Joan Steinau Lester
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Black, White, Other
- By: Joan Steinau Lester
- Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blink
- Publish date: August 23, 2011
- Language: English
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“The tenderness and truth of the book moved my heart. As well as the enormous love.” – Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple Joan Steinau Lester‚Äôs newest book looks that the emotional and social... Read more
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Mama’s Child
- By: Joan Steinau Lester
- Narrator: Joan Steinau Lester
- Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 27, 2013
- Language: English
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A stunning tale about the deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter. Mama’ s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with... Read more
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Factory 19
We’re told that the future will be brighter. But what if human happiness really lies in the past?
Hobart, 2022: a city with a declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbor and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA.
One day the city’s residents are awoken by a ...
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Sinatra
Taraborrelli is known for capturing and penning the untold stories of icons such as the Hiltons, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Diana Ross and the Kennedys and has written a page-turning biography of an extremely talented, sometimes troubled, always fascinating man: the one and only Frank Sinatra. In 1997, Taraborrelli’s bestselling Sinatra: Behind the Legend captivated audiences with a ...
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Murder on an Irish Farm
In USA Today bestselling author Carlene O’Connor’s eighth Irish Village Mystery, the long-engaged garda of County Cork, Ireland, Siobhan O’Sullivan and Macdaras Flannery, are about to get married at last. But just as the rowdy O’Sullivan brood and all the regulars of the local bistro have gathered at the church, the nuptials come to an abrupt halt when the discovery of an unidentified ...
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Night of the Howling Dogs
Graham Salisbury has received numerous high-profile accolades from the ALA, VOYA, and several parent organizations. A Junior Library Guild Premier election, Night of the Howling Dogs is a rousing adventure set in Hawaii. On a Boy Scout trip, Dylan is looking forward to camping out at the foot of the Puu Kapukapu volcano. But when an earthquake strikes, Dylan is forced to team up with a bully ...
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Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar
Pete the Cat meets a super-cool caterpillar in the first Pete the Cat Level 1 I Can Read tale from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator James Dean!
Pete thinks he found a new best friend. But when his caterpillar goes missing, Pete has to find out what happened to his new friend. Pete is in for one wild surprise at the end!
Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar is a Level I Can Read book ...
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Queen of the Darkness
Jaenelle Angelline now reigns as Queen-protector of the Shadow Realm. No longer will the corrupt Blood slaughter her people and defile her lands. But where one chapter ends, a final, unseen battle remains to be written, and Jaenelle must unleash the terrible power that is Witch to destroy her enemies once and for all. Even so, she cannot stand alone. Somewhere, long lost in madness, is Daemon, ...
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Norse Mythology
Introducing an instant classic–master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a ...
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Purrfect Murder
There’s something special about Max. He may look like your regular ginger flabby tabby, but unlike most tabbies, he can actually communicate with his human, reporter for the Hampton Cove Gazette Odelia Poole. Max takes a keen interest in the goings-on in their small town, by snooping around with his best friends Dooley, a not-too-bright ragamuffin, and Harriet, a gorgeous white Persian. Their ...
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The Displacements
“Hypnotic.” – New York Times
“Cinematic.” – USA Today
“I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful.” – Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“A full-throttle page turner.”– Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace
An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented ...
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The Heir and the Spare
An evil princess, a ruthless persecutor, a wretched match.Tormented at home and bullied during her studies abroad, second-born Iona of Wessett hides in the quiet corners of her father’s castle. Her art and music provide refuge, but her cruel sister Lisenn ever lurks like a monster stalking its prey.Such has been her life for twenty years.However, a promise of reprieve and retribution arrives ...
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