Kate Harper
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English
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After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold, the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. Here the author weaves together two tales,...
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Rosato and Associates novel volume 4
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English
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Bennie Rosato is surprised by the physical resemblance between her and her new client, and when her client announces she is Bennie's identical twin, Bennie doesn't believe her, but she finds herself drawn to her and as she investigates her client's case, she uncovers secrets her family would kill to keep from her.
3) FATAL VOYAGE
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Temperance Brennan volume 4
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English
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After a fatal airline crash in the mountains of North Carolina, Dr. Temperance Brennan heads to the site to help identify the victims, but the discovery of body parts that do not belong to any registered passenger leads the investigation into a dangerous confrontation.
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Brigid Quinn volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In 1959, a family of four were brutally murdered in Holcomb, Kansas. Perry Smith and Dick Hickok were convicted and executed for the crime, and the murders and their investigation and solution became the subject of Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood. But what if there was a third killer, who remained unknown? What if there was another family, also murdered, who crossed paths with this band of killers, though their murder remains unsolved?...
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Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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A six-part series that chronicles the role of European explorers and settlers in North America from the late fifteenth century through the period of the American Revolution. Explores the motives that brought the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English to North America, as well as the conflicts between them as they pursued their national interests. Also looks at the effect of conflicts in Europe on the balance of power in the New World.
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have become more powerful. Consolidation in some American industries,...
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English
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In her stunning new novel, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain has written a compelling story of family and fortune, beauty and betrayal. With unerring insight and emotional power, she penetrates a shattered marriage to explore one of the most provocative issues of our time.
What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves? In her unsparing evocation of a family in crisis, Belva Plain goes to the heart of a marriage between...
What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves? In her unsparing evocation of a family in crisis, Belva Plain goes to the heart of a marriage between...
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Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Here are 65 poems by leading American authors, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and E.E. Cummings, as well as famous anonymous works such as "Frankie and Johnny." Arranged in chronological order by poet from Anne Bradstreet to Alice Walker.
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Findaway World
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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A collection of sixty-five classic American poems from the sixteenth century to today, including works by Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and e. e. cummings, as well as popular anonymous pieces such as "Frankie and Johnny."
13) Calder pride
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Calder saga volume 5
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English
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After her fiance is killed, Cat Calder, a Montana rancher's daughter vows never to marry, but sex with a stranger is acceptable. The result is a son and years later when the stranger is appointed sheriff and she faces danger her vow is tested.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
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English
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Angie Debo (1890–1988) was a writer, lecturer, and historian whose many books include Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place; The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians; and The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic. Amanda Cobb-Greetham is professor of Native American studies and founding director of the Native Nations Center at the University of Oklahoma.
The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade...
17) Oppenheimer
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British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous figure. First, news of successful fission experiments in...