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Ida, a Palestinian-American girl, eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents' village near Jerusalem. An important coming of age story that explores identity, place, voice, and belonging.
"Every time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what's coming next. Some of her classmates treat her like it's all her fault -- just for being Palestinian! In eighth grade, Ida is forced to move to a different school....
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Classic fiction. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie - solitary, observant and wise beyond her years - is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. What Maisie Knew is a subtle yet devastating portrayal of...
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Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry is extending her stay in Charleston to help care for her ailing housekeeper, Bernice. Here in her beloved hometown, the air is rich with the scent of azaleas and honeysuckle and there's always a pitcher of sweet tea (or something a little stronger) close to hand. Not that the ladies have much time for relaxing. Ida's new line of cosmetics, "Seasoned," is about to launch, and Toots, Mavis, and Sophia are relishing...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2013?]
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Danish
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Philip an Englishman living in Denmark, is a middle-aged widower and estranged single father. Ida is a Danish hairdresser who's just been left by her husband for a younger woman. The fates of these two souls are about to come together as they embark for a trip to Italy to attend the wedding of Patrick and Astrid, Philip's son and Ida's daughter. A story about seeking love and having the courage to change your life - even when you think it's too late....
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Questioneers volume 3
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English
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Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
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Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), THE HITCH-HIKER is perhaps better remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, THE HITCH-HIKER is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who are held captive by a homicidal drifter (William Talman). He...
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Friends for keeps volume 4
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2011
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530L
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English
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Former best friends Brooke and Jenna are feuding and soon all the girls in the fourth-grade class are split into two groups, with Ida May right in the middle trying to put things back the way they used to be.
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Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk takers who have flouted convention, beaten the odds, and determined the course of world events. ● When Cleopatra (69 BC-30 BC) wasn't bathing in asses' milk, the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt and forged an important political alliance with Rome against her enemies-until her dalliance with...
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2011
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English
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To his friends and neighbors, Glenn L. Carle was a wholesome, stereotypical New England Yankee, a former athlete struggling against incipient middle age, someone always with his nose in an abstruse book. But for two decades Carle broke laws, stole, and lied on a daily basis about nearly everything. "I was almost never who I said I was, or did what I claimed to be doing." He was a CIA spy. He thrived in an environment of duplicity and ambiguity, flourishing...
12. No Turning Back
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Breakwater Books Ltd
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2014
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English
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On a June night in 1980, the Linehan household in North Harbour went up in flames. In moments the fire consumed the family's ordinary, loving lives and innocent, human faith that life would always be as it was. Ida, the middle of three girls and one of ten siblings, survived the blaze only to endure weeks and months of treatment and recovery. Her only goal is to spare her family more pain, and she quietly promises herself never to quit and never to...
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Miss Fortune World
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2019
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English
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When a former Marine buddy goes missing in Seattle, Carter LeBlanc goes undercover to find out what happened and save his friend. Fortune flies to the Emerald City with him but when Carter discovers the level of danger involved, all he wants to do is protect her by sending her home. Instead of heading back to Sinful, Fortune enlists the aid of her friends, Ida Belle and Gertie, and conducts an independent investigation to help Carter without him knowing...
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Read Books Ltd
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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"A Woman's Journey Round the World" is an 1850 travel diary by Ida Pfeiffer of the first of her two trips around the world, chronicling her successful journeys to Brazil, Chile, China, India and more. Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858) was an Austrian travel writer, ethnographer, and explorer famous for being one of the first female travelers. She travelled over 270,000 kilometers by land and sea through the Americas, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and...
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J&R Fan Fiction
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Bayou Cozy Collection is a boxed set that is part of the Miss Fortune universe and J&R Fan Fiction. This collection includes the first six stories in the Bayou Cozy Romantic Thrills series. Bayou Valentine In the middle of the Louisiana Bayou, a hot date turns into a catastrophic nightmare when CIA agent-in-hiding Fortune Redding runs out of blind luck and comes face to face with a killer who has a million reasons to end her life. Bayou Halloween...
16. Sinful Dreams
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J&R Fan Fiction
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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Pepper Monroe needed a new life, she just didn't know it yet.Then her cousin Francine called to beg for help running the café in Sinful, Louisiana.Pepper recognized the request as a flashing neon sign to break out of her boring routine, so she hopped into her car and made the journey south to Sinful. She imagined spending days at the café while learning about the relaxed southern lifestyle from retirees Ida Belle and Gertie.However, Sinful isn't...
17. Freedom Heroines
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2013
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970L
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English
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Full-color series-six bios in one! Profiles is so much more than just your typical biography series. The next book in this six-in-one, full-color bio series will focus on Civil Champions--some of the incredible women who worked tirelessly to ensure equal rights for all. Kids will learn all of the biographical information they need to know--background, family, education, accomplishments, etc., about: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B....
18. The Third Act
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Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Flipping conventional retirement on its head, this beautifully illustrated book showcases and celebrates what people are doing after the job, kids, and an increasing longer middle age. Many people are experiencing the most productive and thrilling part of their lives past the age of 70. Third Act profiles more than sixty men and women who are redefining old age, who challenge the convention of retirement, and who inspire by their rich and various...
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D. M. Bourgeois, LLC
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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SURROUNDED BY LIES AND MISPERCEPTIONS...WILL THE TRUTH BE REVEALED? Tucked away in the small town of Lafitte, La., Fleming Cemetery is notorious for its local folklore and legendary ghost stories. Evan "E. R." Cortez, a game warden in Lafitte has been summoned to the Cemetery in the middle of the night by his partner Liam. When he arrives, Liam's not there and E. R. instead finds himself thrust into a web of deceit and misperceptions. He quickly...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2009
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English
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In this compulsive page-turner, six-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman blows the lid off one of Washington's deepest real-world secrets. The CIA, currently incapable of performing its core mission of supplying critical and time-sensitive human-based intelligence for the global war on terror, must now outsource the work to private contractors. Drawing on real-world crises and actual CIA operations, Direct Action takes readers deep...