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Sail AwayA celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan. The great African American poet Langston Hughes penned poem after poem about the...
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Cinnabar, the One O'Clock FoxGeorge Washington meets his match in a wily fox in this legendary hunting tale from Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry, back in print by popular demand. Cinnabar is a fox. He lives in a den with his family, Vicky and four little cubs. He's...
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Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United StatesClean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial...
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Katie Woo and Her Big IdeasKatie Woo has big ideas about everything From how to help at dinner to how to save the Earth, she always knows what to do. Sometimes things don't quite go according to plan. But that's no problem. Katie has big ideas of how to...
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Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2016)Aces Back to Back is the most comprehensive, fun, fact-filled and up-to-date history of the Grateful Dead ever written - now updated through August, 2016 From the band's inception, through the death of Jerry Garcia, and on to their incarnations as the Other Ones,...
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The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own WordsOn 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch in British history. During her 63 years on the throne, few have got to know her well, but there is one body of work that sheds new light on her thoughts, personality...
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Detroit's Birwood Wall: Hatred and Healing in the West Eight Mile CommunityIn 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal financing for white clients purchasing lots in a new subdivision abutting a community of mostly African Americans. When the banks deemed the development too risky because of potential racial...
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Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World's Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian ChicagoAt the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors.Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new...
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Milwaukee Ghosts and LegendsBeneath Milwaukee's calm façade, its ghastly past awaits.The overbearing spirit of Frederick Pabst keeps persistent watch over the mansion that shares his name. The remains of the Newhall House Fire, the city's deadliest disaster, may lie beneath a new building, but those who lost...
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Oklahoma Scoundrels: History's Most Notorious Outlaws, Bandits & GangstersEarly Oklahoma was a haven for violent outlaws and a death trap for deputy U.S. marshals. The infamous Doolin gang's OK Hotel gunfight left five dead. Killers like Bible-quoting choir leader Deacon Jim Miller wreaked havoc. Gunslinger femme fatale Belle Starr specialized in horse...
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Badir and the BeaverIt's Ramadan, a time to focus on good deeds and to fast, and Badir and his brother, Anis, are out for a walk one evening while they wait for their iftar meal. In the park Badir sees a rat. A very, very large rat....
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No Ordinary Men: Special Operations Forces Missions in AfghanistanThe first in-depth book that sheds light on Canada's elite warriors who operate in the shadows. In 2001, the Canadian government sent elements of its Joint Task Force 2 counterterrorist unit to Afghanistan to assist the Americans with Operation Enduring Freedom and the global...
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Big Business and HitlerFor big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were good news. Business was bad in the 1930s, and for multinational corporations Germany was a bright spot in a world suffering from the Great Depression. As Jacques R....
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Emma's Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth CenturyThe turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with...
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Poor Richard's AlmanacThe Wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard Almanac. Over six hundred bits of wisdom from the the most witty Founding Father.Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 04/18/2010Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.21dISBN: 9781452817606This title is not returnable
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LAPD '53James Ellroy, the undisputed master of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to present a stunning text on 1953 LA. While combing the museum's photo archives, Ellroy discovered that the year featured a wide array of stark and unusual...
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Anne of the IslandA classic for all ages, this official, unabridged edition of Anne of the Island features the unforgettable character of Anne Shirley and special memories, exclusively from L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter.Leaving home for college is never easy. Yet being on her own and making new friends...
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Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in LoveWhy don't you...run away and start over?Ten-hour shifts in a high-end department store and catering to snooty customers...Nellie Bennett's life wasn't supposed to turn out this way. But maybe all she needs to do is infuse a little passion into her routine--through flamenco dance...
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News of a KidnappingIn 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar - head of the Medell n drug cartel - kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, Garc a M rquez describes the survivors' perilous ordeal and...
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Colonial Virginia's War Against Piracy: The Governor & the BuccaneerThe story of a high stakes rivalry between Governor Francis Nicholson and pirate captain Louis Guittar.Governor Francis Nicholson of Virginia was a proven pirate-hunter and enforcer. By the spring of 1700, his concerns about pirate activity in the Chesapeake Bay and rivers of Virginia...
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