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C.J. Townsend novels volume 3
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English
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Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious Miami prosecutor. Assigned to a hectic trial division with an ornery judge, just getting through the day can be a challenge. When Julia is asked to second chair a case that could very well make or break her career, she doesn't hesitate to jump on board. The defendant: a successful Miami surgeon. The victims: his own wife and small children. The plea: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity.The perfect father. The perfect...
2) The plea
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Eddie Flynn novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Fraud. Blackmail. Murder. It's all in a day's work for Eddie Flynn. For years, major New York law firm Harland & Sinton has operated a massive global fraud. The FBI are on to them, but they need witnesses to secure their case. When a major client of the firm, David Child, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify against the firm. Eddie's not a man to be forced...
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The story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting.
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Mr. Panda volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Mr. Panda has a plate of doughnuts to share, but most of the other animals forget to say "Please."
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Returning to the now-renowned locale of Kindle County, Scott Turow gives us Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague, his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money. Mack will descend into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city...taking you with him...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Accustomed to the daily jars of honey provided by the bees living in his yard, Benedict the bear is upset when they go on strike, but he listens to their requests for better working conditions and makes an effort to please the unhappy bees.
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From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.
Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil...
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The "refreshing . . . laugh-out-loud" #1 New York Times bestseller about life in the suburbs that was adapted into a classic film comedy. One day, Tony Award–winning playwright Jean Kerr packed up her four kids (and husband, Walter, one of Broadway's sharpest critics), and left New York City. They moved to a faraway part of the world that promised a grassy utopia where daisies grew wild and homes were described as neo-gingerbread. In this collection...
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Fen Dexter's quiet life on the idyllic California coast is interrupted one stormy night when a blood-covered man shows up on her doorstep claiming to have had a car accident. He tells her that he is on his way to San Francisco to help the police solve the murder of his fiancée. Unable to make it to the hospital because of the storm, he spends the night at Fen's, and the attraction between them is obvious. The next morning he heads to the hospital...
11) Plea for Peace
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Plea For Peace chronicles the life and experiences of a woman who amasses commitments to abstinence from women throughout her community, state and country in an effort to end crime and wars. Women and men around the world eventually adopt the tactic for themselves. Fighting against their own desires for sexual fulfillment, the women eventually learn that holding out is easier said than done. They also experience major religious, political and business...
12) Plea for Justice
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A psychological thriller that depicts the journey of a paralegal striving to reveal the truth about her estranged friend's incarceration, and leading her on a parallel path of self-discovery.
Set in Atlanta, GA, main character Jackie Siegel is contacted from prison by her estranged friend, Aaron Slater. In high school, he was the "cool jock" and she was the "introverted geek." They were inseparable until graduation, when he suddenly dumped her...
13) Plea Of Avanda
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Thorik has caused the death of the legendary Mountain King, releasing a rift forward through time that will change history forever. With the King dead, the war to free the slaves from the Notarian rulers will never take place, preventing the Dovenar Kingdom from ever existing. Without the strength of the Dovenar Kingdom, the Altered Creatures will most likely become masters of the civilized species. Leading them, the demon Ergrauth will finally be...
15) Please see us
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"Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are laid out in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel, just west of town. Only one person even knows they're there. Meanwhile, Clara, a young boardwalk psychic, struggles to attract clients for the tarot readings that pay her rent. When she begins to experience very real and disturbing visions, she suspects they could be related...
16) Pleasantville
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Jay Porter novels volume 2
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English
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"Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
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Brimful Coffers mysteries volume 2
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English
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Mystery writer Lorinda Lucas doesn't like the trend toward overly gruesome crime fiction-but she's even more upset about Roscoe, the cat who lives next door. He used to look well-fed and well cared for, but when Lorinda gets back from her most recent book tour, she's worried by his dangerously skinny appearance.
It turns out that Roscoe's owner has a new girlfriend who's put the poor cat on a deprivation diet-and that's not the only bad news in...
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This book shakes the core of your beliefs on health and diet, but only if you're open-minded enough to comprehend it.
Henry Stephens Salt, considered to be the "father of animal rights" and one of the first to write in favour of Vegetarianism, structures a sound argument against flesh-eating in this short and insightful read.
He tackles the subject from economic, moral, and medical perspectives, claiming that we're driven to eat meat by forces of...
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"The plea of Pablo" is a novel in which the loneliness, bullying, vice and selfishness of a father are intertwined, and the indifference of a mother who abandons her son to his fate to start a new life with a man who assures you a promising future.
Pablo is an eight-year-old boy who has only one friend he can trust, but a series of events lead him to a tragic destiny.