Beth Macy
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts"--
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"The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
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Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
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x, 451 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
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1 online resource
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-- New York Times -- New York Times Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy sets out to answer a grieving mother's question-why her only son died-and comes away with a gripping, unputdownable story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy investigates the powerful forces that led America's doctors and patients...
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Masters of misinformation trap the team in a swirl of misdirection
Elda Ainsworth, an ex-Navy, ex-Cold War spy, semi-retired and living peacefully on the Coast of Maine is reactivated and joins with her old adversary, Toshchiy Chelovek, and his favorite assassin, Anatoly Petrov, as well as Tosh's fem-fatale niece, Snezhana Chelovek.
Elda and Tosh combine members from Russia, America and Britain to build a crack team of cyber-sleuths, assassins and...
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They are masters in the covert world of spies and assassins.
Elda Ainsworth cut her teeth as a spy in the Cold War. Currently semiretired, she has been activated by the American government to extract her friend Korinna Federov, a Russian translator for the Kremlin. Elda's background as a military analyst, personal trainer, and psychologist makes her a formidable opponent.
Trained by the KGB, Anatoly Petrov was born to be a killing machine. Anatoly's...