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Twelve years ago, the master thief known as the Queen of Diamonds, head of one of the largest black-market organizations in the universe, disappeared. When she returns to the world she once knew, she discovers that her entire empire has turned into something horrifyingly unrecognizable in her absence.
The underworld organization she had so carefully created all those years ago has now been taken over by a band of vicious assassins who now rule their...
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After the father of Ava's best friend, Mimi, loses his family's savings in a Ponzi scheme, Mimi turns to her old friend for help. Ava launches an investigation that sends her from Amsterdam to Antwerp and then to Singapore.
As she tracks the money, Ava is reminded of an old case she worked with Uncle years before that took her to Singapore for the first time. In her mind, the two cases begin to merge, and as they do, Uncle becomes visible to Ava,...
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Working at Miami's Queen of Diamonds gentleman's club to support herself until turning twenty-one, Desirae discovers her talent for rap music and becomes famous seemingly overnight, before her success is threatened by a rival newcomer and a friend's brutal murder.
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"Winner of the 1994 Harry J. Benda Prize, Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies" "Honorable Mention for the 1994 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994" Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is coeditor, with Faye Ginsburg,...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2015.
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First edition.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A picture book biography about Lizzie Murphy, the first woman to play in a major league exhibition game and the first person to play on both the New England and American leagues' all-star teams.
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Celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years as Canada's monarch in 2012. This fully up-to-date book captures the excitement, the majesty, and the pageantry of the spectacular events that have allowed her subjects to celebrate and share their admiration for their Queen in her Diamond Jubilee year. This book recalls the many key moments of Jubilee year, including The Queen and Prince Philip's nationwide...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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For sixty years Queen Elizabeth II has reigned as the Queen of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Her reign has seen three different generations look upon her as one of the two young Princesses, then the reliant Queen of a changing Empire, to now, a stately grandmother of the two Princes, William and Harry. Queen Elizabeth II has witnessed incredible social, political and cultural change in her reign, all while retaining the purpose and dignity of...
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EIIR Queen Elizabeth II, 60 Years a Queen, A Very Peculiar History' uniquely explores the life and times of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as we approach her 2012 Diamond Jubilee. The story that unfolds is one of doughty determination - the story of a young monarch who finds herself thrust into a new world of relentless public exposure, whose own family turns out to be as frail as everyone else's, but who somehow, for a full 60 years and counting,...
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In 1785, a sensational trial began in Paris that would divide the country and captivate Europe. A leading Catholic cardinal and scion of one of the most distinguished families in France stood accused of forging the queen's signature to obtain the most expensive piece of jewelry in Europe: a 2,800-carat diamond necklace. Where were the diamonds? Was the cardinal innocent? Was, for that matter, the queen? The revelations from the trial would bedevil...
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Power, pageantry, and pride
Queen Victoria ruled the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, covering one fourth of the earth's land surface, reigning over subjects on every continent, and exercising undisputed mastery of the oceans in between. She was the "Grandmother of Europe," with descendants occupying the thrones of half a dozen nations, and more to come. The very era in which she lived already bore her name. In June 1897, her proud and...
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Royal watchers rejoice! Three indispensable books from distinguished royal journalists Annie Bullen and Brian Hoey have been gathered into this special bundle covering three historic milestones of the British Crown. Includes: The Coronation: A Royal History The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year: A Royal Souvenir William & Catherine: A Royal Wedding Souvenir
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Naomi had the perfect life. A successful Dallas businesswoman and the Diamond Queen of QVC, her life is upended by the deaths of her parents, sending her into a place so dark that even the diamonds have lost their shine. Naomi is in a vortex of despair until, guided by providence, she sets off on a transformative trek across the country to a renowned retreat center in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Dancing Full Tilt in the Light bears witness...
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Celia Lowe is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
Wild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations...
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