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"Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Describes the life of the children's book author and illustrator, conveying her life at Folly Cove, her love of dance, and how she was able to create images of machinery, including those used in her book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.
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Disney Book Group
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English
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Join Alice as she disappears down a rabbit hole one more time and emerges in the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! Curious happenings punctuate Alice's journey, including wild encounters with the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, the Jabberwocky, and many others! A novelization from the screenplay of Alice in Wonderland, the motion picture directed by Tim Burton.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Max Milligan, Guitar Institute (London) instructor and Senior Examiner for Registry of Guitar Tutors (London College of Music) shows you how to incorporate his techniques into your own style so you too will be able to play like Jeff Beck.
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BOOM! Studios
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2017
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English
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Before Amos Burton came aboard the Cant, he was a mechanic on the Belter ship the Nokota Sioux. When tensions between the crew become violent, Amos is knocked unconscious. In a surrealist deep dive in to his subconscious, Amos must revisit his harrowing past through a game show where the stakes are life or death.
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Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne return in a new series of wildly imaginative steampunk adventures.
SPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK!
It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment. Within moments, blood red snow falls from the sky and Spring Heeled Jack pops out of thin air in London's Leicester Square. Though utterly
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Prometheus Books
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2013
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English
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Burton & Swinburne return in a new series!
The Beast is coming. History will be remade. Since the assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840, a cabal of prominent men-including King George V, HRH Prince Albert, Benjamin Disraeli, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel-has received guidance from the Afterlife. The spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu El Yezdi, has helped them to steer the empire into a period of unprecedented peace and creativity.
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The Beast is coming. History will be remade. Since the assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840, a cabal of prominent men-including King George V, HRH Prince Albert, Benjamin Disraeli, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel-has received guidance from the Afterlife. The spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu El Yezdi, has helped them to steer the empire into a period of unprecedented peace and creativity.
But...
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HarperCollins
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2010
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English
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From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal letters and journals, and he and Schoenberger have also interviewed the Burton family at length, including...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Through memoir essays and magical practices, Grimoire Girl connects us to the enchantment that exists inside us all. Since childhood, Hilarie Burton Morgan has felt the call to record, keep, and catalogue life in all its strange wonder. It was a whimsical habit, with no clear goal. And then, when she became a mother, the importance of all that collecting snapped into focus. In an effort to patchwork together an anthology of traditions, curiosity,...
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Read Sally's story in this young adult sequel to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas written by New York Times bestselling Shea Ernshaw. Jack and Sally are "truly meant to be" ... or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams — if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town.
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2023.
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"Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a couple dozen remain. How and why did this happen? What has been lost--or possibly gained--by such a decline? What transpires when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream? In Moby Dyke, Krista Burton attempts...
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Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a "Pied-Noir, " the French term for Christian and Jewish settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother's death, Olivia found some of her grandmother's journals and letters describing her homeland. Now, ten years later, she resolves to travel to Algeria and experience the country for herself....
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In this issue of Videofashion Collections, native Californians Humberto Leon and Carol Lim look to the ocean and the L.A. underground music scene of their youth for their Spring 2014 collection for Kenzo. Citing early 20th century Picasso and Mondrian works as influences for her collection for Alexander McQueen, designer Sarah Burton sends a vision of a strong woman down the runway, in a show that was full of incredible detail. Plus, as a fan of the...
17) Empty: a memoir
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"Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is a relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent narrative of living with binge-eating disorder. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt, hostile divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film--has long been lost to the annals of history....
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Set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers, a story of courage and adventure brings to life the rivalry between two enemies--a decorated soldier and a young aristocrat/Army officer--as they set out to find the mysterious headwaters of the Nile River.
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