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"Just in time for the 120th anniversary of the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing"-this stirring book celebrates the Black National Anthem and how it inspired five generations of a family... In Jacksonville, Florida, two brothers, one of them the principal of a segregated, all-black school, wrote the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" so his students could sing it for a tribute to Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1900. From that moment on, the song has provided...
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This traditional Mother Goose nursery rhyme is accompanied by beautiful illustrations that support the text to help beginning readers build their foundational reading skills. Encourage children to describe what is happening in the story using their own words, or follow along with the familiar rhyme. This charmingly illustrated book helps parents and children enjoy a shared reading experience together.
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'The man died from wounds on the head. There was no trace of carbon in his lungs, so he must have been dead before he was put on the dump.'
The livelihood of Louie Patra depends entirely on the supply of bad men; men who climb up the face of a house; men who could pick a pocket, steal from cars, forge a signature or a five-pound note. He has a use for them all. Right now he's planning a smash and grab on a valuable collection of silver. But when...
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Summer tourists and cottagers have flocked to the lakeshore at Cullen Village, including the four Borthwicks siblings, who own--and squabble over--Hazeldean, a heritage cottage. When one of the family members is found dead under suspicious circumstances, the Major Crimes Unit is called. Roxanne Calloway, who has moved to a what is normally a quieter life as the head of the local RCMP detachment, finds herself drawn in to the investigation.
A hot...
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Hunger, poverty, foreclosures, drought, horrific storms, hard work (if it could be found), and disappointment were routine during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Tom Kostas, a Greek immigrant, his wife, Agnes, and their four small children endured this together on their small farm in Kansas. Many people in these difficult circumstances gave up and left for California or elsewhere, searching for better lives as they escaped the hardships of the...
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Allen Barker hit the big time. All of a sudden everything he did turned to gold or platinum. He had found his dream. He was a superstar.Then his girlfriends started getting murdered. One, those things happen. Two, a sad thing. Was he jinxed? Would there be a third? That would be a long way over mere coincidence.Who would be doing this? Why?
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Previously published in the print anthology The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories. Retired Scotland Yard detective Sir Edward Palliser is called upon by Magdalen Vaughan to help solve the murder of her wealthy, eccentric aunt, Miss Lily Crabtree. The authorities believe only members of the household could have committed the crime, and this suspicion is tearing the family apart. Who really killed Lily's aunt?
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In 1903, Sarah Schafer arrived in Bedford, Indiana, eager to begin a fresh chapter in her life with a new position as a Latin teacher at Bedford High School. Her excitement is soon replaced with fear when it becomes apparent someone wants Sarah out of town-and will use whatever means necessary to make her leave. A secret shared between Sarah and her close friend Eva puts both women in danger, and prominent citizens in Bedford have the most to lose...
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