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Reader's Digest Condensed Books Volume 1 1970 Reader's Digest Condensed Book Winter 1970: T.R / Heartsblood / The Witness / A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime / Waiting for Willa
Reader's Digest Condensed Books Volume 1 1970 Reader's Digest Condensed Book Winter 1970 TR / Heartsblood / The Witness / A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime / Waiting for Willa Author:Dorothy Eden, James Vance Marshall, Noel B. Gerson, Paul Marttin, Dorothy Uhnak Waiting for Willa by Dorothy Eden = It was postmarked Stockholm. Just a pleasant little note from Grace's cousin Willa about nothing in particular. Except for the signature: Wilhelmina. This had been their childhood code for HELP. — Grace Asherton, attractive young novelist, was not the hysterical type. But from the moment sh... more »e arrived in Stockholm and discovered her cousin had vanished, she sensed there was more to it than Willa's friends told her.
A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime by James Vance Marshall = Childrens story (13-16 year olds) of part Aboriginal children stranded in Northern Territory who live with Bindibu tribesmen on Sturt Creek, Western Australia; camp life, brief note on marriage rules, rainbow myth, eagle & lizard myth in English only, some words & sentences in original language with free version, glossary (41 terms) of food plants, animals, trees, mythology.
T. R. by Noel B. Gerson = Biography of Teddy Roosevelt
Heartsblood by Paul Marttin = Matthew Kraft, brilliant cardiologist, great surgeon, Nobel Prize nominee, he was larger than life-in his genius, appetites, and obsessive dedication. His colleagues hated him. His patients worshiped him. He forced his unloved wife into the arms of another man.
But now a heart attack had felled this giant of a man.There was just one way he could regain his powers:He had to persuade his protege,Dr. Andrew Essal,to agree to a strange and shocking medical gamble.
The Witness by Dorothy Uhnak = Christie Opara, the only woman on the D.A.'s Special Investigation Squad, is assigned by her boss to shadow his daughter to a civil rights demonstration. An ugly group of hecklers soon turns the demonstrators into a riot and someone gets shot. A cop with a bewildered look on his face, stands over the body with revolver in hand. It was an unnecessary killing. The crowd and the public cries for the cop's blood in the days to come. Only Christie, who was standing next to the cop, saw another person do the actual shooting. Now to find the real murderer before matters get totally out of hand...« less