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A tale of triumph amid tragedy, this book depicts the 1918 influenza epidemic which killed as many as 100 million people worldwide. This crisis provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.
#1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history." --Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."-- Chicago Tribune The...
At birth, Peter had been given the Chinese name juan chaun, powerful king. The exalted only son in the middle of three daughters, Peter was the one who would finally embody his immigrant father's ideal of power and masculinity. But Peter has...
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby --is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of...