The Unknown Terrorist

Author: Flanagan, Richard, 1961-
Publisher: Grove Press,
Pub date: c[2007].
Pages: 320 p. ;
ISBN: 9780802118516

"What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country?" "Gina Davies is about to find out. After spending a night with an attractive stranger, she has become a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. When police find three unexploded bombs at a stadium and her enigmatic lover goes missing, Davies spends five days on the run and witnesses every truth of her life twisted into a betrayal. The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror-alert levels, newsbreaks, and fear of the unknown pushes one nation ever closer to the breaking point."--BOOK JACKET.

Warm Springs : traces of a childhood at FDR's polio haven

Author: Shreve, Susan Richards.
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Publication info: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007.
ISBN: 9780618658534
ISBN: 061865853X
Description: viii, 215 p. ; ill. ; 22 cm.

Just after her eleventh birthday in 1950 and at the height of the frightening childhood polio epidemic, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. It was a place famously founded by FDR, "a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital of crippled children." There the young Shreve meets Joey Buckley, paralyzed from the waist down and determined to leave Warm Springs able to play football. The dual shocks of first love and separation from her fiercely protective mother propel Shreve careening between bad girl rebellion to overachieving saint. This portrait of the psychic fallout of childhood illness ends with a shocking collision between adolescent drive and genteel institution. During Shreve's stay at Warm Springs, the Salk vaccine was discovered; Shreve is one of the last generation of Americans to have survived childhood polio.--From publisher description.