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"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"--
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"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...
3) Tragic
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2013.
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English
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District attorneys Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi work to expose the corrupt and murderous leader of the longshoremen's union.
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 6
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English
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detective J. P. Beaumont uncovers kickbacks and bribes in a Seattle iron worker's union, but his investigation may be curtailed by a long walk off a short I-beam.
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Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 14
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English
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"The murders of an ambitious Teamster and members of his family lands Chief Assistant D.A. Butch Karp on one of his most challenging cases--one that will threaten his own family with violence as he probes into big-city labor corruption."--from NoveList.
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[2017]
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English
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This Book Club in a Box is a book discussion kit which circulates for six weeks and contains everything you need to host your own book club.
When the union leaflets first come through the mill, Ella May has a taste of hope. But the mill owners claim the union is nothing but a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe. To maintain their control, the owners will use every means in their power. Inspired by actual events, Wiley Cash brings...
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