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Publisher:
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops leading the Durham chapter of...
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Publisher:
New American Library
Pub. Date:
[2015]
Language:
English
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"Bridesmaids meets The In-Laws in a novel told from the alternating perspectives of two women who define the term frenemies. From New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster. Jacqueline Jordan knows conflict. A fearless journalist, she's spent the past decade embedded in the world's hot spots, writing about the fall of nations and the rise of despots. But if you were to inquire about who topped Jack's enemy list, she'd not hesitate to answer:...
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Language:
English
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C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and...
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Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and...
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Publisher:
Top Reads Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
After the Allied D-Day landings in June 1944, Paris was liberated in late August, and the rest of France was freed in the following weeks. However, two pockets of German occupation in Royan and La Rochelle, both cities along the Atlantic coast, remained occupied for several months more. Blocking access to Bordeaux, the city of Royan would end in martyrdom under a carpet of Allied bombs on January 5, 1945. But the fortress of La Rochelle, with its...
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Language:
English
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From the New York Times bestselling writing team comes a hilarious new collection of essays that observe life from a mother/daughter perspective. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are the best of friends-99.9% of the time. They're number one on each other's speed dial and they tell each other everything-well, almost everything. They share shoes and clothes-except one very special green jacket,...
10. Best enemies
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English
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Amy Sherman has a nice apartment in Manhattan, a good job as publicity director at a publishing company, and a decent social life. Then she runs into Tara Messer, prom queen and Amy's ex-best friend. It's been four years since Tara stole Amy's fiancé, and Amy swore she'd stop playing second fiddle to spotlight-hog Tara. Or so she thought. Tara, now married to the man who broke Amy's heart, is a lifestyle guru with her own book deal-and Amy gets tapped...
Publisher:
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America.
14. Best enemies
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Series:
Canterwood Crest volume 5
Publisher:
Aladdin M!X
Pub. Date:
2009
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
Description:
"If any two girls know about being the best, it's Heather Fox and Jasmine King. Just ask them; they'll be happy to tell you. But every girl knows that there can only be one 'best.' Can Sasha keep the girls from turning the arena into a war zone and still snag a spot on the coveted Youth Equestrian National Team?"--p. [4] of cover.
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Series:
Beacon Street Girls volume 1
Publisher:
B*tween Productions
Pub. Date:
2004
Lexile measure:
640L
Language:
Other
Description:
Charlotte Ramsey is the new girl again, and ready to make friends and stay in one place. After causing the biggest cafeteria blunder in the history of Abigail Adams Junior High School, Charlotte's assigned lunch partners, Katani, Avery and Maeve, can't wait to dump her. Can it get any worse?
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Series:
Beacon Street Girls volume 1
Publisher:
Aladdin MIX
Pub. Date:
2008
Lexile measure:
640L
Language:
English
Description:
Charlotte Ramsey is the new girl again, and ready to make friends and stay in one place. After causing the biggest cafeteria blunder in the history of Abigail Adams Junior High School, Charlotte's assigned lunch partners, Katani, Avery and Maeve, can't wait to dump her. Can it get any worse?
17. Best of Enemies
Publisher:
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
In the summer of 1968 television news changed forever. Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's...
18. Best Enemies
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Publisher:
Lazy River Publishing
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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What do a dead, cheating ex-husband, his mouthy pregnant mistress and a stripper have in common? They're all members of Willa Crown's patched together family, and they're getting on her last nerve. When Willa's almost ex-husband, Jack Crown, is murdered, she is shocked to learn that he made her executor of his estate. Willa discovers that Jack was involved in a business deal with a gang, and they want their missing drug money. More bad news- Willa's...
19. Her Best Enemy
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Publisher:
Vanessa Garden
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
A tale of murder and June's best friend takes his own life after years of being bullied, she's devastated-but mostly angry. Josh was the sweetest boy June had ever known, and in her mind, the popular kids at school are guilty of murder. When an anonymous online poster starts threatening Josh's bullies on social media, and then killing them off one by one, June secretly feels a little glad. That is, until she becomes next on the killer's to forge an...
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Series:
Holly's heart volume 1
Publisher:
Bethany House
Pub. Date:
2001
Language:
English
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Holly's relationship with her best friend Andie is threatened when they both fall for Jared, the new boy in the seventh grade and a fellow Christian.