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41) Bitter harvest
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Gifted with a brilliant mind, blessed with a beautiful family- and cursed with a destructive madness. In this harrowing New York Times bestseller, Ann Rule is at her masterful best as she winnows horrific truths from the ashes of what seemed like paradise in Prairie Village, Kansas. Rule probes the case of Debora Green,a doctor and a loving mother who seemed to epitomize the dreams of the American heartland. A small-town girl with a genius IQ, she...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient Chinese detectives studied dead bodies for signs of foul...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
NYC journalist Ethan Brown investigates the tragic end of Zackery Bowen, a young charismatic soldier from New Orleans, in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net America. Among the newsworthy elements in the book is Brown's discovery that this tragedy--like so many others--could have been avoided if the military had simply not failed this soldier.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
El caso estaba cerrado. No quedaba duda: Marie inventó la historia de un hombre enmascarado que irrumpió en su departamento, y la excusa de la violación no era más que un grito para llamar la atención. Sin embargo, años después y a cientos de kilómetros de distancia, dos detectives encuentran razones suficientes para reabrir la investigación. Con suspenso y angustia, los autores de este libro reconstruyen la historia real detrás del caso...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist-two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered and the other is determined to uncover the truth about her wild and seductive friend.
As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who loved spending afternoons exploring the woods. Only when the girls attended different high schools did they...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Lone Star Vistas, Astrid Haas brings formidable language and research skills to bear on the subject of travel writing on Texas in the nineteenth century. As she puts it, the manuscript looks at "narrative constructions" of Texas as a geographic and social space from 1821 to 1861 in selected works of Mexican, Anglo-American, and German travel writing. "Based on the premise that journey narratives contribute significantly to the discursive construction...
56) The perfect father: the true story of Chris Watts, his all-American family, and a shocking murder
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the true story of a Colorado family whose storybook life turned into a nightmare. In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at her Frederick, Colorado home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been...
59) Business 2000
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c1995
Language
English
Description
Since scientists first began to cut and splice DNA in 1973, biotechnology has produced everything from super rice to super drugs. Considering a burgeoning global population, and increasing demands for new, more effective drugs, biotechnology may be, as host Fred Dorey asserts, "the only answer we've got. In this program, a group of experts, including Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton University and Professor Jurgen Drews, President of International Research...
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