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1) All he knew
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1939 six-year-old Henry, who is deaf, is taken from his family and placed in a home for the feeble-minded where, years later, his friends include a conscientious objector serving there during World War II.
Author
Language
English
Description
Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
Author
Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The author, one of many boys suffering verbal, sexual, and physical abuse at the hands of their caretakers, tells the story of his boyhood years in the Florida Industrial School for Boys in Marianna. A group of the "white house boys" has promised to learn the truth and see justice served.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's surprise discovery that his late mother had had a sister who was sent away under mysterious circumstances and never mentioned by the family again, his efforts to research his long-lost aunt's story and whereabouts, and his struggles to understand the secrecy of her existence.