Beth Macy
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English
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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2016.
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English
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Beth Macy, master chronicler of life in the South, combines exhaustive research, exclusive interviews and sources, and attention to detail in this riveting American story about race, greed, and a mother's love. George and Willie Muse from Truevine, Virginia were two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and set on a path of events that would forever change their...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. As pending court battles against opioid makers, distributors, and retailers drag on, addiction rates have soared to record-breaking levels during the COVID pandemic, illustrating the critical need for leadership, urgency, and change. Meanwhile, there is scant consensus between law enforcement and medical leaders,...
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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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Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, United Kingdom, adventure, Moscow Nights Series, Moscow Nights BooksBoots on the ground, they compete with an electronic world.
Elda Ainsworth is again pitted against her old Russian Cold War rival, Toshchiy Chelovek, "Tosh," and his expanded team that includes her old adversaries, Tosh's niece, Snezhana Chelovek, and the assassin, Anatoly Petrov. Elda brings in resources from the US and UK to help her...
7) Moscow Moles
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Moscow Moles joins Moscow Nights Return, Moscow Misdirection and Moscow Madness as the fourth espionage thriller in the Moscow Nights Series. Through the eyes of spies and assassins from Russia, America and the United Kingdom, the reader travels to London, Wales, DC, New York City, and Mexico.
The book opens in the middle of the Russian-Ukrainian war, with the protagonist, Charlie Burlamachi, having dispensed with a double agent and traitor. Charlie...
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English
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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...