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Winner of the Christopher Award 2024 NPR Science Friday Best Summer Beach Reads 2024 Gotham Book Finalist 2024 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award Finalist 2024 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Finalist 2024 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed sanatorium, dubbed “the pest house,” where it was said that
Autentisk roman om den store pestepidemi, der ramte London i året 1665 og kostede cirka 100.000 mennesker – knap en fjerdedel af indbyggerne – livet. Bogen beskriver med stor detaljerigdom og indlevelse sygdommen og dens virkninger, indbyggernes reaktion på den og myndighedernes desperate forsøg på at inddæmme den. Som sådan er der tale om en enestående beretning om en historisk og sygdomshistorisk begivenhed, som nok er værd at skele til i vore dage, hvor vi ganske vist har langt større muligheder for at inddæmme og bekæmpe smitte, men hvor den enorme mennesketrafik, terrortrusler og antibiotika-resistens igen og igen får frygten for det store udbrud – pandemien – til at blusse op. Og det blev jo slående tydeligt i 2020 med corona-pandemien. Romanen inspirerede Albert Camus til hans Pesten og bringer mindelser om andre moderne postapokalyptiske skildringer. DANIEL DEFOE (1660-1731), bri
I over ti år har Assad været en gådefuldt kraftcenter i Afdeling Q, men en kædereaktion af voldsomme begivenheder bringer ham på randen af total nedsmeltning. Kun en hårdt prøvet Rose kan hjælpe ham med at afkode de mørke dæmoner, som vækkes af den spanske journalist Joan Aiguaders dækning af en flygtnings tragiske død. Med Assad i centrum begynder tretten dages nervepirrende nedtælling mod den ultimative katastrofe midt i Europas hjerte, skånselsløst dirigeret af den irakiske bøddel Ghaalib. Samtidig rystes Afdeling Q af en central kollegas død og af et desperate forsøg på at forhindre en indestluttet, vanvittig drengs kompromisløse og morderiske handling. Type: Hardcover
The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House Olson turns her razor sharp vision on the Clintons' shocking excesses in their final days of office: the outrageous pardons to political cronies and friends, the looting of the White House, the executive orders that were sheer abuses of presidential power, the presidential library that is becoming a massive boondoogle of vanity more appropriate for a Third World dictator, and much more. Forlag: Regnery Publishing Udgivelsesår: 2001 Sider: 256 Sprog: Engelsk
DVD "Desperate Housewives - Season 6 - DVD /tv Series /dvd" af Desperate Housewives · 6 enheder. Undertekster på dansk. Genre: Drama. Udgivet 15. okt. 2010 Vejer 310 g.
When Joshua King's father dies of a Viagra overdose, he leaves his son a fortune - on condition that Josh writes a bestselling novel. But the last thing Josh wants is a purpose in life; he's far too busy travelling, taking drugs and growing his hair. Now, uncomfortably ensconced in dirty, downtown Delhi, still desperately searching for inspiration, Josh reckons he's on to the Big One. Which is to find, befriend and finally unmask the subcontinent's legendary drug baron, Baba. Add the beautiful and elusive Yasmin to the plot, and Josh finds himself enmeshed in a quest so unbelievable it must surely give him scope for a novel. But three months later, abandoned, penniless and starving in Mumbai's Caged City, selling heroin to street kids and wanted for questioning after the murder of a Bollywood superstar, Josh is discovering the dangers of fiction. It is all far too real... Titel: Paperbac
You wait, desperately, for news of your daughter. At last, the door opens. But it is not the negotiators, or the FBI. It is her kidnapper. And he has a gun . . . Two days ago, life was normal. How did it end like this? Every crime scene begins at the end. To know what happened, you must work backwards, piecing together the events that came before. The ultimate thriller writer, Jeffery Deaver puts your brain - and your nerves - to the ultimate test with THE OCTOBER LIST, in a masterful mystery that unfolds from the end back to the beginning with many a breath-taking twist along the way. Forfatter: Jeffery Deaver Forlag: Hodder Paperbacks Udgivelsesår: 2014 Sider: 384 Sprog: Engelsk
