Toms River:a story of science and salvation
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Bantam Books,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2013. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 538 p.: map ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780553806533 055380653X |
Index Number: | TU991 |
CLC: | TU991.2 |
Call Number: | TU991.2/F155 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Marking time -- The ice cream factory. Pirates ; Insensible things ; First fingerprints ; Secrets ; Sharkey and Columbo at the Rustic Acres ; Cells ; On Cardinal Drive -- Breach. Water and salt ; Hippies in the kitchen ; The coloring contest ; Cases ; Acceptable risks ; Friends and neighbors -- Counting. Two wards, two hits ; Cluster busting ; Moving on ; Invisible trauma ; A cork in the ocean ; Expectations -- Causes. Outsiders ; Surrogacy ; Blood work ; Associations ; Legacies. Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. |