Despite her education and training, Charlotte Justice has concluded that being a black female in the Los Angeles Police Department is no day at the beach. Instead, the elite homicide detective's days are filled with incompetence, bigotry, and the mayhem of the streets.
First, Charlotte confronts the work of a self-styled "angel of mercy" that her colleagues helped convict . . . and who may have an active accomplice still at large. And now she faces the baffling case of Maynard Duncan, a pioneering African American film director and community activist who was all but forgotten--until he was found dead in his elegant Hancock Park home. Was it an accident, murder, or suicide--by his own hand or with assistance?
As Charlotte unravels Duncan's tangled web of relationships--family, friends, business associates, and secret liaisons--she finds herself on a journey from Hollywood myth to L.A. reality. It's a journey where Charlotte must risk everything--her career, her relationships, even her life--to hunt down a murderer hell-bent on exacting the ultimate revenge. . . .
"From the Trade Paperback edition.
Build-A-Bear Workshop: Princess Bear
Princess Bear wants to celebrate her bearthday in style with tasty treats, dazzling decorations, and fabulous festivities. But when she can't get home in time to prepare, she's afraid her special day will be ruined.
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Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide by Lucy Rollin, ISBN 0313302235
Decade by decade, this resource offers an overview of all aspects of American teenagers' lives from 1900 to 1999, as they evolved through the century. Using a variety of sources from sociological studies to popular magazines, this work shows how teens have responded to the political events that have characterized each decade. It also describes the patterns that have affected their home, work, and school lives, patterns of dating and sex, trends in alcohol and drug use, teen tastes in books and movies, and use of slang and fashion. Seventy illustrations make the personalities, interests, and media of each decade come alive for students of history, literature, and popular culture.
Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide by Lucy Rollin, ISBN 0313302235
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Fern the Green Fairy
Fairyland is home to the seven colorful Rainbow Fairies. When evil Jack Frost sends them far away, the fairy sisters are in big trouble. A garden maze just might lead to Fern the Green Fairy. Full color.
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Whispers by Belva Plain, ISBN 0440216745
Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in an exclusive Connecticut community. Robert is on the fast track of a major corporation. Lynn is devoted to her family and good works. But the Fergusons' closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must keep from the world -- and her children -- at any cost.
Not even the Fergusons' best friends, Josie and Bruce Lehman, know of Lynn's shame. Social worker Josie sees her bruises and suspects the real cause of the children's increasingly disturbed behavior. But not even Josie can pierce Lynn's wall of silence, a wall that will not crumble until Lynn is forced to face herself -- and the truth -- at last.
Belva Plain's searing novel of a family's heartbreak, a woman's courage -- and of a subject too often talked about only in whispers.
Whispers by Belva Plain, ISBN 0440216745
Worth
Nathaniel is injured, so his father brings home a boy named John Worth from the Orphan Train to help on the farm. While Nathaniel feels jealous of Worth, who has taken his place and garnered his father's attention, Worth mourns his family and his dream of an education.
Worth
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