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Shontel Stanford

Essie & The Black Swan (The Adventures of Essie)

Essie, a young black ballerina, dreams of dancing as gracefully as a swan. As she navigates the challenges of ballet class, she discovers the importance of embracing her own unique style and heritage. Through determination and perseverance, Essie learns that true beauty comes from within, and she sh...

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Deborah DeShields

Essie Mae Potter And Her Woodland Friends

Essie Mae Potter And Her Woodland Friends is a collection of short stories promoting friendship, love, and caring support....

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¡Essie! ¿Otra vez? / Again, Essie? (Spanish Bilingual Edition) (Storytelling Math)

Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling! ¡Celebremos la diversidad, las matemáticas y el poder del cuento! Rafael wants to protect his toys from his little sister, Essie. Gathering materials from around the house, he builds a wall tall enough and wide enough to keep her out. B...

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Essie Rose's Revelation Summer

“There are so many things I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.” What happens when the lone Jewish girl in a small Mississippi town challenges the rules of segregation in the hot summer of 1953? Essie Rose Ginsberg, writer, loner, and all-time worrier, is hoping for a carefree summer vacation. But when the famil...

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Michelle Muriel

#1 Amazon bestseller. Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Winner Best Southern Fiction. A sweeping, moving historical novel set before the Civil War about secrets, freedom, and the power of love. Growing up in the Deep South during the years leading to the Civil War, two young girls find freedom on a hil...

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¡Essie! ¿Otra vez? / Again, Essie? (Spanish Bilingual Edition) (Storytelling Math)

Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling! ¡Celebremos la diversidad, las matemáticas y el poder del cuento! Rafael wants to protect his toys from his little sister, Essie. Gathering materials from around the house, he builds a wall tall enough and wide enough to keep her out. B...

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Anitra Butler-Ngugi

Essie and the March on Selma: A Bloody Sunday Survival Story (Girls Survive)

Twelve-year-old Essie believes that Black people should be allowed to vote, and she's willing to march for that right. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, she puts on her best dress to join protesters as they plan to visit the governor in Montgomery, Alabama. But as the 600 marchers approach the Edmund Pettis...

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Essie's Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher (American Indian Lives)

This is the spirited story of Esther Burnett Horne, an accomplished and inspiring educator in Indian boarding schools. Born in 1909, Horne attended Haskell Indian Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, and often visited relatives on the Shoshone Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Motivated by teachers like ...

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Patricia Rockwell

Zoomed: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery (Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries)

Essie Cobb hates the pandemic. She misses her friends Opal, Margery, and Fay. She misses all the adventures they used to have at the Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility. But now she is restricted to her room and she can’t go anywhere or do anything. Or can she? Essie is not one to take adversity ...

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Again, Essie? (Storytelling Math)

Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling! Rafael wants to protect his toys from his little sister, Essie. Gathering materials from around the house, he builds a wall tall enough and wide enough to keep her out. But will it be strong enough? And what does Essie really want? A playfu...

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Michelle Muriel

Westland (Essie's Roses)

#1 NEW RELEASE • From bestselling author Michelle Muriel comes the sequel to the #1 bestseller Essie’s Roses , set during the Reconstruction Era post Civil War, Westland is a moving, gripping historical novel about family secrets, forgiveness, and the meaning of home. Evil men wait a lifetim...

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W. Michael Hewitt

90 Days: An Essie Openwaters Mystery Thriller (Essie Openwaters Thriller)

Dr. Essie Openwaters has just ninety days until nuclear annihilation. She must find the stolen plutonium and prevent the mad men from using it. But who is sending the assassins this time? Is it Rettig again? And why did friendly colleagues turn hostile? Someone among the FBI, Secret Service, and Nat...

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Meghan MacLean Weir

The Book of Essie: A novel

FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD "Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely."—Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant A captivating novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the story of the seventeen-year-old daug...

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Patricia Rockwell

Firecrackered: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery (Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries)

Fireworks are supposed to light up the night sky on the Fourth of July. They’re not supposed to come flying into the front lawn of the Happy Haven Retirement Home and strike one of the residents in his keister. But that’s just what happens to gallant Lester Mills, new resident, and charming gent...

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Patricia Rockwell

Papoosed: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery (Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries)

The Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility is a home for senior citizens--not newborn babies. So, when one of the kitchen workers asks ninety-year-old resident Essie Cobb to secretly care for his missing co-worker's infant, she is flabbergasted, but determined. Along with her intrepid friends--Marjori...

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Patricia Rockwell

Valentined: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery (Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries)

It’s Valentine’s Day and most women would be thrilled to receive a card from a secret admirer. Not so, ninety-year-old Essie Cobb, one of the star residents of the Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility. When Essie finds an over-the-top, flowery, valentine from an unknown individual in her mailbox...

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Patricia Rockwell

Trained: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery

Senior sleuth Essie Cobb and her three gal pals Opal, Marjorie, and Fay take a cross-country train trip. Surely four little old ladies from the Happy Haven Retirement Home couldn't cause any trouble on a quiet journey across the country by rail, or could they? True to form, Essie and her friends man...

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Patricia Rockwell

Bingoed: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery (Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries)

Why would spry senior Bob Weiderley suddenly faint and fall into a coma after winning a game of Bingo? After all, he was the most physically fit of all the men at the Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility (although there weren’t many men at HH because women outnumbered them four to one). It was jus...

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Patricia Rockwell

Ghosted: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery (Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries)

It’s Halloween and time for the goblins to come out. But for Essie Cobb, senior sleuth, and her pals at the Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility, there’s nothing quite so spooky as a good mystery. Maybe it’s the strange new resident who resembles Mark Twain. Why does he collect a box surreptit...

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Beverly Merritt

History of Franklin County, Virginia ?Miss Essie? Wade Smith

Everyone who is interested in Franklin County, Virginia history and genealogy will recognize the name Essie Wade Smith, "Miss Essie", a great historian and antiquarian. Much of her work is spread throughout various volumes in the Mann Room in the Franklin County Library in Rocky Mount, Virginia. All...

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