Roberta Gately
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English
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"Gripped by haunting magazine images of starving refugees, Elsa has dreamed of becoming a nurse since she was a teenager. Of leaving her humble working-class Boston neighborhood to help people whose lives are far more difficult than her own. No one in her family has ever escaped poverty, but Elsa has a secret weapon: a tube of lipstick she found in her older sister's bureau. Wearing it never fails to raise her spirits and cement her determination....
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English
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Roberta Gately is a nurse and humanitarian aid worker who has served in war zones ranging from Africa to Afghanistan aiding refugees. Just the word refugee sparks conversation and fuel emotion. There are more than 22 million refugees worldwide and another 65 million who have been forcibly displaced. But who are these people? Images filter into our consciousness via dramatic photographs-but these photos only offer a glimpse into their stories. Footprints...
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English
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After a whirlwind romance, she still has much to learn about her new ambassador husband-and about the fate of his predecessor's wife . . .
At thirty-five, Nora Buckbee fears she's destined for a lonely, single life. Then she meets handsome State Department employee John Fielding. They marry quickly-and next thing she knows she's moving to Thailand with him, where he'll be serving as ambassador.
It's an exciting adventure-for a while. Then...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A nurse and humanitarian aid worker who has served in war zones ranging from Africa to Afghanistan aiding refugees, Gately knows just the word refugee sparks conversation and fuel emotion. Here she shares the real stories of refugees around the world in hopes of revealing the truth about their experience. She begins where the newscasters end their reports, showing that refugees are neither all saints nor all sinners-- and impossible to forget. --...
Author
Series
Jessie Novak volume 1
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"911. What's your emergency? He came for her. She's been shot, says a desperate voice, as footsteps echo down an alley. She's dying. Oh no, oh no, he's coming back. Please, come quickly-- And then a click, and the drone of a dial tone. The beautiful young woman on the stretcher could be on her honeymoon. Chestnut hair tumbles around a pretty face, rose petals tangled in the loose strands. But the bandage around her forehead tells a different tale,...
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Series
Jessie Novak volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The young woman's mouth is slightly parted, as if waiting to speak. Her body is frozen in ice and her blue eyes stare at the sky, perhaps wanting to look at the stars one last time... When the body of a woman is found in the frozen Neponset River, just where it meets the sea, Jessie Novak and her partner Detective Sam Dallas rush to the scene. When Jessie sees a flash of a familiar silk scarf, she's shocked to realize the girl in the ice is Sheila...
Author
Series
Jessie Novak volume 3
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The girl in the photo was laughing, her head thrown back, her lips painted a bright red. Jessie could feel the simple joy reflected in that moment. And as she looked closer, she saw the same gold cross and chain that had adorned the first victim's neck. When a young woman falls to her death from a parking garage, the Boston police department rule it as a suicide. But when Jessie Novak examines the scene, she isn't so sure... The girl's delicate hands...
