Gail Jarrow
Website:www.gailjarrow.com
 
Birthplace: Dallas, TX    
 
Most recent address:Ithaca, NY    
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American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 09/27/2022

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Dewey: 616.9/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.2 MG Lexile: 1080 F&P: Z

Subjects: Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y19th century Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y20th century Public health - Southern States - History|y19th century Public health - Southern States - History|y20th century


Summary: Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better.


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Blood and germs : the Civil War battle against wounds and disease [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 10/13/2020

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Dewey: 610/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.8 MG+ Lexile: 1030 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Medicine - History|y19th century Wounds and injuries Diseases United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War


Summary: Explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts.


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Fatal fever : tracking down Typhoid Mary by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 03/01/2015

BTSB #: 489958 Available

Dewey: 614/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.4 MG RC: 8.6 6-8 Lexile: 1010

Subjects: Typhoid Mary,|d1869-1938 Typhoid fever


Summary: The true story of the woman who unwittingly spread deadly bacteria, the epidemiologist who discovered her trail of infection, and the health department that decided her fate.


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489989
Spirit sleuths : how magicians and detectives exposed the ghost hoaxes by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 09/10/2024

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Dewey: 793.8092/CAges: 10-17   
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Subjects: Houdini, Harry,|d1874-1926 Mackenberg, Rose,|d1892-1968 Impostors and imposture - United States - History|y20th century Mediums - United States - History|y20th century Magicians - United States - History|y20th century Spiritualism - United States - History|y20th century


Summary: After millions of people died during World War I and from the 1918 influenza pandemic, the popularity of Spiritualism soared. Desperate to communicate with their dead loved ones, the bereaved fell prey to extortion by fraudulent mediums and fortune-tellers.


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Spooked! : how a radio broadcast and The war of the worlds sparked the 1938 invasion of America by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 08/07/2018

BTSB #: 489990 Available

Dewey: 791.447/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.2 MG RC: 8.5 6-8 Lexile: 1000 F&P: Z

Subjects: War of the worlds (Radio program) Radio broadcasting - United States


Summary: Explores the famous War of the worlds radio broadcast from 1938.


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