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1) Feared
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"In the new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, Mary DiNunzio's ruthless nemesis Nick Machiavelli is back...with a vengeance. When three men announce that they are suing the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm for reverse sex discrimination--claiming that they were not hired because they were men--Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato are outraged. To make matters worse, their one male employee, John Foxman, intends to resign, claiming...
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The Marvel titles in Disney's World of Reading line are designed to offer reluctant readers, specifically boys, books that they will want to read by featuring characters they love. The series is broken into three levels that invoke the rigorous training courses that their favorite Marvel heroes must engage in to perfect their super powers. In reading this series, boys will perfect their own power to read.
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Daredevil (Zdarsky) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Matt Murdock has clawed his way through physical therapy, but his near death experience that nearly left him crippled has left its mark on him. Reacquainted with pain and fear, the devil is back in Hell's Kitchen, but is the man who returned to the rooftops the same man who fell off them?
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Avengers (Marvel Action) volume 4
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[2020]
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English
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A new era of all-out Avengers action continues in these graphic novels for middle-grade readers! Heroes and villains alike prepare for an incoming threat from the cosmos! Will someone from Black Panther's past be friend or foe? And what sinister plan is M.O.D.O.K. preparing? These graphic novels are the perfect starting point for new fans looking for more stories of the adventures of Black Panther, Captain America, Thor, Captain Marvel, Iron Man,...
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Meena Zee volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When third-grader Meena starts to believe she has super powers and is protected from epileptic seizures, she jeopardizes her relationship with her friends and younger sister.
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[2011], c2009
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English
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The Nuremburg Laws. Anschluss. The Munich Agreement. Kristallnacht. As the Nazi government grew in power, Jews recognized the necessity of emigrating en masse from their homelands in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Which countries would step forward to take them in? This chilling program scrutinizes the 1938 multinational conference in Evian-les-Bains, a half-hearted effort to help Jewish refugees that ended, essentially, in abandoning them...
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Little Mouse (Emily Gravett) volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Little Mouse draws pictures of some of the many things he is afraid of, including creepy crawlies, sharp knives, and having accidents, and provides the correct scientific name for each of his fears.
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When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.
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2023.
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"Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho"--
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[2011], c1996
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English
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Cheyenne Indians were perhaps the greatest warrior nation of the 19th Century. Split apart by both the fur traders' desire for buffalo hide and the white settlers' westward expansion along the Oregon Trail, the life of the Cheyenne quickly turned into a perpetual fight for survival.
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[2012], c2011
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English
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The daughter of General Aung San, a key figure in the liberation of Burma from colonial rule, Aung San Suu Kyi had recently earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London when she returned home to Burma (the name favored by pro-democracy supporters over "Myanmar") to care for her ailing mother. It was a time of political unrest, and in response to the violent quashing of 1988's student demonstrations, Suu Kyi picked up the family mantle...
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[2005], c2001
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English
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At some point, you contemplate suicide. You think, 'This is useless. I'm suffering too much. What's in store for me?' In this program, patients share their stories of terror and triumph as they struggle to deal with their irrational fears and avoidance behaviors. In addition, mental health professionals contrast behavioral cognitive psychotherapy, augmented by video conferencing and virtual reality, with psychopharmacological intervention, which usually...
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[2014], c2005
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English
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A persistent thorn in the side of the conservative right wing for years, Marilyn Manson is easily the most notorious of the shock-rockers. This rockumentary seeks to delve inside the twisted mind of the one they call the Antichrist Superstar. Included is archival footage and interviews with everyone from Manson's bandmates to a minister from the Church of Satan. This program explores what inspired Manson and his fellow band members to create the image...
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2023.
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"Jessica Harrow is dead...but her journey has only just begun. Discover the world of the afterlife, where Jessica has been recruited as a Reaper, tasked with ferrying countless souls to their final destination. But unlike the rest of the Reapers, Jess has no memory of what killed her and put her into this position. In order to unravel the mystery of her own demise, she'll have to solve an even bigger one--where is the actual Grim Reaper?"--
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[2012], c2008
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English
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People like me live in two prisons, says writer and activist Liu Xiaobo, bemoaning not just the cruelty of physical incarceration but also the pressure that every Chinese dissident, jailed or not, endures on a daily basis. In this interview-conducted by Australian television a few months before Liu's arrest in December of 2008-the pro-democracy scholar and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate shares a few of his personal frustrations and predictions. Topics...
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