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"After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boarding house. Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances,...
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Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Biography of baseball manager Joe Maddon. With his irreverent personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch. ...ESPN's Jesse Rogers and MLB.com's Bill Chastain fully explore Maddon's...
46) Invasion
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
After discovering an unusual black rock, a college student develops euphoria. Soon he and his girlfriend discover the strange virus is spreading rapidly and mutating people into an alien species. Their only hope is to reach a secret government germ warfare base that holds an antidote before the world is overrun by extraterrestrials and the portal to other worlds is opened.
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English
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For more than a decade, award-winning writer (and co-author of The Disaster Artist) Tom Bissell has explored questions at the heart of the creative endeavor in astute, remarkable and often hilarious essays. What are sitcoms for, exactly? Can art be both bad and genius? Why do some books survive and others vanish? These pieces cover Bissell's best writing on writers, filmmakers, actors and artists. From Portland, where he visits a midnight screening...
48) The grand dark
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English
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"A stand-alone heavy hitter that's more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendig's upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilson's The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynch's pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but technologically it resembles the near-future dystopias of Cory Doctorow or China Miéville […] Wildly ambitious and inventive fantasy from an author who's punching above his weight...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Since its introduction in 1978, this book has charted and followed the volatile world of financial markets. Charles Kindleberger's brilliant, panoramic history revealed how financial crises follow a pattern. Events of recent years and the current Eurozone continue to dominate policy and headline debates around the globe. In this updated and expanded seventh edition, Robert Z. Aliber probes the most recent calamities and changes in the markets, including...
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English
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Caroline Leavitt is at her mesmerizing best in this haunting, nuanced portrait of love, sisters, and the impossible legacy of family. It s 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy s default caretaker for most of their lives, Charlotte s youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Features essays from such authors and celebrities as James Franco, Carrie Fisher, Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, and Emily Gould, which are filled with heartbreak, humiliation, and hilarity as each shares their first celebrity crush.
52) The purple ring
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Series
The Strasbourg saga volume 6
Publisher
Mesorah Publications, LTD
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The revised and expanded edition of The Purple Ring, the sixth installment of the sensational The Strasbourg Saga, portrays the final months of the Sabbatean movement and its aftermath from the perspective of the Jews of Europe as euphoria turns to despair. As the story unfolds, tensions between Jews and gentiles are strained as the frenzy of the Shabbesai Tzvi's movement grips the European cities and towns. But even as the drama plays itself out...
53) Unbreakable
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English
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Janet Jackson releases her first album in over seven years. Features sixteen tracks including the single 'No Sleep.'
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Series
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Cam glances out the window of his Hawaii hotel room just in time to see the nearby 'inactive' volcano explode! Chunks of rock and lava cascade down into the city. Cam knows he needs to find his family and get out fast, but a river of lava runs between him and his loved ones"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?
The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else and whether they ought to persevere. Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in Saving Israel, he outlines how.
• 2009 National Jewish...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall Street The Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand. An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's financial markets, The Devil's Financial Dictionary delivers...
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Language
English
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"By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left but disgrace and despair. For tens of thousands of them, the only option was to choose death -- for themselves and for their children. "Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself" recounts this little-known mass event. Using...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Gives readers a strategic and actionable way to look at their financial life with a completely new attitude of confidence, empowering them to make smart decisions regarding how to start and grow a portfolio and when to make better personal choices for changing careers, finding trending college majors, expanding businesses, buying homes, capitalizing on social trends, and more.
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A landmark examination of Christianity's place in American life across the broad sweep of this country's history, from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, Garry Wills argues, now and throughout our country's history, is between the head and the heart: between reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. Why has this been so? How has the tension between the two poles played...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Set on a fictional Caribbean island during World War II and in modern-day Vancouver, He Drown She in the Sea is the spellbinding story of two childhood friends reunited late in life. As children, Rose Sangha and her housekeeper's son, Harry, are inseparable, blissfully unaware of the subtleties of class hierarchy until the night Harry is banished from the Sangha home. When Harry and Rose meet again in Canada years later, the gulf separating them is...