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"Ana and her husband, Lucho, along with their two young children, have fled the financial and political upheaval facing Peru in the twilight of the twentieth century, seeking a chance at a new life in New York City. When Lucho loses his job, his cousin proposes a tenuous offer of hospitality to the family. Despite the setback, Ana is intent on putting down roots, but she soon finds that her undocumented status significantly curtails her family's opportunities....

"In this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series, written by American Indian Youth Literature Honor-winning author Dawn Quigley (Ojibwe), and illustrated by artist Tara Audibert (Wolastoqey), the irrepressible Jo Jo is determined to learn how to be fancy before her aunts wedding, with her own particular flair. Filled with lots of glitter, raised pinkies, and humorous misunderstandings, this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series is filled with the...

"1944. Crystal City, Texas. Margot gave up everything to keep her family together. And now they are together -- imprisoned in the Crystal City family internment camp, worlds away from their German-American farm community in Iowa. But the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. As Margot watches her mother's health deteriorate and her loving, patriotic father turn into a man who fraternizes with Nazis, she wonders what more it will take...

New York Times number one bestselling author Jeffrey Archer is a master of the short-story form, creating classic tales beloved by his fans. Now the award-winning writer collects twenty of his most popular and fêted short stories in The Short, The Long and the Tall. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in love; and the pretentious schoolboy...

This study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in 65 counties, representing 2,500 counties across rural China and Taiwan. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the West....

Three of Keven Henkes mouse tales.

This true-crime police procedural is the riveting story of the racially-motivated serial killings that terrorized San Francisco from 1973 to 1974 and how they were solved. Code named the Zebra Murders, the case involved a series of random violent attacks by African-American men against whites, resulting in fifteen deaths. Author Prentice Earl Sanders, the SFPD's first African-American police chief and one of the lead detectives on the case, takes...

"For far too many of us, amassing wealth seems like a pipe dream. We assume that to become a "high net worth" individual -- someone who has over $1 million in liquid assets -- we'd need some mysterious combination of genius and luck. But what if you could solve this mystery? Long gone are the days when captains of industry such as John D. Rockefeller and Dale Carnegie dominated the economic arena. Today, the world's richest individuals are a diverse...

"Following her father's sudden death -- after having not heard from him for decades -- Ilka Jensen has impulsively abandoned her quiet life in Denmark to visit the rural Wisconsin town where he ran the local funeral home. There, she's devastated to discover her father's second family: a stepmother and two half sisters she never knew existed. Now a local woman has been killed, seemingly the unfortunate casualty of a home invasion turned violent. But...

Biographies of nine explorations, including examinations of their historical contexts, discussions of the participants lives, and quotations from the explorer's works.