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Publisher:
Touchstone Home Entertainment :
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
A twenty-something, fast-talking salesman's latest deal collapses the day he learns his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home to put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. While there, he uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down, he has a 30-year-old sister he never knew existed.
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Publisher:
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 710L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"When a girl is found dead at her elite boarding school, soccer-star Kay Donovan follows a scavenger hunt which implicates suspects increasingly close to her, unraveling her group of popular friends and perfectly constructed life"--
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Publisher:
The New Press
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
The inspiring story of political newcomers (sometimes also newcomers to America) who are knocking down built-in barriers to creating better government The system is rigged: America's political leadership remains overwhelmingly white, male, moneyed, and Christian. Even at the local and state levels, elected office is inaccessible to the people it aims to represent. But in People Like Us, political scientist Sayu Bhojwani shares the stories of a diverse...
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Publisher:
Zondervan
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
People Like Us is the story of Rob Lacey, poet, actor, and award-winning author of The Street Bible. It is so much more than Rob Lacey's biography. A Long Way Home is the passionate and poetic account of an artistic soul enamored with God, and of the woman who loved him. It is a love story of two people, a writer and a dancer, born to be together for all eternity. A Long Way Home is the memoir Rob Lacey would have written himself. He never got the...
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Publisher:
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"People Like Us is Jason Mott's electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason's life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don't let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt. In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that...
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Publisher:
Zondervan
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
"I want to die fully alive so my soul's got extended capacity for heaven." - Rob Lacey. People Like Us is the story of Rob Lacey, poet, actor, and award-winning author of The Street Bible. It is so much more than Rob Lacey's biography. People Like Us is the passionate and poetic account of an artistic soul enamored with God, and of the woman who loved him. It is a love story of two people, a writer and a dancer, born to be together for all eternity....
Publisher:
The Center for New American Media
Pub. Date:
[2001]
Language:
English
Description:
It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life. But class is a hard subject...
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Publisher:
Basic Books
Lexile measure:
1260L
Language:
English
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Description:
This important book brings the ignored population of abused upper-income women to light, revealing for the first time the depth and severity of "upscale abuse" How is it possible for a highly educated woman with a career and resources of her own to stay in a marriage with an abusive husband? How can a man be considered a pillar of his community, run a successful business and regularly give his wife a black eye? That we can even ask these startling...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2009
Lexile measure:
740L
Language:
English
Description:
I want to shake Rita. She thinks all the screwed-up things in the world are happening somewhere else. But bad things are happening right here. It's a routine Libby's used to by now: pack up, move, start over, repeat. This time it's to Rubberville-population: faces, names, a few factories, and Angie, a girl who nearly-but-not-quite gets Libby killed the first day they meet. Angie is everything Libby wishes she were: outspoken, fearless, and happy to...
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Publisher:
Self Publisher
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Clifford Leroy Lee was born in Watts, where his life was forged through the harsh realities of gang life, poverty, and survival in the Nickerson Gardens projects. Lee grew up with an absent father and was raised in a world where children portrayed violence as their way of life. Clifford thus went deep into the violent world of the Bloods. As Clifford struggles through family conflicts, gang battles, and the anguish of hustling, his life story changes...
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Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
Spanish
Description:
El dentista-convertido-en-autor mexicano Vades debuta con seis curentos extradordinarios del horror, de emocieones eroticas y de fantasmas. Los vicios son los protagonistas aqui, esforzandose a la superficie de los caracteres que habitan. En el cuento titular, una pareja en um fin de semana trabajador en las montanas desubre un escondrijo macabro en su casa alquidalia; la avaricia causa que su relacion se agria. En dos otros cuentos, la codicia figura...
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Publisher:
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Is God really for us? It has been said that no person ever rises above their view of God. Whom we worship, what we worship, is irrevocably tied to who we become. Worship predicts identity. Without a new vision of God there can be no new vision of hope. In the middle of Luke's Gospel, in chapter 15, are three of Jesus's most treasured parables. They are the "holy, holy, holy" of Luke's Gospel. The parable of the lost sheep, the parable of the lost...
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Publisher:
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Saints at Heart presents an engaging picture of the spiritual life as shown in the experience and writings of the saints. The title announces the book's double theme: the lives of holy men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, and to the possibility of our following them and also dedicating our hearts to God. Readers will discover in this book well-told and appealing stories of women and men, ordinary human beings like themselves, who...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Leipzig, 1930's Germany. Hetty Herta is a young girl growing up under Nazi rule. With an SS officer father, a brother in the Luftwaffe and a member of the BDM Hetty is the epitome of a perfect German child. But Walter changes everything. Blond haired, blue-eyed, perfect in every way Walter. The boy who saved her life when she was a young child. Her brother's childhood best friend. A Jew. As she falls more and more in love with a man who is against...