Reyna Grande

Slight wear on back cover and corners. A few lines are highlighted from previous owner.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

A Memoir

Traces the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.

The Distance Between Us

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Cosentino

Jack Heath

The Mysterious World of Cosentino

Dangling on a burning rope while chained above a tank full of hungry sharks . . . there's only one hero who can beat those odds . . . COSENTINO, THE GRAND ILLUSIONIST!

Rabbit Rescue

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Dav Pilkey

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

George and Harold are forced to contemplate a world without Captain Underpants.

Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers

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Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees

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Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

A gripping historical true crime narrative that "reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself" (Karen Abbott, author of The Ghosts of Eden Park), American Sherlock recounts the riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation.

Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural.

Heinrich was one of the nation's first expert witnesses, working in a time when the turmoil of Prohibition led to sensationalized crime reporting and only a small, systematic study of evidence. However with his brilliance, and commanding presence in both the courtroom and at crime scenes, Heinrich spearheaded the invention of a myriad of new forensic tools that police still use today, including blood spatter analysis, ballistics, lie-detector tests, and the use of fingerprints as courtroom evidence. His work, though not without its serious--some would say fatal--flaws, changed the course of American criminal investigation.

Based on years of research and thousands of never-before-published primary source materials, American Sherlock captures the life of the man who pioneered the science our legal system now relies upon--as well as the limits of those techniques and the very human experts who wield them.

Annie Bench

@annieb

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