BOOK 6
FLANAGAN'S RUN

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BOOK6...FLANAGAN'S RUN
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• Reader's Digest Condensed Book #6
• Containing the stories:
1. Flanagan's Run--by Tom McNab
2. No Escape--by Joseph Hayes
3. A Parting Gift--by Frances Sharkey, M.D.
4. Last Quadrant--by Meira Chand

Story summaries

• Flanagan's Run
• By Tom McNab
• With the crack of a starting gun in the Los Angeles coliseum, more than two thousand runners from all over the world set off on a remarkable odyssey on foot across America. At stake are big money prizes for the top finishers in New York, and a hefty profit for flamboyant promoter Charles C. Flanagan. The Trans-America race of 1931 is a gamble for them all, but in that Depression year, people will cheerfully take a chance on anything. Pounding through scorching desert heat, struggling over the snow-covered Rockies, pushing their bodies to the limit, the competitors press on toward their distant goal. Suddenly they encounter new obstacles: Flanagan has powerful enemies determined that his race will not succeed. With mounting debts and mishaps galore, he nimbly improvises to overcome each setback, while the runners themselves find unlikely alliances growing in their midst. An unemployed Scottish shipyard worker, a Mexican peasant, an aloof English aristocrat, an intrepid show girl fresh from Minsky's, a sometime boxer with a mysterious past, and an aging athlete with a last opportunity for greatness--these and others form the exuberant band of Trans-Americans striving to make the improbable come true. The result is a vastly entertaining novel brimming with humor, hope, love, and an unquenchable zest for life.


• No Escape
• By Joseph Hayes
• "I love you," Donald told Brenda before she ran out of the house. "Always remember that. Nothing else matters." Donald was wrong. Living without fear mattered. Her own sanity mattered. And so did Toby, her small son, who was terrified of his father's uncontrollable violent rages. Escape. She had to escape. But for Brenda Forrest and Toby and for the loving friends who gave them a place to hide, the long night of fear was only beginning. Because Donald was determined to hunt Brenda down. To take her back. And to anyone who got in his way--beware! A heart-pounding psychological thriller by the author of The Desperate Hours.


• A Parting Gift
• By Frances Sharkey, M.D.
• As a medical student, Frances Sharkey lost her very first patient--an elderly woman with irreversible heart failure. It was then that the young physician-to-be discovered that dealing with death was the hardest part of being a doctor. So she decided to specialize in paediatrics. Of all the branches of medicine, the healing of sick children came closest to satisfying her love of life. Then one day two worried parents brought their little boy, David, to her office. He was a bright, spirited, lovable child--and a victim of leukemia. During the next five years Dr. Sharkey battled with every weapon at her command to save his life, and through helping David and his family cope with his tragic illness, she finally confronted her own deepest fears about death. This is a painful but ultimately triumphant story of a heartbreaking loss, a rare devotion and a valiant child's example to the world.


• Last Quadrant
• By Meira Chand
• A great typhoon sweeps toward Kobe, Japan, trapping a group of frightened people at Saint Christopher's Orphanage... Eva Kraig, the director, who must hide her own fears as she tries to protect the youngsters; Akiko, her lovely adopted daughter, who is obsessed with the need to know her true origins; Kyo, Akiko's natural mother, whose scheming could destroy her daughter's future; Daniel, a young American lawyer, tormented by his role in a fatal automobile accident; Arthur Wilcox, a retired businessman, who is consumed by a desperate loneliness; Sister Elaine, a nun suffering a crisis of faith. This is a spellbinding tale of people haunted by the past and battered by the violent forces of the present. In the harrowing climax of the storm--the last quadrant--they come face to face with death. And those who survive discover the redeeming power of love.

The available Reader's Digest Condensed Books contain the following stories:

• Book #1
1. Memoirs of an Invisible Man--by H. F. Saint
2. The Silver Touch--by Rosalind Laker
3. The Kaffir Boy: Mark Mathabane--by Mark Mathabane
4. The Ladies of Missalonghi--by Colleen McCullough


• Book #2
1. Strong Medicine--by Arthur Hailey
2. Callanish--by William Horwood
3. Who Has Seen the Wind--by W. O. Mitchell
4. Stillwatch--by Mary Higgins Clark


• Book #3
1. The Man From St. Petersburg--by Ken Follett
2. Fever--by Robin Cook
3. The Tall Soldier--by Manuel Alvarez
4. Sara Dane--by Catherine Gaskin


• Book #4
1. Hanna and Walter: A Love Story--by Hanna and Walter Kohner with Frederick Kohner
2. The Bannaman Legacy--by Catherine Cookson
3. The Suitcases--by Anne Hall Whitt
4. Proof--by Dick Francis


• Book #5
1. The Red Fox--by Anthony Hyde
2. The Two Farms--by Mary E. Pearce
3. Trauma--by John J. Fried and John G. West, M.D.
4. Take Away One--by Thomas Froncek


• Book #6
1. Flanagan's Run--by Tom McNab
2. No Escape--by Joseph Hayes
3. A Parting Gift--by Frances Sharkey, M.D.
4. Last Quadrant--by Meira Chand


• Book #7
1. Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha--by Dorothy Gilman
2. Robert, My Son--by Henry Denker
3. The Double Man--by William S. Cohen and Gary Hart
4. This Shining Land--by Rosalind Laker


• Book #9
1. Lie Down With Lions--by Ken Follett
2. Tree of Gold--Rosalind Laker
3. The Deep End--by Joy Fielding
4. Cry Wild--by R. D. Lawrence


• Book #10
1. Voices on the Wind--by Evelyn Anthony
2. The Broken Saddle--by James Aldridge
3. In a Place Dark and Secret--by Phillip Finch
4. Ringo, the Robber Raccoon--by Robert Franklin Leslie
5. Break In--by Dick Francis


• Book #11
1. Arnie, the Darling Starling--by Margarete Sigl Corbo & Diane Marie Barras
2. In Love and War--by Jim and Sybil Stockdale
3. Polsinney Harbour--by Mary E. Pearce
4. Find a Safe Place--by Alex Lazzarino & E. Kent Hayes


• Book #12
1. Nop's Trials--by Donald McCaig
2. The Sound of Wings--by Spencer Dunmore
3. Jennie About to Be--by Elisabeth Ogilvie
4. The Cop and the Kid--by William Fox with Noel Hynd

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