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Summary: A riveting second novel that unfolds over the course of Thanksgiving Day as two families are connected by a horrific crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: 1943: When seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a cryptic letter from her enlisted brother and then discovers that he's been reported missing in action, she lies about her age and travels to the front lines as an army nurse, determined to find him. Shy and awkward, Juliet is thrust into the bloody chaos of a field hospital, a sprawling encampment north of Rome where she forges new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "When the application for a new sedative called Kevadon--commonly known as thalidomide--landed on Frances Kelsey's desk at the FDA in 1960, it seemed destined to sail through the review process. The drug, billed as entirely risk-free, was already being sold in forty-six countries. But when Kelsey learned that the drug caused terrible birth defects, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023