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Brad Ricca
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OLIVE is out!
OLIVE is officially out on shelves and e-readers and 0 .
audio versions and . . . I guess that's it, but that's a lot. For those who have purchased the book or listened to it or put in a request from the library, I wanted to thank you.
OLIVE has been a long journey to write and is the most personal book I've ever written, even though I'm not very much in it. I wrote it during preschool in a coffee Read more of this blog post »
audio versions and . . . I guess that's it, but that's a lot. For those who have purchased the book or listened to it or put in a request from the library, I wanted to thank you.
OLIVE has been a long journey to write and is the most personal book I've ever written, even though I'm not very much in it. I wrote it during preschool in a coffee Read more of this blog post »
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
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Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--the Creators of Superman
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Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey to the Heart of Africa
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2020
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American Mastodon
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2011
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"This is one of the most brilliantly written books I’ve ever read, about a truly incredible woman. Others have said Grace Humiston was “ahead of her time,” but I think that barely scratches the surface of a woman whose strength, determination, intelle"
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"This book is about two people: 1) Grace Humiston--a lawyer/detective; and 2) Ruth Cruger--a girl that was reported missing in Harlem in 1917. (It says so right in the title!) And as two SEPARATE people with two SEPARATE stories, I think the author di"
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"I enjoyed this book, more than I thought I would. It was a little scattered in its telling, with a lot of jumping around between cases and stories. Not all of the cases had satisfying endings, but bearing in mind this is a work of non-fiction, I supp"
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“Think for yourself...Be an inquirer--make no assertion unless you can support it by reason." (pg. 26)”
― Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
― Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
“She [Grace Humiston] thought that law school graduates as a whole "were like too many carrots in a row--they crowd and crush one another, and nobody grows very big. But the women who transplant themselves into new fields grow like everything. (pg. 133)”
― Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
― Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
“all the world was a neighborhood. (pg. 133)”
― Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
― Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
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