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1) One man
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One man can change everything. For me that is Jax North. He's handsome, brutally so, and wealthy, money and power easily at his fingertips. He's dark, and yet, he can make me smile with a single look or word. He's a force when he walks into a room. There are things about me that he doesn't know, he can't know, so I say goodbye. Only you don't say goodbye to a man like Jax if he doesn't want you to. I've challenged him without trying. He wants me....
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Be very careful about what you wish for…Sergeant Major Tim Flannery's personal life is in shambles. Just home from his sixth combat tour in Afghanistan, His wife has left him, his house is in foreclosure, and he feels like his entire world has disintegrated. With almost thirty years' military and civilian police experience, he's always been able to make the right decisions in tight spots, but waking to find he's the sole survivor, after the entire...
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Seven years ago, a star died in a distant part of the galaxy, sending its deadly gamma rays towards Earth. When the rays reached our planet, they killed virtually all of the human population overnight, leaving only a handful of survivors. Sergeant major Tim Flannery was left to fend for himself in a dead and decaying world. He thought he'd fought his last battle for humanity on the atoll of Volivoli. Now he only wants to be left in peace, with his...
4) One Man
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My father's brother was a boatman, and there was no greater joy for me than when he was with his ship lay here in the port. Then I had no peace at home but asked if they would let me go to Munde. Oh, what a merry life when I was on the ship, jumping about with the sailors at their work!
Not much less was my love and joy of gardening, because my grandfather was also a special garden lover, always took me to his garden, even gave me a small patch of...
6) Hold my hand
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As his relationship with boyfriend Ethan is tested, high school sophomore Alek takes a stand to make his orthodox Armernian church more progressive.
7) The one man
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"1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence...
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and author of Charlotte's Web documents his move from Manhattan to a saltwater farm in New England: "Superb reading." -The New Yorker
Called "a mid-20th–century Thoreau" by Notre Dame Magazine, E. B. White's desire to live a simple life caused him to sell half his worldly goods, give up his job writing the New Yorker's "Notes and Comment" editorial page, and move with his family to a saltwater farm in North...
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"Here is the first history of President Richard Nixon covering all of his secret tapes and documents, many declassified in the past two years. Award-winning journalist Tim Weiner presents a devastating portrait of a tortured and tormented man, showing how, in Nixon's mind, the conflict in Vietnam and the crimes of Watergate were one war, fought on two fronts. He trusted no one -- not his Cabinet, not his closest advisers, not the American people....
12) One man's flag
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"Spring 1915. As the Great War burns its way across Europe, Jack McColl, a spy for His Majesty's Navy, is stationed in India, charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. In England, meanwhile, suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business of rebuilding her life after the execution of her brother, an Irish republican sympathizer whose plot Jack McColl--Caitlin's ex-lover--had foiled. The war is...
13) Churchill
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This one man show starring Gary Saderup as Winston Churchill, captures the heroic period in time when Churchill and Britain, alone, stopped the greatest threat to freedom that the world has ever known. The film focuses on the years 1930-1942 and demonstrates Churchill's repeated warnings, speeches to parliament, and his reaction to various events and people leading up to World War II.
14) Lincoln
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Actor Gary Saderup becomes Abraham Lincoln, as he encapsulated Lincoln's entire life, from his early "folksy" frontier humor to the eloquence of word so well remembered from his Presidential years. He reveals how Lincoln formed his attitude towards life and politics, slavery and war, peace and reconciliation.
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For three years, Saitama has defeated countless monsters, but no one knows about him... That's because he isn't in the Hero Association's registry! Together with Genos, Saitama decides to take the Hero Association's test! But can they pass?!
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16) One man's art
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The MacGregors volume 4
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A MacGregor classic from "America's favorite writer" (The New Yorker).
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Cartoonist Grant Campbell has shunned the outside world, preferring to live and work alone—until a storm brings artist Geneviève Grandeau to the door of his lighthouse. Gruff and guarded, he offers her shelter for one night, never expecting how the glamorous beauty will affect the rest of his days...
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In the wake of a personal tragedy, the Hard Detective must hunt down a potential terrorist in this British mystery from the Edgar Award–nominated author.
Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens has always kept her family life separate from her work. But when tragedy strikes, that discipline becomes impossible to maintain. Her twin sons, Graham and Malcolm, both police officers in London's Notting Hill, are caught in the explosion of a terrorist's...
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this special edition of the best-selling memoir features an all-new foreword by Nick Offerman plus color photographs not seen in print for over 20 years. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man . . . to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed . . . to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log...
19) One man's love
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Alec Landers fell in love with Leitis McRae on the Scottish Highlands as a boy. The now-grown Earl of Sherbourne returns to Scotland as a British colonel, and an enemy to Leitis. She agrees to be his prisoner in her uncle's place, but is confused by the passion she feels for her captor. And Alec dares not reveal who he is--or his dangerous secret identity as Raven, outlaw defender of the Scots, even if protecting his lady costs him her love.
20) One man's garden
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This "wonderful" essay collection from the former Washington Post columnist and author of The Essential Earthman (Horticulture) offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in the garden, along with much down-to-earth advice.