Barbara Garland Polikoff
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Life’s a Funny Proposition, Horatio
- By: Barbara Garland Polikoff
- Narrator: Barbara Garland Polikoff
- Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 28, 2009
- Language: English
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Daunted by the hand he has been dealt, 12-year-old Horatio Tuckerman is having a tough time. Two years ago, his dad died of lung cancer. Embittered and anguished, Horatio’s life has been a whirlwind of change since losing his best friend. A... Read more
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SEAL Team Six and Thomas Crocker are back hunting their most elusive adversary yet: The Falcon.
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Whether you are a doctor, nurse, student, or otherwise interested listener, the stories here will help you to understand how medicine works and how medical error can happen. The lifelong process of learning that is a medical career requires healthcare workers to find a way to live through these setbacks without either becoming too adept at putting them ‘down to experience’ and forgetting ...
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A charismatic young writer reinvents the gothic novel, bringing a fresh energy to our darkest myths and deepest horrors in an expectation-defying tale of adolescent deception, ravenous violence, and rumors of werewolves.
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