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Jennifer Vanderbes

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Literature & Fiction, History, Nonfiction

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Jennifer Vanderbes is an award-winning novelist, journalist and screenwriter whose work has been translated into sixteen languages.

Her first novel, Easter Island was named a "best book of 2003" by the Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor. Her second novel, Strangers At The Feast, was described by O, The Oprah Magazine as "a thriller that also raises large and haunting questions about the meaning of guilt, innocence, and justice." Her third novel, The Secret of Raven Point, was hailed as “unputdownable” (Vogue) and “gripping” (New York Times), and Library Journal wrote: “the only disappointing thing about this book is that it has to end."

Her first non-fiction book, Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and It ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 7,417 ratings · 1,245 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Secret of Raven Point 3.72 avg rating — 2,413 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Easter Island 3.70 avg rating — 2,189 ratings — published 2003 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims 4.37 avg rating — 1,482 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strangers at the Feast 3.49 avg rating — 1,319 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New American Voices 2000 by Tobias Wolff (Editor), John Kulka (Series Editor), Natalie Danford (Series Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gatekeeper 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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THE SECRET OF RAVEN POINT
By Jennifer Vanderbes

Two separate mysteries create and maintain suspense throughout this gripping World War II coming-of-age novel. Eager to solve them is Juliet, an innocent girl from the South. The first mystery involves the disappearance of her beloved brother, Tuck, who has gone missing in action in Italy in the autumn of 1943. Tuc Read more of this blog post »

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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

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“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.”
― Jennifer Vanderbes, Strangers at the Feast

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“In addition to thalidomide, Grünenthal’s painkiller tramadol—created in 1962 by former SS doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck—sparked a decades-long global opioid crisis before it was classified as a Schedule IV controlled substance in 2014.”
― Jennifer Vanderbes, Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

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“A charismatic bachelor, he traveled with two valets and a pet bulldog. Two tracks of silver hair flanked his wide bald crown. Wire-rimmed spectacles and a nearly lipless mouth lent his face a scholar’s intensity.”
― Jennifer Vanderbes, Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

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