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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Fagin, Dan.
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Drinking water -- Contamination -- Health aspects -- Toms River Region.
Cancer -- Toms River Region.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- Toms River Region.
Water quality -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Toms River Watershed (N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
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Toms River : a story...
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Toms River : a story of science and salvation / Dan Fagin.
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Fagin, Dan.
New York : Bantam Books, c2013.
Subjects
Drinking water -- Contamination -- Health aspects -- Toms River Region.
Cancer -- Toms River Region.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- Toms River Region.
Water quality -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed.
Toms River Watershed (N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN:
9780553806533 :
055380653X
Description:
xv, 538 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
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.
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Summary:
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.
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2014.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
363.72097 Fa
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Nanakuli Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
363.72097 Fa
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