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Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
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English
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4 stars
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A twisted tale told by Harley Quinn herself, as only Harley can tell it. When Gotham₂s most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis, and his zealous right-hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. Harley, Huntress, Black Canary and Renee Montoya's paths collide, and the unlikely foursome has no choice but to team up to take Roman down.
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Pub. Date:
2016
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most...
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Step into the glittering world of 1920s New York, where secrets lurk in every corner, and glamour hides danger. In The Canary Murder Case, the mysterious and captivating nightclub singer, Margaret Odell-known as "The Canary"-is brutally murdered in her own apartment. With a long list of wealthy and powerful admirers, each with a potential motive, unraveling the truth becomes a complex and perilous puzzle. Enter Philo Vance, the brilliant and debonair...
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Pub. Date:
2015
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant. Four years passed before their parents...
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Inspector Montalbano Mystery volume 23
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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2 stars
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"The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed a few hours later. A few days later, the same thing happens again. The only link between the two events is that both women are thirty years old and work...
12. Willy and May
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date:
1995
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English
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A girl who always looks forward to her visits with her Great-aunt May and May's canary Willy is terribly disappointed when she thinks she will not be able to see them one Christmas.
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Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: "The Tiredness of Rosabel", "At Lehmann's", "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding", "The Swing of the Pendulum", "The Woman at the Store", "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped", "Ole Underwood", "Millie", "Bains...
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Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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"In Victorian London, there's only so far an unmarried woman can go, and Betsey Dobson has relied on her wits and cunning to take herself as far as she can-- to a position as a typewriter girl. But still, Betsey yearns for something more-- so when she's offered a position as the excursions manager at a seaside resort, she knows this is her chance for security, for independence, for an identity forged by her own work and not a man's opinion. Underqualified...
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English
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5 stars
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"Madison Bettencourt has tried to assemble all the pieces of a perfect life, but nothing fits quite the way it should. She's moved back home to Montana to care for her grandmother, who is slipping further and further away. And she's called off her wedding, and worries her dreams of a family are fading with it. As Madison rattles around her family home, childhood memories come flooding back. Bliss Morgan transformed eight-year-old Madison with her...
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Gotham Academy volume 3 year
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DC Comics
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English
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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! A slew of comics' top writers and artists pay tribute to the coolest school in the DC Universe as GOTHAM ACADEMY ends its first semester with a bang! They faced magic, monsters and mayhem-along with quizzes, crushes and dining-hall food-but Olive, Maps and the rest of the Academy gang survived their first term at Gotham City's most prestigious school. Now it's time to look back by putting together their yearbook. But it wouldn't...
18. Dogs of summer
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My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands-a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer. High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an abject, oppressive heat. Far away from the island's posh resorts,...
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URLink Print & Media, LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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This book is from Canaries story of forgiveness.This book explains Feng's life. From his mother Rachel giving him up for adoption to the Feng family. To Feng growing up, and learning their ways and the Angelic. And working at a club with a friend named Angel. And gets into a hidden relationship, with a girl with family involved in a drug war.And he later becomes a target.
20. Fun and games
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Charlie Hardie volume 1
Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop still reeling from the revenge killing of his former partner's entire family, fears one thing above all else: that he'll suffer the same fate. Languishing in self-imposed exile, Hardie has become a glorified house sitter. His latest gig comes replete with an illegally squatting B-movie actress who rants about hit men who specialize in making deaths look like accidents. Unfortunately, it's the real deal. Hardie finds himself...
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