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"A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . " These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth 3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the...
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Mapmakers trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost cartologer, who has been kidnapped.
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Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every level
In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor
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Sequart Research & Literacy Organization
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Grant Morrison's graphic novel series, The Invisibles, has been hailed as an ambitious comics masterpiece-- but it's also frequently written off as incomprehensible. Meaney provides in-depth analysis that makes sense of the series's complicated ideas, fractured chronology, and delirious blend of fiction and reality. He explores how the series's fictional conspiracy theories fare in the wake of 9/11 and the War on Terror.
6) Sentenced to life: the Mark Becker story : mental illness, tragedy, and transformation / Joan Becker
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Publisher
Credo House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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The author shares her son Mark Becker's story, from his childhood in Parkersburg, Iowa, through the events of June 24, 2009 and those that followed, using her family's experiences to demonstrate the need for reform in the existing mental health system.
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Sourcebooks eXplore, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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You can't believe everything you hear! Did you know that a single word can have many different meanings? Sometimes two words that sound alike can be spelled completely differently! Ptolemy the Pterodactyl is back to show us all how absurd and fun language can be when homophones, homonyms, and tricky punctuation are at play.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every level In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals dominate...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
©2006
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English
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Once wildly popular and used by teachers across America to teach grammar, sentence diagramming is now a lost art to most people. But from the moment she encountered it in the seventh-grade classroom of Sister Bernadette, Kitty Burns Florey was fascinated by the bizarre method of mapping the words in a sentence. Now a veteran copyeditor, Florey studies the practice in a funny look back at its odd history, its elegant method, and its rich, ongoing possibilities--from...
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Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Explores the subject of menstruation, from toxic historic and religious roots to how young activists are challenging the silence and shame that can erode self-esteem and even threaten lives ..."--Page 4 of cover
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