Jennifer Hale

Once the center of agricultural prosperity in Alabama, the rich soil of the Black Belt still features beautiful homes that stand as a testimony to the region's proud heritage. Join author Jennifer Hale as she explores the history of seventeen of the finest plantation homes in Alabama's Black Belt. This book chronicles the original owners and slaves of the homes and traces their descendants, who have continued to call these plantations home throughout

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Grieving doesn't mean you must be consumed by grief. If you're looking for unique ways to cope with the loss of a spouse, parent, child, family member or close friend, Have a Good Mourning is the book for you. You'll discover transformational ways to mourn as you avoid the perpetual darkness that sometimes follows grief and heal even as you keep your loved one's memory alive. In Have a Good Mourning, you'll hear the tales of others whose journeys...

Sam, Alex and Clover are three typical high school girls and are, of course, the best of friends. But when they inadvertently stop an international crime in their very own mall, their lives are suddenly changed forever. The girls suddenly find themselves working as undercover spies for Jerry and the secret organization WOOHP whose mission is to battle with the most outrageous super villains all around the world!

In the years after the Omnic Crisis, the American Southwest is ruled by vultures looking to profit off the chaos. The West is ripe for the taking, and Elizabeth Caledonia Ashe intends to write her name across it. When Ashe is arrested yet again on the morning of her high school graduation, her aloof, old-money parents decide to disinherit her from the family fortune. To steal back what's rightfully hers, Ashe teams up with her omnic butler, B.O.B.,...

Zack thinks an old detective is too over the hill to help them on a case. However, he learns that experience can be the best teacher when it turns out the detective in question was once Carmen's partner, back when she was an Acme detective.

Carmen learns that Dr. Maelstrom, an arch enemy she arrested ten years ago, while an Acme detective, has escaped from prison. The evil ocean going genius is bent on destroying Carmen's reputation as the world's greatest thief.

The three-parter culminates as the kids deduce Carmen's plan; to prove she is the greatest thief of all time: Past, Present, and Future! They learn about the Roman Coliseum, first hand, when they become the main attraction!

In the rousing climax to a three part story, Carmen works with Zack and Ivy to stop her evil nemesis, Dr. Maelstrom, who is bent on destroying her forever, while carrying out a plan to steal "the unstealable" - Noah's Ark!

Zack and Ivy hook up with Jamaican detective, Jasmine, when a ghostly robbery of antique cannons takes place at Fort Charles, Jamaica. Soon the kids are onto Carmen's plan to become the greatest seafarin' felon in history, as she patterns herself after famous female pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

When the dome of the Taj Mahal is stolen, then a dinosaur skeleton from the Smithsonian, Zack and Ivy track Carmen to Komodo Island. There, they discover she is bent on creating the world's only living dinosaur - for a one-of-a-kind pet.