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"Bree Leake doesn't want to be tied down. She's had more jobs than she can count, and she plans to move as soon as the curtains fall on her less-than-minor stage role at The Barter--the oldest live performance theater in the US. But just when it's time to move on again, Bree's parents make her an offer: hold steady for a full year, and they will give her the one thing she's always wanted-- her grandmother's house. Her dreams are coming true.. until...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana—where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house…
Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. Ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted—and obsessed—with it.
Determined...
Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. Ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted—and obsessed—with it.
Determined...
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House of Wolves volume 1
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English
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The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.--Dust jacket.
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2023.
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"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes...
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"Less than two years ago Sandra was the happily married wife of Victor Winslow, the favorite son of a town called paradise, a politician who could do no wrong. Then a mysterious accident took Victor's life, leaving Sandra under a dark cloud of suspicion."--Page 4 of cover.
6) Secrets
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At the urging of his ancient grandmother, Lance Michelli travels to the old Sonoma villa once owned by his grandparents. Looking for clues to old documents that may be hidden there, he hires on as cook and carpenter for its present owner, Rese Barrett. Her beauty and spirit captivate Lance, yet he soon descovers that Rese has family secrets of her own that have been buried for years.
7) Mine!
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2011.
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"Crum uses only the title word (if you don't count a single "Woof?"), but the various inflections speak volumes about the comic dynamics of sharing...[Barton's] dizzyingly expressive digitized pencil sketches seem to be everywhere at once continually reframing the action to make sure readers savor every gleefully anarchic moment."--Publishers weekly, starred review
""The two youngsters are simply adorable, and their alternating surprised and gleeful...
10) Whisper my name
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Photographer Samantha Blakely is stunned when her beloved friend Gemini Delaney leaves her the controlling interest in her family business, a magazine conglomerate - the same conglomerate that owns Daylight Magazine, where Sam has just landed her dream job as a photojournalist. Then she meets her new boss, Christian Delaney, and his mere gaze leaves her wanting more. But how can she tell him that she's the Sam Blakely, who inherited the legacy he'd...
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Saga 1 the origins volume 6
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2021.
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48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 x 23 cm.
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When hyenas hit Mushroom Village, the animals want to ban all weapons. Bongo, however, believes his coconut cannons help the community stay safe and keep the hyenas away. Join Bongo as he explores the dangers and benefits of weapons, then lead your family through a lesson on Second Amendment rights with the activities included in the BRAVE Challenge at the end of the book.
12) Gun safety
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[2012]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Teaches safety measures to take when handling firearms.
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2014.
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222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Armed Defense for the New Gun Owner Firearms for Personal Protection provides the armed citizen with comprehensive information and education on critical aspects of practical personal-protection gun ownership and use, featuring: Solid, practical information on firearms, free of pseudo-tactical attitude. Technical information on various models of suitable personal protection firearms. How-to: choosing the right gun, becoming proficient, methods of carry,...
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At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted Cartwright. The Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident, but many agreed with Cartwright that the shooting was deliberate. In response, Liza's adoptive parents changed her name to Celia, erasing her past. At age twenty-eight, Celia--a successful interior designer in Manhattan--marries a childless sixty-year-old widower, Laurence...
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[2001]
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Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.
18) Howards End
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Considered by many to be E. M. Forster's greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger." When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home-Howards End-to one of the Schlegel sisters,...
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2019.
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xxv, 206 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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The United States has more mass shootings, gun suicides, and nonfatal gun injuries than any other industrialized country in the world. Volsky believes that in order to significantly and permanently reduce gun deaths the United States, we need a bold new approach: a drastic reduction of the 390 million guns already in circulation and a new movement dedicated to a future with fewer guns. He suggests bold reforms that have succeeded in reducing gun violence...
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