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Son
Based on an event that took place in 1932 this novel reshapes the deadly shooting of a white teenager Michael “Son” Morrison Moss Jr. by a black schoolteacher in Austin Texas. The author chronicles sixty-year-old Charlie Jarrell’s...
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Based on an event that took place in 1932 this novel reshapes the deadly shooting of a white teenager Michael “Son” Morrison Moss Jr. by a black schoolteacher in Austin Texas. The author chronicles sixty-year-old Charlie Jarrell’s...
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by Lisa Bower
With top-notch writing and a suspenseful story S.K. Whalen’s Rooke’s Island is well suited for both children and adults. Protagonist Margery Mutters is independent intelligent and interesting—women with this holy trinity of...
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by Gary Presley
In the United States they are known as members of the “Greatest Generation”: those young men who donned uniforms and sailed off to fight the Axis nearly seven decades ago. Their stories are heroic and legendary told in histories like...
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The notion that fairy tales can come true is on reflection a scary thought—think of all those wolves and witches. “The power of fairy tales lies in the fact that they are timeless stories of the struggles of the child who feels...
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This story of action and adventure packs an enormous amount of material into relatively few pages—unfortunately too much material. W.D. Dodge’s Ukrainian-born heroine engages in a great deal of sex and travels extensively both...
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This book contains a set of fifteen strategies designed to help leaders facing crisis. Written by Trina Hines a motivational speaker leadership coach retired US Army First Sergeant and former Pentagon leader it contains many elements...
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All parents hope to find a pediatrician who dispenses sound advice with common sense born of experience. In "Common Sense Pediatrics", Franz shares what she’s learned in her twenty-three years of pediatric practice and her life as a...
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Post-Civil War Galveston is the setting for this exquisitely written, character-rich debut novel by Michael Kasenow. The author masterfully paints a vivid picture of the “alley people” of the reconstruction-era Texas city: a colorful...
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