Mon, September 10th, 2012
Invincible Microbe by Jim Murphy
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: When Lynn and I read and posted about Martha Brooks’ Queen of Hearts a year ago, little did we know that this story set in a tuberculosis sanitorium would be the first of many TB books that would come our way this year. There was The Humming Room by Ellen Potter where a young [...]
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Fri, February 25th, 2011
Deadly by Julie Chibbaro
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: “Can a girl get a job fighting death,” asks 16-year-old Prudence Galewski in her diary. It is 1906 and Prudence sees death everywhere in New York City, wonders how illness occurs and how it can be conquered. Deadly (S&S/Atheneum 2011) is a riveting historical novel told in the diary entries of a young girl [...]
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Mon, February 21st, 2011
How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: If “ewww gross” is your idea of high praise then How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous (Walker, March 2011) is the book for you! The opening pages issue this warning: Warning: If You Don’t Have the Guts for Gore, Do Not Read This Book I’d advise the squeamish among us [...]
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