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(0)Ken Howard
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English
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As Western Christianity moves towards a religious realignment of epic proportions – where does your congregation stand? How will you navigate these changes? Paradigms that have guided the Church for centuries are crumbling. The old dichotomy between "conservatives" and "liberals" – that has defined us for centuries – is becoming almost irrelevant. What are our true differences today? Where and how will we come together as a Christian people...
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Bayview Entertainment
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English
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America's magnificent storyteller, Mark Twain, has crafted an intriguing and classic tale of mistaken identity, deceit and murder. Here a slave woman cradle-switches her master's son with her own light-skinned baby, however, even though raised as a white man, he never fulfills her hopes and dreams for him as he becomes an arrogant and cruel man. Acclaimed actor Ken Howard stars as the local lawyer unraveling the mystery.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
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English
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection
"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." — USA Today
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut,
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 3
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English
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In an exciting new series that critics have called 'John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum,' Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck faces his biggest challenge yet. Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And he's Jack's newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack's best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isn't so sure about Tatum. A gorgeous young...
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Victor Carl novels volume 1
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English
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Hard-luck Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl is just itching for the opportunity to sell out. Then good fortune comes knocking at his door in the guise of William Prescott III, a blue-blood attorney from one of the city's most prestigious firms. Prescott wants Victor to represent a councilman's aide who is on trial, along with his boss, for extortion, arson, and murder. It's the juiciest, highest-profile courtroom extravaganza in years -- and all Carl...
7) Magic Hour
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English
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Movie producer Sy Spencer -- one of the premier summer residents of the Hamptons, Long Island's oh-so-fashionable beach resort for everyone who is anyone -- has hosted his last power clambake, thanks to whoever shot him dead beside his oceanfront pool. Heading the investigation is Hamptons native Steve Brady. His prime suspect is Sy's ex-wife Bonnie, a strangely appealing and energetic woman both in and out of bed. As the case against Bonnie builds,...
8) The Run
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English
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A respected senator from Georgia, Will Lee has aspirations of more.
But a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage well before he expects, and long before he's ready, for a national campaign.
The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous -- and deadly -- than Will and his intelligent, strikingly beautiful wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine.
A courageous and principled...
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English
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Meg Summers is one of America's premier architects, designing some of most exquisite estates across the country, but ever since her sister Dawn had an affair with her former husband, Mick Drewford, a year ago, she has felt utterly and desperately alone. She is also bored with her job. She would much rather sketch fantasy drawings all day in her journal than be managing projects. On a cool fall day in East Hampton, Meg finds a mysterious note in elegant...
10) Veritas
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English
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"I suppose every hundred million dollars has its own sordid story and the hundred million I am chasing is no exception..." So begins Veritas, William Lashner's riveting follow-up to his bestselling debut novel, Hostile Witness. Victor Carl -- lawyer, loser, hapless hero of Hostile Witness, and a Philadelphian way out of his element -- has come to the sweat-drenched jungles of Belize to chase his fortune. Finding it is something else entirely. Coerced...
11) Three Blind Mice
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English
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After Jessica Leeds- wife of a prestigious, wealthy Florida landowner- is brutally raped, three Vietnamese immigrants are charged with the crime. After the trial results in their acquittal, Jessica's husband Stephen vows vengeance. Then, the three immigrants are found savagely murdered. When all of the evidence ties Stephen Leeds to the grisly killings, Jessica turns to Florida lawyer Matthew Hope. He takes the case- ...
12) Prizes
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English
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In this powerful and moving saga, three extraordinary individuals- two men and one woman- compete for the ultimate glory: the Nobel Prize. Erich Segal takes us inside the research labs and clinics- as well as the homes and hearts- of the world's most elite doctors and scientists whose genius, dedication, and passion cannot always win them the love and recognition they seek. Loyalty and betrayal, disappointment...
13) Puss in Boots
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English
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A long shadow looms above the wife of filmmaker Carlton Markham. Then a hand clamps over her mouth, and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Markham, who's been arrested for his wife's murder, but he says he didn't do it. Witnesses fly forward to proclaim his guilt, but Markham's not giving up on his innocence that easily. And when Hope digs...
14) Cinderella
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Series
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English
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Attorney Matthew Hope had hired Otto Samalson to conduct a simple marital investigation- so how does Samalson end up dead on a deserted highway? Hope's search for an answer takes him into Florida's drug underworld on the trail of a hooker- one who has the style and looks necessary to transform herself into a high-class cocaine-stealing Cinderella. What Hope uncovers is a complicated web of circumstances and a terrifying twist...
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Series
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English
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To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury lawyer is caught offering bribes, he's forced to wear a wire. Even as the besieged attorney looks after his ailing wife, Feaver must also make tapes that will hurl his friends, his enemies, his city, and a particular FBI undercover agent into a crisis of conscience and law. Now Robbie Feaver is making...
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HighBridge Company
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English
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This is the third gripping tale in the four-part audio series from Stephen King's best-selling book Four Past Midnight.
Set in Junction City, Iowa, The Library Policeman is the story of Sam Peebles, a middle-aged businessman who happens to have some overdue books. It seems a minor offense - but not to Junction City's malevolent monster of a librarian. What follows is spine-tingling suspense as only Stephen King can deliver it.
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