Beth Macy
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English
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The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.
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English
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Masters of misinformation trap the team in a swirl of misdirection
Elda Ainsworth, an ex-Navy, ex-Cold War spy, semi-retired and living peacefully on the Coast of Maine is reactivated and joins with her old adversary, Toshchiy Chelovek, and his favorite assassin, Anatoly Petrov, as well as Tosh's fem-fatale niece, Snezhana Chelovek.
Elda and Tosh combine members from Russia, America and Britain to build a crack team of cyber-sleuths, assassins and...
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English
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They are masters in the covert world of spies and assassins.
Elda Ainsworth cut her teeth as a spy in the Cold War. Currently semiretired, she has been activated by the American government to extract her friend Korinna Federov, a Russian translator for the Kremlin. Elda's background as a military analyst, personal trainer, and psychologist makes her a formidable opponent.
Trained by the KGB, Anatoly Petrov was born to be a killing machine. Anatoly's...
6) Dopesick
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into an epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. The first to chart the tragic spread of prescription and street drugs from distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs, disparate cities, and once-idyllic farm towns, a trajectory that explains how the crisis persisted for so long and became so entrenched.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A feral child finds a family. An old bottle washes up with a note inside. A boy's stuffed elephant flies out the car window. Over two decades, Lane DeGregory's stories of ordinary people struggling with love and loss, pain and perseverance, have earned her a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and enhanced the Tampa Bay (formerly St. Petersburg) Times's reputation for publishing pioneering literary nonfiction. DeGregory has also built a worldwide...
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