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  Doc

  by Mary Doria Russell

  The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal importance to Doc Holliday,... (more)
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  Queen of Hearts

  by Martha Brooks

  On the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium. Teenager Marie Claire is headstrong, angry, and full of stubborn pride. In a new strange land of TB exiles she must “chase the cure,” seek privacy where there is none, and witness the slow wasting decline of others. But in this moving novel... (more)
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  The Air We Breathe: A Novel

  by Andrea Barrett

  The exquisite, much-anticipated new novel by the author of Ship Fever , winner of the National Book Award. In fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure... (more)
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  Mountains Beyond Mountains

  The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

  by Tracy Kidder

  This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of "Mountains Beyond Mountains" stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, world-class Robin... (more)
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  The Magic Mountain

  by Thomas Mann

  In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of... (more)
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  The Samurai's Garden

  by Gail Tsukiyama

  The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the... (more)
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  Long Day's Journey into Night

  by Eugene O'Neill

  Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Chicago in January 2002 and in New York... (more)
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  Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure

  by Jim Murphy, Alison Blank

  This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the microorganism that causes TB was identified, and the cure was thought to be within reach—but drug-resistant varieties continue to plague and panic the human race. The “biography” of this deadly germ, an account of the diagnosis, treatment, and “cure” of the disease... (more)
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  Breathing Room

  by Marsha Hayles

  Evvy Hoffmeister is thirteen years old when her family brings her to Loon Lake Sanatorium to get cured of tuberculosis (TB). Evvy is frightened by her new surroundings; the rules to abide are harsh and the nurses equally rigid. But Evvy soon falls into step with the other girls in her ward. There’s Sarah, quiet but thoughtful; Pearl, who adores Hollywood glamour; and Dina, whose harshness conceals a deep strength.... (more)
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  Angela's Ashes

  A Memoir

  by Frank McCourt

  "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and... (more)
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  The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

  by Richard Yates

  The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers thelate author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan, Robert Stone, and Richard Russo, and universally acclaimed in reviews across the country, The Collected Stories is the crowning jewel in what has been the... (more)
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  View from a Kite

  by Maureen Hull

  A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen is stuck in one of the last tuberculosis sanatoriums in Nova Scotia. Thoughtful and observant, she documents her surroundings in the hospital, especially the characters living with her in the anachronistic TB ward. Gwen’s method of handling her isolating sickness is to learn as much about it as she can, and interspersed throughout the book are Gwen’s research notes on the disease... (more)
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  The plague and I

  by Betty MacDonald

  You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the Þrst few moments of meeting? “Something clicked,” we say. Well, that’s what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and — click — knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and Þery company I was really going to enjoy. Although MacDonald’s Þrst and most popular book, The... (more)
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  Consumption

  by Kevin Patterson

  In Rankin Inlet, a small town bordering the Arctic Ocean, the lives of the Inuit are gradually changing. The caribou and seals are no longer plentiful, and Western commerce has come to the community through a proposed diamond mine. Victoria Robertson wakes to a violent storm, her three children stirring in the dark. Her father, Emo, a legendary hunter who has come in off the land to work in a mine, checks to see... (more)
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  El Frio

  by Thomas Bernhard

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  Fires on the Plain

  by Shōhei Ōoka

  The author's experience as a prisoner captured by American forces during WWII figures prominently in this haunting novel about the ultimate degradation of a man by war. Set in Leyte, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammering blows of American forces, the story focuses on the disintegration of one man, Private Tamura. One by one, each of his ties to society is destroyed, until Tamura, a... (more)
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  The Year of My Indian Prince

  by Ella Thorp Ellis

  It’s the summer of 1945, and April is delighted that the war is finally over and her beloved father is home again. But she has a nagging cough and a temperature, and she just can’t seem to get better. When she’s diagnosed with tuberculosis she’s in shock–all she knows about TB is that characters in novels die of it. Soon her world has changed from school and swim meets to long days of complete bed rest in a TB... (more)
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  Beleuchtete Höhle

  by Max Blecher

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  On the Third Ward

  by T. Degens

  Confined to a tuberculosis ward in Germany in the early 1950s, a group of children deal with life, death, and plans to escape while listening to the fantastic stories of a mysterious patient, the "Empress of China."
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  Enemy of the Average

  by Margaret Nicol

  Hanna Mazurka was the Enemy of the Average. Born Zdenka Oleska on a poor Polish farm, she was one of the most astonishing women of her time. She left home as a disgruntled teenager, unsophisticated and minimally educated. With her stunning beauty, ambition and cunning she grew to marry and control six of the world's richest, most accomplished men. Aristocrat, lover, ersatz opera diva, adulterer, enigma and creator... (more)