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Hardback. Zustand: Good. When John and Aileen Crowley learned that their two youngest children had a rare and little understood genetic disorder, they didn't hope for miracles: they made them happen. In 1998, 15-month-old Megan and 4-month-old Patrick were diagnosed with Pompe disease, a rare and fatal neuromuscular disorder that affects only a few thousand children worldwide, usually leaving them with little to no muscle function, enlarged hearts, and severe difficulty breathing. The Crowleys were told to take their children home and "enjoy their short time together.there is nothing that can be done." Raised in a blue-collar neighborhood in northern New Jersey, John Crowley, a recent Harvard MBA graduate working at Bristol-Myers Squibb, was just beginning to taste success in corporate America. But now he was absolutely determined to find a treatment to save his children's lives. Frustrated with the pace of Pompe research, Crowley walked away from the corporate world at the age of 31 to help co-found a start-up biotech company, focused exclusively on producing a lifesaving medicine. In Chasing Miracles, John Crowley writes from his heart about how he and his wife set out to do "whatever it takes" against phenomenal odds to help Megan and Patrick first to survive, and then to thrive--and to keep their family, including oldest son John Jr., together and their marriage strong. He tells about learning to ask for help, about not losing faith, about coping with adversity, about the generosity and kindness of others, and, most importantly, about what it means to never, never quit. As Aileen Crowley writes in her foreword, "This book is our family's attempt to share much of what we have learned, especially from our children, who have taught us more about life and love than we have ever taught them.".…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. "Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust."--Peter Straub From award-winning author John Crowley comes a novel that masterfully blends history and magic in Flint and Mirror. As ancient Irish clans fought to preserve their lands and their way of life, the Queen and her generals fought to tame the wild land and make it English. Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, dubbed Earl of Tyrone by the Queen, is a divided man: the Queen gives to Hugh her love, and her commandments, through a little mirror of obsidian which he can never discard; and the ancient peoples of Ireland arise from their underworld to make Hugh their champion, the token of their vow a chip of flint. From the masterful author of Little, Big comes an exquisite fantasy of heartbreaking proportion.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. On an Indiana campus in 1961, an exiled Russian poet and a grieving student discover how words can alter the fate of nations. A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerful enough to change the course of history. The narrative sets their meeting at a prairie university, following Kit Malone as she enters Falin's seminar after family tragedy silences her poetry. Crowley anchors their bond in the difficult work of translation -- an exacting search across two alphabets -- to reconstruct verse preserved from Soviet labor camps. The campus surrounds their quiet work with Cold War dread, placing their partnership against nearby missile silos as federal agents question the writer's past. Dark Academia: Inside an austere university seminar room, Falin challenges his students to commit foreign verses to memory by heart, exploring how lyric art survives displacement. Cold War Fiction: As the Cuban missile crisis escalates toward nuclear brinkmanship, student protests erupt on campus while federal agents quietly track political dissent and foreign defectors. Dual Timeline: Thirty years after Falin's sudden disappearance, an adult Christa travels to St. Petersburg in 1993, confronting aging Russian scholars seeking their lost poet's fate. Also by This Author: Little, Big, Otherwise and Lord Byron's Novel.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. On an Indiana campus in 1961, an exiled Russian poet and a grieving student discover how words can alter the fate of nations. A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerful enough to change the course of history. The narrative sets their meeting at a prairie university, following Kit Malone as she enters Falin's seminar after family tragedy silences her poetry. Crowley anchors their bond in the difficult work of translation -- an exacting search across two alphabets -- to reconstruct verse preserved from Soviet labor camps. The campus surrounds their quiet work with Cold War dread, placing their partnership against nearby missile silos as federal agents question the writer's past. Dark Academia: Inside an austere university seminar room, Falin challenges his students to commit foreign verses to memory by heart, exploring how lyric art survives displacement. Cold War Fiction: As the Cuban missile crisis escalates toward nuclear brinkmanship, student protests erupt on campus while federal agents quietly track political dissent and foreign defectors. Dual Timeline: Thirty years after Falin's sudden disappearance, an adult Christa travels to St. Petersburg in 1993, confronting aging Russian scholars seeking their lost poet's fate. Also by This Author: Little, Big, Otherwise and Lord Byron's Novel.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. In John Crowley's new novel, he tells a tale of tremendous scope and beauty, set in a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerful enough to change the course of history. In 1962, at a large college in the Midwest, a young woman with a troubled recent history registers for a class -- a class that is to be taught by an exiled Russian poet. A writer herself, Kit Malone is drawn to Innokenti Falin, as he is called. The two forge a friendship that develops into something more: He asks her to help translate his work. With the tension of the cold war accelerating toward a crisis in Cuba, the atmosphere on campus becomes contentious. Meanwhile, working on each poem with Falin, Kit finds herself able to face the secrets that made her swear never to write her own poetry again. And as the summer slips away, a delicate love grows between two displaced people. It will not be until years later, though, that Kit will realize what really happened on the last night she spent with Falin, while the country held its breath against the threat of war.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. In John Crowley's new novel, he tells a tale of tremendous scope and beauty, set in a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerful enough to change the course of history. In 1962, at a large college in the Midwest, a young woman with a troubled recent history registers for a class -- a class that is to be taught by an exiled Russian poet. A writer herself, Kit Malone is drawn to Innokenti Falin, as he is called. The two forge a friendship that develops into something more: He asks her to help translate his work. With the tension of the cold war accelerating toward a crisis in Cuba, the atmosphere on campus becomes contentious. Meanwhile, working on each poem with Falin, Kit finds herself able to face the secrets that made her swear never to write her own poetry again. And as the summer slips away, a delicate love grows between two displaced people. It will not be until years later, though, that Kit will realize what really happened on the last night she spent with Falin, while the country held its breath against the threat of war.…

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