Summary (from the publisher): When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for more than eighteen years, held captive by Phillip Craig and Nancy Garrido, and gave birth to two daughters during her imprisonment. On [...]
Summary (from the publisher): Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are [...]
Summary I am not a cat person at all, so I never really heard of Dewey the library cat until this book came out a couple years ago and I saw the title on the NY Times Bestseller list for weeks and weeks. I finally decided to check the book out from my library, and [...]
One of my goals is to read all of the novels chosen by the Observer (UK) for their list of the 100 best books of all time. I first learned about the list about four years ago (it was published in 2003), and had already read a decent number of the choices. Since then, I [...]