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Intrepid feline Sneaky Pie Brown is taking time off from her busy schedule writing bestselling mysteries to run for President of the United States. Hail to the Chief: Sneaky Pie heads to the Oval Office with an animal-friendly agenda to unify all Americans-regardless of whether they walk on two or four feet or even if they fly. With help from her friends, Sneaky crisscrosses her home state of Virginia hoping to go where no cat since Socks Clinton...
25) Virginia
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Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Welcome to Virginia! Let Remi show you around the state where she lives. Learn about her state’s flag, bird, and flower. Find out her favorite activities too!"--
27) Hiss & tell
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"When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw in this exciting holiday mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Christmas is coming and Harry's to-do list is a mile long. The days are filled with delivering holiday baskets to neighbors in need, chopping down the perfect tree with her best friend,...
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Scribner
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"Onlookers is an astute new story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways. Peaceful Charlottesville, Virginia, drew national attention when white nationalists held a rally there in 2017, a horrific event whose repercussions are still felt today. Confederate monuments such as General Robert E. Lee atop his horse were then still standing. The statues are a constant presence and a metaphoric refrain...
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Styron's novels--such as Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice--have established him as a writer of international stature. Here he traces the betrayals, spite and disappointed love that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis.
32) As brave as you
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English
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"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
35) West Virginia
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Details the geography, government, history, and culture of West Virginia.
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Seal Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"While Confederate statues are brought down across the country, America is reckoning with its tumultuous past and the legacy of the darker chapters of our history. In The Devil's Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of deep research to tell the extraordinary hidden story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who sought freedom and lit a path for liberation for thousands more. Enslaved and separated from her...
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2021.
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"An irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella, inspired by Black lives in America and featuring the gripping eponymous work "My Monticello.""--
Johnson's characters traverse Virginia's landscapes, still stained by some of America's most heinous acts, in pursuit of a place to call home. In each story, she reveals intimate moments within the nation's multitudes, featuring unforgettable characters who struggle...
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University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"This book tracks state government policies topically, from health care to education to gun reform and more, making the case that true political change happens in state legislatures. Largely covering policy developments from the past ten years, with Virginia a prominent case study based on Toscano's own experiences, it is engaged in current topics, including COVID, and is a call to action"--
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