Beth Macy
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Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question -- why her only son died -- and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm....
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xxvi, 373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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In her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts. Nearly a decade into...
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x, 420 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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Beth Macy, master chronicler of life in the South, combines exhaustive research, exclusive interviews and sources, and attention to detail in this riveting American story about race, greed, and a mother's love. George and Willie Muse from Truevine, Virginia were two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and set on a path of events that would forever change their...
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x, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales losses to cheap Asian furniture imports.
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Masters of misinformation trap the team in a swirl of misdirection
Elda Ainsworth, an ex-Navy, ex-Cold War spy, semi-retired and living peacefully on the Coast of Maine is reactivated and joins with her old adversary, Toshchiy Chelovek, and his favorite assassin, Anatoly Petrov, as well as Tosh's fem-fatale niece, Snezhana Chelovek.
Elda and Tosh combine members from Russia, America and Britain to build a crack team of cyber-sleuths, assassins and...
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Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, United Kingdom, adventure, Moscow Nights Series, Moscow Nights BooksBoots on the ground, they compete with an electronic world.
Elda Ainsworth is again pitted against her old Russian Cold War rival, Toshchiy Chelovek, "Tosh," and his expanded team that includes her old adversaries, Tosh's niece, Snezhana Chelovek, and the assassin, Anatoly Petrov. Elda brings in resources from the US and UK to help her...
7) Moscow Moles
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Moscow Moles joins Moscow Nights Return, Moscow Misdirection and Moscow Madness as the fourth espionage thriller in the Moscow Nights Series. Through the eyes of spies and assassins from Russia, America and the United Kingdom, the reader travels to London, Wales, DC, New York City, and Mexico.
The book opens in the middle of the Russian-Ukrainian war, with the protagonist, Charlie Burlamachi, having dispensed with a double agent and traitor. Charlie...
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They are masters in the covert world of spies and assassins.
Elda Ainsworth cut her teeth as a spy in the Cold War. Currently semiretired, she has been activated by the American government to extract her friend Korinna Federov, a Russian translator for the Kremlin. Elda's background as a military analyst, personal trainer, and psychologist makes her a formidable opponent.
Trained by the KGB, Anatoly Petrov was born to be a killing machine. Anatoly's...
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xiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Inspired by Garden & Gun magazine's popular Good Dog column, [this is a] collection of true stories celebrating the unique relationship between humans and their canine companions, penned by some of today's top writers, including Jon Meacham, Roy Blount, Jr, Dominique Browning, and P.J. O'Rourke"--Amazon.com.