Stephen P Kiernan
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Keynote From the critically acclaimed author of The Baker's Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption-a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician wife, he spends his postwar life seeking redemption-and they find it together. Internal Description...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. Remarkably, the frozen man is brought back to the lab and successfully reanimated man begins to regain his memories, the team learns that he was--is--a judge, Jeremiah Rice, and the last thing he remembers is falling overboard into the Arctic Ocean in 1906. Thrown together by circumstances beyond their control,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"Up to the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in accidents. But in the past three decades, medical advances have extended our lives and changed the way we die. Journalist Kiernan reveals the disconnect between how patients want to live the end of life--pain-free, functioning mentally and physically, surrounded by family and friends--and how the medical system continues to treat the dying--with extreme interventions,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"Asher lost his family during the war, and in revenge served as an assassin in the Resistance. Burdened by grief and guilt, he wanders through the blasted countryside, stunned by what has become of his life. When he arrives at le Chateau Guerin, all he seeks is a decent meal. Instead he finds a sanctuary, an oasis despite being filled with people every bit as damaged as him. But they are calming themselves, and recovering inch by inch, by turning...
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
One month after the end of WWII, Asher, a former assassin in the Resistance burdened by grief and guilt, arrives at le Ch©Øteau Guerin, where he discovers the redemptive power of art as he helps create glass windows for the bombed cathedrals of France.