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1) The leper
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John Eric Severson is a veteran of the First World War, a Marine Corps captain who once got lost in a forest behind enemy lines and unknowingly led his men into a leper colony. Now, five years later, he is an idealistic schoolteacher in a tough, working-class neighborhood where earning a high school diploma is something most of his students can only dream about. Severson vows to educate every one of them. But he quickly learns there is one student...
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In 1886, lovely Banner O'Brien overcame every obstacle and won her coveted medical diploma. Still she longed to escapefrom Oregon...and the nightmares that left her shaking, screaming one man's name. Banner fled to the Washington Territory to accept a position with Dr. Adam Corbin...arrogant, handsome and rumor said, violent. Although Banner respected his skills, she was unnerved by the very nearness of this moody, powerful man, His past was a mystery...
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Abby Furlowe has big plans. She's hot, she's popular, she's a cheerleader and she's going to break out of her small Texas town and make it big. When she notices some spots on her skin, she writes them off as a rash. Soon she's tired all the time, her hands and feet are numb, and her face starts to look like day-old pizza. Doctors prescribe cremes and medications. When she falls doing a routine cheerleading stunt and slips into a coma, her mystery...
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"Much has been written about thousands of sick Hawaiians forced into exile on the island of Moloka'i. Their fate is a stain on history. But of one group, there are no records. No written history. What about those hidden by their families? What made it into the history books about those eluding the sheriff, the bounty hunters, and the health authorities? What of those hiding in caves and cane fields, in hills and valleys? Nothing. Their stories,...
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