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Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of writing fictionFor ten years, crime novelist Lawrence Block funneled his wealth of writing expertise into a monthly column for Writer’s Digest. Collected here for the first time are those pieces illuminating the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating vibrant characters and generating seamless plots, to conquering writer’s block and experimenti...

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A remarkable tale of a golden son and his disgraced father, layered over the unforgettable era of Brooklyn mobsters and the rise of the National Football League

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Rosen presents a remarkable tale of a golden son and his disgraced father, layered over the unforgettable era of Brooklyn mobsters and the rise of the National Football League.

They defied death by being such good girls—keeping secrets, staying out of sight, and suffering in frightened silence.Sophie—pictured on the cover—survived the Holocaust without even knowing she was Jewish, while her terrified, widowed mother worked for the Nazis in Poland under the guise of a Christian bookkeeper.Flora, orphaned by Final Solution, was shuttled through southern France, from convents to the homes of one Christian family after a...

Sophie survived the Holocaust without even knowing she was Jewish, while her terrified, widowed mother worked for the Nazis in Poland as a "Christian" bookkeeper.Flora, orphaned by Final Solution, was shuttled through southern France, from convents to one Christian family after another, unsure of who she really was.Carla hid with her family in the apartment of a Dutch barber, while, on the floor below, the man who hid them would cut Nazi soldi...

Sophie Turner Zaretsky survived the Holocaust without even knowing she was Jewish, while her terrified, widowed mother worked for a Nazi in Poland as a "Christian" bookkeeper. Flora Hogman, orphaned by the Final Solution, was shuttled through southern France, from convents to the homes of one Christian family after another, clueless about her real identity. Carla Lessing and her family hid upstairs in the apartment of a defiant Dutch barber wh...

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thrombospondin-l may be encoded by a tumor suppressor gene. Dr. O'Reilly discusses angiostatin, an exciting recently discovered factor derived from the fibrinolytic proenzyme plasminogen that inhibits tumor angiogenesis, primary tumor growth, and formation of metastases. In addition to the soluble class of angiogenesis-regulatory factors discussed above, interactions of endothelial cells with components of the extracellular matrix and with oth...

Selma ha cinque anni quando sua madre Laura, con in tasca documenti falsi pagati a caro prezzo, strappa le loro fasce con la stella gialla ed esce dal ghetto ebraico di Lvov, ostentando sotto lo sguardo delle guardie naziste una sicurezza che non ha. Da quel giorno del 1942, Selma diventa Zofia, orfana cattolica, e mentre Laura, per mantenerle, lavora per un nazista, la bambina frequenta la scuola ariana. Ogni giorno Laura la costringe a ripet...

This is a book so riveting in its details that only after you've put it down do you begin to grasp the extent of Richard Rosen's accomplishment. From the story of one stray baby bison named Charlie Buffalo and the family that took him in, Rosen has drawn a sweeping history of the American frontier-of the people who tried to destroy it and the ones determined to save it. I can't remember when I've been instructed so gracefully, or entertained t...

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A buffalo in the house? Yes, a buffalo. More than a hundred years after her pioneer ancestors hand-raised two baby buffalo to help rescue the species from the brink of extinction, Veryl Goodnight and her husband, Roger Brooks, commit themselves to saving just one. When they welcome an orphaned baby buffalo into their Santa Fe home, they expect him to stay just until he's old enough to rejoin a herd.But Charlie becomes a big part of their famil...