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1) Never Caught
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of "extraordinary grit" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President...
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President...
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"A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away."--NoveList.
"When George and Martha Washington moved from their beloved Mount Vernon in Virginia to Philadelphia, then the seat of the nation's capital, they took nine enslaved people with them. They would serve as cooks and horsemen, as...
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English
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"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
On Saturday, May 21, 1796, Ona Judge, a twenty-two-year-old slave of President George Washington and his wife, Martha, escaped the president's Philadelphia mansion and never looked back. Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge grew...
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"A brilliant work of US history." —School Library Journal (starred review)
"Gripping." —BCCB (starred review)
"Accessible...Necessary." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A School Library Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2019!
A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's...
"Gripping." —BCCB (starred review)
"Accessible...Necessary." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A School Library Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2019!
A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's...
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English
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Poor, brave Carolyn.
So dedicated and hardworking.
She's spent years putting the pieces together to find me.
And now she's come looking for me.
With no backup and her boss's knife in her back, she's determined to save her reputation by bringing me in.
But nobody plays the game with me and wins.
Still, she's caught my eye ... and nobody's done that before.
I've decided to show her who's boss around here.
I'm absolutely sure she'll love it.
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English
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I haven't lost a fight in ten years.
I've ruled underground boxing in Detroit for over a decade now.
I've made a legend of myself.
But when I save an innocent girl from her stalker, I lose to her. In the best way possible.
I don't do serious relationships-too risky.
But Josie is different-she makes the risk worth it.
But when her stalker sets the FBI on me and my boss, I'll have to fight like hell to protect her.
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English
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My boss sent me to cancel an accountant who was skimming off the top.He forgot to mention there's a kid.And that the wife's a knockout.I'm not about to disappear them, too.Because of this, I've got to get over the border without backup.They're looking for a man alone.Not a man with a wife and young daughter.The two of them are my ticket over the border now.The family's fake ... but the attraction to my new "wife" isn't.
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English
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I jacked a car tonight with a bound woman in the trunk.
Looks like I saved her life-isn't that ironic? Now she's offering me a pile of jewels to get her to Montreal.
I take the job to get a chance at taking her.
Those first few nights are hot-but she's got a secret.
She's the mob boss's daughter-and he wants her back. I haven't had a woman this amazing in my entire life. I'll drive like the devil to keep her safe.
But with both the mob and the...
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I woke up in a cute tiny cabin with a splitting headache and no memories.
The sweet, isolated artist who discovered me doesn't know a thing either.
But getting mended by a curvy guardian angel named Eve is a big help.
Especially when I learn about her crush on me.
Still, it's not all roses.
I have a bullet-crease in my skull and skills I can't explain.
When the nightmares start, maybe I'd be better off without those memories? But the past won't...
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English
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"An unflinching memoir of a spy during a tumultuous time and unsavory alliances. Dobson recounts her recruitment, training, and espionage with rare self-awareness." -Henry R. Schlesinger, author of Honey Trapped
From the snowy Soviet shooting range to the heat and dust of Africa, nothing is what it seems. And neither is Sue Dobson.
The image of South Africa in the 1980's as the golden paradise on the tip of the African continent conceals a brutal,...
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English
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Suppose you were in control of $154 million dollars of legal pharmaceuticals that had been stolen, and you purchased them for $3 million. You knew that you stood to make near the normal dollar rate if they were redistributed to a legal foreign market. Would $90 million make you happy? This is a story about such temptations that begin with a missing man. In a small southern town, or a relatively medium-sized Ohio River town, there is a retired cop...
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There have been a countless number of serial killers throughout history, and certainly more prolific ones, but the timing, circumstances, and unsolved nature of the case continue to make Jack the Ripper the most famous serial killer in history. The murders came at a time when media coverage could be both more acute and more widespread, and it allowed the public a closer look into how police agencies operated at the time, exposing both their strengths...
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Image Comics
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English
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Collects SECRET #1-7 Collecting the acclaimed series by JONATHAN HICKMAN and RYAN BODENHEIM, SECRET tells the story of old spies losing their way in the new world of surveillance, globalization, and privatization.. Author: Jonathan Hickman. Illustrator: Ryan Bodenheim, Michael Garland . 2014 Jonathan Hickman and Ryan Bodenheim.
15) City of the lost
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English
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"Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a domestic violence...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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[T]wo gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school's Queer Club. Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally unbelievable. From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been two against the world. But whenever something bad happens at Stone Grove High School, they get blamed. Why? They're beautiful, flirtatious, dangerously clever queen bees, and they're always ready...
17) Unsub: a novel
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Unsub novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares reemerges: the Prophet. An UNSUB--what the FBI calls an unknown subject--the Prophet terrorized the Bay Area in...
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English
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In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. "Count Victor Lustig," moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A "con" artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city's most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first naval battle in history fought entirely by carrier-based airplanes, in which opposing fleets never caught sight of each other. Although the Japanese inflicted more tactical damage (including the sinking of the US carrier Lexington), they failed to achieve their objective: Port Moresby in New Guinea.
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"Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the Witness Protection...
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