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"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
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Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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"In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan in a directionless war, he struggles...
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"A journey of two best friends that is part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller, from the acclaimed author of YOU, whose work Stephen King describes as "hypnotic and totally original." Growing up as best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe are the only ones who truly understand each other and their intense connection. But just when Jon is ready to confess the depth of his feelings, he's kidnapped by his...
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Pub. Date:
2013
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610L
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English
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After moving from London to what seems like a dull seaside town, twelve-year-old Miranda is recruited by a group of friends from school to help identify and stop the evil that is shadowing Miranda and causing weird events in town.
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was born in 1939, in Bielitz, a town close to the Czechoslovakian border. When I saw people deserting my town, I realized how close we were to the Czechoslovakian frontier. #2 On September 1, the day the war began, I was in my parents' bedroom watching them. The red glow of the fires outside made Papa look strange and unfamiliar. He spoke to me, telling me to call...
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Publisher:
IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I had a difficult time understanding the concept of death as a child, as my family attended many funerals. I thought the dead looked good, as they were sleeping in big suitcases. #2 My family lived in the rural north Louisiana town of Gibsland, near the border with Texas. It was a place where the line between heroes and villains was not so clearly drawn. #3 I had a...
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Publisher:
IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I have lived in Washington, DC, as a free Uyghur for more than twenty years. I have not seen my mother since 2004. I have been able to spend only eleven months with my parents since I left China twenty-seven years ago. #2 I was born in 1970 in a Communist labor camp in Kashgar, China. My mother was imprisoned for having relatives in a hostile country, and I was malnourished...
11. The last stand
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date:
c2013
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drug kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Sommerton Junction.
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 My childhood was wonderful. I had a father who was a bookseller and a mother who was a librarian. I had a large library of Jewish books, and I thought I was the luckiest girl alive because I was given samples of the beautiful dolls my father was selling. #2 My father was a successful businessman, and because of this, my family was able to live a comfortable life. I...
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For the first time in his own words, President-elect Donald J. Trump explains his plan to make America great again! He wants to "put America's interests first-and that means doing what's right for our economy, our national security, and our public safety." Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump conjured images of American strength and culture when small towns boomed with industry, mom and pop shops bustled, and people said, "Merry Christmas!" The media...
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Hackberry Holland volume 3
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English
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Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife and locked in a perilous almost romance with his deputy, Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports...
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Publisher:
Hybrid Publishers
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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A baby is born in Warsaw in 1939. Stalin has signed a pact of nonaggression with Hitler, marking the beginnings of the Second World War. As the city is attacked, Ola, a young nurse, escapes with her husband-to-be and their newborn baby to a small town in Soviet territory just across the border. Two years later, when the German forces attack the Soviets, she is separated from her partner and again has to flee. With immense courage and resourcefulness,...
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Publisher:
ECW Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Nora Decter has written a wrenching, knowing, and wry novel about coming of age into a rough world." - Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion For fans of Miriam Toews, an absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival The summer Bria Powers turns 16 is sinister. Waves of insects plague her hometown of Beauchamp, where fentanyl has recently infiltrated the drug stream. Forest fires muddy the normally wide-open skies,...
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Allie Bock
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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One ranch. Two life changing choices. Fourteen days to decide. Lindsay Wilson walked out of the lawyer's office, stunned and shell shocked. Her uncle's will left everything to her, except the one thing she wanted most…the ranch. Now, she has fourteen days to find a husband or the ranch will be sold to the highest bidder. Disillusionment fills Kurt Kisment's life as a high-powered defense lawyer in Dallas as his work with criminals turns heads south...
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Publisher:
IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I am an infantry officer right out of school, which makes me dangerous. I can make a mess with two-thousand-pound bombs. I am the terror of plastic targets. I want to destroy al-Qaeda, which is easy to demonize with their werewolf faces and medieval ways. #2 I was about to break the news to my wife, Elizabeth, that I was going to Afghanistan. She was shocked. She didn't...
19. My Life
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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In June 1998, I was living a normal life close to my sister in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Following the ignition of a border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the government of Ethiopia announced in the national tv that all Eritreans be registered by going to the nearest police station. The next day I went to a station in my area and the police kept me the whole day there. At dusk, the police told us to board their pickup trucks and took us to Shegolle...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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This is amazing story from my first BOB DYLAN concert that occurred on his fall tour in 2005. I was born in Slovenia in 1987 exactly when is BOB, 1 year later gone on his NEVER ENDING TOUR in 1988. I living in a small young town Nova Gorica, which lies down just near to Italian border in western Slovenia. Bob likes prowling and performs round Italy and also this year came and stopped here. On two concerts. He played first with his band in BOLOGNA...