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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Penny, Oklahoman, Eastern with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Color Blind'
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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Color Blind about April, Orleans, Teens with the genre: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction?
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conversations.value: Gr 8 UpIn this realistic novel, readers meet April, whose father has just died and whose mother is missing in action in the Middle East. She is sent to live with her aunt Kate, her mother's estranged sister and a New Orleans chef. The story takes a while to get started as readers meet some of the other characters, including a love interest. Teens also encounter a young girl named Angel and her mother, Simone, who live in the Ninth Ward and end up having family ties to April. The protagonist and her aunt don't get along, and both are thrown into a life together that they are unprepared for. The teen attempts to contact the spirit of her dead father through a local voodoo priestess. The climax involves April making very poor decisions concerning Angel, a goat, and a voodoo ceremony gone horribly wrong. This moment seems to come at an odd point in the plot, with the connection between April and Marie Laveau, a prominent historical figure of New Orleans and a voodoo priestess, acting as the catalyst for April to put the pieces of her new life together. The ending feels forced, and the writing is serviceable. The French Quarter setting, historical references to the rich history of New Orleans, and descriptions of Kate's cooking are the highlights of this work. VERDICT Teens will keep hoping for a supernatural element that never comes, making this book an additional purchase for most collections.Nancy Jo Lambert, Reedy High School, Frisco, TX
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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Color Blind about Rose, Rose's with the genre: Romance, Historical?
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conversations.value: Ever since Rose could remember, she knew she was different. Her relatives, her teachers, her schoolmates, even her own mother, all made her aware of that. For Rose's father was of an alien race, and her perfect beauty bore unmistakable traces of her legacy from him. Now Rose was deeply, desperately in love -- with a man who claimed not to care about the color of her skin. She tried to tell herself that she at last had found a haven from the viciousness of a narrow prejudiced world. Yet all the while she was steeling herself against the cruel disillusionment that was sure to come.
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conversations.value: Color Blind
  President Reagan's Medal of Freedom remarks about Jackie Robinson are available at www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/32684a.htm.
  Miracle Whip dressing: Charles Chapman invented it. See www.mentalfloss.com/difference/miracle-whip-vs-mayonnaise/.
  Willie the Robot: He also sang. A picture of Willie is posted at: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/scientific-highlights-of-chicagos-world-fair/1/#mmGal.
  The Orion was a puddle jumper: Images of America: Northwest Airlines, the First 80 Years by Geoff Jones, p. 10 makes reference to early Northwest planes. For photos of the six-seat Orion, see www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Lockheed-Orion.html.
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conversations.value: Bob McCarney hopped a freight: Interview with McCarney's daughter, Sharon Spaedy, June 5, 2008. Speady says her father rode the rails into town. A biography on file at the Chester Fitz Library at the University of North Dakota (the repository of McCarney's papers) says he hitchhiked. His daughter was emphatic he hopped a train.
  Played pinochle and poker: Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, p. 108; also liked Conquin or "Coon Can": Satchel, p. 103.
  Hendee arrested for violating blue laws: Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game, 1884–2000 by W. Harrison Daniel and Scott P. Mayer, p.103. Also Danville (Virginia) Bee, May 9, 1934, n.p.
  Crowds topped 2,000 only a few times: The Mandan Pioneer, July 14, 1935, says the crowd of 2,000 on July 12 was the biggest of year. The Bismarck Tribune, July 13, 1935 estimated that same crowd at 1,500 and said it was second biggest of season. Regardless, the team failed to achieve its Booster Day goal of 3,000 fans.
  Hustle side wagers in the grandstand: Bismarck Tribune, September 18, 2005 interview with Neil C. Churchill and Satchel, p. 80.
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conversations.value: State Historical Society of North Dakota organized: Snow angels entry at www.guinnessworldrecords.com.
  Time marched on: E-mail interviews March 28, 2012 with Myron Atkinson and Jim Christianson of the Bismarck Historical Society about modern use of downtown buildings. Corwin-Churchill sold to owners from Minot: www.bismarckpride.com and confirmed by former Corwin-Churchill executive Bruce Whittey.
  An original 1935 team photo and Bismarck uniform: Author confirmed sales prices with representatives of Hake's Americana & Collectibles, August 2012. Auction was held March 21, 2012.
  Thirty years worth of baseball: Details of Radcliffe's last team and his career statistics come from Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, pp. 231–235, 252.
  National, The ("Little World Series," National Baseball Congress (NBC) Tournament). See NBC 1935 Tournament
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conversations.value: See NBC 1935 Tournament.guinnessworldrecords.com.
  Time marched on: E-mail interviews March 28, 2012 with Myron Atkinson and Jim Christianson of the Bismarck Historical Society about modern use of downtown buildings. Corwin-Churchill sold to owners from Minot: www.bismarckpride.com and confirmed by former Corwin-Churchill executive Bruce Whittey.
  An original 1935 team photo and Bismarck uniform: Author confirmed sales prices with representatives of Hake's Americana & Collectibles, August 2012. Auction was held March 21, 2012.
  Thirty years worth of baseball: Details of Radcliffe's last team and his career statistics come from Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, pp. 231–235, 252.
  National, The ("Little World Series," National Baseball Congress (NBC) Tournament).State Historical Society of North Dakota organized: Snow angels entry at www.