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- The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss / by Fox, Margalit,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum emigrated to New York from Germany and worked as a rag peddler on the streets of the Lower East Side. By the 1870s she was a widow with four children, a popular society hostess, and a philanthropist. What enabled a woman on the margins of nineteenth-century American life to ascend from tenement poverty to immense wealth? In the intervening years, Mrs. Mandelbaum had become the country's most notorious "fence" -- a receiver of stolen goods and a successful criminal mastermind. By the mid-1880s as much as 10 million dollars worth of purloined property (the equivalent of nearly 300 million dollars in today's money) had passed through her little haberdashery shop. She planned, financed, and profited from robberies of cash, gold, and diamonds throughout New York and beyond. But she wasn't just a successful crook, she was a visionary. Called "the nucleus and center of the whole organization of crime in New York City" by the New York Times, Mandelbaum was the first person in American history to systemize formerly scattershot property crime enterprises. Handpicking a cadre of New York's foremost bank robbers, housebreakers, and shoplifters and bribing a corresponding group of the city's police and politicians, she handled logistics and organized supply chains -- turning theft into a proper, scaled business"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Mandelbaum, Fredericka, 1825-1894.; Criminals; Organized crime; Receiving stolen goods;
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- The cookie book of colors / by Fox, Holly.;
LSC- Subjects: Colors;
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- Economics demystified / by Fox, Melanie.; Dodge, Eric R.;
LSC- Subjects: Economics; Economics.;
- © c2012., McGraw-Hill,
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- The cat, the dog, Little Red, the exploding eggs, the wolf, and Grandma / by Fox, Diane.; Fox, Christyan.; Fox, Diane.Cat, the dog, Little Red, the exploding eggs, the wolf and Grandma's wardrobe.;
Cat tries to read the story of Little Red Riding Hood aloud, but Dog keeps interrupting with silly questions.LSC- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Cats; Dogs; Books and reading; Characters and characteristics in literature; Humorous stories.;
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- Meet the pals / by Fox, Jennifer.;
Word count: 298, Guided reading level: J, Number of dolch sight words 62.LSC- Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Radio and television novels.; Best friends; Horses;
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- Northland : a 4,000-mile journey along America's forgotten border / by Fox, Porter,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Fox, Porter;
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- Terry Fox / by Pezzi, Bryan;
Discusses the life of Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope, a run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.- Subjects: Fox, Terry (Terrance Stanley), 1958-1981; Cancer; Runners (Sports);
- © 2006., Weigl,
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- Terry Fox / by Pezzi, Bryan.;
Explores the life of marathon runner Terry Fox who inspired many by attempting to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.- Subjects: Fox, Terry, 1958-1981; Cancer; Runners (Sports);
- © 2011., Weigl,
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- Terry Fox / by Sutoski, Jennifer.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Simple text and illustrations describe the life of Terry Fox, a young cancer patient who attempted to run across Canada in 1980 to raise money for cancer research.RL: K-1; IL: PreK-2.LSC- Subjects: Fox, Terry, 1958-1981; Cancer; Runners (Sports);
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- Another Bone-Swapping Event. by Fox, Brad.;
In 'Another Bone-Swapping Event', Brad Fox tells the story of a year he spent stuck in the high jungles of Peru living with a family of Quechua-speaking curanderos responsible for a hundred-hectare stretch of jungle. In the care of local maestro Miguel Tapullima, Fox gets a crash course in traditional medicine and takes readers on a labyrinthine tour, in turn contemplative and comic, navigating the coexisting realities of the human and more-than-human world.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Entheogens & Visionary Substances; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social;
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