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"Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of fugitives traveling on the Underground Railroad to the advent...
22) The fifth domain: defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Presents an urgent assessment of how governments, businesses, and everyday citizens can counter and prevent attacks by criminal hackers determined to create a digital war zone.
"There is much to fear in the dark corners of cyberspace. From well-covered stories like the Stuxnet attack which helped slow Iran's nuclear program, to lesser-known tales like EternalBlue, the 2017 cyber battle that closed hospitals in Britain and froze shipping crates in...
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English
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The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behavior, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to the past, and give us insight into a long-vanished world that, for all its imperfections, continues to fascinate. This book, written by award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club,...
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Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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"In the middle of a frustrating late autumn golf game, Superintendent John Lambert and Detective Sergeant Bert Hook are summoned to a churchyard where a body has been discovered. Through the determined sleuthing of Lambert, Hook, and their police colleagues, the nameless corpse quickly becomes a man with a full past--and whose every friend and lover seems a prime suspect. This latest Lambert and Hook mystery moves at a good pace and offers a tough...
25) Malice
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When a serial killer begins murdering female students in a New England town, the college dean becomes involved in the investigation while wondering about the surgeon who has taken a room in his house.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
Description
Famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has a gift for solving mysteries. It seems murder follows her around, whether it be to the houses of her seemingly endless number of friends, nieces, and nephews or right in her hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine. She has become a respected amateur criminologist, helping the police solve crime. Jessica is sometimes assisted by her friends, relatives or other sleuths.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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A leading New York City concierge traces his rise from a Los Angeles personal assistant to an influential go-to man at the Intercontinental Hotel, in an account that is complemented by insider tips on how to obtain typically unattainable goods and services.
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Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Lincoln Loud enjoys living the double life--mild mannered middle school student by day, and would-be fledgling super-secret agent by night, following in the footsteps of his comicbook idol, Secret Agent David Steele. Missing homework? Wicked shadow company M.A.L.I.C.E. must be behind it! A change in the lunch menu? This is a job for a super spy! But when Lincoln and his best friend Clyde McBride aren't spying on M.A.L.I.C.E. at school, they are trying...
37) Angel: Season 4
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The vampire Angelus, now known as Angel, has a human soul, but committed terrible crimes in the past. Seeking forgiveness and trying to redeem himself, he moves from Sunnydale to Los Angeles, where he helps the downtrodden by thwarting the supernatural creatures that prey on them.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Historian Ronald White examines Lincoln's astonishing oratory and explores his growth as a leader, a communicator, and a man of deepening spiritual conviction. Examining a different speech, address, or public letter in each chapter, White tracks the evolution of Lincoln's rhetoric from the measured, lawyerly tones of the First Inaugural to the haunting, immortal poetry of the Gettysburg Address. As a speaker who appealed not to intellect alone, but...
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