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"Spencer Quinn's It's a Wonderful Woof presents a holiday adventure for Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little. Holiday time in the Valley, and in the holiday spirit-despite the dismal shape of the finances at the Little Detective Agency-Bernie refers a potential client to Victor Klovsky, a fellow private eye. It's also true that the case-promising lots of online research...
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A witty and engaging history of the first botanists, interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the labIn Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounts with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing the lessons that she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating personal crisis.In A Garden of Marvels, she extends the story. "This book was born of a murder, a murder...
783) Twelve years a slave
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English
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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." --James Baldwin We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to...
785) Broken bone china
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Series
Tea shop mystery volume 20
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English
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"Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil...
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
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English
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Matt Jensen is in the crosshairs of a man who's planning to reap a fortune with a new railroad through Paiute land. First Cyrus Longacre steals the land. Next he frames Matt Jensen for the murder of a beautiful woman. Everything is working according to plan. All he has to do now is to keep Matt's father and grandfather far away from Nevada Territory.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
"A history of racist and antiracist...
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Grief Illustrated Press
Pub. Date
c2016
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English
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Nursery Rhymes can make testy crimes. Here we learn about Jack Spratt, Jack and a Candlestick, a little girl with a little curl, and more characters who flew in with Mother Goose. Hadley Joy Morris-Whitfield, Marge Aaron, Robinson Leary and Mary Rose McGill are caught up in the Baby Doll Pajamas when We Willie Winkie designs a line of nightwear for seasoned women called "Winkies." A murderer, Dr. Fell, is on the loose. Alphonso Greatwood calls in...
789) A lode of secrets
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Guideposts
Pub. Date
�2014
Language
English
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Sadie Speers has been asked to act as a historical consultant for a TV series called American Treasure Chest. They are examining the story of a star-crossed love affair involving a prominent mining family that ended in a rumored murder more than fifty years ago. Along with the arrival of the film crew, a recently discovered skeleton in a nearby mine revives the old mystery and the town is abuzz with speculation. Sadie's granddaughter, Sara, joins...
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