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"The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series! A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession--he's waited 50 years to make it, and...
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Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After successfully going into space nine times, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds into its tenth mission. Many people saw the blast happen on television! Find out what went wrong in this graphic novel for young readers.
83) Accepted
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Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Unable to get accepted at college, Bartleby Gaines creates a fictitious one to impress his parents, but the word gets out and other students want to attend.
86) The first ladies
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English
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Brief biographies and portraits of forty-one wives, sisters, daughters nieces, and other relatives of Presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington through Nancy Reagan.
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Wordeee
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A Blessing presents a fresh, bold analysis of African American female leadership. An unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America's social, political, psychological, and economic history, it is armed with data that should be empowering for today's "unicorns." The book offers a "playbook" to help Black unicorns "team up" and find innovative ways to support one another as they climb, what research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"Standing Up Against Hate tells the stories of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War II. They quickly discovered that they faced as many obstacles in the armed forces as they did in everyday life. However, they refused to back down. They interrupted careers and left family, friends, and loved ones to venture into unknown and sometimes dangerous territory. They survived racial prejudice...
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Mango Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In Functional Training and Beyond, Adam reveals how to become "better than just functional." We can improve our physical performance and our mental state. We can train to move better, think more clearly, feel energetic, and live more efficiently. --Amazon.com
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Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Dark Horse Comics continues to showcase its dedication to publishing the greatest comics of all time with the release of the sixth spooky volume of our Creepy magazine archives. This collection of legendary yell yarns includes selections from revered writers Archie Goodwin and Harlan Ellison, among others, and groundbreaking artistic contributions from Frank Frazetta, Neal Adams, Angelo Torres, Jack Davis, underground comics great Vaughn Bode, and...
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"For fans of Ellery Adams and Paige Shelton, the wedding can't go on when the bride is found murdered--but can love still win the day in this third installment of Laura Gail Black's cozy series. The birds are singing, books are selling, and the Hokes Bluff Inn has begun to host weddings on its property. Antiquarian bookseller Jenna Quinn loves the romance in the air--until her ex-fiancé, Blake Emerson, walks in with his bride-to-be, Missy Plott....
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Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp, and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instill some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism. With humor, pathos, and the occasional sly...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.
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Spooksville volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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When Adam and his friends stay up late one night, they see bright lights in the sky-- lights that look an awful lot like flying saucers! Then the next night, one of the saucers lands by the reservoir. The creatures that come out of the ship don't look like people at all. Their heads are too large and their eyes are too big and black. Worse, the want Adam and his friends to come with them for a little ride in space. In fact, the aliens insist that...
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Ballantine Books
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English
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"Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo: Lieutenant Tom Hudner, a white New Englander from the country-club scene, and Ensign Jesse Brown, an African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighter planes for his country. Jesse became the navy's first black carrier pilot to defend a nation that wouldn't even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation,...
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of 'Crazy Blues' set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for 'race records.' Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not...
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DK Publishing
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English
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Learn the facts, figures, super-powers and origins of your favourite characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). From the Avengers and Ant-Man to Black Panther and Doctor Strange, this book spans over a decade of action-packed Marvel Studios movie releases. Filled with interesting facts and key information, whether your favourite hero is Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, the Wasp, Iron Man or Gamora, you'll be able to find out all about...
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Stewart, Tabori & Chang, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A look at the development of the sport over the past six centuries.
Once limited to trout and salmon, today fly-fishing techniques are used to catch every fish species from minnows to marlin in rivers, lakes and oceans from the Amazon to the Arctic. From the many thousands of fly patterns developed over the centuries, The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies focuses on fifty iconic flies chosen to represent the evolution not only of fishing flies...
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Considered to be "as monumental - and enigmatic - a legend as American sport has ever seen" (Sports Illustrated), Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history, still revered for the joy and passion he brought to the game. Mays began as a teenage phenom in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in New York, and was the headliner in Major League Baseball's bold expansion to California. With 3,383 hits, 660 home runs, and 338 stolen...
100) Writing all wrongs
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Books by the bay mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After Olivia and Chief Rawlings enjoy a brief honeymoon on Palmetto Island, they're joined by the rest of the Bayside Book Writers for the Legends of the Coastal Carolina Festival. The festival's highlight is Silas Black, celebrity screenwriter and TV producer, who is currently working on a popular show in North Carolina. As the festival gets under way, a trickster seems to be bringing famous local ghost stories to life. But when the body of a woman...