Jennifer Jordan

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1) The babysitter: my summers with a serial killer

Author

Rodman, Liza

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

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"A chilling true story-part memoir, part crime investigation-reminiscent of Ann Rule's classic The Stranger Beside Me, about a little girl longing for love and how she found friendship with her charismatic babysitter-who was also a vicious serial killer. Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter-the...

2) Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2

Author

Jordan, Jennifer

Language

English

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Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs. In Savage Summit, Jennifer Jordan shares the tragic, compelling, inspiring, and extraordinary...

3) Savage summit: the true stories of the first five women who climbed K2, the world's most feared mountain

Author

Jordan, Jennifer

Language

English

4) The last man on the mountain: the death of an American adventurer on K2

Author

Jordan, Jennifer

Language

English

5) Spooky the teapot ghost

Author

Jordan, Jennifer

Language

English

6) Edible memory: the lure of heirloom tomatoes & other forgotten foods

Author

Jordan, Jennifer A

Language

English

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Each week during the growing season, farmers' markets offer up such delicious treasures as brandywine tomatoes, cosmic purple carrots, pink pearl apples, and chioggia beets -- varieties of fruits and vegetables that are prized by home chefs and carefully stewarded by farmers from year to year. These are the heirlooms and the antiques of the food world. While cooking techniques and flavor fads change from generation to generation, a Ribston Pippin...