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- Glowing still : a woman's life on the road / by Wheeler, Sara,author.;
Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. From the Antarctic to Zanzibar, 'Glowing Still' is the story of her travelling life-what is "important, revealing or funny"-in a notoriously testosterone-laden field. Growing up among blue-collar Conservatives in Bristol where 'we didn't know anyone who wasn't like us', Wheeler knew she needed to get away. In her twenties she began a dramatic escape: Pole to Pole, via Poland. As she writes in the introduction: when she set sail, 'role models were scarce in the travel-writing game.' But advancing years usher in unheralded freedoms, and journey's end finds Wheeler at peace among Zanzibar dhows, contemplating our connection with other lives-the irreplaceable value that travel brings-and paying homage to her heroines. 'Surely,' wrote Freya Stark, 'of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.'- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Wheeler, Sara.; Travelers' writings, British.; Women travelers;
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- Mud and stars : travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and other geniuses of the Golden Age / by Wheeler, Sara,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Biographies.; Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852; Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837; Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883; Authors, Russian; Literary landmarks; Russian literature;
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- The happiest girl in the world : a novel / by Dillon, Alena,author.;
"For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. They're why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under one hundred pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. They're why Sara's mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why their family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friend reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects the Olympic Team, Sera denies what she knows about his treatments, thus preserving favor. Their friendship shatters. But Sera protected her dream--didn't she? Sera doubles down, taping broken toes, numbing torn muscles, and siphoning her family's resources. Soon she isn't training for the love of gymnastics. She's training to make her disloyalty worthwhile. No matter the cost."--Back cover.- Subjects: Sports fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Gymnasts; Olympics; Families;
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- The other girl / by Spindler, Erica,1957-author.;
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Justice for Sara and The First Wife Erica Spindler comes The Other Girl, a chilling new thriller about a ritualistic murder of a college professor that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thought she'd put behind her. Officer Miranda Rader of the Hammond PD in Louisiana is known for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a crisis--but that wasn't always so. Miranda comes from Jasper, just south of Hammond, a place about the size of a good spit on a hot day, and her side of the tracks was the wrong one. She's worked hard to leave the girl she used to be behind and earn respect in her position as an officer. However, when Miranda and her partner are called to investigate the murder of one of the town's most beloved college professors, they're unprepared for the gruesomeness of the scene. This murder is unlike any they've ever investigated, and just when Miranda thinks she's seen the worst of it, she finds a piece of evidence that chills her to the core: a faded newspaper clipping about a terrible night from her long-buried past. Then another man turns up dead, this one a retired cop, and not just any cop--Clint Wheeler, the cop who took her statement that night. Two murders, two very different men, two killings that on the surface had nothing in common--except Miranda. 15 years ago. And when her fingerprints turn up at the scene of the first murder, Miranda once again finds herself under the microscope, her honesty and integrity doubted, her motivations questioned. Alone again, the trust of her colleagues shattered, Miranda must try to trust the instincts she's pushed down for so long, and decide what's right--before it's too late"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Murder; Women detectives; Policewomen;
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