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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future"--
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Series:
Aurora Teagarden volume 8
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When her sister-in-law Poppy is found murdered, amateur sleuth Aurora Teagarden teams up with Poppy's boyfriend, a local police detective, to solve the case, in spite of complications caused by their own past relationship.
Publisher:
A360 Media, LLC
Language:
English
Description:
Notorious B.I.G.’s legacy always ties back to his music. He is considered by many experts to be the greatest rapper of all time, and in 2020 he joined Tupac as just the second solo rap artist to be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. His untimely death was both a shock and a loss—for the person he was to those who loved him and all the work that might have been. There was only one Biggie, and there hasn’t been anyone quite
...4. Harbinger
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Publisher:
Valiant Entertainment
Language:
English
Description:
Before the Harbinger Foundation, before Project Rising Spirit, Toyo Harada spent decades circling the globe, recruiting empowered individuals to his cause through coercion, intimidation and influence. But how is one deal brokered in secret between Harada and Rising Sprit Securities forty years ago now wreaking havoc in the modern day? And when the past comes roaring back, how will Peter Stanchek and the rest of Harada's most wanted react to the revelation...
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Publisher:
Crown
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning...
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning...
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Publisher:
BOOM! Studios
Language:
English
Description:
Undoing the afterlife's doom will be no easy task, and Ellie "Bloody El" Hawthorne, antihero occultist for hire, will have to try anything she can-and the corpse of her occultist uncle may be the key. However, with unexpected and hellish twists into the heist genre, the body of Bloody El's late uncle is a prize feverishly sought after by her enemies. And as if Ellie's plate wasn't full enough, a love thought lost to the past makes a return, changing...
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Language:
English
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"When the shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan's Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic "prep school prophet" (and St. Dunstan's alum) Sebastian Webster, who died at 19, fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular, Webster-worshipping members of the school's cultic chapel choir:...
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Publisher:
Orca Book Publishers
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 540L
Language:
English
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, 16-year-old Blake Pendleton is surprised to learn, after three years abroad, that things are very different at his school now."--
After three years abroad, sixteen-year-old Blake Pendleton returns to his old high school and is shocked to find that the world he knew has turned upside down. Everyone wears a military-style uniform now and Blake soon learns the hard way that independence in any...
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Description:
From an early age, Bill Medley had a passion for music. School glee club and amateur singing contests soon gave way to the albums of Ray Charles and Little Richard. That raw R&B influence would profoundly shape Medley's musical future. As the pioneering 'blue-eyed soul" group the Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley and late partner Bobby Hatfield sang such huge hits as '(You're My) Soul and Inspiration," 'Unchained Melody," and 'You've Lost That Lovin'...
Author:
Publisher:
Books on Tape
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning...
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she broke records, winning...
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Language:
English
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Description:
Shots Fired in Anger, first published in 1947, is a classic firsthand account of the U.S. Army on Guadalcanal in World War II, as well as one of the most thorough looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Japanese and American infantry weapons, training, and tactics used in the bitter jungle fighting. This is the story of the Guadalcanal campaign as only a rifleman can tell it. In Shots Fired in Anger, Lieutenant Colonel John B. George recounts his...
Author:
Publisher:
Barbara Devlin
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Lady Alexandra Seymour is going after her man. To make amends for a past deception, when she enlisted her connubial conquest's aid in a scheme of hearts, she tells newly inducted Nautionnier Knight Jason Collingwood, "I will do anything." But she ends up making his bed, instead of warming it. Still, Alex will not be discouraged, as she vows to meet and surpass his challenge, but will he meet hers?When Alex arrives in Plymouth, Jason tries to resist...
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Publisher:
Dragonfly FM
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
Chinese
Description:
Children, we are about to embark on a fantastic voyage to explore the Bermuda Triangle's elusive Ghost Ship. Dive into the sea floor to understand the magical bottom of the sea, cross the time tunnel of the Bermuda Triangle, and unveil mysteries. I believe you are ready. Take a Star Tram with the knowledgeable Dr. Sagan to explore the mysterious world. Value brought to Children: In children's eyes, nature is magical and mysterious. By exploring the...
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Series:
Publisher:
Dragonfly FM
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
Chinese
Description:
Children, we are about to embark on a fantastic voyage to explore the strange stories of the Bermuda Triangle--the mystifying reappearance of soldiers, and the strange flying objects in the waters. Mysterious events appear in front of us one by one. I believe you are ready. Take a Star Tram with the knowledgeable Dr. Lamarck to explore the mysterious world. Value to Children: In children's eyes, nature is magical and mysterious. By exploring the magical...
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Series:
Publisher:
Dragonfly FM
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
Chinese
Description:
Children, we are about to embark on a fantastic voyage, an adventure for the brave to explore the secrets of Bermuda's invisible killers and their resurrections from the dead. Dive into the sea floor to understand Bermuda's magical underwater bridge and other supernatural phenomena scene by scene. Let's scientifically unveil their mysterious together. I believe you are ready. Take a Star Tram with the knowledgeable Dr. Ramaker to explore the mysterious...
Author:
Publisher:
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
A physician mother shares her true story of learning about opioids in a rural community as she begins medical practice. This class of medications, highly desired for treatment of pain but resulting in addiction for many due to liberal prescribing, fuels an opioid epidemic. Following a reduction in legal opioid availability in her town, heroin arrives to fill the gap. The market for this illegal drug had already been created, leading to many more developing...
18. A Sea of Shields
Author:
Series:
Sorcerer's Ring volume 10
Publisher:
Morgan Rice
Language:
Polish
Description:
In A SEA OF SHIELDS (BOOK #10 IN THE SORCERER'S RING), Gwendolyn gives birth to her and Thorgrin's child, amidst powerful omens. With a son born to them, Gwendolyn and Thorgrin's lives are changed forever, as is the destiny of the Ring. Thor has no choice to but to embark to find his mother, to leave his wife and child and venture away from his homeland on a perilous quest that will have the very future of the Ring at stake. Before Thor embarks, he...
Author:
Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Introducing the "WAR Portfolio" method to analyze the hidden standards of Hall of Fame admission, this book identifies tiers established by past inductions and into which tier current HOF candidates for both the BBWAA and Veterans Committee votes would fall. Also includes forecasts for many current MLB stars, as well as essays on various Hall of Fame-related topics including the Steroid Era, the HOF election process, and examples of some of the worst...
Author:
Publisher:
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
By the time he was thirteen, he already had attended thirteen funerals. Abandoned by his mother, and with his father, "Mangy" Menginie-president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, Philadelphia chapter-in jail, Anthony "LT" Menginie is raised inside the Pagans and inducted into a life of sex, violence, drugs, and organized crime. In Mangy's absence, LT finds a father figure in the Saint, a club member who helps teach him the difference between the club...