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In "The Tiger's Child", if Sheila is ever to overcome her past and build a future, she must face the old furies still there. This is the moving sequel to "One Child", one of the most popular titles ever to appear in Condensed Books. It was Chief of Detectives Bert Farber's toughest case--find whoever gunned down New York City's Police Commissioner. Find out who the killer is in "Wall of Brass". In "This Child Is Mine", Christie and Bill Salem find this child is the joyful answer to their prayers: a newborn infant they can adopt to replace the baby they lost. But two years later they come face to face inside a crowded courtroom, where in the glare of public scrutiny the child's fate will be forever sealed by a rigid ruling of the law. In "Heat", behind the town's serene facade sinister forces are at work, directed by the charismatic pastor Jack Gene Coldwater. Nonstop action from the author of "Deep Lie" and "Grass Roots". ... Read more

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Examines the lives and achievements of seven black Americans who left their mark through scientific work, from Benjamin Banneker to Matthew Henson. ... Read more

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Interesting, Well Paced Novel.
This books begins with an unemployed actress who gets pregnant with her unemployed actor boyfriend.She decides to put her baby up for adoption after she moves home and splits up with her boyfriend.A married couplewho lost their first child to SIDS adopts the baby.Two years later,circumstances change and the acting couple has reunited and hit it big. They decide they want their baby back and take legal steps to do so.

Aswe all know, this book was taken out of the headlines in the newspapers. The author was smart and careful NOT to try to sway your sympathy too muchone way or another.He didn't demonize either party but presented theirside of the argument as fairly as he could.I really liked that.

Thisbook appealed to me as a mother, how would I feel in either situation. Can't say much about the ending (HATE it when people give it away) but Ireally enjoyed the book.Hope you will too. ... Read more

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Torey Hayden publicou A Criança Que Não Queria Falar, em 1980, relatando o caso verídico e comovente da sua relação com uma menina de seis anos que aparecera, gravemente perturbada, na sua aula de ensino especial. Ao longo de vários meses a jovem professora lutou para fazê-la desabrochar sob o calor generoso da sua espantosa intuição e amor e levá-la a descobrir um mundo que podia ser luminoso. Separadas pelas contingências da vida, só voltam a encontrar-se anos mais tarde quando Sheila já tem 13 anos. Para surpresa de Torey, a adolescente parece ter perdido uma grande parte das memórias dos primeiros tempos que passaram juntas e, à medida que elas ressurgem do passado com os sentimentos que lhes estão associados, a sua competência de terapeuta e a sua devoção vão de novo ser duramente postas à prova. ... Read more

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When Sheila, at age six, injures an even smaller child, she is remanded by the courts to a state hospital. Awaiting a vacancy there, she is enrolled in Torey Hayden's class of retarded and handicapped preadolescents. Over the months, Torey and others come to realize that this nearly autistic child is in fact exceptionally gifted- one with the IQ of a genius. It becomes apparent to them that placement in any sort of institutional setting would be grossly inappropriate to the child's particular case ... Read more

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Large print condensed versions of The Tiger's Child, Hope against Hope and The Drover's Wife. ... Read more

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MORTAL FEAR By Robin Cook: Death by natural causes. So state the autopsy reports on several patients at a Boston clinic. But to Dr. Jason Howard, a physician at the clinic, there are indications that those deaths were disturbingly unnatural. And why did a brilliant scientist, known for his advanced research in genetic engineering, die suddenly of symptoms common to a person twice his age? Something--or someone--sinister is behind those deaths, Dr. Howard is convinced. He commits himself to uncovering the answer if it's the last thing he does. And to those determined to prevent him, it will be just that. A gripping medical thriller by the popular author of OUTBREAK.JUST ANOTHER KID By Torey L. Hayden: "I love you, miss." Those words from a little girl are among the sweetest Torey Hayden can remember. But she has earned them. Months earlier, when she began to teach a class of emotionally disturbed children, she knew the challenges she faced. What she could not know were the private heartaches she would come to share with her young pupils, nor how desperately the troubled mother of one student would need her help as well. Here is the touching true story of a devoted teacher, striving to instill hope and pride among her "kids" through skill, determination, and her own special brand of love.ROCKET'S RED GLARE By Greg Dinallo: Operation Slow Burn: a cunning Soviet plot to penetrate America's nuclear shield. The fuse was lit a generation ago; now it is set to detonate. But the plan relies on a traitor, and traitors are not reliable. Just as the U.S. President is ready to sign an arms treaty that will mean grave danger to his people, a Russian agent's act of revenge unleashes a chain of events that will bring the world to a heart-stopping crisis. From first page to last, a dazzling novel that explodes with all the color and excitement of a Roman candle.BROWNSTONE FACADE By Catherine M. Rae: New York City, 1920. ... Read more

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Durante décadas Torey Hayden tem sido uma luz na escuridão para muitas crianças com distúrbios comportamentais graves. Especializada em «mutismo electivo», trabalha agora num hospital, na unidade de pedopsiquiatria. Neste livro, ela ocupa-se de Cassandra, uma menina que apenas com seis anos foi raptada pelo pai, só regressando a casa da mãe quase dois anos depois e o seu comportamento leva a supor ter sido vítima de abusos graves. Drake, de quatro anos, é pelo contrário um rapazinho encantador e carismático, mas a sua mudez persiste para além de todos os esforços de Torey. E, embora nunca tenha trabalhado com adultos, Torey vai ainda ocupar-se de uma idosa que, após um AVC, se refugiou num mutismo depressivo. Cada história desenrola-se à semelhança de um caso policial, como um puzzle que se vai construindo peça a peça. ... Read more

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Torey Hayden aceitou um lugar como professora de ensino especial em Pecking, uma pequena cidade americana. Nesta sua nova experiência com crianças marcadas por problemas comportamentais, Torey vai encontrar Jadie, uma menina de oito anos que sofre de uma perturbação designada por mutismo electivo e se comporta como se fechada num mundo de sombras. Mas Torey, investigadora com profundo conhecimento a que alia inesgotáveis reservas de criatividade e uma rara capacidade de doação, não desiste de ajudar a criança. No entanto, nada na sua experiência anterior a tinha preparado para o pesadelo que aquela criança lhe vai desvendando à medida que ganha confiança na única pessoa que a faz sentir-se segura. Torey precisará de muita dedicação e coragem para libertar Jadie das vontades malévolas que lhe roubaram a infância. ... Read more