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Letters / by Sacks, Oliver,1933-2015,author.; Edgar, Kate(Editor),editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his intimate thoughts on life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family and scientists over the decades. A prolific correspondent, Dr. Oliver Sacks -- who describes himself variously in these pages as "a philosophical physician," "an astronomer of the inward," a "neuropathological Talmudist," and "a consummate observer" with "a pure love for phenomena" -- wrote letters throughout his life to his parents, his beloved Aunt Lennie, to friends and colleagues from London, Oxford, California, and around the world. The pages begin with his arrival in America as a young man, eager to establish himself away from the confines of postwar England, and carry us through his bumpy early career in medicine and the discovery of his writer's voice and métier; his weightlifting, motorcycle-riding years and his explosive seasons of discovery with the patients who populate his book Awakenings; his growing interest in matters of sight and the musical brain; his many friendships and exchanges with fellow writers, artists and scientists (to say nothing of astronauts, botanists, and mathematicians), and his deep gratitude for all these relationships at the end of his life. From Francis Crick and Jane Goodall to W. H. Auden and Susan Sontag, from lovers to patients, and ordinary folk who wrote to him with their odd symptoms and questions, all are treated equally to Sacks's lyrical, ferocious, penetrating and at times hilarious observations. His musings often contain the first detailed sketches of an essay forming in his mind. Sensitively introduced and edited by Kate Edgar, Sacks's longtime assistant (and one of his correspondents), the letters deliver a complete portrait of Sacks as he wrestles with the workings of the brain and mind. We see, through his eyes, the beginnings of modern neuroscience as it unlocks many secrets of how the human brain defines us. We experience the arc of a remarkable personal evolution, closely following the thought processes of one of the twentieth century's great intellectuals, whose life was long and productive and whose words, as evidenced in these pages, were unfailingly shaped with generosity and wonder toward other people"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal correspondence.; Personal narratives.; Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015; Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015; Neurologists;
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Lethal letters / by Adams, Ellery.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Limoges, Olivia (Fictitious character); Murder; Police chiefs; Authors;
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Three letters / by Cox, Josephine.;
8-year-old Casey's mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with an appetite for other women's husbands. His father is quiet and hard-working and, though Tom Denton has long suspected his wife of having affairs, he's chosen to turn a blind eye. But then, quite unexpectedly, Tom receives two bits of devastating news, and his world is shattered.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Adultery; Man-woman relationships;
© 2012., HarperCollins,
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The letter / by Cox, Josephine,author.; Middleton, Gilly,author.;
"Bella can't wait to be married to her fiancée Sidney, and dreams of the day she will walk up the aisle to be given away by her widowed father, with her bookish sister Alice as her bridesmaid. Their lives are disturbed when they receive a letter from their fifteen-year-old cousin Millie. Taken in by her austere aunt and uncle when her parents were killed in an accident, Millie says she is being badly treated and pleads to be rescued. When the two sisters take a trip to find out the truth, things take a troubling turn. Millie is brought home to live with them, her only possessions her ill-fitting clothes and a tatty suitcase. But soon they are questioning this act of kindness. Does their teenaged cousin just need some love and kindness? Or is she a troublemaker, with only mischief and malice on her mind ... ?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Cousins; Families; Letters; Sisters; Teenage girls;
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Ending letters / by Bryant-Mole, Karen;
Subjects: English language;
© c2000., Gareth Stevens Pub.,
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Beginning letters / by Bryant-Mole, Karen;
Subjects: English language;
© c2000., Gareth Stevens Pub.,
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Dead letters [sound recording] : a novel / by Dolan-Leach, Caite,author.; Marie, Jorjeana,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Jorjeana Marie.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Twin sisters;
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Love letters : an alphabet of affirmations / by Flowers, Alanna.;
From A to Z, this is a poetic reminder that you are deserving of good things.
Subjects: Board books.; Alphabet;
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Scarlet letters : Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / by Thompson, Lee Briscoe.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-98) and index.
© c1997., ECW Press,
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Wolford letters : correspondence of John Graves Simcoe in the Archives of The Law Society of Upper Canada / by Simcoe, John Graves,1752-1806; Scace, Susan; Hill, Jane,1964-; Schaeffer, Roy;
Subjects: Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806;
© [n.d.]., [n.p.],
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