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Many brave individuals fought for racial equality during the Civil Rights era. One method of standing up for equality was "sitting in." Black Americans entered businesses that only served white people and calmly refused to leave as a form of peaceful protest. This innovative play follows three black students who courageously hold a sit-in at a lunch counter. This dramatization helps modern readers understand what these protests were like, and to appreciate...
345302) Whispers From The Past
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In 1928, Evie Woodward is running from a past she barely understands. A widow with a young son she agrees to become partners with Daniel Roxburgh in a Psychic Detective Agency. But, their bogus investigations soon take on a very real turn.
Daniel lives his life in the shadows of Melbourne's gangster world. He's a dangerous man but he'd do anything for Evie. Just as happiness is in their grasp, an investigation in a house called Blue Waters goes very...
345303) Love for the Children
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This book was, written to help children in their character development. They would learn the joy of kindness, obedience, honesty, and maintain a healthy self-image.
"You can do all things through Christ, who strengthens you."
345304) Highway Hector (A Short Story)
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Sid is a long-haul trucker looking for a place to pull over and rest. The lonesome highway he's driving may have other ideas and his next stop could be his last.
345305) MacDeath
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There's double, double toil and trouble, when Duncan Finch-Hatton, chair of Pratford-upon-Avon's Shakespeare Company is challenged for the title role in Macbeth at the Burns Night performance. Championship footballer, Findlay MacGregor, and his wife Grace, are fuelled by ambition and desperate to create a storm in the village. After auditions are abandoned at the village hall due to thunder, lightning and rain, Grace invites everyone to the MacGregor's...
345306) Fransie Changes With Laughter
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In this coming-of-age historical family drama, twelve-year old Fransie learns her family is leaving rural Halifax, Virginia and moving to New York City. This starts her on an emotional roller coaster.
The only life Fransie knows is the country with its farm animals', trees, dirt roads and living in a one family house. But now she's forced to accept living in a city filled with traffic lights, cement sidewalks and attending an interracial school....
345307) The Riddler and the Jinx
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When Harley ruins the Riddler's carefully constructed scheme to capture Batman, she's determined to show the calculating crook that she's no bad-luck jinx. She'll use her brilliantly bonkers mind to write confounding rhymes of her own! In this battle of wits, can the jolly jester prove there's a method to her madness? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for DC Super Hero and Super-Villain fans!
345308) White Nights. Illustrated
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"White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a poignant and introspective short story that delves into the complexities of human emotions and the transient nature of romantic connections. Set against the backdrop of St. Petersburg's nocturnal charm, the narrative follows the lonely protagonist through four consecutive white nights, where he encounters a mysterious young woman. As the two form a deep but ephemeral connection, Dostoevsky explores themes of...
345309) A Gentleman Called
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In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis's second Mrs. Norris novel, which the New York Times hailed as "tensely perplexing," the crime-solving Scottish housekeeper helps crack the case of a serial lady-killer As housekeeper to James Jarvis's recently deceased father, a retired major general of the US Army, Mrs. Norris has raised Jimmie since boyhood. Now the Wall Street lawyer faces a challenging case. The son of one of the firm's...
345310) Dastardly Deeds
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When Angie Palmer asks Kate to find out who's been stealing from her home, Kate accepts the challenge. After all, it's a simple matter of theft, nothing she can't handle, and Angie has conveniently assembled the suspects for tea and pastries in her greenhouse. But Kate's cut-and-dried investigation takes a deadly turn when one of the suspects is murdered during that tea. To complicate matters, Kate has agreed to help Minette rid her precious woods...
345311) Someone Like You
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Until he met Zoë Sanderson, Joseph Abascal never thought he could see beyond the comfortable confines of the Saarinai, the bar where he was an undisputed star and whose colleagues he cherished like family. However, upon hearing those words, he knew that his former life was no more, leaving years of bitterness and loneliness behind.
From their home in Dirkenhall to historic brushstrokes and the excitement of a world beyond the stars, Joseph and...
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Light and amusing, this selection of stories celebrates the everyday and springs with happiness. Join Anna, Samuel, Nina, Lione and Benjamin as they do everything from racing turtles at summer camp to having a mid-air encounter with a wild goat while ski-racing. This book is sure to delight young and old as you discover the world through these children’s eyes as they generally experience the natural wonder of the world.
345314) You Don't Know Jack
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One autumn day, Miranda Frillyfoam hops onto a bus headed for her new school, Bay Lake Elementary. Right off the bat, the children call her a monster and run away screaming. At least she's not alone, and when a new substitute teacher shows up on her first day of class, things really get crazy.
Approximately 6,700 words, 14 images and Spartan frog mayhem.
WARNING: Don't allow crazy substitute frog teachers in your school!
345315) Red Painted Souls
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Rusty and Danish are off on a new adventure.
An exciting one in Peru.
High in the Andes.
But what starts out as an exploration.
And adventure they love.
Turns into a nightmare when they discover that not only are the legends true about where they are exploring.
But they are deadly!
345316) The Coronet Conspiracy
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1888 - In the midst of the murderous phrenzy plaguing the streets of Whitechapel, a case of mistaken identity, a courier's dispatch containing a coded message, and an urgent request from Scotland Yard draw Sherlock Holmes into a case that uncovers criminal schemes fixed on removing the heads of the governments of England, France, and the German Empire. Convinced these events are not simply calamitous coincidences, Holmes goes to his brother Mycroft,...
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In Paul Lisnek's sequel to Assume Guilt, Assume Treason takes readers on a mysterious ride in this Chicago-based political thriller.
With time running out to prove an assassination plot is in the works, jury consultant, Matt Barlow must dig deep to find answers.
Matt Barlow and his team are back, this time using their research skills on behalf of presidential candidate, Senator Marie Kent. Matt's okay using his jury consulting firm in service of...
345318) Fraizh connection
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Les vacances à la mer du commandant Le Fur risquent d'être de courte durée...
Le commandant Guillaume Le Fur passe quelques jours de vacances à Plougastel-Daoulas, parcourant la campagne et les bords de mer pour repérer et choisir les lieux o il situera l'action de son prochain roman policier. À la fête des Fraises, la manifestation annuelle, il est approché par une vieille dame qui lui demande avec insistance d'enquêter sur les circonstances...
345319) Meet Nurse Morgan
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In this B-level Little Blossom Stories book, Nurse Morgan helps patients with different ailments. Her daughter comes to visit her at work. Uses decodable text, a repetition of sight words, and vowel sounds to increase readability. Focuses on the phonics skill of decoding r-controlled vowels. Original illustrations help guide readers through the story. Author/Illustrator biography Original Artwork Phonetics Teaching guides The Little Blossom Stories...
345320) Of Witches and Ruin
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Fighting an unknown evil can be tough on the best of days. When sixteen year old witch Ebony Amberwood has to juggle high school, a social life, and visions of her home realm being destroyed, it can sound like an insurmountable task. When her uncle hires a bodyguard to protect Ebony and her two best friends, and when a mysterious new guy shows up at school, Ebony has to add boy trouble to that list.
Add in the fact that witch hunters are also trying...
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