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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Where are the children: Nancy Harmon flees her disastrous marriage and the deaths of her two children to Cape Cod, where she marries again and starts a new family, but when her two new children disappear, the nightmare begins anew.--Where.
A Stranger is Watching: Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson ... yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompson's death...