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  • COOK COUNTY ICU
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    COOK COUNTY ICU
    CORY FRANKLIN
    An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin. Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a thirty-year career in medicine, Cook County ICU offers readers a peek into the inner workings of a hospital. Author Dr. Cory ...

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  • CASE WITH ROPES AND RINGS
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    CASE WITH ROPES AND RINGS
    LEO BRUCE
    The coroner's jury found that the boy hanged in the school gymnasium had killed himself, but Sergeant Beef disagrees. He takes a job as a temporary school caretaker, abetted by the reluctant Townsend, Beef's biographer, whose brother is a master at the school. Beef's methods entail endless games of darts and beer all around in the local pub, much to Townsend's dismay of course....

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  • NECK AND NECK
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    NECK AND NECK
    LEO BRUCE
    Lionel Townsend is Sergeant Beef's priggish biographer, most often found exasperated by Beef's boorish manners. But now Townsend's aunt has been poisoned. Townsend must turn to Beef for assistance—he has surprisingly found himself the prime suspect of the murder. When an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, it seems utterly unrelated. Beef, in his inimitable wa...

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  • HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
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    HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
    SARAH LEW MILLER / JOYCE B. LAZARUS
    Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller, a young Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation. ...

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  • CRYING AT MOVIES
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    CRYING AT MOVIES
    JOHN MANDERINO
    When Hitchcock's The Birds began showing in the summer of 1963 at the Dolton Theater, the starlings of Riverside, Illinois launched their attacks. They were "black, freckled, oily-looking things" with "tiny black buttons for eyes." They carried off Skippy Whalen's baseball cap, pooped on Father Rowley's finger, and attacked a feisty little dog named Tuffy who fought them off. "...

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  • REASON FOR LEAVING
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    REASON FOR LEAVING
    JOHN MANDERINO
    In the last column of a job application, there’s that tricky question: reason for leaving? John Manderino has apparently had to puzzle over that one often and long. His answers are collected here in this hilarious novel-in-stories tracing the history of a guy trying to grow up job by job. Delivery boy, altar boy, busboy, teacher, cotton picker, umpire, Zen monk—Manderino’s prot...

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  • MOTHER AND ME
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    MOTHER AND ME
    JULIAN PADOWICZ
    "In 1939," Julian Padowicz says, "I was a Polish Jew-hater. Under different circumstances my story might have been one of denouncing Jews to the Gestapo. As it happened, I was a Jew myself, and I was seven years old." Julian's mother was a Warsaw socialite who had no interest in child-rearing. She turned her son over completely to his governess, a good Catholic, named Kiki, who...

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  • THE FUN OF IT
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    THE FUN OF IT
    AMELIA EARHART
    Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others. ...

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  • JOURNEY TO CHERNOBYL
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    JOURNEY TO CHERNOBYL
    GLENN ALAN CHENEY
    Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees, engineers, top-level government officials, doctors, environmentalists, parents of sick children and people living just a few kilometers from the Chernobyl complex. He heard stories ab...

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  • FIVE CHIMNEYS
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    FIVE CHIMNEYS
    OLGA LENGYEL
    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It i...

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  • SAGA
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    SAGA
    JEFF JANODA
    This retelling of the ancient Saga of the People of Eyri is a modern classic. Absolutely gripping and compulsively readable, Booklist said this book, "does what good historical fiction is supposed to do: put a face on history that is recognizable to all." And medieval expert Tom Shippey, writing for the Times Literary Supplement said, "Sagas look like novels superficially, in t...

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  • TINDER BOX
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    TINDER BOX
    ANTHONY P. HATCH
    The Iroquois Theater in Chicago, boasting every modern convenience, advertised itself proudly as “absolutely fireproof” when it opened in November, 1903. Mr. Bluebeard, a fairy tale musical imported from the Drury Lane Theatre in London was the opening production. And leading the troupe of nearly 400 was one of the most popular comedians of the time, Eddie Foy. None of the many...

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  • HIWASSEE
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    HIWASSEE
    CHARLES F. PRICE
    This Stunning Novel is set near the end of the Civil War in the mountainous farm country of North Carolina—bordering on the Hiwassee River—a region where neighbor turned on neighbor and helpless families were preyed on by deserters from both armies and by violent gangs pretending to be military units. Madison Curtis and his wife Sarah live on a plantation that lies in the path ...

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  • FALL RIVER AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED STORIES
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    FALL RIVER AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED STORIES
    JOHN CHEEVER
    The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. There are 13 total, 11 of which are not available anywhere else, including the new Library of America edition. Interest in Cheever's work has been renewed with the publication of a new biography, John Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey. Readers of Cheever, both new and old, will be fascinated by thi...

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  • COUNTY
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    COUNTY
    DAVID A. ANSELL
    The amazing tale of “County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a “poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. Ansell covers more than thirty years of its history, beg...

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  • THE TRIAL OF LEVI WEEKS
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    THE TRIAL OF LEVI WEEKS
    ESTELLE FOX KLIEGER
    In 1799, the murder of a young woman caused a terrific stir in the city of New York. The victim was Gulielma Sands who, on December 22, left the boardinghouse where she lived, never to return. Her bruised body was found several days later in the Manhattan Well, a twenty-minute carriage ride from her home. The accused was Levi Weeks, a fellow boarder who, Miss Sands had claimed,...

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  • EUROPE AND THE JEWS
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    EUROPE AND THE JEWS
    MALCOLM HAY
    A detailed and moving account of the indignities and cruelties Jews have undergone at the hands of Christians and others in the West, from St John Chrysostom in the 4th century to Hitler in the 20th. Using Hitler's concentration camps as a point of departure, Hay leads us on a tour of the devilish scenes and spectacles which have been produced by Christian hatred of Jews for so...

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  • CELTIC MYTH AND ARTHURIAN ROMANCE
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    CELTIC MYTH AND ARTHURIAN ROMANCE
    ROGER SHERMAN LOOMIS
    King Arthur was not an Englishman, but a Celtic warrior, according to Loomis, whose research into the background of the Arthurian legend reveals findings which are both illuminating and highly controversial. The author sees the vegetarian goddess as the prototype of many damsels in Arthurian romance, and Arthur's knights as the gods of sun and storm. If Loomis's arguments are a...

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  • VALENTINE
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    VALENTINE
    GEORGE SAND
    This is George Sand's second novel. Like Indiana, her first, it explores the relationship between men and women. Valentine, an aristocratic girl, falls despearately in love with Benedict, the son of a poor farmer. Again, like Indiana, this novel challenges preconceived masculine assumptions about woman's role in society. In loving Benedict, Valentine rebels against her family a...

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  • CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
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    CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
    J. A. MACCULLOCH
    Few surviving Celtic myths bear any resemblance to their originals. In the course of time they have been infused with romance, pseudohistory and Christian theory. Stories of Ireland and Wales have been combined with tales of love, war and slaughterdeeds both noble and ignoble. In this classic study, MacCulloch proves that Celtic legend borrowed from preCeltic mythology, just as...

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  • WAVE OF TERROR
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    WAVE OF TERROR
    THEODORE ODRACH
    This novel is a major literary discovery, and Odrach is drawing favorable comparisons with such eminent writers as Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn. Odrach wrote in Ukrainian, while living an exile's life in Toronto. This remarkable book is a microcosm of Soviet history, and Odrach provides a first-hand account of events during the Stalinist era that newsreels never covered. It has spe...

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  • CASE WITH 4 CLOWNS
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    CASE WITH 4 CLOWNS
    LEO BRUCE
    A murder is yet to be committed—that much is certain—but who will be the victim? And who will be the murderer? It is Sgt. Beef's job to discover these facts, if he can, in time to prevent the deed from being done. But when he reaches the small traveling circus where the murder is to take place, he finds that practically everyone there is seething with hatred, each has a motive ...

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  • DEATH IN THE MIDDLE WATCH
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    DEATH IN THE MIDDLE WATCH
    LEO BRUCE
    Carolus Deene is enjoying himself on a holiday cruise. On the first night aboard the Summer Queen, he hears a shout of "Man Overboard!" From that point on to the moment of Deene's unexpected revelations, the reader will find that unique mixture of artless fun and grim terror Leo Bruce devotees savor. ...

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  • DEATH IN ALBERT PARK
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    DEATH IN ALBERT PARK
    LEO BRUCE
    In a gloomy London suburb, a modern Jack the Ripper stalks at night, killing at random with brutal knife thrusts from behind. Three women fall victim, and the terrorized residents wait to see who will be next. ...

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  • CASE WITH NO CONCLUSION
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    CASE WITH NO CONCLUSION
    LEO BRUCE
    Once again Lionel Townsend, Beef's Dr. Watson, faithfully records the redoubtable Sergeant's escapades. Beef has left the Braxham police and gone into business for himself. Beef gets a client: Stewart Ferrars, who has been arrested for the Sydenham Murder. Beef is hired by Stewart's brother Peter to prove Stewart is innocent of the murder of Dr. Benson, who has been found stabb...

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  • CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES
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    CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES
    LEO BRUCE
    Possibly the most unusual mystery ever written. A murder is committed, behind closed doors, in bizarre circumstances. Three amateur detectives take the case: Lord Simon Plimsoll, Monsieur Amer Picon, and Monsignor Smith (in whom discerning readers will note likeness to some familiar literary figures). Each arrives at his own brilliant solution, startling in its originality, iro...

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  • CASE FOR SERGEANT BEEF
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    CASE FOR SERGEANT BEEF
    LEO BRUCE
    In the cleverly plotted Case for Sergeant Beef, Mr. Wellington Chickle, a retired watchmaker, plans the perfect murder, but he chooses the wrong victim. The dead man's sister refuses to accept the idea that her brother committed suicide and calls in the unprepossessing Sgt. Beef who unravels the plot with the aid of the local police. Meanwhile, Townsend, Beef’s indefatigable ch...

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  • DEATH OF A BOVVER BOY
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    DEATH OF A BOVVER BOY
    LEO BRUCE
    Billed as “the ugliest case that Carolus Deene ever chose to investigate,” Leo Bruce’s Death of a Bovver Boy finds the redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective involved in yet another mystery murder—this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England. When Carolus’s housekeeper, stoic Mrs. Stick, announces one evening that her husband has seen the naked body ...

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  • DEATH AT HALLOWS END
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    DEATH AT HALLOWS END
    LEO BRUCE
    Gentleman Detective Carolus Deene, the schoolmaster created by Bruce and featured in so many of his other books, has his work cut out for him this time. A respectable solicitor has vanished into thin air in the remote village of Hallows End. Deene senses foul play, and when he goes on the hunt for the missing lawyer, the wealthy client himself suffers a heart attack in what pro...

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  • CASE WITHOUT A CORPSE
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    CASE WITHOUT A CORPSE
    LEO BRUCE
    This is one of Sgt. Beef's most interesting and perplexing cases. It involves a murder, but one in which no body can be found. Young Rogers announces to Beef and others assembled in a local pub that he has committed a murder—then takes his own life. But where is the victim? How did it happen? "I always supposed," says Beef. "a murder case started with a corpse, and then you had...

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