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62) Killer cuts
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian Mysteries
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helen Hawthorne's latest dead-end job is in Miguel Angel's Fort Lauderdale hair salon, where a trim can cost as much as a car payment and a blowout can wipe you out. But when one of the salon's most famous clients, gossip blogger and cable-TV show host Kingman 'King' Oden is murdered at his own wedding, things get a little hairy and King becomes the prime suspect. To save her boss--and her job--Helen is determined to find the murderer. When she finds...
Author
Publisher
Colorado Historical Society
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
The Colorado Historical Society periodically publishes "Essays and Monographs in Colorado History" to provide a flexible scholarly forum for well-written, documented manuscripts on the history of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalocks African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and...
67) Helen Keller
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and contributions of an individual who helped shape world history.
71) Mother to tigers
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
72) Annie and Helen
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, and how Annie helped Helen learn to speak and write. Presents information about brail and sign language.
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shhh...in the newest hardcover in the national bestselling Dead-End Job Mystery series, Helen Hawthorne quietly goes undercover at a local library to search for a missing masterpiece. Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father. After his death, many of Davis Cateman's books were donated to the Flora Park library, and his daughter suspects the small watercolor-worth...
Author
Publisher
NewSage Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1988, at the age of 50, Helen Thayer became the first woman in the world to travel on foot to the magnetic North Pole, one of the world's most remote and dangerous regions. Her only companion was Charlie, her loyal husky, who was integral to her survival. Polar Dream is the story of their heroic trek and extraordinary relationship as they faced polar bears, unimaginable cold, and a storm that destroyed most of their supplies and food. A new epilogue,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Though Helen Keller became deaf and blind after a childhood illness in 1882, she grew up to be a renowned author, activist, and speaker. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller overcame major obstacles in her life and used them to become an advocate for those experiencing discrimination and hardship. This inspiring biography uses Keller's own words as a primary source, so that readers can better know and understand this amazing woman...
Author
Publisher
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Born and raised in the Bronx and recruited to play football at Mississippi State, Morris Cohen fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and with the U.S. Army in World War II. He and his wife, Lona, were as American as football and fried chicken, but for one detail: they'd spent their entire adult lives stealing American military secrets for the Soviet Union. And not just any military secrets, but a complete working plan of the first atomic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This biography examines the life of Helen Keller using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical and contemporary images and photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Keller's family background, childhood, education, and time as a world-renowned activist and speaker. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index....
80) Uneasy lies
Author
Series
Helen Keremos mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
©1990
Language
English
Description
Helen Keremos takes a job as head of security in a large, urban condominium. It seems like an easy way to make a living to Helen; that is, until the body of an environmental activist turns up!
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