Mark Bramhall
1) Grant
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English
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"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
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English
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"Out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what true grit really meant. With rowers who were the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington's eight-oar crew was never expected to defeat the elite East Coast teams, yet they did, going on to shock the world by challenging the German boat rowing for...
3) Bad country
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Rodeo Garnet lives in a remote corner of Arizona known as the Hole. He doesn't get many visitors, but a body found near his home has drawn police attention to him. The victim is a member of one of the local Indian tribes. Rodeo doesn't have much choice but to say yes when offered an unusual case. An elderly Indian woman has hired him to find who murdered her grandson, but she seems strangely uninterested in the results. As Rodeo pursues the case he's...
4) Echo
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Historical Fiction - MID
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
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Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
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McKinney March Madness
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Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.