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1. Hands down
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Dick Francis novel volume 11
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English
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"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
2. Hands Down
Author:
Publisher:
Reputecture, LLC
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Hands Down, a Vietnam era coming of age novel, follows ambitious Dennis Spuhn as he completes military service and goes after the success he has anticipated since adolescence. Hands down, as he leaves Davenport, IA for the US Marine Corps in 1964, Dennis Spuhn means to have it all: a millionaire by age 30, his own restaurant chain, house on the bluff, Jenny Adamski. Along the way, avoiding jealous Greg Benson, he is going to need the help of others:...
3. Hands Down
Author:
Publisher:
Logan J Crannell
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Adapted from the journal of a falsely imprisoned man, 'Hands Down: A Story of Incarceration' is a testament against a society quick to point fingers and cry wolf. It implores us to question the motives of those claiming victimhood, for it may reveal their own lack of integrity. With each public accuser advertising their oppression, and clamoring for sympathy, it's clear we must develop a rational dialogue. In these times when one tweet, one blog post...
4. Hands Down
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Publisher:
Capstone Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Introduces counting by fives by counting fingers from hand art designs. Readers are invited to find hidden numbers on an illustrated activity page.
Author:
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
Description:
Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank under mysterious circumstances, with a loss of ninety-nine lives. The tragedy occurred during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and only weeks after the sinking of a Soviet sub near Hawaii. Now, drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, many with exclusive sources in the naval and intelligence communities, as well as recently declassified United
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English
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f technology is the new addiction, then multi-tasking is the new marching order. With extensive to-do lists and busy schedules, it's no wonder people are distracted. Here is society's answer to finding balance in a media-saturated, perfection-obsessed world. It doesn't mean giving up technology forever or forgoing jobs and responsibilities. It means seizing the little moments that life offers and living a present, authentic, and intentional life despite...
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Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young or old or neither, who are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living-or assisted-dying-facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes...
12. Hand Me Down
Author:
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
April Ritchie has a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Take the night she was born ... When bad girl April Ritchie returns home to Pisa after a nine-year absence, not too many of the townsfolk are glad to see her back. April's spoilt-brat behaviour had never won her many friends, and her fast exit from town the night of her seventeenth birthday left more questions than answers. So it isn't too surprising that people get a kick...
13. Hand Me Downs
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Publisher:
Palmetto Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Circa 1950-60's fictional tale spun around the true-life memoir of the author's moving and cathartic journey as she chronicles her mother Cynthia's illicit affair with Laurence, her best friend Anna's husband. In painful, but sometimes humorous recollection, she gives an account of the lover's 3000-mile desperate run with Laurence's abducted twin sons, Cynthia's two children, and their lovechild. The escape from New York to California offers them...
Author:
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual lives, even well after they leave home and often for the rest of their lives. We know...
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Publisher:
Abingdon Fiction
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
High school teacher Suzanne Bloomer has buried herself in her job at New Vision Christian School in Farmersburg, Ohio. But she's none too pleased when widower Mitch Sanderson leaves his fields mid-harvest to fill a teacher/principal position at the school. She knows better than to trust a Sanderson, and she's determined not to be tricked by one again. When Mitch's persistent kindness starts to confuse Suzanne's feelings for him, she remembers that...
Author:
Publisher:
Amour Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
His brother's untimely death leaves him with an Earldom and a fiancée. Too bad he wants neither of Lawton has no need of a husband. As an independent woman, she wants to own property, make investments and be the master of her destiny. Unfortunately, her father signed her life away in a marriage contract to the future Earl of Stonemere. But then the cad upped and died, leaving her fate in the hands of his brother, one of the renowned Lustful Lords.Achilles...
17. Hand Me Down
Author:
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
A recipient of the Alva Englund fellowship and the Maurice Prize for fiction, Melanie Thorne penned this tender debut brimming with evocative prose. At 14, Elizabeth Reid is searching for a place she and her sister Jaime can call home. Neglected by a father with more vices than work ethic and ignored by a mother bent on starting a new life with an ex-con, Liz bounces between distant relatives in California and Utah. But before Liz can find peace,...
Author:
Publisher:
Jaysen True Blood
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Welcome to the 1950s. The Red Scare is in full swing since the passage of the McCarran Act. The battle between the Morrow and the French families is about to come to a head. Amid this, a nine year old Natalia Morrow lives her life oblivious to any sort of reality. But when things take away her peace and joy and remove her beloeved grandparents, she finds that reality can be cold.
Author:
Publisher:
Xlibris US
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Ben has a shirt that is so special, he wants to wear it every day for the rest of his life. When he wears his shirt, he is as powerful as the Dragon on the front. He can fl y higher than anyone. Yet, as with all hand-me-down shirts, the day must come to pass it on. When Ben starts growing too big for his shirt, he discovers that there are many ways to reach new heights.