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This is the Kapteinis family's private BookWyrm instance for tracking our reading, sharing book reviews, and discovering what each other is reading. Registration is closed – accounts are only available for family members. We use this space to build our family library and connect with the wider BookWyrm community. For questions or issues, contact @ojars@kapteinis.lv

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Recent Books

Stephen King: The Gunslinger (EBook, 2016, Scribner)

The Gunslinger

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A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks …

Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Paperback, 2011, Pan Publishing, PAN)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have …