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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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BOOK THREE IN THE AGATHA AWARD-WINNING SERIES
St. Michael's College, Cambridge, is prestigious, stately-and in frightful disrepair. To replenish its dwindling coffers, the College's Master holds a fundraising weekend for wealthy alums. But all goes awry when the glamorous-and despised-Lexy Laurant is found strangled on the grounds. There's a lengthy list of likely suspects: Lexy's debt-ridden Latino lover, her titled ex-husband
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Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
©2011.
Language
English
Description
In this moving and humorous memoir, Ellen Leslie reflects on her life as a schoolgirl, college student, teacher, wife, mother, and jazz singer. Now nearly 80 and newly widowed, she contemplates a future without the love of her life.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The making of a visionary political leader-and a blueprint for a more equitable country "Don't tell nobody our business," Michael Tubbs's mother often told him growing up. For Michael, that meant a lot of things: don't tell anyone about the day-to-day struggle of being Black and broke in Stockton, CA. Don't tell anyone the pain of having a father incarcerated for 25 years to life. Don't tell anyone about living two lives, the brainy bookworm and...
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English
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Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome-- as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Five people-- former housemates at Penn who split up after the death of the sixth, Bea-- come together and must confront their pasts, on what would have been Bea's fortieth birthday.
Twenty years ago six Penn students shared a house, naively certain that their friendships would endure. Then the death of their ringleader Bea splintered the group for good. Now, mostly estranged from one another, they gather at that same house on the eve of what would...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's been twenty-five years since the shocking disappearance of a female student and the distinguished Creative Writing professor who died while searching for her. The Briarwood College community has never forgotten the double tragedy. Now, the college President is bringing together faculty, donors, and alumni to honor the victims from all those years ago. On a cold December weekend after the fall semester has ended, guests gather on the vacant campus...
13) Hitler's boy soldiers: how my father's generation was trained to kill and sent to die for Germany
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
During World War II the Nazis trained some three hundred thousand German children to fight -- and die -- for Hitler. Munson's father was one of those boy soldiers from the age of nine years. By seventeen he had shot down Allied pilots with antiaircraft artillery; the in the final states of the war he was sent on a suicide mission to the Sudetenland. As Munson retraced his footsteps, she uncovered the lost history of an entire generation brainwashed...
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