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Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the Communist Revolution, Desmond Shum's grandfather was marked as belonging to a "black category" that included former landlords and rich peasants--meaning the Shums would be stigmatized and impoverished. As Desmond was growing up, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity Shum earned an American college degree and returned to China to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Penelope Landlow has grown up with the knowledge that almost anything can be bought or sold--including body parts. She's the daughter of one of the three crime families that control the black market for organ transplants. Penelope's surrounded by all the suffocating privilege and protection her family can provide, but they can't protect her from the autoimmune disorder that causes her to bruise so easily. Penny is considered too "delicate" to handle...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the sobering resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, the cover-up activities of the coal mining industry, and the awareness activities of regional mining communities.
In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down. Decades have passed...
345) Board stiff
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
346) The pillagers
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Craig Morgan has been sidetracked somehow into acting as an official investigator of a Minnesota Indian problem. Chief Bog-o-nay-ge-shig, of the Chippewa, has complained to Washington that his people are being cheated out of their timberland, and that, in fact, there is a conspiracy against the Indians to systematically destroy them. Morgan, a known Indian rights advocate and a professional timberman, is the perfect man to evaluate Chief Bog's charges....
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Pied Piper: In Seattle, they're calling him The Pied Piper--someone who comes in the night and takes children away. To newly promoted police lieutenant Lou Boldt and police psychologist Daphne Matthews, it's clear this isn't about a single lunatic or random kidnappings: these crimes are well orchestrated, well executed, and, most chilling of all, occurring in cities across the country.
The First Victim: A shipping container washed ashore leads...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...