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By Jeffry V Brock. 1981
With three beautiful children, a new house, and financial security, John and Aileen Crowley had it all until their two…
youngest children were diagnosed with Pompe disease and given only months to live. Refusing to accept a death sentence, John quit his job and invested in a biotechnology start-up to find a cure. Battling scientific setbacks, conflict of interest accusations, and business troubles, John and Aileen were tested to their limits as a revolutionary new treatment for the disease was found. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2010.By Willard Bascom. 1988
This autobiography of the adventurous oceanographer takes him from post-World War II mining engineer days to life at sea, designing,…
diving, swimming and snorkeling in quest of knowledge about the ocean depths, and the currents and waveforms that shape the shore. c1988.By Homer H Hickam. 2000
This sequel to Rocket Boys continues the author's reminiscences with his senior year in high school in Coalwood, a West…
Virginia mining town, in 1959. Hickam describes misfortunes in the community, their repercussions within his family, and his teenage problems with girls. 2000.By Massimo Teodorani, Marylène Di Stefano. 2011
Cet hommage à Nikola Tesla souhaite rétablir la vérité concernant certaines des ses inventions (le courant alternatif, la radio, la…
télévision, le radar, etc.) souvent attribuées à tort à d'autres scientifiques. La première partie se penche sur l'homme et ses travaux et la seconde est plus strictement scientifique. 2011.By David Chandler. 1993
This volume covers every battle and campaign that Napoleon personally ever conducted. The author has made it possible to view…
the whole of Napoleon's military career and to assess the characteristics which brought him years of victory and ultimate defeat. 1993. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Twenty-three-year old Cleo Koff, a forensic anthropologist, was one of sixteen scientists chosen to go to Rwanda in 1996 to…
find evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. Her job was to discover who the victims were and how they had been killed. Koff also describes similar missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Some violence. 2004.By David Rains Wallace. 1999
Account of the historical feud between two nineteenth-century American paleontologists -Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. After the Civil…
War both men amassed large collections of dinosaur bones discovered in the West, but their intense rivalry led to muckraking and scandal rather than scientific cooperation. 1999.By Ian Brown. 2009
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…
it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.By Martha Barnette. 1987
The family of the second artificial heart recipient tells the dramatic story of their participation in an extraordinary medical experiment.…
Details the day-to-day events, including post-operative setbacks, unrelenting scrutiny by the press, confrontations with the surgeon, and their own struggle to cope. 1987.By Tracy Kidder, Daniel Poliquin. 2011
C'est à l'école de médecine que Paul Farmer a découvert sa vocation: soigner les maladies infectieuses et apporter les fabuleuses…
ressources de la médecine moderne à ceux qui en ont le plus besoin. Son histoire nous amène de Harvard jusqu'en Haïti, en passant par le Pérou, Cuba, la Russie. On y voit Paul Farmer transformer les mentalités pour les plier à son intime conviction selon laquelle l'humanité est la seule nation. 2011, c2003. Titre uniforme: Mountains beyond mountains.By Wesley B Turner. 2011
A biography of Major General Sir Isaac Brock, describing his life, career, and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and the…
context within which he lived. An unlikely hero of the War of 1812, he was admired by his American foes almost as much as by his own people. Even more striking was how a British general whose military role in that two-and-a-half-year war lasted less than five months became its best known hero, and one revered far and wide. 2011.By Stephen G Bloom. 2018
Inez Burns was adored by the desperate women who sought her out--and loathed by the power-hungry men who plotted to…
destroy her. During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team of women, clad in crisp, white nurse's uniforms, worked night and day in her elegantly appointed clinic, performing fifty thousand of the safest, most hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars, and mistresses had few options when they found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. 2018.By John L Ransom. 1988
Ransom was 20 when he was captured and made prisoner of war in 1863 at Andersonville, Georgia. In prison, he…
was surrounded by death, disease and cruelty, but he survived to write this true account. 1988.By Christine Hyung-Oak Lee. 2017
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world--quite…
literally--upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months, Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. In a precise and captivating narrative, Lee navigates fearlessly between chronologies, weaving her childhood humiliations and joys together with the story of the early days of her marriage; and then later, in painstaking, painful, and unflinching detail, her stroke and every upset, temporary or permanent, that it causes. Lee processes her stroke and illuminates the connection between memory and identity in an honest, meditative, and truly funny manner, utterly devoid of self-pity. And as she recovers, she begins to realize that this unexpected and devastating event provides a catalyst for coming to terms with her true self. 2017.By Benson Bobrick, Benjamin Webb Baker. 2003
The author tells the story of Benjamin "Webb" Baker, his great-grandfather. Webb enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and…
thereafter suffered through horrid conditions in camp and absolute hell in combat. Also contains a heretofore unreleased collection of Webb's letters. 2003.By John E Mack, Rita S Rogers. 1988
Internationally known child psychologist Rita Rogers grew up in Romania, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family. Her idyllic childhood…
came to an abrupt end with the arrival of Nazi troops. 1988.By Maxine Trottier. 2005
Terry Fox was a typical Canadian kid who liked to play basketball and soccer, but whose 'ordinary' life was changed…
suddenly at age 18 when his leg was amputated because of cancer. This biography covers the life of Terry Fox and his reasons for running across Canada. Traces his progress from the run's beginning on April 12, 1980 in St. John's until its premature conclusion in Thunder Bay on September 1, 1980. Grades 2-4. 2005.By Margaret Cheney. 1981
Biography of an "Eccentric Inventor" from his childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940's. Chronicles…
a lifetime of such discoveries as fluorescent lighting and the bladeless turbine. 1981.By Maurice Mimoun. 2004
"Je n'ai jamais cherché à faire de l'humanitaire. J'étais méfiant. Je n'aimais pas le mot, je ne l'aime toujours pas."…
Un jour pourtant, après avoir vu quelques photos, le professeur Maurice Mimoun a décidé de mettre sa technique au service des corps estropiés, brulés, mutilés. Depuis cinq ans, il se rend régulièrement au Viêt-nam avec la fondation Children Action pour tenter de guérir les blessés, apporter ses connaissances et son aide, et surtout enseigner à des chirurgiens locaux les gestes qui peuvent sauver une vie. 2004.