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“Madea's Family Reunion” meets “Fear”
Justin:
The deceit in my family is rooted deep like jagged thorns and no one can avoid getting pricked. The door to my first love-my future stepsister's, worst secret was unlocked. It cost any chance our relationship had. There's no evading the truth-it's my face that's scorned her.
The falling leaves of autumn are like me sweeping away my chaotic past. No sense in dwelling on what could've been. I must...
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Penguin Books
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2016.
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English
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From Edgar Award winner Alex Marwood comes another gripping psychological thriller. When a child goes missing at an opulent house party, it makes international news. But what really happened to Coco Jackson? Real estate mogul Sean Jackson is throwing himself a splashy fiftieth birthday party, but trouble starts almost immediately: His ex-wife has sent his teenage daughters to the party without telling him; his current wife has fired the nanny; and...
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Lords of the Underworld volume 7
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English
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Though they carry an eternal curse, the Lords of the Underworld are irresistibly seductive-and unimaginably powerful... Don't miss a single book in this stunning paranormal series from New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter!
Keeper of the demon of Secrets, Amun can manipulate the darkest thoughts of anyone nearby. But when the immortal warrior is chained and isolated to protect those he loves, death is his only hope of release-until he...
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Real estate mogul Sean Jackson is throwing himself a splashy fiftieth birthday party, but trouble starts almost immediately: His ex-wife has sent his teenage daughters to the party without telling him; his current wife has fired the nanny; and he's finding it difficult to sneak away to his mistress. Then something truly terrible happens: one of his three-year-old twins goes missing. No trace of her is ever found. The attendees of the party, nicknamed...
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As a little girl, she was abducted. Facing that trauma could be a fatal mistake.
Nashville Police Detective Amelia Slate remains haunted by her own childhood kidnapping. The unsolved crime left invisible wounds that eventually got her demoted from the FBI. And her current serial-killer case triggers all that old terror when someone breaks into her apartment and steals a vital clue to her mother's death.
Shocked at the personal nature of the attack,...
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When a cold-case serial killer returns, FBI special agent Fiona Kelly has one last chance to stop him before he claims the prize he's always wanted-her.
The sight of a goose feather at a murder scene modeled after a children's poem is enough to make FBI special agent Fiona Kelly's blood turn to ice. Almost two decades ago, a feather was left with her sister's body-and with every subsequent victim of the Nursery Rhyme Killer. Now he's back. Only...
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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year 2022
An "electrifying" biography of Walter White, a little-remembered Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever (Chicago Review of Books).
Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the...
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When Ashley finds her biological mother, Sara, online, she's shocked and thrilled...But building a relationship with her long-lost mother proves to be more dangerous than Ashley could have ever imagined. Soon after meeting, Sara's husband is murdered. Ashley finds herself caught in a web of lies and deceit in which she isn't sure if her mother is innocent or guilty of that murder.
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Over its hundred and fifty year history, professional baseball has experienced its share of scandals and embarrassments -- sometimes involving players, sometimes teams, sometimes team owners, sometimes the leadership of the game itself, and sometimes even the fans.
There's been gambling. There's been cheating. There's been drug abuse. There's been outrageous rhetoric. There's been drunken rioting. There's been wife-swapping. There's been All-Star...
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From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered questions about the food we consume every day. How 'natural' is the process for making a 'natural' flavouring? What, exactly, is modified starch, and why is it an ingredient in so many foods? What is done to...
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Chambers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With an emphasis on understanding where the foulest words in the English language came from--and the disgusting and hilarious histories behind them--this book demonstrates the true filth of our everyday words. But this book is more than just a list of vulgar words and salacious slang. It's a thoughtful analysis of why we deem words as being inappropriate as well as revealing 'good words' that have surprisingly naughty origins."--
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Albatros
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2017.
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Polish
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"Sean Jackson hucznie obchodzi swoje pięćdziesiąte urodziny. Impreza kończy się jednak katastrofą i wielkim skandalem, gdy jedna z jego córek, Coco, w tajemniczych okolicznościach znika w środku nocy. Dwanaście lat później, po nagłej śmierci Seana, człowieka niezwykle zamożnego i wpływowego, na pogrzebie spotykają się Mila, córka z pierwszego małżeństwa, i Ruby, nastoletnia siostra bliźniaczka zaginionej przed laty Coco. Gdy...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Hermione scans the pages of the Daily Prophet, reading out terrible news. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes...
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Navin journeys to the city of Lucien where he searches for a beacon essential to his fight against the Elf King; while Emily heads back into the Void with Max, one of the Elf King's followers, where she learns his darkest secrets.
18) The soulmate
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"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Ten house guests, trapped on an isolated island, are the prey of a diabolical killer. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion: Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine ... When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale?
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The Ravenels volume 2
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English
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Gentle Helen has had little contact with the glittering world of London society. On the other hand, Rhys Winterborne, a wealthy but common-born tycoon, is ambitious, ruthless, and cynical about society. After meeting Helen, Rhys is determined to have her, and will do anything to ensure that she marries him. Helen does, but underneath her shy exterior is a stubborn conviction that only she can tame her unruly husband. As Rhys's enemies conspire against...