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Book Henrietta Who

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Aird
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-05-05
  • ISBN : 1504010604
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Henrietta Who written by Catherine Aird and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hit-and-run murder unearths a case of mistaken identity in this “well-bred, well written and genuinely superior” mystery by the Diamond Dagger winner (Kirkus Reviews). Early one morning in the quiet English village of Larking, the body of a woman named Mrs. Jenkins is found in the road. Miles away, her daughter, Henrietta, receives the bad news while working in the university library. Poor Mrs. Jenkins appears to have been the victim of a horrible car accident. When an autopsy proves not only that this was no accident but also that Mrs. Jenkins had never had a child, young Henrietta’s life is thrown upside down. If she’s not Mrs. Jenkins’s daughter, then who is she? It’s up to Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan of the Calleshire police force to bring the murderer to justice—and a sense of order back to Henrietta’s life. Proclaimed by the New York Times in 1968 to be one of the year’s best books, Henrietta Who? is a first-order English whodunit that’ll keep you guessing until the end.

Book Henrietta

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  • Author : David Mamet
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780618004164
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Henrietta written by David Mamet and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious pig overcomes prejudice while following her dream of attending law school.

Book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Download or read book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS • WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York • Independent (U.K.) • Times (U.K.) • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Globe and Mail 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, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

Book A Child Lost

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  • Author : Michelle Cox
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-04-28
  • ISBN : 1631528378
  • Pages : 419 pages

Download or read book A Child Lost written by Michelle Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mixing Romance and Mystery in a Fizzy 1930s Cocktail!” “A Child Lost is undoubtedly a novel that should not be missed—the story is genius, flawlessly written, and wildly entertaining! A thrilling five stars!” — The Red Headed Book Lover “Once again, Cox delivers the passion and intrigue of Henrietta and Clive with a story that leaps right off the page. A Child Lost is a true thrill . . . ” — Paperback Paris “The characters’ depth and complexity is beautifully written…this is a truly enjoyable and addicting series.” — Nurse Bookie A spiritualist, an insane asylum, a lost little girl . . . When Clive, anxious to distract a depressed Henrietta, begs Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he is assigned to investigating a seemingly boring affair: a spiritualist woman operating in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town who is suspected of robbing people of their valuables. What begins as an open and shut case becomes more complicated, however, when Henrietta—much to Clive’s dismay—begins to believe the spiritualist's strange ramblings. Meanwhile, Elsie begs Clive and Henrietta to help her and the object of her budding love, Gunther, locate the whereabouts of one Liesel Klinkhammer, the German woman Gunther has traveled to America to find and the mother of the little girl, Anna, whom he has brought along with him. The search leads them to Dunning Asylum, where they discover some terrible truths about Liesel. When the child, Anna, is herself mistakenly admitted to the asylum after an epileptic fit, Clive and Henrietta return to Dunning to retrieve her. This time, however, Henrietta begins to suspect that something darker may be happening. When Clive doesn’t believe her, she decides to take matters into her own hands . . . with horrifying results.

Book Henrietta

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  • Author : Charlotte Lennox
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1761
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Henrietta written by Charlotte Lennox and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Accursed Inheritance of Henrietta Achilles

Download or read book The Accursed Inheritance of Henrietta Achilles written by Haiko Hörnig and published by Graphic Universe. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Henrietta Achilles is about to change. After years of living as an orphan, she receives a summons to the strange town of Malrenard. To her surprise, she's the only living relative of Ornun Zol—a notorious wizard, now deceased, who leaves Henrietta with his house and everything in it. With Ornun Zol gone, escaped creatures and misfired curses have been spilling out into Malrenard. If that's not enough, Henrietta will discover countless squabbling squatters inside her uncle's abode: soldiers, bandits, tiny monsters, and more. Then there's the matter of the strange black cat following Henrietta around . . .

Book Letters to Henrietta

Download or read book Letters to Henrietta written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.

Book Dream Big

Download or read book Dream Big written by Earl O. Roe and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dream Big, you’ll see the exciting things God can do through the life of a single individual totally committed to Him. Henrietta Mears had the courage and faith to dream big, and she inspired the people she touched to do the same.

Book Written and Drawn by Henrietta

Download or read book Written and Drawn by Henrietta written by Liniers and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading books is fun . . . but what about making them? Armed with new colored pencils she got from her mom and accompanied by her talking cat Fellini, Henrietta's ready to try her hand at making a book of her own. Peek over Henrietta's shoulder as she scribbles out the story of a brave young girl, a three-headed monster, and an impossibly wide world of adventure. Whether read aloud to a toddler or discovered by a young reader, Liniers' celebration of the creative process is sure to make everyone want to bring out their pencils.

Book Henrietta Goes West

Download or read book Henrietta Goes West written by Ruth Christoffer Carlsen and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Infused

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  • Author : Henrietta Lovell
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2019-06-04
  • ISBN : 0571357695
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Infused written by Henrietta Lovell and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARHenrietta Lovell is best known as 'The Rare Tea Lady'. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of the Himalayas, and to hidden gardens in the Wuyi-Shan to source the world's most extraordinary teas.Infused invites us to discover these remarkable places, introducing us to the individual growers and household name chefs Lovell has met along the way - and reveals the true pleasures of tea. The result is a delicious infusion of travel writing, memoir, recipes, and glorious photography, all written with Lovell's unique charm and wit.

Book Henrietta s Wish  Or  Domineering

Download or read book Henrietta s Wish Or Domineering written by Charlotte Yonge and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henrietta

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  • Author : Charlotte Lennox
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1761
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Henrietta written by Charlotte Lennox and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Henrietta Anne

Download or read book The Life of Henrietta Anne written by Melanie Clegg and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the seventeenth-century English princess tells a sweeping tale of war and exile, marriage and scandal, and a triumphant reversal of fortune. Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents, and her mother was on the run from Parliamentary forces when she gave birth with only a few attendants on hand. Within a few days she was on her way to the coast for a moonlit escape to her native France, leaving her infant daughter in the hands of trusted supporters. A few years later, Henrietta Anne would herself be whisked, disguised as a boy, out of the country and reunited with her mother in France, where she stayed for the rest of her life. But Henrietta’s fortunes dramatically changed for the better when her brother, Charles II, was restored to the throne in 1660. After being snubbed by her cousin Louis XIV, she would eventually marry his younger brother Philippe, Duc d’Orlans, and quickly become one of the luminaries of the French court—though there was a dark side to her rise to power and popularity when she became embroiled in love affairs with her brother-in-law Louis and her husband’s former lover, the dashing Comte de Guiche, giving rise to several scandals and rumors about the true parentage of her three children. However, Henrietta Anne was much more than just a mere court butterfly. She also possessed considerable intelligence, wit, and political acumen, which led to her being entrusted in 1670 with the delicate negotiations for a secret treaty between her brother Charles II and cousin Louis XIV—which ensured England’s support of France in their war against the Dutch. This is the story of her remarkable life.

Book Henrietta s Wish  Or  Domineering

Download or read book Henrietta s Wish Or Domineering written by Charlotte M. Yonge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering" by Charlotte M. Yonge. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book The Haunting of Henrietta

Download or read book The Haunting of Henrietta written by Sandra Heath and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to enter the Pearly Gates unless they bring together a couple from their feuding families, Jane and Kit find their best opportunity in one hundred years is Henrietta Courtenay and Marcus Fitzpaine. Who would have guessed it would be so difficult to accomplish their goal—when the two were already passionate about each other? But only their ghostly dog is allowed to talk … Regency Romance Paranormal by Sandra Heath; originally published by Signet