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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents' intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimée, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron, a penniless exile of the Russian revolution. They marry. But the harsh reality of post-World War I Germany is inescapable: a bleak...
Author
Series
Bloomsbury sigma volume 23
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.
Description
"In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD), a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home, she regained mobility but recovering her sight was more problematic. At first what she saw was monochromatic. As color reappeared, she encountered synesthesia (experiencing...
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