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In this courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, a young lawyer and single mother brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' Constitutional rights.
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2022.
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When Marshal Virgil Cole's feisty niece Rose McMaster comes to Appaloosa asking for help investigating the mysterious death of her husband, and he and Everett Hitch uncover a large-scale opium operation, an embezzlement scheme, and a serious threat to Rose's well-being.
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"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitiousand entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
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Thorndike Press
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2024.
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"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust havegiven rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more...
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