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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
2) Holy ghost
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle...and a murder...in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers. Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase 'small town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will...until the mayor of sorts (campaign promise: `I'll Do What I Can') comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I&;ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . .
Wild, heart-wrenching, and unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an inspiring coming-of-age memoir about running for freedom against the odds.
To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a time of unregulated madness at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Leo Koretz, a lawyer from Chicago, enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. Leo vanished when his scheme finally collapsed in 1923.
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