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"After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover....
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While travelling to see her son who is cared for by her sister, Inez Stannert travels with East Coast businessman, Edward Pace. But Pace takes some medicine and dies. Pace's wife claims her husband did not die of a weak heart. Can Inez solve the crime and visit her son?
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1996, c1995
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xii, 706 p. ; 25 cm.
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A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting...
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2013
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At the dawn of the 20th century, state-of-the art electronics combine with diet, exercise, and the restorative powers of Pacific beaches and virgin forest at the Healing Sands Sanitarium northwest of Hoquiam, Washington. But not even a sanitarium has a cure for murder. Management sends an urgent telegram to University of Washington electrical engineering Professor Benjamin Bradshaw. A young man has died during an electrotherapeutics session. Was the...
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