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Riley Fisher volume 2
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"A brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fisher must navigate a brutal serial killer as well as a kidnapping plot against the governor. It's a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It's a tough time and a tough place for Riley Fisher, a former small-town sergeant, to be reporting for...
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One World
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"American public schools have been called "the great equalizer." If all children could just get an education, the logic goes, they would have the same opportunities later in life. But this historical tour-de-force makes it clear that the opposite is true: the educational system has played an instrumental role in creating racial hierarchies, preparing children to expect unequal treatment throughout their lives. In Original Sins, Ewing demonstrates...
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Five childhood friends with big plans face the changing realities of life in Tennessee in the 1960s. As Sally and Emily Prince and Jed, Raymond, and Donny Tatro sit under their beloved Castle Tree in rural, segregated Tennessee, they dream big dreams. But the journey from these dreams to reality is a long one. As they move into their teens, each faces challenges they could never have imagined. Sally and Jed may take a traditional route as head cheerleader...
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Allan Boroughs
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"Boroughs masterfully crafts a narrative" - MARK DAWSON Three stories, one destiny…On the shores of a drowned city, India Bentley inherits a terrible legacy from her mother - but just what is the nature of the 'dark gift' that is now her birth right, and who are the mysterious 'sisterhood' who stalk her dreams? On the treacherous Siberian steppes, a young Sidney Stone embarks on a mission to avenge his mother and kill his father - but once down...
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Willow River Press
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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Dr. Regina McLaren is a welcome addition to the faculty of the fledgling Psychology Department of Diamond Cove University, a small institution in the quaint coastal village of Diamond Cove, Maine. Reggie hopes the beautiful location and small school will help her bury painful memories and excise personal demons.Denny Petit heads up the Diamond Cove police department, having left the department in Chicago, and is running from his own demons.When brutal...
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Khardine Gray
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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What is the price of father dealt his last blow to control my life on my eighteenth birthday.He crushes my dreams when I'm told I have to marry a man I loathe.Intent on saving myself from a terrible fate, I do the one thing I can to get the money I need to escape.Enter the virgin auction and agree to do whatever my owner wants for thirty days.I just never expected to be owned by two of the most dangerous men I know.Both work for my father in the criminal...
9. Original sin
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Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 9
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English
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"Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies - a discarded mistress, a rejected...
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Image Comics, Inc
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[2019]
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English
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The mystery deepens... As the reclusive and troubled young man Norton becomes more immersed in his quest for the secret of the legendary Black Barn, washed-up Catholic priest Father Fred unravels the secret behind a series of grisly murders.
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Theme Park Press
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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Was Walt WokeThe conundrum of Walt Disney's racism, sexism, and other-isms is enduring fodder for speculation, argument, and of course, "outrage". Here, in compact form, ready for renewed analysis, is a catalog of the Disney company's cinematic "sins", from Mickey to Moana.Disney itself feeds the frenzy by its permanent embargo of Song of the South, the film that many fanseven those who haven't seen itregard as irredeemably racist.But what about Peter...
13. Original sin
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English
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The new CEO of a respected London publishing house is found dead and Commander Adam Dalgliesh thinks that the reasons for his death lie in his less-than-reputable past.
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DC Comics
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[2011]
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English
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"As one of the few magicians who understands both the possibilities and the dangers of his art, Liverpool native John Constantine has managed to keep himself from becoming lost in its dark power -- but he also cannot escape its seductive, addictive hold. Unfortunately, while Constantine may understand magic's true price, the world is full of amateurs willing to sign away their souls for a taste of it -- and like it or not, his hard-won knowledge guarantees...
17. Original sin
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2002]
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English
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A mysterious woman from Boston whose insatiable lust for her new wealthy, plantation owner husband is exceded only by her desire for his fortune.
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"[A]n engaging and lucid work by a sophisticated Evangelical from the American South. . . . For all its American bias, Alan Jacobs's highly readably ORIGINAL SIN might fill one of the gaps in the post-Christian memory banks." - Times Literary Supplement (London) "One wouldn't expect a book about original sin to be entertaining, but Jacobs makes it so with deft prose and a touch of humor." - Christian Century "Jacobs is a superb writer whose work is...