
"Mother of Orphans is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899. Alice and her husband had three children together, but after his death in 1912, Alice mysteriously surrendered her children to an orphanage. One hundred years later, her great-grand daughter, Dedria Humphries Barker, went in search of the reasons behind this mysterious abandonment, hoping in the process to resolve aspects of her own conflicts with American racial segregation and conflict. This book is the fruit of Barker's quest. In it, she turns to memoir, biography, historical research, and photographs to unearth the fascinating history of a multiracial community in the Ohio River Valley during the early twentieth century.... Part personal journey, part cultural biography, Mother of Orphans examines a little-known piece of this country's past: interracial families that survived and prevailed despite Jim Crow laws, including those prohibiting mixed-race marriage."--Amazon.com, viewed April 17, 2020.
Author : Leon Forrest
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2001-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226257228
Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days, uses a remarkable verbal intensity to evoke human tragedy, injustice, and spirituality in his writing. As Toni Morrison has said, "All of Forrest's novels explore the complex legacy of Afro-Americans. Like an insistent tide this history . . . swells and recalls America's past. . . . Brooding, hilarious, acerbic and profoundly valued life has no more astute observer than Leon Forrest." All of that is on display here in a novel that give readers a breathtaking view of the human experience, filled with humor and pathos.
Author : Celia Imrie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1635577896
From internationally bestselling author and celebrated actress Celia Imrie, an epic novel set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic. Nice, France, 1911: After three years of marriage, Marcella Navratil has finally had enough. Her husband, Michael, an ambitious tailor, may have charmed her during their courtship, but their few years of marriage have revealed a cruel and controlling streak. The 21-year-old mother of two is determined to get a divorce. But while awaiting the Judges' decision on the custody of their children, Michael receives news that changes everything. Meanwhile fun-loving New York socialite Margaret Hays is touring Europe with some friends. Restless, she resolves to head home aboard the most celebrated steamer in the world. But as the ship sets sail for America, carrying two infants bearing false names, the paths of Marcella, Michael and Margaret cross and nothing will ever be the same again. Orphans of the Storm dives into the waters of the past to unearth a sweeping, epic tale of the sinking of the Titanic that radiates with humanity and hums with life.
