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Mathilda Savitch

Author : Victor Lodato
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 038566981X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Mathilda Savitch written by Victor Lodato and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiercely funny and touching debut novel of a young girl uncovering the truth about her sister’s death. Fear doesn’t come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look directly at things nobody else can even mention: for example, her beloved older sister’s death. She was pushed in front of a train by a man who is still on the loose, and after a year of searching for clues, Mathilda has come no closer to the truth about Helene’s murder…until she cracks her email password and a whole secret life emerges — one that swiftly draws Mathilda into her sister’s world of clouded motives and strange emotions. If she can find the keys to Helene’s past, she’s sure she can wake her family from their nightmare of grief. But in crossing into that underworld and tracing her sister’s footsteps, she has to risk everything that matters to her. Mathilda Savitch is a poignant, furiously funny, and tender page-turner from an extraordinary debut novelist.

Ion Channels and Disease

Author : Frances M. Ashcroft
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080535216
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Ion Channels and Disease written by Frances M. Ashcroft and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1999-10-20 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ion channels are membrane proteins that act as gated pathways for the movement of ions across cell membranes. They play essential roles in the physiology of all cells. In recent years, an ever-increasing number of human and animal diseases have been found to result from defects in ion channel function. Most of these diseases arise from mutations in the genes encoding ion channel proteins, and they are now referred to as the channelopathies. Ion Channels and Disease provides an informative and up-to-date account of our present understanding of ion channels and the molecular basis of ion channel diseases. It includes a basic introduction to the relevant aspects of molecular biology and biophysics and a brief description of the principal methods used to study channelopathies. For each channel, the relationship between its molecular structure and its functional properties is discussed and ways in which genetic mutations produce the disease phenotype are considered. This book is intended for research workers and clinicians, as well as graduates and advanced undergraduates. The text is clear and lively and assumes little knowledge, yet it takes the reader to frontiers of what is currently known about this most exciting and medically important area of physiology. Introduces the relevant aspects of molecular biology and biophysics Describes the principal methods used to study channelopathies Considers single classes of ion channels with summaries of the physiological role, subunit composition, molecular structure and chromosomal location, plus the relationship between channel structure and function Looks at those diseases associated with defective channel structures and regulation, including mutations affecting channel function and to what extent this change in channel function can account for the clinical phenotype

Edgar and Lucy

Author : Victor Lodato
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250096987
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Edgar and Lucy written by Victor Lodato and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old Edgar Fini's loyalty is torn between the two women in his life. There's his mother, Lucy, who, though she has moments where she loves him, mostly disappears at night with her various 'suitors'. And then there's his grandmother, Florence, who dotes on him to the point where she is at a loss when he isn't around. Since his father's suicide, Florence and Edgar's relationship has become obsessive, each fully dependent on the other. When Florence suddenly dies, Lucy is thrown into the role of main caretaker and doesn't know how to handle her new job. But as Edgar and Lucy adjust, they must also deal with Ron, a local butcher who wants to court Lucy, and Conrad, an unsettlingly attentive adult whose intentions are at one more sinister and more innocent than Edgar could ever know.

The Ice Age

Author : Kirsten Reed
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921520744
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Ice Age written by Kirsten Reed and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We stopped at a roadside diner. People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no. We ate our food at a booth in a hungry, self-conscious rush, straight out of the wrappers. They didn't have plates. We left a tip, just change. The waitress scooped it up straight away as we slid out of the booth. She was middle-aged and bulgy, in a proper matronly waitress's dress. She shot us what I suppose was intended to be a look of gratitude. She really only managed a weak glare. I guess that's the countryside for you. People are a little edgy.' Across the heartless expanse of middle America, a teenaged girl is riding shotgun with an older man. She watches him; she sees her fascination tallied in the black looks of waitresses, the knowing smiles of motel clerks. The man can see no proper way of conducting this relationship but is bound to her by concern and tenderness; perhaps desire. The girl craves only closeness. She knows the Ice Age is coming, and we will need to huddle together for warmth. Kirsten Reed's debut novel, with its echoes of Nabokov, Kerouac and Bret Easton Ellis, captures the translucent moment at the end of childhood in all its awkwardness, sincerity and heedless vulnerability. In prose both lyrical and earthy, comic and darkly harrowing, this extraordinary young writer creates a journey of irresistible momentum and tragic possibility. It will leave you with the sense that you have met someone significant; and you will not soon forget her.

She's Come Undone

Author : Wally Lamb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471105342
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book She's Come Undone written by Wally Lamb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the chocolate, crisps and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch an incredible ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably loveable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections.

Cosmic Banditos

Author : A. C. Weisbecker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101127554
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Banditos written by A. C. Weisbecker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture starring John Cusack! Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose. Only months before, these three and their fearless associates were rolling in millions in cash and high-grade marijuana, eluding prosecution on “ridiculously false” drug and terrorism charges. But times have quickly grown lean, and to liven up their exile, Jose decides to mug a family of American tourists. Among the spoils are physics texts, which launch Mr. Quark on a side-splitting, boisterous adventure north to California, where he confronts the owner of the books with his own theories on relativity, the nature of the universe, and looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places….

Have You Seen Marie?

Author : Sandra Cisneros
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307960862
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Have You Seen Marie? written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman’s search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother’s death. The word “orphan” might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like “a glove left behind at the bus station.” What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere, “Have you seen Marie?” the pursuit of this one small creature takes on unexpected urgency and meaning. With full-color illustrations that bring this transformative quest to vivid life, Have You Seen Marie? showcases a beloved author’s storytelling magic, in a tale that reminds us how love, even when it goes astray, does not stay lost forever.

Lark and Termite

Author : Jayne Anne Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307271277
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Lark and Termite written by Jayne Anne Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author a "powerful and emotionally piercing" novel (The New York Times) set during the 1950 in West Virginia and Korea, that intertwines family secrets, war, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all. Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite’s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Told with deep feeling, the novel invites us deep into the hearts and thoughts of Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk, who is filled with radiance. We are also with Corporal Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire alongside the Korean children he tries to rescue. We see Lark’s dreams for Termite and her own future, and how, with the aid of a childhood love and a spectral social worker, she makes them happen. We learn of Lola’s love for her soldier husband and her children, and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie. We discover the lasting connections between past and future on the night the town experiences an overwhelming flood, and we follow Lark and Termite as their lives are changed forever.

Eternal on the Water

Author : Joseph Moninnger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0731815416
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Eternal on the Water written by Joseph Moninnger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the day Cobb and Mary meet kayaking on Maine's Allagash River and fall deeply in love, the two approach life with the same sense of adventure they use to conquer the river's treacherous rapids. But rivers do not let go so easily...and neither does their love. So when Mary's life takes the cruelest turn, she vows to face those rough waters on her own terms and asks Cobb to promise, when the time comes, to help her return to their beloved river for one final journey. Set against the rugged wilderness of Maine, the exotic islands of Indonesia, the sweeping panoramas of Yellowstone National Park, and the tranquil villages of rural New England, Eternal on the Wateris at once heartbreaking and uplifting -- a timeless, beautifully rendered story of true love's power.

The Fourth Estate

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466817461
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Estate written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "one of the top ten storytellers in the world" (Los Angeles Times), Jeffrey Archer's The Fourth Estate sees two power-hungry men prepared to risk everything in a battle to control the largest newspaper empire in the world. Richard Armstrong narrowly escaped Hitler's atrocities in Eastern Europe on his courage and his wits—skills that served him well in peacetime. Having turned a struggling Berlin newspaper into a success story seemingly overnight, Armstrong made a name for himself—and more than a few enemies along the way... Meanwhile, young Keith Townsend enters the international arena, armed with a world-class education and a sense of entitlement to match. Charged with growing his father's newspaper business into a global media force, he and Armstrong are bound to become sworn rivals—until they arrive at the edge of collapse and will do whatever it takes to stay alive in the game...or die trying.

The Eyes of Darkness

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101525363
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Eyes of Darkness written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother’s greatest wish—or worst nightmare—comes true in this chilling novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. Tina Evans has spent a year suffering from incredible heartache since her son Danny's tragic death. But now, with her Vegas show about to premiere, Tina can think of no better time for a fresh start. Maybe she can finally move on and put her grief behind her. Only there is a message for Tina, scrawled on the chalkboard in Danny's room: NOT DEAD. Two words that send her on a terrifying journey from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the cold shadows of the High Sierras, where she uncovers a terrible secret...

The End of Everything

Author : Megan Abbott
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316175098
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The End of Everything written by Megan Abbott and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year old Lizzie Hood and her next door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable. They are best friends who swap bathing suits and field-hockey sticks, and share everything that's happened to them. Together they live in the shadow of Evie's glamorous older sister Dusty, who provides a window on the exotic, intoxicating possibilities of their own teenage horizons. To Lizzie, the Verver household, presided over by Evie's big-hearted father, is the world's most perfect place. And then, one afternoon, Evie disappears. The only clue: a maroon sedan Lizzie spotted driving past the two girls earlier in the day. As a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the Midwestern suburban community, everyone looks to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger? Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth, prowling nights through backyards, peering through windows, pushing herself to the dark center of Evie's world. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend and titillated by her own new power at the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secrets and lies that make her wonder if she knew her best friend at all.

This One and Magic Life

Author : Anne C. George
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061850950
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book This One and Magic Life written by Anne C. George and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the deep South, where love and hatred run deep and close, dissension often summers just beneath the surface.When a family gathers for a funeral as its old homestead above the waters of Mobile Bay, it must carry out the last wish of the aunt and sister whom it has come to mourn. It is a wish that will unearth a terrible secret, one that will either tear her siblings and their offspring apart or allow them to accept buried memories, wounds , and love. In This and Magic Life, Anne Carroll George has created as brilliant portrait of a Southern family in all its glory, captured in a moment of searing intensity and lyric truth. Rich with wisdom and deep understanding this compelling saga the twentieth century -- and tells a story that is truly timeless.

The Long March

Author : Shuyun Sun
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 : 0385520247
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Long March written by Shuyun Sun and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the events of China's Long March, describing the odyssey of thousands of Chinese Communists from their bases to the remote north of China and discussing stories behind the March, including ruthless purges, hunger and disease, and mistreatment ofwomen.

Mathilda Savitch

Author : Victor Lodato
Publisher : Vahlen
ISBN 13 : 3406616321
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Mathilda Savitch written by Victor Lodato and published by Vahlen. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathilda Savitch ist nicht gerade ängstlich. Sie zieht es vor, sich direkt den Dingen zu stellen, die andere nicht einmal zur Sprache bringen können. Etwa der Tatsache, dass ihre geliebte ältere Schwester tot ist, vor einen Zug gestoßen wurde von einem Mann, der nie gefasst wurde. Dennoch ist sie trotz aller Bemühungen auch ein Jahr später keinen Schritt weitergekommen, kennt die Wahrheit über den Tod Helenes noch immer nicht. Dann aber gelingt es ihr, das E-Mail-Passwort der Schwester zu knacken, und sie kann sich Helenes geheimem Leben nähern. Seltsame Gefühle, zahllose Liebesaffären, merkwürdige Motive enthüllen sich ihr da, und um die Dinge voranzutreiben, verschickt Mathilda Mails im Namen ihrer toten Schwester. Denn irgendwo in diesem Gewirr der Beziehungen und Gefühle muss auch der Schlüssel dafür liegen, ihre Familie aus der Schockstarre zu erwecken. Schließlich macht sich Mathilda auf den Weg zu Helenes letztem Geliebten, der noch gar nichts von ihrem Schicksal weiß. Sie muss sehen, was ihre Schwester gesehen hat, wissen, was Helene wusste, auch wenn sie dabei sehr viel riskiert. Victor Lodatos Roman ist furios und spannend, ein außergewöhnliches Debüt – und die dreizehnjährige Mathilda Savitch ist eine hinreißende Figur, klug, anrührend, zartfühlend und bissig, frühreif und komisch.

The Best American Short Stories 2015

Author : T.C. Boyle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547939434
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2015 written by T.C. Boyle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author presents an anthology of “confrontational and at times confounding . . . stories to get lost in” by Colum McCann, Victor Lodato and others (Kirkus Reviews). In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s selections.” The Best American Short Stories 2011 includes entries by Denis Johnson, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth McCracken, Aria Beth Sloss, Thomas McGuane, and others.

Miss O'Dell

Author : Chris O'Dell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416596755
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Miss O'Dell written by Chris O'Dell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRIS O’DELL WASN’T FAMOUS. SHE WASN’T EVEN ALMOST FAMOUS. BUT SHE WAS THERE. * She was in the studio when the Beatles recorded The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be, and she sang in the “Hey Jude” chorus. * She lived with George Harrison and Pattie Boyd and unwittingly got involved in Pattie’s famous love story with Eric Clapton. * She’s the subject of Leon Russell’s “Pisces Apple Lady.” * She worked for the Rolling Stones on their infamous 1972 tour and did a drug run for Keith Richards. * She’s “the woman down the hall” in Joni Mitchell’s song “Coyote,” the “mystery woman” pictured on the Stones album Exile on Main Street, and the “Miss O’Dell” of George Harrison’s song. The remarkable, intimate story of an ordinary woman who lived the dream of millions—to be part of rock royalty’s inner circle—Miss O’Dell is a backstage pass to some of the most momentous events in rock history.