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James Watson & Francis Crick

decoding the secrets of DNA
1995
A joined biography of Watson and Crick who unlocked the mystery of DNA, focusing on their relationship and how they worked together as a team in their research.

Shirley Temple Black

actress to ambassador
1988
A biography of the child actress who was known as "America's Sweetheart" and who, as an adult, became active in politics and served as Ambassador to Ghana and as the first woman Chief of Protocol at the White House.

Elie Wiesel's night

Bloom's modern critical interpretations
2010

Body farms

2009
Providing examples from specific cases, this book discusses the studies of human body decomposition in body farms that determine postmortem interval, the period of time between death and discovery of the body.

Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez

the great Hispanic heritage
2006
Columbian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and uses magical realism to tell his stories, a blend of mythical elements with realistic narrative.

The scariest place in the world

a marine returns to North Korea
2005
James Brady chronicles the experiences he had when he returned to North Korea nearly fifty years after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, describing the painful memories his travels brought back and the healing that came with it.

Indestructible

the unforgettable story of a Marine hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima
2006
Tells the story of Jack Lucas, who fraudulently joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 at the age of fourteen and became the youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor as a result of his heroic actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima three years later.

The Coldest war

a memoir of Korea
1990
Describes the personal experiences of James Brady while serving on the front lines in Korea during the Korean War.

Collected novellas

1999
A collection of three short novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, including "Leaf Storm," "No One Writes to the Colonel," and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold.".

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