Rio
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2025.
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"In a beautiful picture book brimming with G for Groundbreaking women, writer, poet, and National Book Award nominee, Rio Cortez, and illustrator Lauren Semmer celebrate all the joys, challenges, and historic forward movement of women's history in the United States. This is a book of people, of ideas, of accomplishments and events. It's a book about Artists, Activists and Allies, about Civil Rights and Choice, about Freedom Fighters, Headliners, Justice...
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2017
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Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous ways.
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"B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! And for a Book that takes a Bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture. Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy. It's a story of big ideas--P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments--G is for Great Migration. Of iconic figures--H is for Zora Neale Hurston, X is for...
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From the acclaimed author of Lola on Fire comes a blistering novel of action, intrigue, and suspense about a down-and-out actor suspected of killing his wife, a wannabe starlet new to the L.A. scene, and the vengeful drug dealer they both dare to cross
Luke Kingsley's glory days are in the rearview mirror. Once an up-and-coming actor, his career hit the skids after his wife-the famous R&B singer, Lisa Hayes-disappeared without a trace. Their relationship...
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From critically acclaimed author Rio Youers, an action-packed crime novel featuring three kick-ass heroines-bandmates who moonlight as vigilantes.
Blood. Bullets. Rock and roll.
Meet the Bang-Bang Sisters: Brea, Jessie, and Flo. Together, they're a kick-ass rock band with an unbreakable bond.
But that's only half the story. Offstage, they're highly skilled vigilantes, traveling the country in their beaten-up tour van to exact justice on criminals...
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Arthur Ellis Award finalist Rio Youers combines vengeance and deceit, love and bullets, secrets, and twists in this high-octane action thriller with a vibrant emotional core.
Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister Molly needs.
Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings. It's...
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Can a band comprised of six very talented but very different musicians make a difference with their music?
What made it possible for Diamond Rio to weather the storms inherent in the fickle world of fame and fortune and go more than two decades without a single lineup change? Any reader in search of transparency and a behind-the-scenes look into the life of the band as a unit as well as the individual lives of the players and singers will be well...
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HALCYON is the answer for all Americans who want to escape, but paradise isn't what it seems. A beautiful island in the middle of Lake Ontario, a self-sustaining community made up of people who want to live without fear, crime, or greed. Halcyon is run by Valerie Kemp, aka Mother Moon, benevolent and altruistic on the outside, but hiding an unimaginable darkness inside. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of Glam Moon, a place of eternal beauty...
16) Mama Fish
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Technology is a 21st Century god. It's a monster.And the old ghosts stir...Business brings Patrick Beauchamp to Harlequin, MA. The town he grew up in. It is his first time back for twenty years. Harlequin has changed, but even so the old ghosts stir.The secretsuch a terrible secretstill lives in his heart. It is here, in Harlequin. She is here.Patrick will never forget Mama Fish.Harlequin High, 1986. Kelvin Fish was the oddball, the weird kid that...
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Tanto buscar y al final la clave estaba en los videojuegos...
Está claro: la mejor forma de aprender siempre ha sido, y será, jugando. Ya desde pequeños, hasta en el reino animal, se observa que es mediante el juego y el disfrute que este aporta que se van adquiriendo las habilidades necesarias para sobrevivir en la vida.
¿Por qué iba a ser distinto con los videojuegos? Exacto, no lo es. Los videojuegos han supuesto una revolución a nivel de...
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The Story of Nothing is a collection of musings, epiphanies, and psychological breakthroughs gathered and compiled on a three-year journey. Across the cliffs of Ireland, along the coasts of France, amongst the fields of the American Midwest, and through the vast and awe-inspiring deserts of Saudi Arabia, these beautiful and varied landscapes were the very muses that inspired this author to take the journey inward into the complex and often shadowed...
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The Hill was named for its proximity to the highest point in St. Louis. Italians, mainly from Northern Italy, immigrated to the area starting in the late 1800s; however, by 1910, Sicilians were also immigrating to the Hill. Agencies in Italy were employed by mining companies and other industries to help Italian citizens gather all the required documentation for immigration. Italians came to the Hill because of its proximity to the factory and the...
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Lleno de energía, el labrador desprende unas ganas de vivir que se contagian a quienes tienen la suerte de convivir con él diariamente. Por la versatilidad de su carácter ha sido utilizado en muchas actividades junto al hombre, desde la caza hasta la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas o la asistencia a invidentes.
Este libro profundiza en el conocimiento de la raza poniéndola en relación con los restantes retriever: golden, flat, curly, Nova...