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  Brave New Humans

  Sarah Dingle

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  An astonishing real-life whodunnit and investigative exposé, Brave New Humans reveals the uncomfortable realities of assisted reproduction and its very human fallout.Journalist Sarah Dingle was twenty-seven when she learned that her identity was a lie. Over dinner one night, her mother casually mentioned Sarah had been conceived using a sperm donor. The man who'd raised her wasn't her father; in fact, she had no idea who her father was. Or who she really was.As the shock receded, Sarah began to investigate her own existence. Thus began a ten-year journey – digging through hospital files, chasing leads and taking a DNA test – that finally led to her biological origins. What she discovered along the way was shocking: hospital records destroyed, trading of eggs and sperm, women dead, donors exploited, and hundreds of thousands of donor-conceived people who will never know who they truly are. Brave New Humans shines a light on the global fertility business today – a booming and largely unregulated industry that takes a startlingly lax approach to huge ethical concerns, not least our fundamental human need to know who we are, and where we come from. But there's one thing this industry hasn't banked on: the children of the baby business taking on their makers.‘An exceptional and personal narrative that exposes the appalling ethical standards of industry and governments worldwide.' QUENTIN DEMPSTER‘Sarah Dingle has courageously turned her journalistic skills to the secrets of her own birth, throwing a spotlight on the complicated world of donor conception.' LEIGH SALES‘Gripping. Vitally important. A quest like no other – to discover who you are!' ROBYN WILLIAMS, AO‘Superbly balances cold fury, grief and the professional focus of an experienced journalist.' NORMAN SWAN

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  Fantastic Four - War Zone

  Greg Cox, Marvel

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  They are the Earth's most revered protectors: Reed Richards, Susan Richards, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm—the Fantastic Four. Celebrities around the globe and defenders of mankind, these extraordinary individuals have sworn to confront the perils and challenges facing the modern world and each other, always with unyielding courage, unerring wisdom, and an unshakeable familial bond.But their darkest hour may yet be at hand, as humanity's most frightening threat comes violently from beyond the stars...from the depths of the Negative Zone, a universe in a dimension parallel to our own—one first discovered years ago by Reed Richards himself. And it is this terrifying and deadly menace that will ultimately test the measure and mettle of four heroes sworn to protect the human race at any cost—even their own lives...

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  Generation X

  Scott Lobdell, Elliot S. Maggin

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  Before joining Banshee in training the young mutants of Generation X at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Emma Frost led another group of neophytes, the Hellions, who were slaughtered while under her tutelage. Now, her guilt over the death of her old students is threatening her new ones—as strange ghostly manifestations that resemble the Hellions are wreaking havoc throughout the campus. The teenagers of Generation X must stop these ghosts— if they truly are ghosts— before it's too late.

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  Sinatra's Tailor - An Italian...

  Mark A. Thompson

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  Sinatra’s Tailor is a biographical novel based on Umberto Autore’s coming-of- age story about a young boy, orphaned in Italy during World War II, raised by “nuns and Nazis,” who immigrates to America as a teenager and eventually becomes Frank Sinatra’s tailor.

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  Sounds of the River - A Young...

  Da Chen

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  "A story about suppression, humiliation, vindication, and, ultimately, triumph." —New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Colors of the Mountain—an engrossing, gloriously written coming-of-age saga that picks up where that book left off—in Beijing during China’s Cultural RevolutionIn this "equally beguiling sequel to his acclaimed memoir" (Kirkus Reviews), teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly challenges, including poor living conditions, lack of food, and suicidal roommates. Undaunted by these hurdles, and armed with a dogged determination to learn English and "all things Western," he competes to win a chance to study in America—a chance that rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of the almighty professors.Poetic, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Sounds of the River is a gloriously written coming-of-age saga that chronicles a remarkable journey—a travelogue of the heart.

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  Almost Persuaded - Miss Mary King

  P. O. Dixon

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  “Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.” ~ Jane Austen 
  From the moment she first saw him, Mary King was attracted to George Wickham. He was good-looking and charming, and he seemed to her like the perfect gentleman. She longed for him to notice her, but he never seemed to even see her. Things change, though, when Mary suddenly inherits a fortune of ten thousand pounds. Suddenly George is interested in her, but is he really after her money? In this engaging coming-of-age story, Mary will have to learn whether to trust her heart or her head. 
  What listeners have said about Almost Persuaded 
  "Miss King is an underappreciated minor character in Miss Austen’s book, but here in P.O.Dixon’s story, it is she who is the lead." 
  "I really liked this tale. Mary is very sweet and naïve, and Wickham is as dastardly and exploitative as we all expect him to be. The narration, as with all of Pam Dixon's works, was excellently done as usual by the lovely Pearl Hewitt." 
  "Fun to listen to a side story play out."

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