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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

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My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
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Small Steps, the Year I Got Polio

by Peg Kehret

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ISBN13: 9780807574584
ISBN10: 0807574589
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Kehret, who contracted polio in 1949, describes the diagnosis, severe symptoms, treatments, physical therapy, walking sticks and more in this moving memoir. B&W illustrations.
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this book is so amazing i read it about 100 times. i actually felt like i was peg. the book was filled w/ every detail and emotion. it made me cry b/c any one who has to go to through something that horrible and be so optimistic .i encourage EVERYONE to read this book :]
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this book was AMAZING...i could not put it down...it keeps u interested for hours and u alawys wonder ehat will happen next...it was funny at times, sad at time's and always keep you interested...
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9780807574584
Author:
Kehret, Peg
Publisher:
Albert Whitman & Company
Subject:
Biography & Autobiography - Historical
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Children's 9-12 - Biography / Autobiography
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Biography & Autobiography - General
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Authors, American
Subject:
Poliomyelitis
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Health
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Poliomyelitis - Patients - United States
Publication Date:
March 2000
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Paperback
Language:
English
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Y
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184
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803x602x53 55
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