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As strangers surrounded her mothers casket, Molly sat with her sister, Babs, on a trunk. Much too young to understand what was happening, Molly had no idea what was in store for Babs or herselfor that it would be the last night they would spend together. Before nights end it was decided that Molly would live with her Aunt Dora and that Babs would go with another uncle. The two girls were reluctantly separated. As Molly grew up, the sadness she endured...
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This is the story of a black family that was living in poverty in the Deep South. Despite their circumstances, their home was filled with love, unity, and respect.
It is the story about how some race haters and the alleged Ku Klux Klan including; Police Officers, Pathologist, the Fire Marshall, and the County Coroner conspired to cover up the murder of five innocent children.
This is the voice that the brother of the murdered children, after spending...
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The Dark Secrets of Barth and Williams College is a rabbit hole into a world where common sense characters are helpless in the face of hyperbolic depravity. Get ready to be transported to the seedy underbelly of Lutheran academia. The journey is no less hilarious than you might imagine.
At Barth and Williams College, Professor Theodore Roosevelt Thompson is adored by his students and respected by his peers, but the board of trustees endlessly questions...
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 4
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Publisher Annotation: In the shadows, trouble is brewing . . . When Starflight is stolen by his own tribe, he hopes to at least discover some of the long-held NightWing secrets -- what magical powers they really have, who they're allied with in the war, and where they've been living all this time. But the truth about Starflight's tribe is more terrible than he ever imagined: Not only do the NightWings live in a dark, miserable place, but they've imprisoned...
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 4
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Scholastic Press
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2013.
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When Starflight, one of the dragonets of destiny, is kidnapped by the NightWings he finds that the kingdom of his birth is a miserable place, full of terrible secrets--and that, with his fellow dragonets too far away to help, the fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons.
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Fourteen year-old Jordan Jensen always considered himself a team player on and off the field, until the second Timekeeper mission lands him in Amsterdam, during World War Two. Pulled into the world of espionage, torture, and intolerance, Jordan and the rest of the Timekeepers have no choice but to stay one-step ahead of the Nazis in order to find and protect a mysterious book.
With the help of the Dutch Resistance, an eccentric baron, Nordic runes,...
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Librarians volume 1
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When a secret sect of the Vatican Church unearths an ancient map detailing the locations of the four cornerstones of the Library of Alexandria (the original Library), it's up to Flynn and the Librarians – with the help of an unexpected ally – to stop them before the stones can be used to destroy the Library.
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Wings of Fire volume 4
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The #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the fourth graphic novel adaptation!
In the shadows, trouble is brewing . . .When Starflight is stolen by his own tribe, he hopes to at least discover some of the long-held NightWing secrets -- what magical powers they really have, who they're allied with in the war, and where they've been living all this time.But the truth about Starflight's tribe is more terrible than...
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The truth behind the hero
Officer Jack Trestain may have been one of Wellington's most valued code-breakers, but since Waterloo, he's hung up his uniform. If only he could just as easily put aside the tortured memories he carries deep within...; Perhaps enchanting French artist Celeste Marmion might be the distraction he so desperately craves?
Except Celeste harbors secrets of her own, and questions that she needs Jack's help to solve! With...
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Secrets, Lies, and a LockEver since her father's unexpected death, Cecilia Chenoweth has felt like the heroine of a bad Gothic novel. In addition to leaving her alone and destitute, her father made a deathbed confession that it was no mere fever that took her mother's life some twenty years ago. Then he pressed a sinister key into her hands, bidding her to go forth and uncover the truth. If only she knew where to find the lock that will open to the...
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A city girl moves to Arkansas, where she discovers that the locals are not as welcoming as they appear When Valerie Wreyford's parents travel to the Middle East to do research for a new book, Valerie leaves the busy streets of New York City for the country quiet of Catalpa Ridge, Arkansas. While her parents are away, Valerie has volunteered to look after Granny deShan, whom she's never met. Granny's mind seems stuck in the past, and taking care of...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 102
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Nancy investigates a classic case of musical mystery and suspense. Violinist Deirdre Thompson is vying for top honors in Seattle's most prestigious musical competition, but Nancy finds that something about the contest strikes the wrong chord. The concert hall is the focus of a criminal conspiracy, and Deirdre, who is blind, is the first to sense trouble-and the first to face danger! Nancy vows to discover who wants Deirdre out of the contest and out...
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Simon & Schuster
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2016
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"An important, disturbing, and gripping history" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars—where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer.
In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie War Games, in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and...
In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie War Games, in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and...
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The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition.
Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed "alternate gravitational solutions," or the rewriting of Newtonian...
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Simon & Schuster
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2016.
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"As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan. Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information...
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It was his smile; his wide, eye-crinkling, devastating smile…
Atlas Tigri captured my heart with his fun-loving manner and his gorgeous face, and his seductive, hard body…
The moment he touched me, I knew. He was my destiny.
I knew I would move heaven and earth to be with him…I want him next to me, inside me.
When I'm in his arms, nothing can touch us.
But someone is hunting him, hunting us. Someone who wants to destroy Atlas and everything...
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A bestselling journalist exposes the connection between the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis and the practice of confession. John Cornwell is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. The author of the New York Times bestseller Hitler's Pope, he lives in Draughton, England.
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Since September 11, 2001, the United States has investigated and prosecuted public employees, journalists, and the press for the dissemination of classified information relating to the national security. What is the cause of the recent tension between the government and the press? Perhaps the media are pressing more aggressively to pierce the government's shield of secrecy. Perhaps the government is pressing more aggressively to expand its shield...
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