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Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story is a 1996 book by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. The book chronicles the development of the endocrine disruptor hypothesis by Colborn. Though written for the popular press in narrative form, the book contains a ...
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution is a 2015 nonfiction book by American historian Kathleen DuVal.Focusing on the effects of the American Revolution on the frontiers of Spanish Louisiana and British West Florida, Independence Lost incorporates biographies of eight individual historical figures alongside more general analysis of the Gulf Coast during the 18th and ...
Stolen Legacy (1954) George Granville Monah James (November 9, 1893 – June 30, 1956) [ 1 ] was a Guyanese-American historian and author, known for his 1954 book Stolen Legacy , which argues that Greek philosophy and religion originated in ancient Egypt .
A Stolen Life is the story of Dugard's 18-year ordeal and was written as part of her therapy with Rebecca Bailey, who specializes in post-trauma family reunification. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Dugard further says that she wrote the memoir to provide an in-depth look at what captives like her have endured, and to reach other survivors.
Girl Stolen is a young adult crime novel by the American author April Henry, published in 2010 by Henry Holt and Company.It follows Cheyenne, a 16-year-old girl who is blind, has pneumonia, and is accidentally kidnapped when a stranger steals her mother's car while Cheyenne is resting in the backseat.
Chasing Vermeer is Blue Balliett's first published book. Its original purpose was a book to read to her class for fun. [2] She realized that a mystery about "real" art issues had not been written since E.L. Konigsburg's 1967 novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and desired to write what she wished to read. [3]
He wants to recover a box stolen by transporters hired by a rival of his, a task which previous teams of recoverers have already failed in. Knowing the high value of what is inside the box, Ban accepts in exchange for 10% of its contents after turning down 2-3 million yen and living rent-free for a year in one of Otaki's apartments.
The manuscript was stolen by Powell at Hayden's request to help fund SCACE's cause. Broz had Hayden return it in the hopes that Spenser would drop the case before discovering the heroin distribution scheme. (This story also introduces Brenda Loring, a character that is referenced in many of the succeeding Spenser books.)