Michael West
1) Spider's Web
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This is a touching story about two teenagers leaving their homeland of Mexico to pursue their dream in America.
They fall into the web of insurance scammers who want to take their lives to acquire insurance dividends of millions of dollars.
The kids retaliate by killing their enemies, destroying their syndicate, and returning to their homeland to realize their dream in their own country of Mexico.
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There's a time to run, and a time to pick up a gun. Especially in the City of Angels, where the police are at war with the Stay Ready Soldiers, a militant group based in South Central. Tonight, Geronimo and Kali must, rely on each other as they traverse a perilous concrete wasteland, dodging bullets every step of the way.
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CHESS
This book aims to serve as a beginner's guide to playing Chess. Inside, you will learn everything you need to know to become a proficient Chess player.
This book begins with the basics, such as the rules, what movements each Chess piece is allowed to make, and how Chess notation works.
After that, you will learn about the three different stages of a chess match, as well as specific and proven strategies you can implement in...
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Teeny Templeton mysteries volume 1
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Teeny Templeton believes that her life is finally on track,. She's getting married, she's baking her own wedding cake, and she's leaving her troubled past behind. And then? She finds her fiancee playing naked badminton with a couple of gorgeous, skanky chicks. Needless to say the wedding is off. Adding insult to injury, her fiancee slaps a restraining order on her. When he's found dead a few days later, all fingers point to Teeny.
5) Crazy ladies
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A lively multigenerational tale of six charming, unforgettable Southern women--a story of love and laughter, pain and redemption. Though she was born in Tennessee, Miss Gussie is no country fool. A woman who can handle any situation, she has her hands full with her two headstrong daughters who happen to be complete opposites -- dour Dorothy and sweet Clancy Jane. Hoping money will heal childhood wounds, Dorothy marries the owner of a five-and-dime,...
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Teeny Templeton mysteries volume 2
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Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton witnesses a murder that reveals that her boyfriend Coop O'Malley may be the father of the victim's ten-year-old daughter.
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"Deliciously zany novel of Southern discomfort. - Redbook Magazine
West has a knack for realistic and engaging characters. This charming tale will keep readers wanting to know more about the inhabitants of Point Clear. - Library Journal (starred review)
Southern belles hell-bent on belated truth-telling in West's latest wacky outing... . the belles's barbed commentary never fails to entertain - Kirkus Reviews
"An engaging tale that skips from...
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Tracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence, Michael O. West shows how some Africans were able to avail themselves of scarce educational and social opportunities in order to achieve some degree of upward mobility in a society that was hostile to their ambitions. Though relatively few in number and not rich by colonial standards, this comparatively better-off class of...
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Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness. At its core, black internationalism is a struggle against oppression, whether manifested in slavery, colonialism, or racism. The ten essays in this volume offer a comprehensive overview of the global movements that define black internationalism, from its origins in...
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2003.
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Describes the miraculous breakthroughs scientists have made in the past decade and dispels the many myths and misunderstandings surrounding stem cell research and therapeutic cloning, offering a window into the astonishing potential of regenerative medicine to extend the human life span and cure disease. Annotation. The extraordinary story of the breakthrough discoveries in cell aging, stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning, and the tremendous...
14) Oliver Twist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense...