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|  | | Assata Shakur: A 20th Century Escaped Slave
Assata Shakur was the first woman to be listed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List. In spite of numerous appeals from the US Government for her extradition from Cuba where she now lives, Assata Shakur continues to be a voice throughout the world. Assata Shakur: A 20th Century Escaped Shave is her story.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In May 1973, Assata Olugbala Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in which she was accused of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and assaulting Trooper James Harper. This resulted in her indictment of first-degree murder of Foerster and seven other felonies related to the shootout. A member of the Black Panther Party, she became a prime target of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Counterintelligence Program. When she joined the Black Liberation Army and went | |  | | Just Like Family
Given "Special Recognition" by the 7-Eleven Corporation.
Captivated by four elderly people who decide to buy an old house to live in, Hallie Marsh soon discovers what is really important in her own life.
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w:LidThemeOther>EN-US/w:L | |  | | Kathryn Kelly: The Moll behind Machine Gun Kelly
The 1930’s produced some of the most violent crimes known in the history of the United States. Fed by need and greed during the era of Prohibition, some of the notorious criminals included women, one of which became a legend in her own right for establishing the feared persona of her husband—Machine Gun Kelly. Her name: Kathryn.
i>span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kathryn Kelly: The Moll Behind Machine Gun Kelly/span>/i>span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is a biography of the woman who made a career of crime. With a lust for danger, she masterminded the crimes that took her and her husband, and others who included her own mother and step-father, on a spree across Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas. Starting with smaller crimes that included bootlegging, smuggling liquor onto an Oklahoma Indian reservation, and robbery, the seriousness of their criminal activity escalated into kidnapping and extortion. Some beli | |  | | Shyla's Initiative
Winner of an IPPY Award in the Gothic Romance category!
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Thirty-five-year-old novelist, Shyla Wishon, fears that her life is spinning out of control since her recent marriage to Carl Cores. First, her overbearing new mother-in-law moves from New Jersey to Florida to be close to her son, followed by a steady stream of visiting relatives who become a constant intrusion on what was once her time to write. To make matters worse, Carl’s two grown daughters refuse to have anything to do with her, his former wife is still making demands, and even though Carl has a good job, bills are starting to | |  | | The Cadence of Gypsies
Winner of the 2013 IPPY Living Now Award for Best Adventure Novel
Gypsies and the Voynich Manuscript, the most mysterious document in the world, take three highly-gifted orphans on a journey beyond anything they could imagine.
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w:LidThemeOther>EN-US/w:L | |  | | The Clock Flower
Mackenzie finds herself facing a terrifying death from the blood-dripping teeth of an ancient evil dragon. Her best friends, the FIGs and Carolina, rely on their own unique genius and special talents to save her as she discovers the truth of her birth parents.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The three FIGs—Females of Intellectual Genius—as they are called, have graduated from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women after returning from New York City where Dara learned why her mother abandoned her all those years ago, and they are now attending universities where they can further their special talents. This means they will be separated from each other and from Carolina, their much-loved mentor and teacher who is “one of them,” for the first time in their young lives. T | |  | | The Coach's Wife
Illegal drugs, illicit affairs, murder, and scandal that shakes the entire university system are woven inextricably into Marla Connors’ life until eventually she comes face to face with her real tormentor. It is only then that she realizes the full depth of her love for her husband--and his love for her.
There has probably never been a time when I didn't enjoy sports on some level. As a young child it was with the innocence and wide-eyed excitement that goes hand-in-hand with competing and winning a prize. When I married Willis Casey, however, my enjoyment and appreciation of sports, especially collegiate sports, took on a totally new and deeper meaning. I could no longer be satisfied to just sit on the sidelines and cheer. I quickly became aware that there were other factors involved in the so-called game of sports--factors that played | |  | | The Gospel According to Prissy
Winner of 2013 IPPY Award
Three Army veteran misfits, a college dropout, an unmotivated high school graduate accused of murder, a controversial warden of a women's prison, and a little girl with the gift of prophesy – these are the people 31-year-old Lara Kruger invites into her life after suffering a miscarriage, a divorce from an abusive husband, and unemployment.
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Considered for a Pulitzer nomination.
Enter the world of bestselling publishing, fi lled with intrigue,
power, betrayal, ambition and greed. Yet for Aislinn Marchánt it
represents the attainment of a life’s dream, a point of destiny, as
she is caught up in the storm that is the House of Kane.
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w:LidThemeOther>EN-US/w:LidT | |  | | The Nightjar's Promise
As Carolina and the three F.I.G.s search for “The Nightjar’s Promise” and the truth surrounding it, they come face to face with evil that threatens to destroy not only their genius, but their very lives.
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Encountering a dark hidden society and sub culture more dangerous and terrifying than they could have imagined, it is there that Dara learns why she was abandoned as a seven year old in a candy store all those years ago.
span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seventeen-year-old Dara Roux and her two best friends, Mackenzie Yarborough and Jennifer Torres, the three collectively referred to as the FIGs (Females of Intellectual Genius) because each has an intelligence quotient in the genius range, have just returned from Frascati, Italy. It was there that their much loved teacher and mentor, Carolina Lovel, discovered that her birth parents were gypsies, and that she had a connection to the Voynich Manuscript, the most mysterious document in the world. Now, with graduation from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy fo | |  | | The Wish Rider
Book 2 in The F.I.G. Mystery Series takes the FIGs to the bowels of Grand Central Station in search of Dara's mother. It is there they discover a hidden society and sub-culture more dangerous and terrifying than they could have imagined.
When she learns that her mother is still alive, seventeen-year-old Dara Roux and her two best friends, Mackenzie Yarborough and Jennifer Torres, the three collectively referred to as the FIGs (Females of Intellectual Genius), along with Carolina, their favorite teacher and mentor, travel to New York City in an attempt to find her and learn why Dara was abandoned in a candy store all those years ago. All the young women have to work with are five addresses, and when Mackenzie prepares a grid showing the locations of all five addresses, four of the locations form a square with the fifth in th | |  | | Velvalee Dickinson: The Doll Woman Spy
The date was January 21, 1944—a Friday; and Velvalee Malvena Dickinson had become the first American woman to face the death penalty on charges of spying for a wartime enemy.
span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Small-boned, petite—no more than 5 feet tall, if that, and weighing less than 100 pounds, Velvalee Malvena Dickinson hurried into the Midtown Manhattan bank. She feared that the FBI was watching her, and her immediate mission was to remove the contents of her safety deposit box in case she needed to make a quick escape./span>
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