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Books : Lost in the Stacks

Lost in the Stacks: An Innocent, a Broad

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A not uncommon fear among pregnant women is that the blessed event will unexpectedly happen in some public place and humiliating headlines will read: “Woman Gives Birth in Library, Bewildered...

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Lost in the Stacks: Another Place at the Table

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“They have to go someplace,” writes Kathy Harrison in her compelling portrait of life as a foster mother, “the children you read about in the paper, the injured ones with burns and broken arms, the...

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Lost in the Stacks: 19 Steps Up the Mountain

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If you had no arms or legs, a 19-step staircase would look like a mountain, but Karen DeBolt, born without arms or legs, made it up that staircase. So did Sunee, paralyzed by polio, Twe, a blind...

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Lost in the Stacks: Execution Eve

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It was the eve of execution for three condemned killers - Willie Baxter, a naïve heroin addict, Bob Anderson, a nightclub owner, and Tom Penney a hardcore convict. The three had been sentenced to...

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Lost in the Stacks: Lay This Body Down

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On a dark April night in 1921, Georgian plantation owner John Williams and his black overseer Clyde Manning drove to a bridge over the Yellow River and stopped.  In the backseat were three of...

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