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Series
Lake Erie Quadrangle shipwreck volume 4
Publisher
Erie County Historical Society & Museums
Pub. Date
�2006
Physical Desc
xiv, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah and Frank Malloy must catch a scheming killer in this latest gripping installment in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries Former policeman Frank Malloy is frustrated when a woman requests his private detective services to implicate her wealthy husband in adultery, the only legal grounds for divorce in New York state. Although Mrs. Bing seems genuinely distressed about her marriage and desperate to end it, she refuses to tell Frank the...
Author
Publisher
I-5 Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the late nineteenth century, tractors began to change the way that farmers worked, increasing efficiency and productivity and reducing dependence an animal power and physical labor. From crude early prototypes to powerful modern machines with a bevy of amenities, tractors have evolved with the technology of the times."--Back cover.
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Language
English
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Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
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Language
English
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Inheriting a cocoa plantation in Vinces, Ecuador, that someone will kill for, Puri, after her husband is murdered, assumes his identity to search for the truth of her father's legacy and learn the identity of the enemy who stands in her way of claiming her birthright.
Puri inherited her passion for chocolate from her father. At his death she learns she's inherited a cocoa estate in Vinces, Ecuador. Eager to claim her birthright and filled with hope...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Revised and updated to include the winner of the 2020 presidential election, this photo-filled and fact-packed book is a timely reference. Key features include: Information about the 2021 president-elect and the 2020 election results, a brand-new thematic spread on the impeachment process and its history, revised terminology around the language of slavery and analysis of early presidents who benefitted from and relied on enslaved labor, comprehensive...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (4 hr., 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War is one of the most studied military conflicts in world history. Penetrates the fog of war and allows you to experience the glory and heartache of the battles that changed war forever. Through personal letters, official reports and diaries, viewers will come to understand not only the battle but also the political and personal factors that caused our nation to take up arms.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Three plucky women lift the spirits of homefront brides in wartime Britain, where clothes rationing leaves little opportunity for pomp or celebration-even at weddings-in this heartwarming novel based on true events, from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. After renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the London Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled decades...
13) Trespasses
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family’s pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment – Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married – Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and...
Author
Publisher
New Amsterdam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xi, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, it covers the ensuing period-the descent into violence, the hunger strikes, the Anglo-Irish accord, the bombers in England-to the present shaky peace process. Behind the deluge of information and opinion about the conflict,...
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Language
English
Description
The first full-scale biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the fire of the sun for his country in time of war. After Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation--an icon of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress. He created a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen...
18) In his eyes
Author
Publisher
by the Vine Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Her heart sought shelter. Her soul found home. Ella Whitaker rescues a newborn from the dying arms of a woman of ill repute and at long last she has someone to love. In need of a wet nurse, she arrives at Belmont Plantation just as Federal soldiers demand to speak to the owner. Thinking quickly, Ella masquerades as a Yankee officer's widow in order to have a roof over her head and a home for the child. Major Westley Remington has dedicated his life...
19) Lord of my heart
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
To save her barony, Madeleine de la Haute Vironge must wed one of a trio of lords offered by King William. A twist of fate lands her in the arms of an exciting stranger she desires as much as she fears. Aimery de Gaillard secretly prowls the forest as the Golden Hart, devoted to helping the common English folk. The marriage threatens his cause and even his life. But his noble heart aches with passion for this beautiful heiress.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 116 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American poet laureate of the United States."--Back cover.
"In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother's death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved,...