Ann Bridges
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English
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California's government officials clash with unreasonable edicts from Washington DC over the state of its innovative, economic powerhouse headquartered in San Jose. Who will win this war of words? This story and accompanying lesson on critical thinking raises challenging questions about reading and interpreting narratives put forward in the media, by friends, and by final chroniclers of choices. A "devilishly clever" tall tale that will leave you...
2) Rare Mettle
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English
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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Coleman hires struggling public relations consultant Lynn Baker to accomplish his chance of a lifetime. Dreaming of a successful Wall Street IPO, he is unaware they are jumping into a morass of behind-the-scenes deal making threatening both their companies.
When a software bug delays their carefully crafted plans, they confront insiders' power plays from Manhattan to Beijing, and uncover turmoil and greed of unimagined...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Coleman hires struggling public relations consultant Lynn Baker to accomplish his chance of a lifetime. Dreaming of a successful Wall Street IPO, he is unaware they are jumping into a morass of behind-the-scenes deal making threatening both their companies.
When a software bug delays their carefully crafted plans, they confront insiders' power plays from Manhattan to Beijing, and uncover turmoil and greed of unimagined...
4) Kit's Mine
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English
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IN 1870 CALIFORNIA, THE GOLD RUSH LOSERS HAVE ACCEPTED THEIR FATE - OR HAVE THEY?
Five years after the American Civil War ended, Chinese women are imported and sold as slaves on the streets of San Francisco. Too many Californios, the native-born residents of Spanish-Mexican descent, fight for legal ownership of their ancestral property in a prejudicial world of land politics and dishonest lawyers.
Kit Lee never had the knack of controlling her destiny....
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd
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English
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From the clouds with ghostly faces in the Chisos Mountains to the spirits of the Alamo, follow in the footsteps of a "spirit magnet" as she takes a wild Western romp across haunted Texas and beyond. Meet Joshua's ghost in his creepy room in Mineral Wells and Sara, who is one of the most active spirits at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. Did phantom soldiers holding swords of fire really save the Alamo from destruction by the Mexicans? Is it really...