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Series
Black Widows volume 10
Language
Finnish
Description
Veera finds her daughter. The love life of Johanna and Petri is shadowed by the fact Petri does not know that Johanna killed her husband. Buntta gets hold of Jukka once more. Kirsi struggles in her marriage with a violent, controlling man.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion. But there is no time...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Asked by a female serial killer, with only 21 days left to live, to locate her long-lost sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, Frankie Elkin is led to a tech mogul's remote island where she goes undercover to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman's life.
Author
Series
Shadow Lake volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Collette King is eager for Matthew Mueller's return to Shadow Lake. The friend she has known forever is the one she longs to spend her life with. So when Mattie shows up at her sister's wedding with another woman, Collette's hopes are shattered. Matthew's new inheritance comes with a lot of responsibilities- including his late-uncle's deathbed request that he marry the woman who was his ward. But from the moment Mattie sees Collette again, he wishes...
Author
Series
Library trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Library of Alexandria died in fire. Others fade away with less drama, ignored, forgotten, left to dust. To the athenaeum though, the great library of which all others are echoes, fires are merely a temporary inconvenience. The only true threat to the library's existence is a book--the one Livira wrote. Livira's book also brought her together with Evar, a young man who was raised in the library itself, and they discovered secrets that no one else...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (220 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The in-depth and intimate story of one of the most important African Americans to live in the first half of the 20th century. Tells the story of Jack Johnson, who was the first African American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports - Heavyweight Campion of the World. Includes his struggles in and out of the ring and his desire to live his life as a free man.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
Author
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Hardback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"James Montgomery was a leader of the free-state movement in pre-Civil War Kansas and Missouri, associated with its direct-action military wing. He then joined the Union Army and fought through most of the war.A close associate and ally of other abolitionists including John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Colonels Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Robert G. Shaw, Montgomery led his African-American regiment along with Tubman and other civilians in the 1863 Combahee...
Publisher
John F. Blair
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xxi, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The seventeen narratives in Voices from St. Simons represent "an oral archaeological dig," writes editor Stephen Doster. Many of those interviewed are descendants of masters and slaves. Surprisingly, they speak of racial issues with greater compassion than bitterness. But the volume encompasses much more than that." "Here, the people of the Golden Isles recall waving farewell to Paul Redfern when his airplane took off from a sandy beach on his ill-fated...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 335 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
""Mud, Blood, and Ghosts" is a thoughtful, creative, and deeply researched story about the origins of Populism in America and its anti-immigrant and racist attitudes"--
"Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family's history through archival documents...
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